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Fraser:
Getting the drop on street gangs & terrorists
The attack on America on Sept. 11 changed life for everyone — everywhere.
The events that transformed our world are well known. What is unknown is how we will adjust to these changes. The word “security” has taken on a completely new perspective for each of us.
As commissioner of the largest municipal correctional system in the world, I am well aware of security and its antithesis, violence. From the terrorists, we are quickly learning about violence with a new perspective. Like the terrorists, our street and jail gangs — referred to by us as Security Risk Groups (SRGs) — have adopted different belief systems that are clearly not rational. As criminal justice professionals, the more knowledge we have about the people who perpetrate violence, the greater the sense of security there will be in one’s professional and personal surroundings...
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