Gangs
The Gangs topic page provides patrol officers with updated information on the language, graffiti, and habits of street gangs and criminal organizations.
It would be shortsighted to think cops can’t learn a thing or two from gang members that we can apply when chasing them down
Gang investigators need to think globally, but act locally when handling gang cases with subsets
Here’s a summary of federal funding in 2018 for law enforcement agencies
Opinion: Chicago’s zero-tolerance gang strategy is effective
Supt. McCarthy vowed to “obliterate” Maniac Latin Disciples after 2 young girls were shot this month
So-called “Narco Polo” shirts are becoming ubiquitous in street vendors’ stalls after seven high-ranking drug traffickers who were arrested wearing the familiar horseman-with-a-stick emblem.
Operation was the culmination of a 2-year effort targeting ‘transnational gangs’
The meetings are a response to a spike in gang activity
Boss of Philadelphia mob, his alleged lieutenant and 11 others hit with federal racketeering and gambling charges Monday
The following gang code sample was confiscated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in New York
Some say ports of entry vulnerable as resources go to stop illegal immigrants
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says “Operation 602 Exchange” resulted in the seizure of 223 weapons, many of them stolen
Obama signed legislation that reduced the sentencing disparity between the two types of cocaine from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1
CPD: “The conduct that is alleged does not reflect the behavior and core values of the men and women of the Chicago Police Department nor our commitment to serve the community in a professional manner”
Unprecedented numbers of cops work in Mexico and high-profile arrests occur monthly while drones spy on cartels
Even with a fully staffed force, the city ranked among the most dangerous places in the country
11 suspects total in El Paso scheme
Marisol Valles Garcia, who had been receiving death threats, traveled to the US last week and did not return to work this morning
The latest roundup is part of a more than 5-year-old effort aimed at U.S. street gangs with ties to Mexican drug cartels and other drug traffickers
ATF spokesman Tom Crowley is referring questions about further details to the U.S. Justice Department
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“I want to go see Mars, too, but I’d much rather have cops on the streets of Brooklyn and Queens,” one US Rep said
Controversial sit-down last summer helped reduce homicides, says Supt. Weis
A little-known coalition of US and Mexican police agencies has helped curb both undocumented workers and drugs
The same economic law of supply and demand that fuels drug smuggling into the US fuels gun smuggling into Mexico
The street gang members engaged in murder, trafficking of drugs and guns, and racketerrin, the DOJ says
The officers’ car was hit, but they weren’t injured and did not fire back
Says a gun battle is all but certain within the next 30 to 60 days
2 encoded documents written by different gangs in different states show some striking similarities
A single case study that provides lessons in thinking outside of the box
Deciphering a coded gang message from Virginia
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