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- Advanced to third reading
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Defines "criminal street gang" and prohibits criminal street gang recruitment of a minor
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Michael Benjamin
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Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of criminal street gang recruitment of a minor
Purpose or general idea of bill
To create the crime of criminal street gang recruitment of a minor.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1. Section 460.10 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdivision 5. "Criminal street gang" means any ongoing organization, association, or group of three or more persons, whether formal or informal, having as one of its primary activities the commission of one or more criminal acts, which has an identifiable name or identifying sign or symbol, and whose members individually or collectively engage in or have engaged in criminal street activity.
Section 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 460.65.
460.65 Criminal street gang recruitment of a minor. A person guilty of criminal street gang recruitment of a minor when he or she coerces, solicits, recruits or induces a person under sixteen years of age to join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or conspires to do so. Criminal street gang recruitment of a minor is a class C felony.
Justification
Gangs clearly pose a significant threat to community safety, From January to mid-October 2009, there were approximately 200 gang-motivated incidents in New York City: These incidents not only effect gang members but often involve innocent victims that are in the wrong place at the wrong time. In order to combat the influence that gangs have on our youth, it is time that we punish those that actively recruit new members. This legislation would target recruiters of street gangs by creating the crime of gang recruitment of a minor. A person that is found guilty of criminal street gang recruitment when he or she coerces, recruits or induces a person under sixteen years of age to join their gang will be charged with a class C felony.
Prior legislative history
New Bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become law.
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