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The Five Points, Manhattan is a location that was associated with gang activities from the early 19th century. [1] In the late 1920s, Al Capone was the leader of the Chicago Outfit [2] The Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club was founded in 1948 and is considered a criminal gang by American law enforcement agencies, particularly for their involvement in drug-related activities and violent crimes.
As of 2011, the National Gang Intelligence Center found that American gangs were found to be responsible for "an average of 48% of violent crime in most jurisdictions and up to 90% in several others". [3] Major urban areas and their suburban surroundings experience the majority of gang activity, particularly gang-related violent crime. [3]
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Gangs in New York (state) (2 C, 8 P) Gangs in North Carolina (10 P) Gangs in North Dakota (2 P) O. Gangs in Ohio (1 C, 13 P) Gangs in Oklahoma (1 C, 15 P) Gangs in ...
Blood and Power: Organized Crime in 20th-Century America (William Morrow, 1989 ) Gardaphe, Fred L. From wiseguys to wise men: the gangster and Italian American masculinities (2006) online; Hortis, C. Alexander. The mob and the city : the hidden history of how the mafia captured New York (2014) online; Reuter, Peter (Summer (Northern Hemisphere ...
(The Center Square) – Members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), continue to expand criminal operations nationwide, including in the midwestern states of Illinois ...
There were at least 30,000 gangs and 800,000 gang members active across the US in 2007, and an estimated 1.4 million in 33,000 gangs in 2011. [1] [2] [3] About 900,000 gang members lived "within local communities across the country", and about 147,000 were in U.S. prisons or jails in 2009. [4]
As a result of the “open border policies,” American communities descended into “havoc,” Gene Hamilton, who serves as America First Legal’s vice president and general counsel, said.