This was the first gang injunction to sue a street gang as an unincorporated association.

The purpose of the study was to determine whether gang injunctions reduce crime, when compared to baseline and matched control areas.

However many studies show that gang injunctions only deter violence for a limited amount of time.

Another critique for gang injunctions rests on the cost.

Since gang injunctions started to be used as a tool more than 25 years ago, several cases have shaped how they are drafted and implemented.

The conviction was used as a test case to challenge the validity of the controversial gang injunctions.

On January 30, 1997, the constitutionality of gang injunctions as we know them today was established.

This case gave law enforcement the framework for what is needed to seek and obtain gang injunctions.

While, in Los Angeles, city council did the opposite and implemented more gang injunctions.

Read Brooke Kinsella's report, and find out about gang injunctions.