Gangs
The Gangs topic page provides patrol officers with updated information on the language, graffiti, and habits of street gangs and criminal organizations.
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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
Deputies had a local group under surveillance before they suddenly left the parish
Agency is asking local law enforcement agencies for help collecting tattoo information
Gangs’ use of codes is one of the most fascinating and least understood aspects of gang investigation
A member of “Hammerskins Nation,” shooter told skinhead group to stop hiding behind computer screens
Gang members said they were going to kill a police officer in retaliation for a fatal officer-involved shooting earlier this week
Only one suspect remained at large Wednesday following the raids in several Indiana cities and towns that involved more than 300 officers from federal, state and local agencies
‘We need to bring the Targeted Response Unit and the Mobile Strike Force back,’ agrees city alderman
Since 2005, gang-related crime has more than tripled among smaller Tenn. cities; part of national trend towards gangs expanding beyond urban centers
The operation started small but worked in plain sight, with some horses carrying names with drug references, such as Number One Cartel
Recent drug raid arrests netted suspects with ties to Zeta cartel; feds say they have contacts with many of the city’s gangs
Workers quietly nicknamed Jose Trevino Morales’s stables as the “Zetas’ stables”
Eight were killed and at least 35 wounded in a spasm of gunfire just last weekend
Prosecutor: Alleged gang members were on their way to kill a rival when they fired at officer
Expands statute to include gang activity, coercion, others
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, acknowledging the city’s “unique gang problem,” said the plan would merge the efforts of police and other agencies into a single front
105 people shot, 13 killed so far this year; witnesses refusing to cooperate with investigations
Human trafficking, drugs, guns; suspects linked to Surenos 13 gang
The wounded officer, who was federally deputized, was a primary investigator into the Booby Hill Gang
Police blame street gangs for increase in violence, nonfatal shootings also up
Gang membership numbers documented by the Chattanooga Police Department show as many as 1,100 members
Reputed mobster is tied to six homicides that had gone cold
California prison officials on Friday unveiled proposed changes to rules that kept some gang members locked in isolation for years and led to widespread inmate hunger strikes last year
Deputy Tony Diaz was killed out of anger and a desire to retaliate, judge said
The department fired the five-year veteran after the scheme was revealed
George Rivas, 41, from El Paso, received lethal injection for killing Aubrey Hawkins, a 29-year-old Irving police officer
Steve Ruiz surrendered Saturday evening after San Jose police surrounded his motel in Fremont
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