Criminals are out there. Gangs are too. There is strength in numbers. The FBI produces statistics which some people find convenient. The worthwhile point come from the index. Just why does America have Somalis, East Africans, Dominicans? Were they imported by a corrupt government? Sounds that way to me.
Sanitized Statistics Are Corrupt Statistics
A real policeman explains. Politicians hate truth. Administrators hate truth. Who wants truth? Not many.2011 National Gang Threat Assessment – Emerging Trends
Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Scope and Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
About the NGIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Gang Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Regional Breakdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Key Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Current Gang-Related Trends and Crime . . . . . 11
Gang membership and expansion . . . . . . . 11
Gang-related Violent Crime . . . . . . . . . . 15
Gang-related Drug Distribution and trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Juvenile Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Gang alliances and Collaboration. . . . . . . . 18
Gang sophistication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Expansion of Ethnic-Based and Non-Traditional Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Asian Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
east African Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Somali Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Sudanese Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Caribbean Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Dominican Gangs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Haitian Gangs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Jamaican Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Non-traditional Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
hybrid Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Juggalos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Gangs and Alien Smuggling, Human Trafficking, & Prostitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
alien smuggling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
human trafficking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Prostitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Gangs and Criminal Organizations . . . . . . . . . 26
Gangs and Drug trafficking organizations . . . 26
Mexican Drug trafficking organizations. . . 26
Gangs and organized Criminal Groups . . . . . 28
Gangs and Corrections Issues . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Prison/street Gang Connections . . . . . . . . 30
Prison/Family Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Contraband Cell Phones . . . . . . . . . . 31
leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Prison radicalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Gang Infiltration of Corrections, Law Enforcement & Government . . . . . . . . . . 33
Gangs and Indian Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Gangs and the Military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Gangs and the US Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
the southwest Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
the Northern Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Gangs, Technology, and Communication . . . . . 41
Gangs and Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Gangs and White Collar Crime . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Law Enforcement Actions and Resources . . . . . 45 Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Maps – Gang Presence in the United States . . . 47
Appendix A . Gangs by State . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Appendix B . MDTOs Alliances and Rivals . . . . . 80
Appendix C . Federal Gang Task Forces . . . . . . 82
Appendix D . Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . 88
Endnotes