Gangs
The Gangs topic page provides patrol officers with updated information on the language, graffiti, and habits of street gangs and criminal organizations.
Law enforcement leadership, corrections leadership and policymakers need to reevaluate their strategy for implementing gang prevention programs
Gangs are using UAVs to collect information on LE activity, disrupt police operations and smuggle drugs
When deciphering a gang or inmate-coded sample, sometimes your best teacher is your last mistake
James “Whitey” Bulger wants to tell his side of the story — outside the courtroom
Federal agents arrested the Mexican Mafia prison gang on charges that they worked with organized crime in Mexico to bring drugs into South Texas
I am very confident of our result here after two-days-plus of diligent effort” said the head of the Detroit FBI
Pinellas County LE leaders agreed months ago that laws were too vague; new provisions will allow appeal to have name removed from affiliation, other changes
Bulger’s lawyers have made it clear that they will attack the credibility of men they describe as “once-reviled criminal defendants”
Police believed the three known gang members were out looking for rivals when they fired at the vehicle
Good solid gang testimony at the end of a case can be the “final flurry” needed to get a conviction.
The concept of building a community while simultaneously being a warrior may work better as an officer than a soldier
Facing life in prison, Danny Roman needed someone to maintain his control over the Harpys criminal empire — who would be better than his daughter, Vianna?
This document presented a challenge to decipher
The officers argue the man in the video was never in any danger, as gang members heckle him from the back of a squad
East Harlem has been cleared of 63 dangerous gangsters who openly incriminated themselves in slang-filled, misspelled postings on Twitter
James Lohr was taken into custody early Friday just miles from where the state official was shot to death
Authorities are warning officers that they are armed and dangerous
A violent heroin-trafficking ring known as ‘Dirty Blok’ was raided; 3 fugitives remain at large
The decision to put small armies of officers working overtime in specific “hot zones” corresponds with a notable drop in homicides
The poster, shared online, features pictures of Sgt. Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova above the caption, ‘50z want these pigs heads’
The man held the gang members hand down when he saw he was trying to rip the gun from the officer’s holster
One approach involves charging teen gang members with conspiracy, using taunts and threats they post on social-media sites
Agents learned from someone associated with the gang that officers were accepting cash payments to provide drug deal protection
A Caucasian of Scottish and Mexican descent, Timothy Joseph McGhee was not a stereotypical Sureno gang member
Elite gang-enforcement team allegedly got matching tattoos, celebrated shootings
The grant is given under the Senator Charles E. Shannon Community Safety Initiative
Authorities say the case involves the mob, and suspected are expected to be charged Wednesday
Two deaf people were interacting when a third person approached and stabbed one with a kitchen knife
Police officials said Thursday the city was 1 homicide away from the 500 mark. Hours later, a man was fatally shot
Calabrese was one of several reputed mobsters convicted in 2009 in a racketeering conspiracy that included 18 decades-old murders.
Officers tracked the action of gang members using fake profiles, taking down 41 gang members
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said the gang would turn the streets into a “shooting gallery”
