For the most part gangs limited their violence to turf wars, gangs vs. gangs.
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Don't soccer gangs seem a bit tame in comparison to your homegrown gangs?
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Some gangs provoke enemy gangs by streaming live video showing them walking through rival turf.
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We lived our entire lives under the rule of gangs — gangs that the U.S. created.
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Both the prison and the gangs have rules, Jacob says, but the gangs' rules matter.
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So now you can only work with people in gangs if they've decided to leave the gangs.
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Ovideo said gangs began targeting him because he had an outreach program focused on preventing young people from joining gangs — and helping those who were already in the gangs leave them for good.
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Most of these cases do relate to gangs, and gangs are far more prevalent in the inner cities.
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GANGS, FIRES, CLASHES Overnight, gangs roamed the highland capital, businesses were attacked and properties were set on fire.
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It has stirred up a panic about African gangs in Melbourne, despite scant evidence that any such gangs exist.
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She also spoke with leaders of the bigger gangs to secure their permission to incorporate gangs into the plot.
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The children of these refugees, consigned to impoverished areas patrolled by other gangs, came together to form other gangs.
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Drug gangs have been known to use rehab centers to recruit addicts, and rival gangs sometimes assault the centers.
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Drug gangs in the favelas are fiercely protective of the privacy of their operations from police and rival gangs.
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The majority of the gangs in southeast London are black gangs, and they are often involved in selling drugs.
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Marginalized individuals often join street gangs in a search to belong, and drug gangs and human traffickers recruit returning migrants.
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This can be done in different ways: within your own gangs, fighting rival gangs or at home, with their family.
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In plain English, young men without a way out of poverty turn to gangs, and gangs always turn to violence.
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These may not be commonly known gangs like MS-13, but gangs inevitably form within the prison as a survival tactic.
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Over the last two decades, biker gangs and the Italian mafia used local gangs to organize drug running throughout the city.
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She explained that she feared the gangs, her brother who was affiliated with them, and the police who worked with the gangs.
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But the state connected drug distribution to gangs, and law enforcement often saw menacing gangs in loose social networks of black men.
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These days, allegiances to national gangs like the Bloods, the Crips or Folk Nation are often trumped by loyalties to local gangs.
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"We have a wide number of organized crime groups, ranging from cartels, prison gangs, street gangs, transnational gangs, and the like, in Mexico and Central America, all the way through to paramilitary narco-militia mafia [and] gambling rackets," among others, Muggah said.
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Youth violence doesn't just affect those involved in gangs—an estimated 75 percent of young people caught carrying knives have no connection to gangs.
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They were not like formal gangs—not like a New York crime family with a single Godfather—but alliances with lots of smaller gangs.
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Since starting in 2016, the project, called "Integrated Approach to Gangs - Youth Without Borders" (TIP) and funded by Cali city hall, has worked with about 1,400 people and 73 gangs in slum areas, including young men and women at risk of being recruited by gangs.
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Far from suppressing drug gangs, they have in some places held auctions where gangs bid for the right to distribute their wares on militia turf.
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You have MS-13 gangs in different places like Los Angeles, and you have gangs all over Long Island, which we're knocking the hell out of.
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State Police identified the two gangs as the Pagans and Kryptmen, who were dubbed "some of the most violent" gangs in the country, the Providence Journal reported.
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Drugs and gangs are not new there: it had 86 juvenile gangs in 1946 and was known as "smack city" for its heroin problem in the 1980s.
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"Butcher" and "Gangs of New York," each measuring one inch in diameter, illustrate two scenes from the film Gangs of New York in minute three-dimensional detail.
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"Jamiel's Law" seeks to deny sanctuary city protections to members of gangs, and to increase investigations into undocumented immigrants who are in gangs, according to their website.
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Red Command is one of the largest drug gangs in Brazil, where a federal intervention in Rio de Janeiro state has targeted warring drug gangs since February.
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The police chose them because they were members of the gangs or crews most likely to shoot someone, or be shot — usually active gangs in active disputes.
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Gangs are not as top-down and regimented as they once were, or unified any longer by a vision of racial solidarity and rivalries with opposing gangs.
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He stood up with his story, burning to break the chain feeding the gangs new members and to encourage others by saying there is an alternative to the gangs.
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Ultimately, the judge concluded that Fernando's problem was merely with local gangs, although Fernando told me that many of the gangs in his home town were active throughout Colombia.
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The murders are often believed to be the work of drug gangs, or of corrupt politicians who may be allied with the gangs or involved in other criminal activities.
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Army officials said gangs use poppy varieties that produce higher yields and more potent opium from smaller plots, and that its higher value is driving violent competition between gangs.
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When the NCA set up a new co-ordination centre last year for gangs that traffic drugs across county boundaries, it found some forces unwittingly working on the same gangs.
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That year, Trump ran ads in battleground states and on Facebook quoting Clinton's 1996 reference to minorities in organized gangs as "superpredators": They are not just gangs of kids anymore.
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They let local gangs use the Zetas brand, which makes them much more effective at extortion, and, in return, the main cartel takes a cut of the local gangs' earnings.
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Local drug gangs in Britain used to deal most drugs outside major cities, but gangs based in the cities are now sending children into more rural areas to distribute them.
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"I knew that street gangs, prison gangs and cartels took over drug trafficking in the 1980s and then they took over sex trafficking at the turn of the century," said Travers.
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Drug gangs in Rio's slums are constantly on guard against any incursion by police or rival gangs and usually do not permit anyone to take photos of the areas where they operate.
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The Bandidos, one of the biggest U.S. motorcycle gangs, with branches overseas, are suspected of being involved in a shootout last May in Waco, Texas, between rival gangs that killed nine people.
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With police forces now wise to the movement of city gangs across the countryside, the use of local people – and particularly their homes – as cover has become paramount for the city gangs.
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The gangs prey on everyone, from shopkeepers to bus passengers, but are particularly dangerous for teenagers and young adults who face tremendous physical and sexual pressure to give in to the gangs.
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Salvadorans who had come of age in low-income, violence-riddled communities in the United States took that violence back to El Salvador in the form of gangs modeled after American gangs.
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" He said gangs were from the most excluded and marginalised parts of society: "You can't just see the gangs as criminal groups but as a social problem that needs a social approach.
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Chicago has long wrestled with guns and gangs, and the splintering of large gangs into smaller, disparate groups has added to the bloodshed that largely plays out on the South and West Sides.
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The crackdown on gangs coupled with the Trump administration's tough stance on legal and illegal immigration has raised alarms among activists that people with tenuous connections to gangs could come under unfair scrutiny.
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Harassed by gangs, the two men — known on the street as "Junito" and "Caballo" — founded the Trinitarios in 220, "for protection inside the jails," said Detective Paul Jeselson, an expert on Bronx gangs.
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The bikers moved product, and the street gangs sold it.
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Separatist rebels also operate in Baluchistan as do criminal gangs.
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We're creating gang members and gangs where there wasn't one.
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Those deportations have fueled the growth of the gangs overseas.
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It's not known if McCullum was still involved in gangs.
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The offensive splintered trafficking gangs, creating dozens of new ones.
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Then there are organised criminal gangs which include recycled paramilitaries.
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In 2015 the three gangs collaborated to defeat Mr Lucke.
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They muster in spectral gangs, hissing their demand for justice.
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One Marxist guerrilla group remains active with myriad crime gangs.
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And then there are the cartels and smaller local gangs.
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Organized crime gangs are in the business of making money.
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These straddle the boundary between party cadres and criminal gangs.
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Today much of the gangs' criminal activities relate to drugs.
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Gangs pay them 1,000 reais ($2000) to carry out attacks.
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Although the UPPs did not dismantle the gangs, violence fell.
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Yes, there is fighting and cursing and gangs and tattoos.
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But its gangs now also sell drugs in neighbouring counties.
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The politicos there don't like the policy [of legalizing gangs].
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I have heard there are gangs up ahead that kill.
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You cannot solve gangs without dealing with the root cause.
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Beachcombers might be surprised at armed gangs fighting over sand.
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Since 215 gangs have murdered more than 229,2550 transport employees.
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A lot of the crimes involving guns are between gangs.
