ual cannot be arrested without a warrant or sent to prison without receiving a fair trial, many of the legal systems in the Asia rarely provide these protections even if they are written into law. (Lee, 1992) Many of them are also unwilling to report the crimes inflicted on them by Asian gangs for other reasons. To many, talking about the criminal activities committed by Asians against their own people in public (e.g. reporting the crimes to the police or mass media) in an admission of failure not only of the ones who committed the crimes, but also of the entire Asian community. "This notion of collective shame is deeply rooted in the teachings of Confucianism, in which the entire community must share the blame for individual failures, since individuals are part of the community" (Takaki, 1989, p. 451). Moreover, many Asians have attempted to present a positive image of themselves to the American public. Consequently, they downplay their shortcomings in their struggle for respectability and acceptance by American people. (Sigmund, 1995). Asian gangs have become increasingly more wide spread in the United States in recent years. Many of them originated centuries ago and played important roles in society. As Asian immigration to the United States increased, gang members followed. Gangs and other forms of organized crime have become a part of life for Asian Americans, who must deal with them on a daily basis. These youth gangs engage in criminal behavior that often goes unreported because of the communities' fear of law enforcement officials. The fact that these crimes go unreported leads the average American to believe that crime among the Asian American community is non existent. As the years progress, Asian gangs, as well as gangs in general will become increasingly more common. In order to prevent this, we must stop this violence before it occurs. Law enforcement as well as the community in general needs to take more o...
