1.   He later said the plan was to recruit former gang members and other neighborhood youths.

2.   The program is designed to help former gang members who are trying to reform.

3.   A former gang member, Salinas said he grew up surrounded by drugs and guns in Los Angeles.

4.   A recent special on gang problems included interviews with former gang members in and out of prison and a look at a few programs aimed at defusing gangs.

5.   Campos was a former gang member, the police said.

6.   Communities have reinforced the peace, often using government money to hire former gang members as mediators who push for dialogue when tensions flare.

7.   He has called in the feds to run the housing projects and put cops and former gang members as security on public transportation.

8.   Haney said the boy was a former gang member who had been imprisoned for robbery and had a mother who was a drug addict.

9.   His name is Twilight Bey, a former gang member who helped organize the tenuous truce between warring street factions in Los Angeles.

10.   His friends are former gang members out of prison, out on parole or finally out after serving sentences for crimes big and small.