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" What they're saying: "Will gangs get rid of their weapons?
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The gangs began to threaten and try to extort her.
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The success rate of the gangs is not necessarily high.
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But organized criminal gangs and other drug dealers soon proliferated.
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They reported that gangs were running rampant, raping and killing.
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Salvadoran political establishment's hardline approach to gangs is supported by
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But that brought constant demands from gangs in the area.
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The shooting may have been related to local criminal gangs.
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Mexican gangs were hired to serve as overland transport mules.
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For good measure, Trump mentioned the word "gangs" five times.
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You also have a lot of independent gangs in Vancouver.
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One Marxist guerrilla group and myriad crime gangs remain active.
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Since 2004, the gangs have killed 26 of his employees.
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An Oakland school offers what the gangs offer, but better.
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Some say they are fleeing gangs that terrorize their neighborhoods.
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Armed gangs extort and rustle cattle from the surviving ranchers.
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Without reliable civic services, neighborhoods turned to gangs for protection.
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And gangs increasingly rely on sex trafficking to support themselves.
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The gangs wanted me to join them, and I refused.
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I told them that I'd fled gangs in my country.
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It's a place ruled by gangs and brimming with trouble.
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We're talking about stopping criminals, criminal gangs and terrorist suspects.
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Street gangs have increasingly become involved in organizing prostitution networks.
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Gangs have profited from the chaos to expand their territory.
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He came to this country to escape from criminal gangs.
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The young arrivals are more susceptible to recruitment by gangs.
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Paraíso's residents fear that local criminal gangs are becoming bolder.
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And some young people may have joined or formed gangs.
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Many lockups essentially serve as recruiting centers for drug gangs.
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So while the average Venezuelan starves, the regime's gangs profit.
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"It's sort of like 'Gangs of New York,' " Taplitz said.
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Then they shut down El Cartucho, and the gangs arrived.
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Armed gangs are increasingly involved in human trafficking and prostitution.
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El Salvador's government blames the gangs for the country's violence.
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It's not hard for the gangs to recruit in prisons.
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They don't care if these gangs are killing each other.
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You'll have rival gangs buying from more than one supplier.
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They went looking at bad neighborhoods, poverty, gangs, and drugs.
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"It is a unique opportunity," Curran said, "to directly seek more federal funds and assistance for law enforcement to combat gangs and gain resources for community groups to keep our youth from joining gangs."
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Correction Department officials said last week that they had intensified efforts to gather intelligence on gangs and adopted a more sophisticated system for housing inmates that considers factors including their affiliations with particular gangs.
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The gangs, by comparison, were predators, killing shopkeepers for failing to pay bribes and battling rival gangs over issues of territory and respect that had nothing to do with the needs of the community.
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The MO is the same wherever the gangs send their teams: local drug buyers are tossed just enough class A drugs to enable the city gangs to operate behind the scenes while extracting maximum profits.
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The killing comes as police in Rio de Janeiro have intensified operations against drug gangs in the city, a crackdown that has left hundreds of people dead and scrambled turf wars among heavily armed gangs.
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Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said on Tuesday that the shooting may have been a case of mistaken identity, and gangs may have thought the group's vehicles were those of rival gangs, Sky News reported.
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While officials publicly portray the gangs as international criminal syndicates and narco-gangs, law enforcement records and data tell a different story — as do some authorities when speaking privately or in one-on-one interviews.
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He talked about the violent gangs that have ravaged the country.
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In 2006 Mr Calderón deployed the army to fight drug gangs.
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Gangs are not the only source of murder in the city.
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Three years after Batman disappeared, criminal gangs have nearly overrun Gotham.
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He has rendered victims of Central American gangs ineligible for asylum.
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Some of the inmates were decapitated in a fight between gangs.
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Gangs extort vast sums from businesses, equivalent to 3% of GDP.
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"They've taken everything away from me," Rodriguez said of the gangs.
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Criminal gangs often bury the bodies of victims in clandestine graves.
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We have problems with gangs, but it&aposs not so pervasive.
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Some turn to the gangs in search of power or oblivion.
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The popularity of methamptamines within the gangs has also undermined them.
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Women linked to the gangs claim their lives are vastly improved.
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Police say there is no indication that such gangs actually exist.
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At home, some contend with abuse, addiction, gangs, and fractured families.
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Both were directed by drug gangs from Liverpool, 143 miles away.
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How did you get interested in studying street gangs in Ecuador?
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They see them as role models, and they join the gangs.
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The left benefits so it gives the gangs what they want.
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Rob Di Danieli of the Toronto police guns and gangs unit.
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Elsewhere in the state, gangs regularly fight pitched battles for turf.
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The gangs will use local sex workers to spread the word.
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End the incentive for street gangs to fight over drug territories.
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They described gangs of bullies, physical abuse and everyday name calling.
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Both have gangs of malcontents chain-smoking cigarettes outside the entrances.
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Crazy stuff, gangs, illegitimate children, fights on boats in Rhode Island.
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He is the author of "How Gangs Work" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
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Authorities have repeatedly warned that professional criminal gangs are targeting passengers.
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Gangs are now thought to have identified targets before even boarding.
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Here, new guerrilla corps vie with criminal gangs for the routes.
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Some say criminal gangs may be involved in the illicit trade.
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He accuses the charities of becoming "taxis" for people-smuggling gangs.
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Groups of senators, known as "gangs," have sometimes defused the threats.
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"Gangs target former U.S. military," Petty told the Phoenix New Times.
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In her native Honduras, gangs threatened to kill her, she says.
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"Fish tanks are a lot like street gangs," Mr. Hoehlein said.
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She ended up on the streets, easy prey to the gangs.
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Gangs like MS-13 are responsible for much of the violence.
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Along with the usual social pressures of adolescence, there were gangs.
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Seoul (CNN)In South Korea, teenage gangs aren't necessarily a threat.
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Time and again, they fell into relationships with men in gangs.
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Violent crime at the hands of drug gangs is rife here.
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The weapons fuel armed gangs, menacing travelers and disrupting transport networks.
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The white boys, the bikers, the street gangs, and all that.
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"I'm not going back there; gangs are killing everyone," said Avalos.
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Gangs supposedly prey on outlying communities for resources, but what resources?
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As a teenager I was into gangs and guns and nonsense.
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As dislocation bred dysfunction, gangs of neo-Nazis roamed the city.
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Their town, like all of El Salvador, was bursting with gangs.
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Are these young people victims of gangs, or members of them?
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On Friday, gangs of youths threatened journalists seeking reactions from locals.
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Some are fleeing gangs that cripple the region and kill wantonly.
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Gangs besieged her neighborhood in her hometown of Felipe Zelaya, Honduras.
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Gangs of bandits roam the countryside looking for fresh human meat.
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The government's mano dura had broken the gangs' political commission apart.
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Well before the trial, Santiago wrote a manifesto for the gangs.
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The gangs had initiated a new truce, independent of the government.
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Criminals endanger law-abiding Americans, and gangs represent a particular threat.
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How did police get a handle on gangs such as SMM?
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"I was involved in gangs, drugs and street culture," he said.
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But by the late '90s, gangs had bullied their way in.
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Some politicians have also stoked fears of so-called African gangs.
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Andrew M. Cuomo's administration was killed in crossfire between rival gangs.
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That said, drug gangs and militias have different opponents as well.
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Many are fleeing gangs, which often try to recruit the children.
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But police officials dismiss claims of gangs selling violent videos online.
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How are rival gangs able to effectively control the country's prisons?
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"For the gangs, killing us is a prize," the officer said.
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Particularly in public housing, gangs that control narcotics trafficking threaten witnesses.
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Many good citizens who resided therein were terrorized by neighborhood gangs.
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But unemployment, poverty, gangs and drug use continue to haunt Pueblo.
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A boy learns of a faraway land without guns or gangs.
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The police say Iran is funding militant groups and criminal gangs.
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And it is not uncommon for rival gangs to join forces.
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Coons asks about hitching posts, chain gangs 1:193 p.m. Sen.
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Neo-Pentecostal gangs in Brazil, driving out other faiths at gunpoint.
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THERE IS NOT GROUPS OF – GANGS OF PEOPLE - AND NOT POLITICS.
