Bob Filner Quotes

You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

The problems of gang crime you find in some parts of the north are little different to the problems you find on the streets of south London.

I know now that gang warfare is not the Middle East or Northern Ireland. There is violence in gang violence, but there is no conflict. It is not 'about something.' It is the language of the despondent and traumatized.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it - they all look like Chief Keef. When it comes to the point that, you know, that kids who are doing the killings, and they're kids 13 to 19 years old, and you can replicate that in New Orleans, you can replicate that in Oakland. All the kids look the same.

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

I rap about Memphis and what a dangerous spot that is.

In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.

We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.