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Since 2022, California Penal Code § 13670 has defined a law enforcement gang as follows: "Law enforcement gang" means a group of peace officers within a law enforcement agency who may identify themselves by a name and may be associated with an identifying symbol, including, but not limited to, matching tattoos, and who engage in a pattern of on-duty behavior that intentionally violates the ...
The United States on Thursday placed sanctions on Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang with prison origins that law enforcement leaders throughout the Americas have identified as a violent and ...
U.S. law enforcement and immigration officials have launched more than 100 investigations of crimes tied to suspected members of a violent Venezuelan gang, including sex trafficking in Louisiana ...
Police stand guard in the Tocorón prison in Venezuela on September 23, 2023. The bosses of the Tren de Aragua gang controlled the prison, according to a report by Transparency Venezuela.
Hand signals of the Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos. A gang sign, also known as a gang signal, is a verbal or visual way gang members identify their affiliation. This can take many forms including slogans, hand signs, colored clothing, and graffiti to indicate that the signaller favors, or is a member of, the associated gang.
According to the National Gang Intelligence Center, Juggalo gangs are a threat to the community because of their tendency for violence against law enforcement, innocent civilians, and other members of their group. [2] Several law enforcement officers have commented on the Juggalo gangs' tendency toward extreme violence.
The measures shift New Zealand's response to gangs closer to that of neighboring Australia, which also uses a law to suppress the public visibility of gangs, and away from jurisdictions like the U.S. and Britain, which use criminal law to respond to specific activities carried out by organized crime groups, according to a report published by ...
The earliest (1820s–1860s) criminal street gangs in the United States, who were in New York City and were politically aligned with one or the other of the two prominent political parties at the time — the anti-immigrant Nativist, Know Nothing Party, or the Irish immigrant-based Tammany Hall of the Democratic Party — wore distinctive gang colors to differentiate ...