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We had had run-ins with the gangs in the past.
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"Invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people," Trump said.
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And what about the fighting of local gangs in the US?
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During the investigation, Mr. Bharara said, the government obtained warrants for more than 100 Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts linked to the gangs' criminal activity, an investigative technique the authorities are using more often against gangs.
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I had reported on a number of different gangs in cities across America, but here I was in a country that was being terrorized and overtaken by street gangs, the largest of which was MS-53.
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Less than 28503 percent of those apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol in 22019 belonged to Central American gangs, according to the AP, and many of those not affiliated with gangs were migrants trying to escape the violence.
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Fighting between gangs of Nepalese and British teenagers used to be common.
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Location-based technologies can help gangs target individuals for harassment or kidnapping.
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In a dystopian future, ultra-violent scavenger gangs roam the arid landscape.
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Mr Pfeiffer says they were probably the work of eastern European gangs.
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Either the officers will beat you up or you fighting the gangs.
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The police and the gangs, I think, have some kind of arrangement.
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Kids who take the long way to school to avoid the gangs.
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Drug gangs sometimes burn buses in retribution for police operations against them.
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It&aposs about going after the gangs and working on the taskforces.
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These weapons "disrupted the balance of power among the gangs", he says.
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She said had been forced into sex work by gangs in Honduras.
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These operations may be executed by multiple criminal gangs or FIN6 alone.
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Prisons are both hellholes and headquarters for Brazil's most powerful criminal gangs.
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Much of it was linked to conflicts between gangs, according the CPD.
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But the problem of violent crime goes well beyond the drug gangs.
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San Giovanni a Teduccio has so far been free of baby gangs.
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Later ones showed that local officials and drug gangs were shockingly entwined.
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He specifically mentioned those targeted by criminal gangs, including human rights activists.
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Other favelas have major drugs trafficking crime and are ruled by gangs.
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FOR a quiet country, New Zealand has a peculiar problem with gangs.
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"But like criminal gangs, North Korea won't cringe much under psychological pressure."
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For a sleepy country, New Zealand has a peculiar problem with gangs.
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But if the authorities have not done gangs much harm, methamphetamines have.
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Teenage gangs of all stripes – whether real or virtual – are powder kegs.
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America's Drug Enforcement Administration believes international gangs are using crypto-currencies more.
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Gangs from nearby Jalisco and Michoacán moved into the state from 25.
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Mayors' growing power, and gangs' new business activities, have increased the risk.
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But security experts suspect drug gangs are driving much of the bloodshed.
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But the crackdown splintered established crime syndicates into dozens of competing gangs.
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In all likelihood the gangs are emboldened by the absence of prosecution.
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BOSSIE: Well, look, on gangs, on MS-13 and then on immigration.
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They are often ringed by closely packed slums controlled by neighbourhood gangs.
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In some neighborhoods, street gangs could offer more protection than the police.
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Killings often started rising in its cities because of drugs and gangs.
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When we talk about criminalizing gangs, we're talking about this punitive approach.
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Warring local tribes, and gangs preying on migrants, are a daily threat.
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Martínez's skilled storytelling we might never read about these gangs in the
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Local officials have even faced allegations of working with the criminal gangs.
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In reaction to this, the gangs that weren't included created another alliance.
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Street beggars said they were made to beg by organized criminal gangs.
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The pair is reputed to be connected with Vietnamese-American street gangs.
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Blaming the cops, in effect, has given gangs control of our cities.
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Black and Hispanic gangs are contending for control of the drug trade.
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By routinely killing and injuring Americans, gangs show our nation no quarter.
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Critics of the policy, like Mr Hernández, say it gave gangs legitimacy.
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Chávez recruited gangs from the slums, known as colectivos, to terrorise his.
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If not other rebels, crime gangs are also filling the FARC vacuum.
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"The No. 23 reason people join gangs is for protection," he said.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has staged similar operations targeting gangs since 2005.
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The other: torture and whips, Civil War, chain gangs, lynchings, Jim Crow.
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Gangs are like a fraternity because you're always going to be involved.
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The local politicians were after him, he said, as were the gangs.
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Court papers say the gangs were responsible for at least eight murders.
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It has more gangs and guns than any city in the country.
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Bukele, for example—realize the necessity of bargaining with the gangs. Despite
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We want to stop criminals and gangs from coming into our country.
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What they found were organized gangs devoted to serial killing for cash.
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Officials say that most kidnappings in Kabul are conducted by criminal gangs.
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But by 2014, the gangs were aggressively clawing back at the police.
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Men who are members of gangs, who use violence to terrorize communities.
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In this way he has gained the trust of all six gangs.
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The prison gangs are split up into the rooms they sleep in.
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He was caught in the middle of a shootout between rival gangs.
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And then there are rivalries and conflicts around more formal piracy gangs.
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The cop essentially does a drive by which are what gangs do.
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Robberies and boat hijackings have surged as local drug gangs grow stronger.
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"People are afraid that gangs might have infiltrated the group," he said.
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Today, criminal gangs, armed insurgents and other nonstate actors routinely wreak havoc.
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We put children most at risk of joining gangs in family counseling.
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One of the potential local explanations for the homicide increase is gangs.
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He began running bizarre, fearmongering ads about Hispanic gangs and sanctuary cities.
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Gangs, weapons and bribery are common — and protests are on the rise.
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"Before, no one wanted to say anything about the gangs," Gutierrez said.
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She remained silent when I asked her about the gangs back home.
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He would later be mentioned in studies of criminal gangs in America.
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Many gangs plan their activities in terms of financial profit and loss.
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"Narcotics was always a great tool to break up gangs," he said.
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Some of the bogus messages described gangs of kidnappers on the prowl.
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"Gangs are at war," the local coroner told the Clarion Ledger newspaper.
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In prison, "STG" stands for "Security Threat Group," a term for gangs.
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Black gangs are supported by the language and actions of mainstream politicians.
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It doesn't seek to dismantle gangs — just to keep them from shooting.
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Yet in this version, both gangs appear to be multiracial melting pots.
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Many migrants are fleeing transnational gangs that operate in the entire region.
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Upstart Salvadoran gangs gradually began to appear, and attempted to take territory.
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These markers made them easy targets for the fiercely territorial Salvadoran gangs.
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In August 2015, the Salvadoran Supreme Court declared gangs as terrorist groups.
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I've worked with gangs, I've worked with Crips, I've worked with Bloods.
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Two of them were immigrants from Honduras who had escaped gangs there.
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Gangs of vigilantes have taken seriously the president's call to slaughter addicts.
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Along the way, they are targeted by criminal gangs and frequently kidnapped.
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The NDP pledged C$1070 million to keep youths from joining gangs.
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Some police officers fear the orders may hinder efforts to fight gangs.
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Both police officers and rival street gangs were saddened by his death.
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In exchange, the police granted the gangs neighborhood territory for illicit activities.
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ICE combats transnational gangs, drug smuggling, human trafficking, child exploitation, and more.
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Getting gangs to reduce violence, they argue, is likelier than destroying them.
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He said that his family fled death threats from gangs back home.
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The pledges we all signed not to use drugs or join gangs.
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" He warned of the gangs, violence, and drugs "pouring into our communities.
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Dantrell Blake grew up in Chicago, surrounded by gun violence and gangs.
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Sam Gor supplies a bigger, more dispersed drug market and collaborates with a more diverse range of local crime groups than the Latin cartels do, including Japan's Yakuza, Australia's biker gangs and ethnic Chinese gangs across Southeast Asia.
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EXCLUSIVE: US-funded police linked to illegal executions Easy prey for gangs El Salvador is a particularly violent place to call home, where gangs such as the infamous MS-13 are said to prey upon the newly-deported.
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In El Salvador, authorities have taken it further, using the gangs' connections to hip-hop to justify what amounts to cultural profiling under measures like the 2010 legislation formally titled Law Banning Criminal Gangs, Bands, Groups, Associations and Organizations.
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Authorities told PEOPLE that Tieu and Duong are both affiliated with Vietnamese gangs.
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The spying on journalists victimises a profession already under assault by criminal gangs.
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Never went to jail, weren't in no gangs… they were professional and nice.
