Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Streets and Scholars podcast with Alex Alonso & F.G. Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Defining Rats, Snitches and Informants (EP.3) - Streets and Scholars

Episode 3

Defining Rats, Snitches and Informants (EP.3)

In this episode 3 of Streets and Scholars with Alex Alonso and Frank "FG" Thornton, we discuss a new program between USC and Long Beach City College that is looking to enroll gang members into college, and they discuss the definition of a snitch or a rat, looking at several examples including Boskoe100, Kenyal Brown from Detroit, former drug kingpin, Ricky "Freeway" Ross, and a Los Angeles County prisoner that helped prosecute Lee Baca and Paul Tanaka of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. 

* Streets & Scholars Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/streets.and.scholars 

* Street TV channel: http://www.youtube.com/streetgangs

* Alex on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/alexalonso101 

* FG Unleashed: https://www.youtube.com/c/FGUNLEASHED

* FG on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fgeneral1/

* StreetGangs website: http://www.streetgangs.com

 

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Alex Alonso is the owner and curator of LAnd Media, a podcasting network that brings dope content directly from the raw streets to your ears, facilitated through amazing conversations and interviews on street politics, gang culture, prison life, music and hip-hop, criminal justice issues and whatever else our dope hosts want to spit.