http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3384141
Dan Laidman
"With Los Angeles taxpayers spending $26 million a year to keep young people out of gangs, officials propose creating a single agency to oversee the dozens of programs designed to stem the city's No. 1 crime problem. The 'anti-gang czar' plan, making its way through the city bureaucracy, has sparked renewed debate on how to fund anti-gang efforts and how to make them effective and accountable. Some question the plan's focus - as lacking a regional outlook - while a prominent scholar on gangs fears a new agency would merely reshuffle programs that might be missing the mark.
'I think the effort has to be much more concentrated at using what we know about gangs, which is not what the city agencies usually do.' "