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Rather, he says, he wants to compete with gangs to provide better opportunities.
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Prison officials say the overcrowded system is the perfect recruiting ground for gangs.
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El Salvadoran legislature also approved reforms to classify the gangs as terrorist organizations.
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Where the gangs are prevalent, moving elsewhere is not an option, she said.
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The region is also home to Marxist guerrillas as well as bandit gangs.
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"Gangs give you work - and you become emotionally tied to them," he said.
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We've gathered 24 badass pins that unite girl gangs around the world. 6.
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We know he is trying to rid their communities of gangs like MS13.
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One risk is that drug gangs will try to press them into service.
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He says it&aposll also help businesses and schools understand threats gangs pose.
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MS-13 recruits new members through the internet and absorbs rival street gangs.
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It happens in family disputes, school interactions, conflicts between gangs, and so on.
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Gangs are not especially a problem, but drug trading and gun violence are.
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The only difference is that now it's between the gangs and the government.
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The area of Norte de Santander also has several crime gangs trafficking drugs.
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In 1927 Frederic Thrasher published a "natural history" of 1,313 gangs in Chicago.
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Soon, social media feeds will alert police to imminent violence from rival gangs.
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Some of these so-called "baby gangs" have members as young as 12.
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The gangs there such as MS-13 and Barrio 18 are extremely violent.
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Polling suggests most residents fear the militias, perhaps even more than drug gangs.
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FEW issues bedevil El Salvador more than how to deal with criminal gangs.
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Each day several gangs, including MS-13, compete for power and influence here.
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Local politicians are said to pay and arm the gangs to attack rivals.
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Gangs, which have tens of thousands of members, are omnipresent in Latino neighbourhoods.
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The state should crack down hard when gangs overstep defined boundaries, he says.
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He obviously is very much against the savages in the MS-212 gangs.
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Opposition activists said armed pro-government gangs joined the fray and opened fire.
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Each side made alliances with youth gangs and elements in the security forces.
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Cambodia was able to track the gangs with help from China, he said.
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Illegal immigration funds criminal networks, ruthless gangs, and the flow of deadly drugs.
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It comes down to a demand that the gangs leave local people alone.
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Or you could buy peace with truces and special deals between rival gangs.
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And they were collaborating with other gangs they'd warred with in the past.
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Their region is rife with ethnic and tribal fighting, and with smuggling gangs.
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In poor neighbourhoods, drug gangs battle for turf while the state stands by.
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I wish I had done more at the time of "Gangs of Wasseypur".
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My junior year in high school began as LA gangs flourished in Denver.
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Be careful though, it's a market mostly run by dangerous gangs of pensioners.
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This is how you hold the price steady while bankrupting the criminal gangs.
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Reed: At the time, we were really focused on fabricated subcultures or gangs.
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New gangs now include Moroccans, who use their established smuggling routes for cannabis.
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"Whoever can bear arms is fighting the regime and its gangs," Xelil said.
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"Before, we were in rival gangs, firing guns," he exclaims from the pulpit.
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At 27, he's in the age group of young men the gangs target.
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They (gang members) jump on kids if they don't want to join gangs.
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The negotiator says the bus route is lucky to pay just two gangs.
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Ortega has also criticized sometimes over-violent state crackdowns on crime and gangs.
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In Red Dead Redemption 2's America, outlaw gangs represent a dying breed.
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Criminal gangs that grew out of right-wing paramilitary groups are another menace.
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They might also simply serve to push violence between gangs to other venues.
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In the mid-1990s, he reinstated chain gangs -- including for women and juveniles.
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The sort of places where there are a lot of gangs, drug trafficking.
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Are there problems of gangs that are trying to move into FARC territories?
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Investigators need to be able to dismantle whole networks that support drug gangs.
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Gangs prey on both rich and poor with demands backed by death threats.
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Violence has soared as armed gangs loyal to the government roam the streets.
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How important is it for the gangs to control information in their territories?
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Simply put, terrorist groups operate along the same lines as gangs and pedophiles.
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There is no basis for rumors of kidnap gangs in Hyderabad, he added.
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Much of it was found to have been caused by the two gangs.
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IN THEIR EFFORTS to eradicate criminal gangs, Chinese officials deploy a colourful vocabulary.
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Gangs begin to recruit boys at about 14, and his friends carry knives.
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They are tired of the gangs, criminals, and risks that illegal immigration imports.
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President Trump, who has prioritized the war on gangs at the expense of
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He bragged about removing meat from all their meals and having chain gangs.
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Criminalizing drugs pushes the market underground, into the hands of cartels and gangs.
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The Sinaloa cartel has fought bloody turf walls with rival gangs in Mexico.
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Fleeing gangs, they left El Salvador to seek asylum in the United States.
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The government has failed to present effective proposals for fighting the drug gangs.
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The biggest gangs would buy soda, chips and popcorn for like 500 people.
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They were widely believed to have been members of criminal gangs, the triads.
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He was one more activist among all those who denounced the criminal gangs.
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"If the NCA stopped targeting drug gangs, it would change nothing," he explained.
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Second, gangs have begun to look beyond drug-trafficking to kidnapping and extortion.
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"Whoever can bear arms is fighting the regime and its gangs," he said.
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They have told of highway robberies, frightening encounters with armed gangs and beatings.
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Then I traveled to Thailand, where some of the biggest wildlife gangs operate.
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And for the criminal gangs counterfeit money is cheaper to produce than cocaine.
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But the patrols left after a few weeks, probably intimidated by the gangs.
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And there are plenty of gangs in the United States already, some homegrown.
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They also capture the era's turbulence, including homelessness, drugs, gangs and neighborhood neglect.
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That ultimately served only to strengthen the resolve and coherence of the gangs.
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Past the house, we came upon a shooting range used by the gangs.
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The Gangs Unit undertake this large-scale operation on a bi-weekly basis.
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Some did so through gangs, some through immigrant political machines, some through unions.
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And middle school is when our kids first start getting attracted to gangs.
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Then gangs started appearing in our neighborhood and demanding renta, or extortion payments.
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The big thing with gangs now is they all turn on each other.
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Other groups are considered by the authorities to be barely distinguishable from gangs.
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"These children are often being captured by traffickers, gangs, cartels," Mr. Azar said.
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He said that in the past he saw gangs and men with guns.
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Days before Carnival, rival drug gangs closed major transportation arteries of the city.
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Many of them are fleeing gangs, which often try to recruit their children.
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"If he returns, the gangs will go after him again," Bishop Alvarado said.
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Boys are forced to join gangs; girls are forced to sleep with gangsters.
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Criminal gangs kidnapped prominent members of the business community, targeting them for ransom.
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Parents alleged abuse at the center, including rape, and said gangs operated there.
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When I was writing 'The Hate U Give,' I had to research gangs.
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They've been beaten by gangs, kidnapped by terrorists and jailed by repressive governments.
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But in Honduras, the effects are compounded by government dysfunction and criminal gangs.
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Two days later, members of the same gangs clashed on a city bus.
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The Venezuelans point out that criminal gangs make the streets dangerous at night.
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Homeless, he turned to street gangs to survive and missed learning to read.
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It was a dark speech, bemoaning "this American carnage" of gangs and drugs.
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"We are investigating if this was really an action between gangs," he said.
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Gangs facilitate drug trafficking, extort local residents, and force teenage boys to join.
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Prohibition gave rise to organised crime, as mafia gangs made fortunes from bootlegging.
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The squads were abandoned after the gangs mistakenly beat up several Hindu men.
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Military and police have been deployed to tackle criminal gangs in the region.
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Warring drug gangs have made Guerrero one of the deadliest states in Mexico.
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Similar gangs are operated by Nicaragua's Cuban-trained communist dictatorship, for similar purposes.
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Police estimate that on any given weekday the gangs would earn nearly $25,000.
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At the same time, drug gangs corrupted high-ranking police officers and politicians.
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In Honduras — with so much crime and gangs — what future awaits him there?
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Criminal gangs often bury the bodies of rivals or victims in clandestine graves.
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I wanted to avoid that whole fiasco—all the fights, all the gangs.
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Some misidentified gang intimidation as bullying; some were simply scared of the gangs.
