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Newsby Staff WriterJune 2, 2010

Compton Leaders Hope To Reestablish Police Department

Compton council members voted Tuesday to sever ties with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department that has overseen a precipitous drop in the murder rate.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 13, 2010

78 Bloods and Latin Kings Members and Associates Charged with Narcotics Trafficking

A coordinated multi-agency law enforcement strike in "Operation Blood Drive" and "Operation Black Crown" shut down vast drug operations in Newburgh, New York.

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Inside the Badge by Richard ValdemarJanuary 25, 2010

Gangster Clothing: Dressing for Success In Prison

No one in a predatory environment wanted tight, close-fitting clothing. Status in custody was displayed by wearing new, especially large baggy clothing, ironed or pressed to military-like creases.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 14, 2010

MySpace Brags Spur Busts of Crips, Bloods Who Terrorized Housing Project

Crips and Bloods drug dealers who terrorized a Manhattan housing project and boasted of their gang ties on MySpace were busted Wednesday, authorities said.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 18, 2009

Victims of Crip-on-Blood Baltimore Shooting Refuse to Help Cops

The two suspected gang members who were shot and wounded at the Inner Harbor Saturday night are refusing to help police identify their attackers, the Baltimore Sun reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 6, 2009

NBA Player's 'Tweets' Use Gang Style

Denver Nuggets' guard J.R. Smith shuts down his Twitter account, amidst controversy that he may have been using it to promote the Bloods street gang, the Denver Post reports.

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Photo Galleriesby Staff WriterJune 29, 2009

Black Gang Tattoos

Gang members are usually decorated with the marking of their sets, super-gangs, and affiliated prison gangs. Their bodies are also often marked with tattoos that are generic prison symbols that you will find on just about any inmate. The following slide show is a quick look at some tattoos used by some predominately African-American gangs with origins in California.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 13, 2009

Portland Mobilizes Against Gang War

Though the city's homicide rate and overall crime rate are down, gang violence has increased sharply over the past year, with a rapid rise in shootings in the past month. On Friday, law enforcement officials sounded an alarm about the surge of violence, the same day one of the victims was buried in North Portland.

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Articlesby David GriffithNovember 1, 2008

The State of American Law Enforcement - Gangster Nation

Ride around the streets of Salisbury, N.C., and you'll see graffiti that looks out of place. Gangs in this Southern city have splattered once-pristine walls with messages pledging allegiance to gangs in Los Angeles and New York City.

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Articlesby Richard ValdemarFebruary 1, 2006

Murder Ink

One afternoon about five years ago, I was summoned from my desk at the detective division of a major Southern California urban sheriff's department and asked to meet one of the staff drill instructors at our academy gymnasium.

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