Basic Information

● over 33 000 violent gangs

● 1,4 million criminally active members
● illegal money-making activities: robbery, gun trafficking,
prostitution and human trafficking, fraud
● major role in drug distribution
Anti-Gang Initiatives
● FBI – disrupting and dismantling gangs
– investigations, initiatives, partnerships
● National Gang Intelligence Center
● Transnational Anti-Gang Task Forces
● Violent Gang Safe Street Task Forces
National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC)
● Established 2005, by FBI
● Integrates gang intelligence
● Intelligence analysis, investigative resources
Transnational Anti-Gang (TAG) Task Forces
● Against transnational gangs
● El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
● Collaboration with local agencies
Violent Gang Safe Streets Task Forces
● Collaboratively address violent crime
● 160 administered by FBI’s Safe Streets and Gang Unit
● Sustained, proactive, coordinated investigations
● Obtain prosecutions
 Street gangs
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Formed on the streets, operating throughout the country
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Extremely violent
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Their activities involve most of the illegal stuff like drug distribution and
production, armed assaults, etc.
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Great threat regarding drug offenses
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Bloods, Crips, Mara Salvatrucha
 Prison gangs
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Operate in prisons
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Often based on race and ethnicity
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Fewer members
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Smuggling contraband in prisons
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Nuestra familia and Aryan brotherhood
 Outlaw motorcycle gangs
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Violent crime and drug and weapon trafficking
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Operates around motorcycle clubs
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Fewer members than street gangs
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Wheels of Soul, Outlaws and Pagans
 Neighbourhood gangs
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Operate in small areas
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Source of members for street gangs
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Extremely violent