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"Carrying out air strikes on Daesh gangs in Syrian territories is because of the dangers posed by said gangs to Iraqi territories and is proof of the improved capabilities of our armed forces," the Iraqi military said in a statement.
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By the time they were deported, years later, they had formed the very gangs gnawing at Salvadoran society — gangs that were notably brutal, known for severing the heads of enemies and utterly disregarding the fate of civilians caught in the crossfire.
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Others are held in informal detention centers controlled by criminal gangs or armed groups.
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Armed gangs often charge them for safe passage and permission to set up markets.
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Gangs divide communities - both physically and socially - making them less able to withstand violence.
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But then they come into communities where the gangs are targeting UACs for recruitment.
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Gangs of colorful cyberpunk characters roam across the relics and rubble of crumbling cityscapes.
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Juana Isabel said gangs murdered her husband when he didn't pay a gang "tax".
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Captures of kingpins increase violence by motivating rival gangs to exploit the weakened organizations.
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They&aposre taking this tiny MS-13, 220 of 219.8 gangs in the country.
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Violence has increased as rival drug gangs splinter into smaller groups and dispute territory.
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Many victims of gangs are often buried in mass graves, never to be found.
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But the ELN, FARC dissidents, right-wing ex-paramilitaries and crime gangs remain active.
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The dissidents and gangs can be a "siren's call" for ex-rebels, Rivera said.
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Few strangers stray inside the slum, or favela, where the gangs impose their law.
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The "numbers" prison gangs have such complex rules that they speak their own language.
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Officers usually ascribe such deaths to fighting between drug gangs or to mysterious vigilantes.
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Yet the Yakuza still kill far, far fewer people with guns than American gangs.
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For years, Sonia said, she moved around the county trying to escape the gangs.
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Carrying guns, associating with gangs, and abusing alcohol are all closely linked to violence.
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Then the Zetas, the most brutal of the drug gangs, began to take people.
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Many of these were killed by armed gangs that support the government, called colectivos.
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An overlapping clique helps drug-trafficking gangs through its control of ports and airports.
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He laments years lost to cocaine and PCP, gangs, depression and bi-polar disorder.
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It seems even biker gangs are no longer immune to this shitty gig economy.
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The two groups rely on Yandaba gangs to swell their ranks and provide muscle.
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They took place in dark corners of enormous public-housing towers where gangs battled.
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The gangs have splintered as they battled over trafficking routes and territory, fueling violence.
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The war between the gangs, directed by their cartel masters, also continued behind bars.
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New backlash after a writer&aposs controversial joke about MS-13 gangs and Republicans.
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Paramilitary gangs on both sides of the sectarian divide are active in organised crime.
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Women soften the gangs to a certain degree, especially if there are kids involved.
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As a result, the gangs have started returning to that vacuum with a vengeance.
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There would be severe penalties for crimes — but it wasn't a war on gangs.
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El Salvador belonged to the gangs, making the country one of the most murderous
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What is the role of robbery, gangs, alcohol, drugs, mental illness and domestic violence?
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In the meantime, don't underestimate the capabilities of Tijuana-based biker-slash-hacker gangs.
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A sort of arms race broke out where cops and gangs accumulated unprecedented armories.
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Are there any other gangs in the US for you to go up against?
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Johnson didn't say whether police thought the suspects or targets had ties to gangs.
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Intense shootouts between the gangs and also with police have taken place almost daily.
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Another roughly 600 confirmed gang arrests did not belong to any of those gangs.
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Pieters said her son, one of five children, was not affiliated with any gangs.
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There are other reasons for killings besides connections to drug gangs, the government said.
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There hasn't been this kind of peace between so many L.A. gangs since 1992.
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"These international gangs and cartels will be a thing of the past," he said.
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Young women are also vulnerable to the predations of the gangs in many ways.
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Powerful oil theft gangs have stolen vast quantities of fuel from Salamanca's oil refinery.
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Gangs of blindly optimistic scruffy rag-tag underdogs in space are my thing 5ever.
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Prisoner warehousing foments violence, entrenches criminal thinking, and gives gangs a recruiting field day.
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"Numbers can play a lot of politics in tattoos," he says, noting gangs, specifically.
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Gangs control land deliveries on the poor outskirts of Rosario, Argentina's third-largest city.
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There were a lot of gangs and a lot of violence in the community.
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The gangs' firepower is extraordinary, and it almost all comes from the United States.
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They add that criminal gangs, including MS-13, have benefited from the country's instability.
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Parents shouldn't have to fear their children's exposure to vicious gangs and drug lords.
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These gangs are not an army with a fixed position that can be attacked.
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The sweep was intended to dismantle the gangs in the two public housing projects.
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Another was attacked by armed gangs who made off with all they could carry.
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"By our count, there are 40 militias and gangs in Tripoli," Mr. Mesmari said.
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"These are organized gangs and there are international networks working together," Baker told Insider.
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The Supreme Court designated gangs and any collaborators as terrorists, and prosecutors charged dozens
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Gangs are male-dominated and girls and women parts of the territories they control.
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Unfortunately, it is difficult to reach or influence the criminal gangs behind these acts.
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" Thomas Homan told The Daily Caller that ICE Homeland Security Investigations "targets many gangs.
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Gangs routinely tap Pemex's pipelines to steal gasoline, tipped off from inside the company.
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"It's an old story that the United Nations gangs up on Israel," Dermer said.
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Local officers, underpaid and poorly trained, are vulnerable to threats or bribes from gangs.
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Others are held in informal detention centers controlled by criminal gangs or armed groups.
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This growing relationship potentially can lead to violence over competition between gangs and TCOs.
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"My wife stuck with me for 30 years through gangs, addiction, prison, and bipolar."
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Once it was not uncommon for gangs to kill adults but leave children unharmed.
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Well, I'm talking about taking guns away from gangs and people that use them.
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Criminals, Gangs, Human Traffickers, Drugs & so much other big trouble can easily pour in.
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Thousands of children are being exploited by ruthless "coyotes" and vicious cartels and gangs.
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Because these criminals, drug smugglers, gangs and traffickers do not stop at our border.
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Ordinary residents here speak with similar despondence about the police and the drug gangs.
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" Fifth place went to Cameron Diaz as Jenny Everdeane in "Gangs of New York.
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Criminal gangs got very good, very fast, at hiding their operations with secret messages.
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Mr. Appelgren has watched the trend apprehensively, calling it an arms race among gangs.
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"These gangs will not kill our future," Mr. Temer said in a videotaped statement.
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I avoided the stress of dealing with drugs and gangs by routinely skipping classes.
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They were affiliated to Serbian, Kosovar, or Turkish gangs that were protected by police.
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"Because there were no police here, (the gangs) did what they wanted," he said.
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In some states, they are reported to work with, not against, local crime gangs.
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The neighborhood was tough—lots of gangs, lots of crime, and lots of violence.
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Armed gangs control life in many Venezuelan prisons, and many people die in detention.
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There were drugs, gangs, guns, and a lot of dysfunction in my own family.
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Focused social work can help steer teenagers from being recruited into the sprawling gangs.
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Wilson Witzel of Rio de Janeiro, have endorsed draconian tactics against drug-smuggling gangs.
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He represented a coalition that included the Russian government, wealthy oligarchs and criminal gangs.
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Gangs roamed the streets, and Gomez, small and scrawny, was a target, he said.
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Eradicating the gangs' influence poses a significant institutional challenge for Paraguay, senior officials say.
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It began working in secret to broker a truce between the nation's warring gangs.
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She warns her groups about "bicycle gangs" that specialize in grab-and-run robberies.
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In reality, Honduras is decidedly winning its war against drug traffickers and criminal gangs.
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The thefts are carried out by drug traffickers and other heavily armed criminal gangs.
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"There's murders, but in my opinion they are mostly gangs and drugs," he said.
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The gangs have also started to pay for medical care and other community services.
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The first is driven by the interaction of the drug gangs and the authorities.
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That is why it is correct to say that gangs effectively control the prisons.
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The government insists that its operations in Caracas' slum areas are directed against gangs.
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Similarly, he said the NBA should be renamed to reflect that they were gangs.
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To that end, she memorized the tattoos and colors of 17 Oklahoma City gangs.
