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Gangs
Behavior and Group Dynamics In Gangs
Sociologists believe that a gang will take on the morals, or lack of morals, of the worst members and often exceed that lack of morals. This behavior often manifests itself in most or all of the gang's members, especially when they are together.
August 30, 2010
Special Units
Calif. Proposes Returning High-Risk Prison Gang Members to General Population
California corrections officials have floated a plan that would allow gang members living in high-security housing units to return to the general population as a reward for good behavior.
March 12, 2012
Special Units
L.A. Sheriff Moves to Fire Elite Gang Officers
Seven Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies in an elite gang-enforcement unit have been notified the department intends to fire them for celebrating shootings and getting matching tattoos.
February 6, 2013
Training
Cities Sue Gangs
Several cities are asking courts for injunctions targeting specific gangs and gang members hanging out together as a way of preventing violence. In addition to hampering gang activity, the lawsuits give police legal reasons to stop and question gang members.
August 1, 2007
Patrol
FBI Investigating Deputy "Gangs" in LA County Sheriff’s Department
The FBI is investigating a secret society of tattooed deputies in East Los Angeles as well as similar gang-like groups elsewhere within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
July 11, 2019
Technology
NYPD Forms Social Media Unit
The NYPD has formed a new social-media unit of officers assigned to sniff out troublemakers and criminal behavior on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.
August 9, 2011
Patrol
Dave Smith: The Gangs of Everywhere
Gangs are America’s primary criminal problem and few of our leaders want to address it.
May 26, 2022
Special Units
How a Group Becomes a Gang
Gangs can develop from seemingly harmless groups of friends into hardened criminals who may not be obvious as gangbangers.
December 31, 2001
Gangs
Gangsters in Blue
What are these cops thinking? Don't they realize that they are being used by the gang? Can't they see that should their gang friends become engaged in a violent situation (which is inevitable) there can be no good outcome for the badged members and associates?
May 24, 2010
Special Units
Gangs? Not In My Town
Gangs exist everywhere in this country. Although we might like to think we are immune, no community should give in to this belief.
May 31, 2002
Careers
Bad Behavior and Attitudes
There are no free passes on the streets. Therefore study, work, and sweat here to avoid getting hurt out in the real world.
February 1, 2010
Gangs
Are Some Gang Members Serial Killers?
Even in the murderous world of gangs, the most wicked killings are perpetrated by individuals who seem motivated by some other dark, twisted presence within their troubled souls.
January 16, 2013
Gangs
Gangs and Our Children
The number of local gang killings is low, but it's our common belief that one is too many. Whenever one of our children becomes a victim of gangs, it affects all of us. Specifically, when we personalize this problem and perceive the murdered child as a part of our family, it wounds our existence forever.
May 23, 2011
Careers
Off-Duty Behavior
Once you become a police officer or deputy, the world changes its view of you. I know you're the same man or woman that you were before you poked your hand up and took the oath, but there are some realities we need to discuss.
January 2, 2013
Gangs
TV Gang Docs: Turning Hoodlums Into Heroes
Why do some people feel the need to rewrite history to suit their needs? Many of these "documentaries" are only as good as their sources of information and the twisted interpretation of facts that the writers and producers invent. Unfortunately, this usually results in the truth winding up on the editing-room floor.
July 26, 2011
Patrol
Air Marshals Monitor Behavior to Pinpoint Terrorists
A pilot program at Logan International Airport in Boston uses “behavior pattern recognition” to single out people exhibiting unusual behavior that might be planning an act of terrorism.
April 15, 2004
Special Units
New Gang Trends?
October 31, 2000
Special Units
American Street Gang Development
Street gangs in America are nothing new. Some of the earliest identified groups with gang-like behaviors formed after the Revolutionary War in 1793.
March 31, 2000
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