The Public's Reaction to the Gilbert Goons Mug Shots: A Deeper Look

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A surge in publicized mugshots from Gilbert Police Department arrests has sparked a heated public conversation, prompting questions about the town’s image, the effectiveness of its policing strategies, and the very nature of crime in what many perceive as an idyllic community. A new report details how Gilbert police repeatedly ignored youth violence in Morrison Ranch, similar to how they failed to address the Gilbert Goons . GPD just announced they’re reopening four criminal cases. At least one of those cases involves a 16-year-old who was beaten at an In-N-Out restaurant’s parking lot in Gilbert near Williams. Decades before the Goons , Gilbert was menaced by a group of “clean cut high school boys with nice cars, fat allowances, and a mean streak,” as the Republic described them in 2000. It looks like Gilbert police could have stopped them sooner, too. In each case, authoritie­s ignored a blitz of warning signs and red flags. The Goons had been reported for randomly attacking other teens in parking lots and at parties, often sharing videos of the assaults on social media. The quiet suburban streets of Gilbert , Arizona, were recently rocked by a series of brazen crimes, leading to the release of several mugshots now circulating under the moniker “Gilbert Goons .”. Fully addressing the Gilbert Goons problem requires a communitywide press — from police and schools to parents and, yes, even residents without teens — to stop these troubling behaviors. House Bill 2611 was prompted by a series of incidents in the Phoenix area’s East Valley over more than a year where a gang of teens known as the Gilbert Goons was beating others up. In response to the brutal beating death of Preston Lord at the hands of a teen gang called the “ Gilbert Goons ,” Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell wants to make group assaults on a single.