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Every one of these street gangs had a tummler, some guy who was funny.
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Instead, Benjy convened a meeting of the gangs at the Hoe Avenue Boys' Club.
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And are there, or were there, gangs like the Banished Brawlers in real life?
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In the chasm between the police and the community, gangs and gun violence flourish.
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The gangs were believed to be fighting for control of lucrative drug smuggling routes.
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The United States regards the cartel as one of Mexico's most powerful drug gangs.
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For example, gangs pay the police to ignore the gang operations in their territories.
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In the title story, children form gangs to scavenge for vegetables in the ruins.
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Gangs were once a larger menace in the city, but still remain a presence.
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Villagers in Murki said they had been hearing about child kidnapping gangs for months.
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The two main parties, as well as Mr. Bukele, have negotiated with the gangs.
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Gomez said there are now hundreds, and possibly thousands, of gangs of organized kidnappers.
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How widespread is the influence of paramilitary gangs in Brazil's police force and politics?
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At home, gangs use Khalil's death as an excuse to expand their turf wars.
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Clubs were filled with dealers sanctioned by doormen, and controlled by organized crime gangs.
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In January, it was revealed that cocaine gangs successfully rigged elections by buying votes.
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"The gangs are muscle, they use them as sicarios or enforcers, mostly in the urban areas where the gangs have most presence," said Hector Silva Ávalos, a senior investigator at InSight Crime, a think tank focused on organized crime in the Americas.
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Many of those areas, where police had successfully displaced some criminal gangs in the lead-up to the Olympics and the 2014 World Cup, are now roiled by efforts by gangs to retake turf and regain access to markets for illegal drugs.
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Kidnapping gangs have also unleashed a new kind of terror in northern and southern states.
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Go out and demonstrate against the grooming and the rape gangs that are being prosecuted.
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Locals on Saturday expressed both sympathy and consternation toward the president's war on fuel gangs.
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They each have stories of running with gangs, trying to find a sense of belonging.
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Smith says there had been a lot of shootings back and forth between rival gangs.
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Gangs are using high-powered rifles that can tear through cars and even bulletproof vests.
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Brent wants them to focus on dealing with gangs and violence against women and girls.
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Standing in his way were powerful criminal gangs operating violent kidnapping, carjacking and extortion rackets.
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Thus tribes, gangs and factions drive politics in Britain to a greater extent than elsewhere.
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It's a weapon used by gangs "going country" to sell drugs in towns outside London.
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On his website Butterfly Crime, Kok covered everyone from biker gangs to Moroccan drug lords.
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The smaller gangs lack the manpower and management skills to run full-scale drug operations.
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Researchers find that a nonprofit called Cure Violence, which works with gangs, curbs gun deaths.
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They included roadblocks and searches of houses known to be used by the local gangs.
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Drug gangs in Mexico are also often involved in extorting money from slot machine businesses.
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" The play on words invokes one of America's most notorious gangs: "Make America Crip Again.
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In his first term, Parris managed to alienate both the ACLU and local motorcycle gangs.
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South Central and Watts have been depicted in a negative light: gangs, violence, drugs, poverty.
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The gangs allegedly have a history of gun and drug trafficking, kidnapping, murder and robbery.
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So, you&aposve got a president who is worried about jobs, terror, North Korea, gangs.
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I was exposed to gangs, prostitution, drugs and abuse before most kids learn their ABCs.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to combat the gangs and enforce U.S. immigration laws.
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But the gangs emerging today are less organised and more prone to commit petty crime.
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They are to conduct operations against gangs that engage in drug-trafficking and looting cargo.
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How did legalization change the relationships within individual gangs, for example between men and women?
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In addition, gangs often take advantage of the lawlessness to loot villages and kidnap women.
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MS-13 uses violence to intimidate rival gangs, using weapons ranging from firearms to machetes.
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Even with the local gangs, whether they were Mexican or black, we had mutual respect.
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He also accused officers of cooperating with local gangs, which are collectively known as Triads.
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It has also become to refer to more loosely organized criminal gangs in the city.
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Hong Kong Are organized crime gangs becoming involved in the political crisis in Hong Kong?
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Guadalajara and surrounding areas have often been the scene of violence by rival drug gangs.
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Most of the thieves work for criminal gangs based across the border in mainland China.
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Kaspersky Lab's Stefan Tanase has followed several Eastern European luxury gangs over the past decade.
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But critics say the focus skewed heavily toward funding for tackling drug smuggling and gangs.
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Those nabbed included members of the Bloods, the Crips and the notorious MS-13 gangs.
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Charges have been brought against some police officers accused of diverting weapons to criminal gangs.
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In the meantime, Maduro and his gangs put down these peaceful protests with brutal force.
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The reality is what we're dealing with is highly organized and sophisticated cyber-criminal gangs.
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Elections in Mexico can cause violence in areas where gangs seek to influence local politics.
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Many young men encounter pressure to join the gangs, and fear running afoul of them.
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REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Drug gangs sparked a prison riot in Brazil that killed 56 people.
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In reality, many of these unaccompanied minors are fleeing the threat of gangs at home.
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He claimed the measure was needed to stop an "invasion" of people, gangs, and drugs.
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Many in its ranks are thought to have close links with the city's narco gangs.
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VICE: We talked previously about your book on Chinese-American gangs wars in New York.
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Additionally, gangs frequently target the boys and girls left orphaned as a result of violence.
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He also said he would prioritize taking down gangs and getting guns off the streets.
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"As a career prosecutor, I actually went after gangs and transnational criminal organizations," Harris tweeted.
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After the massacre, U.S. President Donald Trump offered Mexico help in wiping out drug gangs.
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African-Americans and Hispanics are more likely to think that guns are wielded by gangs.
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One of the island's most famous products, marijuana, is illegal and controlled by criminal gangs.
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It goes deeper than just the caliber of the weapons that the gangs are packing.
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The gangs have killed almost 100 police officers and soldiers in the past 12 months.
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"They don't just hack the victims, they trade the technology to other gangs," he said.
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At times, the gangs distribute free samples, according to agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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He said they fled his homeland to escape the daily threats of violence from gangs.
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Both the gangs and government take credit for the continued decrease in the national homicide
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Both these gangs have taken to burying victims in private properties rather than rural outskirts.
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And the simultaneous hardening of the U.S. and Mexican borders perversely strengthens organized criminal gangs.
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Threats against children are a favored methodology used by Central American gangs to extract obedience.
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But those efforts put Villatoro and his family in the crosshairs of the vicious gangs.
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What's further, the legalization of marijuana has been a boon for criminal gangs and cartels.
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The paramilitaries and drug gangs, he said through his open window, shoot early this morning.
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As AG, Harris prioritized the prosecution of transnational gangs and weapons, drugs, and human traffickers.
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"Today, you'll find gangs of 30 or 40 people hunting inside the reserve," he says.
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Inside Lyari - once the deadliest slum of Karachi - notorious for religious gangs and violent extremism.
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Without job opportunities, youth are more likely to turn to gangs, militias, and terrorist organizations.
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The pirate gangs launch small, fast skiffs from bases on shore to try hijack vessels.
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Vancouver has always been very interesting and the [west coast] has always been Asian gangs.
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There's been a lot of violence in these gangs, a lot of killings in Vancouver.
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The Community Center has been a safe haven in an area where gangs are strong.
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Crime really did spike as gangs fought for control of the black market for alcohol.
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But according to Richard, the "S" has nothing to do with any gangs he's seen.
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Once the ignorance took over the platform of what street gangs were, it got vicious.
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Its ambitious goal: to push heavily armed gangs from slums and construct permanent police outposts.
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Mattioli: Yeah, these white supremacist gangs existed, but they didn't show their face [in LA].
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The California gangs didn't get down with that, they didn't put up with that shit.
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Although Salvadoran gangs sell drugs, they do it like street-corner dealers, not international operatives.
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Intense shootouts between the gangs and also with police officers have taken place almost daily.
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Armed gangs sometimes led the way, looting and paving the way for the squatter camps.
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By the 1980s, their children had formed street gangs, like the notorious Tiny Rascal Gang.
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They hoped that mothers working together could oust the violent gangs that plagued the campus.
