Archive for January 2024
Using gang activity on social media to drive intelligence-led policing.
Known as “cyberbanging,” gangs are recruiting new members, intimidating rivals, promoting criminal activity and advertising their brand online. The ever-expanding reliance on social media has transcended banal conversation between friends and family to the more sinister realm of gang-related criminal activity, requiring law enforcement to stay ahead of emerging trends and platforms. “If your law…
Read MoreHow one Police Department uses collaboration to battle gangs.
A partnership between an investigator, an analyst and a prosecutor to share data and collaborate on cases is reducing gang crime in Georgia. Gangs operate across agency boundaries often exploiting the fact that each police department will have its own data on gang members and that it’s difficult to share this data between agencies. Of…
Read MoreUsing intelligence-led policing to reduce gang violence.
n resource-strapped times, intelligence-led policing is a key to identifying and investigating gang activity. This special coverage series reviews strategies departments can deploy to take a data-driven approach to reducing gang-related crime. Intelligence-led policing is more than just the latest buzzword and magnet for grant money. In an age where law enforcement agencies are compelled…
Read MoreAtlanta sees 21% drop in homicides after gang, gun crackdown.
Atlanta sees 21% drop in homicides after gang, gun crackdownAtlanta PD Chief Schierbaum said officers removed 3,000 guns from city streets in 2023 while charging 140 documented gang members with 560 crimesJanuary 18, 2024 10:32 AMUS-NEWS-ATLANTA-HOMICIDES-DROP-21-AFTER-1-AT.jpgDecember 15, 2023 Atlanta: One person is dead and another is injured after an argument led to gunfire early Friday…
Read MoreGang Recruitment Increasing with Younger Kids
Some kids may be fascinated by the gang lifestyle and love the rush and adrenaline of breaking the law, according to Robert Ontiveros, former gang member and mentor who partners with Learn4Life, a network of 80+ free public high schools. “Everything we do is planting seeds in their minds. They may not understand now, but…
Read MoreMS-13 terrorized Northern Virginia by killing at random, witnesses say.
The MS-13 members had been cruising all night in a gray Mercedes, searching for rival gang members to kill in Maryland or Virginia so they could bolster their street cred and expand their turf. Then they spotted Antonio Kaoul Smith, 37, leaving a 7-Eleven convenience store in Dumfries, Va. He was a stranger carrying a…
Read MoreVenezuela arrests 32 over alleged plot to assassinate President Maduro
All suspects have “confessed and revealed information about the plans,” Attorney General Tarek William Saab told reporters in Caracas. He said they had been accused of treason and “convicted” for their crimes. Maduro loyalist Saab said arrest warrants have been issued for 11 other people, including rights activists, journalists and soldiers in exile, for the…
Read MoreMillions celebrate opening of Hindu temple built on mosque ruins in India
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday opened a controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of a historic mosque in the northern city of Ayodhya, in a political triumph for the populist leader who is seeking to transform the country from a secular democracy into a Hindu state. The temple is dedicated to Hinduism’s…
Read MoreFormer Sinn Fein leader Adams faces a lawsuit in London over bombings during the ‘Troubles’
Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams faces a lawsuit by three people who were wounded in bombings attributed to the Irish Republican Army that date back more than 50 years, a judge said Friday. Adams can be sued as an individual but not as a representative of the IRA, Justice Michael Soole ruled. The judge…
Read MoreSuspect dead in Texas after 8 people are killed at 3 locations in Joliet, Illinois
Eight people were found shot and killed in three different locations over two days in Joliet, and the suspect in the slayings was also found dead by a suspected suicide 1,200 miles away Monday night, police said. The apparent self-inflicted gunshot death of 23-year-old Romeo Nance in Texas followed a manhunt by multiple law enforcement…
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