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Gang Response Essays: An Interview With Nathan Scarano

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For this chosen gang response essay, I have decided to interview Nathan Scarano. Scarano is currently Probation Division Director II. With also a five-year experience of SMASH and years of policing for San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department before this. Scarano was a perfect person to interview with lot of experience with gangs and even more experience in probation. This gives me a real insight on how he has dealt with multiple problems and gang related violence from numerous occasions. In this essay we will be going over multiple strategies, programs, and services. Also, touching on how these certain strategies, programs, and services are supposed to work. With the extension of is they are going to succeed or if it succeeds.
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Scarano has a very helpful input and experience on this certain subject while currently being a part of the probation division. With this he works more with induvials outside of gangs but in some occasions gets involved in some gang entanglement. This is because of his upbringing of a family. While being SMASH can cause a very string hateful relationship from gang members and could put you and your family at risk so eventually, he went into the field we are talking about now. Probation and how it deals with gangs is a big deal. It is very easy for a gang related subject to reoffend for obvious reasons. Scarano also explained in certain scenarios gang members or even other people that got affiliated with a gang in prison have to go back in a certain amount of time. This is when they get something called a “laundry list”. A laundry list is a list of things that a person that protected them while being in prison wants from that person as payment. So, with in regards of being a probation officer for a gang member or all together can be really difficult. Gangs also get respect and honored when going away for a long period of time and even get tattoos to honor their …show more content…

The chances of gang members reoffending are indelibly high with 76.6 percent chance with statistics from, Office of Justice Programs. With these stats it might almost seem like it pointless to do probation for these offenders but by doing this we get access to check in on them regularly to make sure no more illegal crime is being committed and if so, they go back to prison. This also gives permission to officers to do searches on the house and so on which can lead to many benefits. There is a lot of give and take when it comes to probation for these criminals. Is this something that needs to be done yes, does this mean it his helping or hurting. It shows that it can help us in many ways, but it is also a very dangerous scenario and the chances of them staying clean are very slim which is the reason of

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