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Drug gangs in the favelas and militia groups led by rogue ex-police regained ground.
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WACO, May 73, 2015 - Rival motorcycle gangs kill nine at a restaurant in Waco, Texas.
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They fled domestic violence, vengeful gangs, political opposition and laws that made their lives unbearable.
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They have demanded that Mexican officials crack down on transnational gangs that facilitate migrant travel.
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Leaders from the three gangs announced the ceasefire via a YouTube video posted in March.
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Drugs are pouring in, human trafficking, so many different problems, including gangs like M.S. 13.
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The gangs have one thing in common: They commit violent crimes that terrorize our communities.
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We will not allow gangs to continue targeting vulnerable youth and spreading violence and despair.
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It's believed that for centuries, gangs of thieves and assassins called thugs operated throughout India.
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One brought together members of Los Angeles street gangs, police officials, crime victims and more.
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Gangs are still common in the neighborhood of South Los Angeles where Anthony was killed.
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Many gangs are thought to comprise mostly Fulani members, but Fulani have also been victimized.
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Take a look and you'll see three separate gangs: one blue, one green, one yellow.
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Police said that gangs were using the darkness and crowds as cover to settle scores.
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"The thesis of the book is that gangs have become like corporations," Mr. Amini said.
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Since Sunday, gangs of Hindus and Muslims have clashed with crude weapons and homemade guns.
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Gangs of Hindus and Muslims have been battling since Sunday, killing at least 212 people.
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Those who would rather risk everything than remain in countries where violence and gangs reign.
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"We know the gangs that have the weapons," said Anthony Guglielmi, a Chicago police spokesman.
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These two gangs are fighting for control over the prison system and the cocaine trade.
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Brazil's state prisons are overseen by drug gangs that act as judges, jurors and executioners.
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The authorities, however, tried to play down the possibility that warring gangs were to blame.
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Our open border has allowed drugs and crime and gangs to pour into our communities.
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We do have a problem with criminal gangs and with the drugs that they distribute.
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He says those who couldn't pay were detained, tortured or passed on to criminal gangs.
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Gangs of young herders have been stirred by local politicians to invade other people's land.
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Now, when someone is killed, gangs will sometimes send an emissary rather than a gunman.
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"He educated her in terms of the mind-set of the gangs," Ms. Montenegro said.
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Above all they were intent on calming the streets, acting as peacemakers among different gangs.
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Over the last year, law enforcement officials have arrested some of the gangs stealing cryptocurrency.
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In Baltimore and other cities, well-established gangs push the powder and pills to consumers.
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Drug traffickers, transnational criminal organizations, and violent street gangs all contribute substantially to this scourge.
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Crime gangs have been blamed for killing hundreds of community leaders and human rights workers.
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They often extort residents in exchange for keeping drug gangs from taking over the areas.
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Miller expects marauding gangs to pour out of cities if law and order breaks down.
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The Rio gang has allied with five other gangs around Brazil, including the Crime Syndicate.
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Both gangs later established criminal operations in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, among other places.
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That, in turn, resulted in the explosive growth of gangs that have terrorized entire neighborhoods.
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"But then another armed group came of colectivos," he said, referring to government-aligned gangs.
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This isn't to say that the drug gangs in Rio are not a big problem.
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Again, the parties were taking place in neighborhoods where there were a lot of gangs.
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But also because people were inviting their cousins or their brothers who were in gangs.
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And that reveals the dark side of these Rio Olympics: While the Games carry on for the privileged class, millions of Rio's poorest residents struggle just to survive in a city where firefights between drug gangs, or firefights between drug gangs and police, are commonplace.
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He said that everyone had been after him: the police, because being young and Salvadoran made him a potential MS-13 member; the black gangs, because he looked like a Latino gang member; the Latino gangs — including MS-13 — because he wasn't then a member.
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Late last week, the rival gangs, known as pandillas, offered to halt the killings in exchange for concessions from the government, but authorities have instead decided to take the fight against the gangs to their home base: the country's notoriously corrupt and overcrowded prisons.
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Residents of Rio's shantytowns bemoan the end of the army's 15-month mission to evict gangs.
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When they arrived in a rundown Baghdad neighborhood, notorious for its drug gangs, the unthinkable happened.
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" The gangs at the center of the trade have shown no sign of slowing down. "Fear?
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It's said that at the height of the rivalry, Puma and Adidas were like rival gangs.
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They illustrate how gangs have splintered into smaller, less disciplined factions quicker to resort to violence.
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Chicago gangs maximize attention with videos of themselves performing an aggressive hip-hop called drill rap.
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Gangs involved in such heists include some people from neighboring countries including Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
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Growing and selling marijuana is illegal in Mexico and a mainstay business of violent drug gangs.
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Some priests in the world's second-biggest Catholic country have denounced the violence of drug gangs.
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Instead, it&aposs often people fleeing gangs who are trying to get into the United States.
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There are mutants, raider gangs, and the big baddies, a mysterious group known as the Authority.
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Subsistence farmers have often been obliged by rebel groups, paramilitaries and crime gangs to plant coca.
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Street gangs were present before forced removals but, over the past five decades, have become entrenched.
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A higher share of young people are affiliated to gangs than in cities such as Baltimore.
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Terry Katz, a Baltimore-based state police investigator, has been following biker gangs since the 1980s.
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Then Mr. Ortega and Ms. Murillo dismissed the protesters as little groups of right-wing gangs.
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The same gangs still operate, much like the clan-based militias that plague Somalia on land.
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The ELN, a smaller guerrilla group, and organised-crime gangs still pose a threat to security.
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The case for: The thinking is simple: Gangs have realized that shootings are bad for them.
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Members of local cartels and gangs have become adept at targeting Mexico's vast network of pipelines.
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The gangs themselves, until then as mixed as the denizens of the film world, became segregated.
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He should have known that would have triggered the cop's training on gangs and gang violence.
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Cybercriminals, whether from criminal gangs or rogue nations, usually operated beyond borders, the meeting was told.
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Mr Ohr had no connection to the Russia probe; he specialises in gangs and drug smugglers.
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Perhaps the best proof of the gangs' rehabilitation is the rise of new, more destructive rivals.
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Cult-like gangs also abound in the delta, with names like the Icelanders and the Vikings.
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Early this week, President Trump participated in a roundtable discussion on immigration and MS-13 gangs.
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Like, how dare you come out against gangs who happen to be of a specific minority.
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That peak came after the then president, Felipe Calderón, deployed the army to fight drug gangs.
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In the debate he spoke of inviting Pope Francis to mediate between gangs and the state.
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First, the capturing of "kingpins" has left gangs fragmented, undisciplined and prone to fighting among themselves.
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Asked earlier if the drugs gangs were behind it, Duterte had declined to rule that out.
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These gangs hold considerable sway inside, and each run sections to which their members naturally gravitate.
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There also appeared to be new gangs controlling the trafficking trade in North Africa, he said.
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Bulgaria's accession, it is said, has allowed its numerous criminal gangs free access to the union.
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Visits from the heavy mob were supposed to happen to drug gangs, not nerdy analytics companies.
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Unlike drug cartels, which strive to operate in the shadows, criminal street gangs often relish publicity.
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On the one hand, there's the constant threat of violence from gangs who rule the neighborhood.
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The conurbano has become home to an underclass preyed on by drug gangs and dirty cops.
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Reluctant to brave the gangs, the army has so far mainly patrolled the streets by day.
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Entire city neighborhoods are controlled by two powerful gangs - Barrio 18 and its rival Mara Salvatrucha.
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"Then the criminal gangs wither away or they go into other forms of crime," he said.
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Even if the government registered printers, gangs could steal them or try to buy them illegally.
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Police Commissioner Stephen Lo on Monday denied accusations that law enforcement officials were working with gangs.
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In one CCA prison in Idaho, corrections officers let the gangs help them run the facility.
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Argentine football has long been plagued by violence driven by the gangs who control the game.
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That isn't too surprising, as drug gangs are the source of both illegal drugs and guns.
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The drug trade in Ipswich, Suffolk, for example, has been dominated by London gangs since 2003.
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Most gangs have ditched the train and now commute by motorway in smart-looking hire cars.
