Gangs: Customs, Practices, Sociology & Identifiers

Gangs: Customs, Practices, Sociology & Identifiers

Instructed by Al Valdez, Ph.d., former investigator, educator & author

Course Content:
-How violence has become a gang tool
-Safety issues when dealing with gang members
-Understanding gang behaviors
-Gang & drug connections
-Why MS 13 Formed -18th street development
-Formation of prison gangs
-History of West Coast Hispanic Gangs

When: March 16, 2010 - 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: Best Western Park Plaza Hotel 620 South Hill Park Drive, Puyallup, WA (Course made possible by the Puyallup Police Department)
Cost: Only $99 when you register via www.code4.org
Register via phone 800-622-9391 and the cost is $109.00 (Save $10 when you register on-line)

• Cost includes course certificate & handout
• Group discounts (10 or more)
• Prepayment is not required, we can bill agency!
• Attendance certificates provided for CEU’s/training files.
• Idaho Post rosters will be available.

Great Training For:
-State investigators
-Probation officers
-Corrections
-Children's services
-School security & Administrators
-Health & Social Services Personnel
-Fire, Police, Liquor Control
-Private security & investigators
-ANYONE making gang contacts

Mr. Valdez has also served as a consultant to 10 states for their legislation on gangs, he has published many books and papers
including "Gangs, A Guide for Parents, Teachers, Mental Health and Law Enforcement Professionals", "Gangs", "Gangs Across America", "A Central American Export" and "A Community's Response to Street Gangs".

Alfonso Valdez, Ph.D., is a former police officer in the Los Angeles area, a Gang Unit Investigator for the Orange County District Attorney and currently serves as an adjunct professor with the University of California, Irvine. Mr Valdez has worked with organized crime units, career criminal units, the TARGET gang unit and regional gang enforcement units in the Los Angeles area.

He has also served as a consultant to many organizations including; California Department of Justice, Orange County Department of Education, U.S Department of Justice, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Stanislaus County Department of Education,
USDOJ National Institute of Corrections, Carson City School District, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corp, U.S. Army, California Attorney General's Office, the Virginia Attorney General's Office and more.