{"id":586928,"date":"2017-02-12T15:57:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T21:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=586928"},"modified":"2017-02-13T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T21:57:04","slug":"longview-residents-address-gang-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=586928","title":{"rendered":"Longview Residents Address Gang Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/longview-cityof.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/longview-cityof-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-586929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/longview-cityof-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/longview-cityof-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/longview-cityof.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8211; Some Longview residents are making efforts to fight local gang activity, with a city department helping lead the charge. KETK reports Lyndell McAllister is the Mentoring and Bridges program director under the auspices of the city&#8217;s Partners in Prevention initiative.  &#8220;If we&#8217;re gonna do prevention we&#8217;re particularly thinking about elementary and middle school,&#8221; says McAllister. &#8220;By high school students have figured out which way they&#8217;re gonna go.&#8221; The program offers mentorship and a new initiative, &#8220;Hope for Youth,&#8221; aimed at keeping children involved in positive activities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>McAllister describes the program as &#8220;a team to strengthen families in our community and working on activities to do so.&#8221; She adds, &#8220;We have a team working with schools to do things like develop sports leagues for young people that are involved in alternative campuses.&#8221;  She said if parents are too busy to pay attention, their mentors are there to help.&#8221;We&#8217;re not wanting to see our young people get lost that way,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>Residents recently got an update on the gang activity, which authorities say fluctuates year by year. Membership within each group also changes. &#8220;You have at least 3 (members per group), but sometimes you may have 20-30 people operating together,&#8221; Kristie Bryan, Longview Police Department Public Information Officer, said.  The city identifies all known gang members as required by Texas law.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there are 42 documented gangs in Longview, but Bryan says they&#8217;re not all actual active gangs. &#8220;We have many different people that might be associated with a gang that live in Longview so we have to document them but as far as active gangs operating, not near that number,&#8221; Bryan said. She said there may be approximately 20 active gangs in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8211; Some Longview residents are making efforts to fight local gang activity, with a city department helping lead the charge. KETK reports Lyndell McAllister is the Mentoring and Bridges program director under the auspices of the city&#8217;s Partners in Prevention initiative. &#8220;If we&#8217;re gonna do prevention we&#8217;re particularly thinking about elementary and middle school,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=586928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Residents Address Gang Problem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":586929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 13:17:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586930,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586928\/revisions\/586930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/586929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}