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Ransomware gangs, for instance, offer discounts and outstanding customer support, teaching customers how to use Bitcoin.
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The RCMP's short-term strategy is to focus on drugs, then guns and gangs, then robberies.
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Gangs routinely charge "rent" — a euphemism for extortion — and those who can't pay are often killed.
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The Iraqi military said "ISIS terrorist gangs" blew up the mosque as Iraqi forces were approaching.
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Men in white tee were reportedly thugs sent by different gangs to go after #HongKongProtest ers.
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The ministry condemned what it called "a terrorist attack" carried out from "positions of terrorist gangs".
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They are often connected to big drug cartels, they are not just gangs of kids anymore.
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Honduras struggles with violent drug gangs, one of the world's highest murder rates and endemic poverty.
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By keeping cocaine and heroin illegal, drug warriors have empowered criminal gangs that torture and kill.
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A lot of my friends got caught up in gangs and ultimately were victims of violence.
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In 2013 the government ordered the Rangers to rid Karachi of Islamist militants and criminal gangs.
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With the FARC disarmed, other militants, criminal gangs and paramilitary groups are jostling into the breach.
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Honduras has one of the world's highest murder rates, driven by street gangs and drug traffickers.
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The 16-year-old says he fled his native El Salvador after being threatened by gangs.
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It's something that gangs have found as a very lucrative business -- better than guns or drugs.
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If the police department wanted to root out gangs, victims had to feel comfortable coming forward.
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"Some are homeless, some are in gangs, some are freelancers up to no good," he said.
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Crime will go down, border crossings will plummet, gangs will disappear, and welfare use will decrease.
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Long Island's toxic reputation goes far beyond one village beset by racist gangs and corrupt policing.
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Jurors were even presented evidence about the two shootings of 3 Staccs members by rival gangs.
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Since the police broke the large gangs, hundreds of tiny cliques—police estimate 625—have risen.
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He also pledged to go after street gangs, sex-trafficking rings and fraudsters preying on seniors.
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But some of the self-defense or vigilante groups later became infiltrated by cartels and gangs.
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Maduro's forces, which include heavily armed street gangs, have killed, injured and imprisoned thousands of decenters.
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In May, ICE announced it has arrested more than 1,300 people in a crackdown on gangs.
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Islamic sheikhs have been recently assassinated in suspicious circumstances, along with members of Nairobi's street gangs.
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As long as it can stop criminals, gangs, human trafficking and drugs, I'm open to anything.
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The playing cards were even used by some notorious gangs, including the crime syndicate the Yakuza.
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Mr. Galindo's departure comes as the government is struggling to control rising violence by drug gangs.
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"In the past, it used to be like rival gangs on each other," Dr. McIntyre said.
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Even the muted colors in Gangs of New York pop on the Frame's high quality display.
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Law enforcement reporting indicates that gangs continue to grow in numbers and expand their criminal activities.
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But, although the Nigerian gangs are armed and loosely organized, none of them ultimately work alone.
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Elliot was a local mechanic suspected of having connections to biker gangs and their drug network.
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Nine were killed in shootout between opposing gangs in a village in Michoacán State on Sunday.
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I definitely think the whole idea that it is full of violence and gangs isn't true.
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In 2011, criminal gangs murdered the president of a migrant sex worker trade union in Peru.
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But the report says the cocaine gangs from West Africa are not content with one product.
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With the problems with the gangs, it's still an issue that they wish to pass off?
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The propaganda is that we are at the mercy of the gangs, because it is profitable.
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Although gangs exist in Toronto, only 84 people died in homicide cases in Toronto in 2007.
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Here, concerts became proving grounds for warring gangs who hailed from different corners of the city.
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Mattioli: The fact that there were gangs in every neighborhood is what ultimately added to that.
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"As a career prosecutor, I actually went after gangs and transnational criminal organizations," Ms. Harris wrote.
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There must be real efforts to stop the flow of guns to the gangs terrorizing communities.
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"Kids like Benjamin try to leave their gangs by hiding in plain sight," writes Danielle Mackey.
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"If we have two gangs, we separate them into separate areas of that facility," she continued.
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Rhetoric about an epidemic of violence ran rampant, fueled by fears of teenage gangs and murderers.
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Backers of the pilot program also hope it will remove organized gangs from the supply chain.
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Shortly after my graduation, the activities of violent student gangs on campus got a lot bolder.
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The night before Lesandro was killed, a large fight had erupted between the gangs, he said.
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Mexico has already tried to secure its own southern border and has long fought transnational gangs.
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Bronshoj has witnessed rising crime, and the party's activists attributed the problems to gangs of immigrants.
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Most in the caravan said they were fleeing death threats, extortion and violence from street gangs.
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The gangs offer protection from rape and rival crews, but it comes at a steep price.
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I asked Santiago why the gangs, with all their manpower, never tried to tax the cartels.
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With the government war on them, the gangs could hardly afford a fight with the cartels.
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One in five farmers has said to be pressured by gangs into growing weed for them.
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In the past, women suffering domestic abuse have qualified, as have some victims targeted by gangs.
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The thieves eventually grew into organized, heavily armed criminal gangs, marauding across the cattle-rearing region.
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In Texas during the 1970s, segregated prison gangs worked under overseers picking cotton for no money.
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People were hesitant to share material with Ms. Rosales that could betray an association with gangs.
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Smuggler gangs are already positioned to exploit them — diesel fuel smuggling has kept them in practice.
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As Sunday evening approached, gangs of Hindu and Muslim men began throwing rocks at each other.
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Splintering gangs found new lines of work, such as fuel theft, and spread across the country.
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The arrests came as part of an effort to eradicate gangs that operate across international borders.
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Gangs here have changed — they are less organized and less profitable, more splintered and more volatile.
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Drug gangs have set up in the homes of vulnerable people, a practice known as "cuckooing".
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Shawnee, he said, was run by gangs, which he had to take care not to cross.
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There, powerful drug gangs and paramilitary militias battle each other for turf, while all confront police.
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It warned residents to stay away from "the headquarters and positions of the armed terrorist gangs".
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Before things can conclude amicably, an unpleasant coincidence-among-lowlifes sets the gangs against each other.
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To people in Manila, Mindanao is known for guerrilla fighters and rampaging kidnap-for-ransom gangs.
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Anyone who violates the gangs' rules is faced with a fine, according to the AP. Rep.
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In Venezuela, Proyecto Alcatraz provides work, sports and educational opportunities to young people in criminal gangs.
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The University of Maryland project targets white supremacist groups as well as gangs like MS-13.
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They would grow to become one of the deadliest gangs in L.A. and throughout the country.
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Some fighters demobilized during Uribe's tenure, but others founded crime gangs which continue to traffic drugs.
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Prevention of violence of all sorts, from street gangs to terror groups, requires serious financial commitment.
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"He was a mercenary who hired himself out to the gangs of New York," Coleman said.
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Her husband grows poppies, and she said anyone who runs a business faces extortion by gangs.
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Times reporter John Eligon wrote about Chicago gangs after spending weeks with current and former members.
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Mr. Bezerra said the involvement of the gangs would be confirmed only after investigations were completed.
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The tusks have been spirited out through a network of African gangs and corrupt government officials.
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"The gangs killed my cousin, and they said I was going to be next," he said.
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Fights in Honduras' overcrowded prisons are frequent as street gangs vie for control inside the institutions.
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In a series of tweets, Trump blamed Obama's immigration policies for allowing the gangs to flourish.
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Memories of the gangs that haunted their lives in Honduras are slowly receding into the past.
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In some extreme cases, the gangs even placed infected feed inside local pigsties, the report said.
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There were a few offers, but the offers that were offered were minor movies with gangs.
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Veracruz, on Mexico's Gulf coast, has been the epicenter of battles among the country's drug gangs.
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Her older sons, she said, already fled after gangs back home had tried to recruit them.
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Tabloids speculated that the footballers had unwittingly become embroiled in a feud between two rival gangs.
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Yet gangs united by ethnicity tend to specialise in low-level crime, points out Ms Sergi.
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But these riots and crimes in the suburbs, they are related mostly to drugs and gangs.
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Federal police are one of the main security forces, next to the military, fighting drug gangs.
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