Can you make gangs good?

The Inquiry

• Episode: Can you make gangs good?
• Website: The Inquiry
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• Duration: 00:23:36
• Published: 2019-05-02 04:30

In 2007, Ecuador decided to recognise some of its street gangs as cultural and social organisations.

Since then its murder rate has fallen sharply. Can inclusion policies turn gang membership into a force for good?

Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer: Jordan Dunbar and Bethan Head

(Photo: Members of the Latin Kings gang pose for photographs and throw up their gang sign, New York. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images)