A recent news story released by a Albuquerque New station KRQE showed two Children, Youth and Families employees being photographed flashing gang signs and holding up guns. These photographs were not in display during a training session or to show what types of crimes gang members commit, but rather were used in a mocking manner with smiles.
The pictures were discovered after one of the women photographed was recently released from her position with the agency. The other women photographed was Heather Faverino, who is the head of the Farmington Office of CYFD. What is so shocking is that Faverino sits on a handful of youth gang task force boards, aimed at keeping this very type of behavior out of young teens hands.
This behavior has always been something I have worried about, it takes into question the dedication and naivete that some will take when it involves gangs, guns and drugs, when it comes to teens. You can view the entire store here.
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