Stallworth’s 2nd book, “The Gangs of Zion” is about his work in Utah in the 1990s taking on L.A. street gangs and crack cocaine which were making inroads into largely Mormon communities.
NMSU professor says that the idea for the research came to him from an archeologist who had discovered ancient accounts, some in journals of the conquistadores
The incentives for turning in guns were prepaid Mastercard gift cards ranging from $50 for a non-working gun to $250 for an assault rifle, like the AR-15.