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Erasing Evidence of Gang Membership in El Salvador The “Goodbye Tattoos” project of a health clinic in San Salvador removes gang symbol tattoos from people who are moving out of the gang life or from people who are afraid their non-gang tattoos will be mistaken for them. A 2003 law makes gang membership a crime and tattoos are the only evidence required. ++++++++++ PBS Gang Documentary: 18 With a Bullet
Although this program about El Salvadoran gangs aired Tuesday night, everyone knows PBS stations re-run shows again sometime in the week that follows the first broadcast. So, check your local listings for this program, which is described in an article in the Washington Post at the link above, and watch it as a re-run. You can also check out the PBS web site devoted to the gang and the program. Links of interest there include a handbook on international and domestic gang culture. More gang resources and information: National Youth Gang Survey 1999-2001. This publication presents findings from the 1999, 2000, and 2001 national surveys and some preliminary results from the 2002 survey. Information from the survey: Approximately 732,500 gang members and 21,600 gangs were estimated to be active in the United States in 2002 (compared to an estimated 846,000 and 30,800 in 1996). Approximately 85% of all gang members were estimated to be located in larger cities and suburban counties in 2002. In 2001, more than 1,300 homicides involving a gang member were reported by 132 cities with a population of 100,000 or more. Two of these cities, Los Angeles and Chicago, reported nearly 700 gang homicides combined.
80 page pdf file. ++++++++++ Gang Violence Resurgence in Las Vegas
From January 1 to May 1, 2006 Las Vegas has seen 21 gang homicides, more than double the 10 homicides reported during the same period in 2005. Police and gang experts say that a steady migration of gang members from southern California and rising youth membership in gangs has spurred the violence. They say they are now seeing the valley’s gangs recruiting members as young as 14. ++++++++++ Gang Crime Toolkit
The COPS Toolkit for Addressing Specific Gang Problems is a resource for law enforcement officials, educators and parents to address specific types of crimes committed by gangs. The publications at this site can be downloaded. Some of them are quite long. The Gang Reference Card for Parents is available in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Vietnamese. ++++++++++ Highlights of the 2004 National Youth Gang Survey
A new fact sheet summarizes findings from the National Youth Gang Survey for 2004 and reports data on the number of gangs, gang members, and gang-related homicides in larger cities, suburban counties, smaller cities, and rural counties. The findings indicate that gangs, gang members, and gang-related homicides are concentrated in larger cities. ++++++++++ Maryland Gangs Have Their Own Web Sites
Street Thug Criminals delivered their message warning a rival gang that a member’s death would be avenged on their web site. Police call it “cyberbanging,” gang members openly bragging about affiliations, skipping school, getting high and battling rival gangs. ++++++++++Gangs Central Florida Makes Plans to Attack Gang Problems
Seeking to prevent the gang experiences of New York and Los Angeles, central Florida officials are putting together a plan to interdict a growing gang problem. MS-13 is growing extremely dangerous
Following the migration patterns of immigrants from El Salvador and other Central American Nationals, MS-13 has spread across the USA and is becoming increasingly well organized as it deals drugs and attacks its enemies. ++++++++++Counteracting MS-13 The Los Angles Times follows a gang intervention counselor as he works to wean the young away from gangs. Programs like the Communities Schools program emphasize intervention, education and training to counteract the scourge of gangs. ++++++++++G.R.E.A.T. Funding Opportunities G.R.E.A.T. is a school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curriculum. The program’s primary objective is prevention and is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership. The application period ifor this round of funding is open until February 2. The link above will take you to more information. ++++++++++Two New COPS Publications Street Gangs and Interventions: Innovative Problem Solving with Network Analysis A review of the range of gang prevention, intervention, suppression, and comprehensive strategies with examples of each type. 30 page pdf file.
Law Enforcement Tech Guide for Small and Rural Police Agencies
Intended to provide strategies, best practices, recommendation and ideas for successful IT planning and implementation. An 80 page pdf file divided in four parts: Preliminary Project Planning; Creating a Project Plan; Acquiring the Technology; and Implementing and Maintaining the Technology. ++++++++++ MS-13 Uses Deportation to Its Advantage In the past 12 years, U.S. immigration authorities have logged more than 50,000 deportations of immigrants with criminal records to Central America, including untold numbers of gang members. The policy has backfired. Deportation has helped spread MS-13 across Central America and back again into the United States in metropolitan Washington, D. C. and other U.S. cities. Prisons in El Salvador have become nerve centers where deported leaders from Los Angeles communicate with gang cliques across the U.S. The gang has morphed into an international network with as many as 50,000 members, the most hard core engaging in extortion, immigrant smuggling and racketeering.
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Fighting Gangs: What Doesn’t Work – A five-city federal demonstration yields lessons After spending $13.3 million and 10 years on demonstration projects in five cities, OJJDP found that almost nothing had a significant impact on gangs. But there were plenty of lessons, some of which are being applied to new gang efforts. The evaluations gave OJJDP insight into at least three key components for success: the efficacy of lead agencies, the use of outreach youth workers and the importance of alternative opportunities for gang members. ++++++++++. THE LINK The latest issue of The Link, CWLA’s juvenile justice letter is online. Contents include articles on reducing overrepresentation in Iowa’s juvenile justice and child welfare systems and a gang program in Wisconsin. ++++++++++This National Youth Gang Center Bulletin by Buddy Howell and Arlen Egley, Jr. addresses emerging gang problems in small towns and rural areas, looks at national trends in gang problems, and provides a set of steps on how to develop an anti-gang action plan – all in six packed pages of information. by Buddy Howell and Arlen Egley, Jr. – all in six packed pages of information. ++++++++++ Nineteen Alleged Ms-13 Gang Members Are Indicted
They were charged in an operation aimed at halting violence that has terrorized an area near Washington D.C. for the past three years. The indictment attributes six murders, five attempted murders and a kidnapping to the gang. The FBI will use the federal racketeering statute, the RICO law, to act against organized gangs as it did organized crime.
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Evaluation of G.R.E.A.T. – School-based Gang Prevention Program
A five-year longitudinal evaluation shows the Gang Resistance Education and Training has modest positive effects on adolescents’ attitudes and delinquency risk factors, but no effects on their involvement in gangs and actual delinquent behaviors. 6 page downloadable report.
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Gang Information North American Transnational Youth Gangs: Breaking the Chain of Violence
This Backgrounder from the Heritage Foundation brings you information about the nature of the new international gangs, conditions that foster their growth, and how gang activity can be reduced. Two page Executive Summary and 16 page pdf file. Branded in a World of Gang Warfare
Young Latinos/Latinas face suspicion and pressure as Latino gangs spread. The pressure crosses economic, class and generational lines. Evaluations of Gang Intervention Programs
OJJDP is making the evaluations of five OJJDP-funded gang intervention programs available online at the NCJRS web site. All five of these evaluation reports are VERY long. I’ve looked up the summary or the conclusion of each report and you will find the Adobe page numbers to access them in parentheses behind the title of each. ++++++++++ 1,000 Suspected Gang Members Arrested by Federal Immigration and Customs Officers
Operation Community Shield is overseen by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division, which has arrested 1,057 alleged gang members over the past five months. The operation got started in Mach as a way to target Mara Salvatrucha, aka MS-13, a violent street organization, but has expanded to encompass members of 80 gangs in 25 states.
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