Eliminate gang injunctions

Re “Injunction Has Community Feeling Handcuffed,” April 28

Gang injunctions are unconstitutional and need to be abolished. The 1st Amendment guarantees the right to peaceably assemble. These injunctions clearly infringe on that right. Furthermore, some of the people who are being issued injunctions aren’t even gang members. (Not that injunctions would be justified if that weren’t the case.)

Preventing crime doesn’t justify violating peoples’ constitutional rights. And if eliminating gang injunctions means more crime, so be it -- nobody ever said freedom was free.

JOSH RIVETZ

Northridge