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Lou Savelli

Sgt. Lou Savelli is the co-founder and vice president of the East Coast Gang Investigator's Association, a 23-year NYPD veteran, a former correctional officer with the Broward County (Fla.) Sheriff's and Hollywood (Fla.) PD.

Richard Valdemar

Sgt. Richard Valdemar retired from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department after spending most of his 33 years on the job combating gangs.

Blog - Gangs

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Inside the Black Panther Party (2 of 2)

September 12, 2012

By the late 1960s, many of the Black Panther Party leadership had become entangled in criminal trials or were serving long prison sentences. Some had been killed. The remaining BPP leaders could not agree on how to overcome these issues.

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Tags: Black Panther Party, Black Nationalist Groups, Crips, Black Guerrilla Family

Inside the Black Panther Party (1 of 2)

September 6, 2012

The Black Panther Party was formed to protect and defend African-American neighborhoods from police brutality. By the late 1960s, it represented a major threat to the Oakland Police Department.

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Tags: Black Panther Party, Black Nationalist Groups, Crips, Oakland PD, Police History, Portland Police Bureau, Fulton County (Ga.) Sheriff

<p><span>Photo: CC_Flicker/<span class="username"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/abardwell/">abardwell</a></span></span></p>

California Security Housing Unit (SHU) Reintegration and Reform

August 23, 2012

Most prison gang leaders will be released into the terrible jungle where they will try to obtain two things they care about the most: drugs and power. Once the titans come down to dwell with gang mortals, the gangland utopia will usher the next prison gang golden age.

Tags: Mexican Mafia, Prison Gangs, Inmate Behavior, California Corrections

<p>Photo courtesy of Long Beach P.D.</p>

Two Effective Gang Enforcement Strategies

August 15, 2012

Long Beach patrol officers can pull up photos of served gang members, maps of safety zones—those parts of the city subject to the gang injunction—a copy of the injunction and a hyperlink to the image of the proof of service form. That certainty has produced very real results.

Tags: Laserfiche, Long Beach (Calif.) PD, Surenos, Mexican Mafia, Gang Injunction, Gang Enforcement

<p>Ray Ray's crew. Photo courtesy of Richard Valdemar.</p>

The Black Guerrilla Family Prison Gang

July 17, 2012

The Black Guerrilla Family was founded by George Jackson, a former Black Panther and excellent orator who rallied inmates by speaking about the system's injustice to prisoners, especially black inmates. He vowed to form an organization that would support his imprisoned people like a family and become a vanguard in the coming revolution against the U.S. government.

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Tags: Black Guerrilla Family, L.A. County Sheriff, Prison Gangs

<p>Newly elected Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto pledged to shift strategies in dealing with drug cartel violence. Photo: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Enrique_Pe%C3%B1a_Nieto_-_World_Economic_Forum_on_Latin_America_2010.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia</a></p>

Mexico's Deal With the Devil

July 11, 2012

The Mexican press estimates that 19.5% of the official ballot boxes were installed in areas controlled by the drug cartels. Many voters avoided the poles altogether in fear of intimidation and violence.

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Tags: Mexican Drug Cartels, Drug Trafficking, Elections

Why Chicago is So Violent

June 28, 2012

Chicago's homicide rate is out of control. This is not about "old school" gangsters coming out of prison and trying to re-establish themselves. It's about the youngsters having no respect for anyone.

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Tags: Chicago PD, Gang Enforcement, Vice Lords, Crime Trends, Folk Nation Gangs, People Nation Gangs, Gangster Disciples

<p>Cover art from the "Mind of a Leader" DVDs.</p>

Can Education Cure Gang Members?

June 13, 2012

There seems to be an illogical perception in the U.S. that "bad guys," especially those associated with criminal gangs, are dumb—or at least uneducated. But education is not an elixir to cure the diseases of immorality or an upbringing steeped in situational ethics. It can't teach the gift of empathy for another human being.

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Tags: Gang Prevention, Books for Cops, Higher Education, Leadership

<p>The author attends the Counter Terror Expo in Washington D.C.</p>

Gangs and Terrorism

May 24, 2012

We often focus on one puzzle piece rather than the whole puzzle. If we would slow down and step back, we might see the whole of our enemy's tactics and battle plan. This wider perception of problems enables criminal investigators to recognize trends, alliances, tactics, conspiracies and connections in the underworld. This is what is needed in the battle against gangs, cartels, and terrorists.

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Tags: Islamic Terrorists, Mexican Drug Cartels, U.S.-Mexico Border, Counter-Terrorism Initiatives

Sensitive Needs Yards (SNY) Gangs

May 15, 2012

Dropouts, jail informants, child molesters, and other "softies" segregated in the Sensitive Needs Yards (SNY) of California prisons are forming gang sets of their own. Unencumbered by the big four prison gangs that control the main yards, they use their criminal skills and the power of intimidation of their new dropout gang.

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Tags: Prison Gangs, Corrections, California Corrections

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