13 PRBLMS

Posted July 13, 20187 yr

SA:MP Haldaja

GANG CHARACTER ROLEPLAY

13 PROBLEMS -- recently formed Sureno gang based in the vicinity of El Corona, Los Santos. It's a small, tight knit and unorganized gang, consisting of members around the ages of eight to eighteen and with no formal leadership. Members are all high school drop outs and friends who have been performing crimes such as burglaries, assault, homicide, motor vehicle thefts and armed robbery together, in pairs or on their own for some months now. The group of friends decided to form the gang to make a reputation for themselves and make others think twice about starting feuds with them.

The group resisted joining the local Troublesome 13 due to wanting to have their own gang with their own rules and decisions. Despite the young age of the members and relatively new entrance into the gang life, the group has grown up in the area and are all too familiar with the lifestyle. Most of the members have served time in youth detention centers and have access to guns they aren’t afraid to use to assert themselves and their territory with.

Drug trafficking: notorious for being the organized crime most despised universal ill, and one of the most lucrative criminal flows, that often blazes the trail for other criminal acts to follow in its wake.

At the same time, however, a decade-long global “war on drugs” has polarised the international community between those who still advocate for the criminal justice and security approach to the challenge, versus those who seek a more nuanced framework that seeks to reduce demand and reduce harm. Regardless of where you stand on this spectrum, it is clear that drug trafficking remains an evolving and pernicious threat, which is undermining governance and human security and resources violent criminal groups.

Innovation, lesson learning and more strategic approaches are clearly required if any headway is to be made. Efforts need to be made to protect both communities and democratic processes from the negative impacts of drug trafficking on individual life chances. Sources of resilience are increasingly being found within civil society, who have been pivotal in both revealing criminal behaviour and grand corruption, and holding governments to account to respond.

The Global Initiative seeks to contribute to the evolution process by studying the impact of drug trafficking both at the level of emerging global trends, as well as at the local level and its interactions with community dynamics in key zones of fragility. The Global Initiative will also seek to identify and explore the linkages between drug trafficking and other forms of crime, and to propose alternative responses for debate.

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