G is for GANGS Gang a noun plural

G is for GANGS Gang ɡaŋ/ noun plural noun: gangs 1. an organized group of criminals.

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WHY SPEND MORE OF THE POLICE BUDGET ON REDUCING GANG ACTIVITY AND CRIMES?

• There approximately 33, 000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs in the U. S. • They are of all races and faith • In Ohio, there about 140 active gangs and they can be found statewide, including Heartless Felons, Aryan Nation and MS 13

1300 Area Rap Gang 187 Boys 33 rd Street 4 -Block 52/52 Niggas 600 Block/Hill Top Gangsters 614 Boy Foundation 22 nd Piru Bloods 9 Kings A. C. 357 Akron Larceny Boys Ak-Town / 330/ 440 / 216 All About Money Aryan Brotherhood Aryan Nation Asian Crips Avengers MC Ayers Street Playas Baller Boy Mafia Banished Brothers MC Black Pistons MC Bloodline Bottom Hawks Brick Boys Brothers MC Brother’s of the Hammer MC Buckeye Folks Chest Block Gangsters Chestola Da Kennel Dayton View Hustlers D-Block/21 st Street Killers Dem Block Boys Derelects MC Diamond Cut Diamond Dogs MC Dirt and Grime MC Dirty South Down the Way Down Town Area Rap Gang Eastside Bloods Eastside Connection Folks Gangster Afficial Gangster Disciple Folks Gangster Disciples Gangster Killer Bloods Get Money Boys Get Money Goonies Greenwich Village Crew G-Unit Crips Hammerskins Head Bustin Niggas Heartless Felons Heightz Boyz Hells Angels MC Hilltop 7714 Crips Hough Heights Boys/Hough Harlem Boys Hunnid Block Gang Iceberg Bloods Johnston Block Kaika Klan Outlaws King Cobra Boys Kinsman County/Rollin 40 Crips K-Town Gangsters Laffer Block Laird Block Gangsters Lake Boys Lakeshore Boys Laotian Crips Latin Kings Lovers Lane Crips Laclede Parkview Ave Madison Madhouse Middle Avenue Zone Money Go Gettas Money Over Bitches MS-13 New Northside Gangsters Niggas From Laffer North Coast MC North Coast XII MC Northside Gangstas Original Killers Otterbein Blood Mafia Outlaws MC Quinn Street Crew Pagans MC Rated R Renegades MC Rollin 20 Crips S 1 W Southwest Satans MC Sherwood Ave Shorb Block Hustlers Sin City Disciples MC Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice Skinheads Skulls Soup City Boys South Block Gangsters Southwest Akron Thugs Southwest Boyz Southwest Gangsters Southside Gangsters Star. Boyz Stay Focus Rap Gang Strays MC Suffocated Records Sureños 13 The Breed MC The Brother’s MC The Circle The Notch Boys The Team /The Squad The Unit Tribe Up the Way Valley Boys Valley Niggas On Top Valley-Lo Vice Lords Wages Wheels of Soul MC White Supremacists Young Blooded Thugs Young Kaika Boys Young Kaika Girls Young Kelly Boys Young Street Goonies Zone 3 Bloods Zone 7 Zone 8 Zulus MC CURRENT OHIO GANGS IDENTIFIED BY FBI

• They have about 1. 4 million members who are criminally active in the U. S. • It is estimated that over 50 % or around 780, 000 are youth members • This means that are over 50% of gangs are present in the school systems

• Many are sophisticated and well organized; ALL use violence to control neighborhoods and boost their illegal money-making activities, which include robbery, drug and gun trafficking, fraud, extortion, and prostitution rings. • Gang members’ violent offense rates are up to seven times higher than the violent crime rates of adolescents who are not in gangs (Howell, 2003, pp. 83− 84)

• According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report, gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions, and up to 90 percent in others. We’re redoubling our efforts to disrupt and dismantle gangs through intelligence-driven investigations and new initiatives and partnerships.

"Once found principally in large cities, violent street gangs now affect public safety, community image, and quality of life in communities of all sizes in urban, suburban, and rural areas. No region of the United States is untouched by gangs. Gangs affect society at all levels, causing heightened fears for safety, violence, and economic costs" (2005 National Gang Threat Assessment, National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations, 2005).

“As gangs move into a neighborhood they destroy the housing value, the business community and schools; causing hardworking citizens to leave their homes and move to safer areas. These abandoned homes become vacant homes, which can come under the control of gangs or groups and be used for criminal activity by the gangs or groups. ” Detroit Metropolitan Police

“Gangs have changed neighborhoods by instilling fear with the crimes of violence they commit and intimidation of the good people living there. Gangs do migrate and also try and merge or take over other gangs. ” “Gangs drive crime up in their territory, and generally erode the infrastructure of the neighborhoods; negatively effecting schools, businesses, and the quality of life. ” Cleveland Police Department

The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office filed 437 charges against 43 juveniles for gang-related crimes. The juveniles are suspected members of the Heartless Felons gang https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=e. PDb. IPNyv. ZM