Gangs
The Gangs topic page provides patrol officers with updated information on the language, graffiti, and habits of street gangs and criminal organizations.
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
Any gang-prevention strategy must address unaccompanied children from Central America who are particularly vulnerable to MS-13 recruitment and victimization
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
Officers’ encounter with a man whose weapon was thought to be real used in presentation to discourage gun crime, gangs
The guns appear virtually anywhere, from garbage pails to wheel wells to the bottom of light poles
A purported gang member arrested for allegedly shooting a year-old girl last summer tried to escape
20 associated with LRGP Crew surrender as SWAT teams raid numerous locations
Gang homicides are nearly at levels not seen since 2000 in a city that is home to about a third of Orange County’s approximately 300 documented gangs
From 2007 through November, police officers brought more than 900 criminal charges against more than 350 gang members
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