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Feb 14, 2023 · Nearly two dozen of New York City’s “most dangerous” gang members were taken off the streets in a major bust sparked by the stray-bullet killing of an innocent Queens mom two years ago,...
Jan 4, 2022 · Jan. 4, 2022. Seventeen teenagers and young adults who the authorities say belonged to three street gangs that formed an alliance in Brooklyn were charged on Tuesday with unleashing a wave of...
- Precious Fondren
Aug 26, 2021 · New York is far from alone in focusing on neighborhood gangs to address the spike in gun violence. Cities from Buffalo to Los Angeles are facing similar pressures to set back rising gun...
Sep 15, 2021 · The NYPD gang database is a list of people — almost all of them Black or Latino, the police commissioner has acknowledged — that the Police Department has deemed to be members of a criminal group. Cops have argued that the database is an important tool in so-called precision policing.
- Eileen Grench
Mar 17, 2022 · Recent media coverage of gangs in New York City has almost exclusively focused on violence and crime: the increase in shootings attributed to gangs (e.g., Balsamini 2021; Gartland et al. 2021; Sandoval 2019; Tracy 2021; Watkins 2019 ); and the arrest, detention, or prosecution of gang members (e.g., Annese 2021; Celona 2021; Fenton et al. 2021; ...
Jan 4, 2022 · New York City police arrested 17 suspected gang members Tuesday in early morning raids across Brooklyn, removing from the streets what investigators said were violent thugs responsible for some of the Big Apple’s pandemic-era surge in shootings and homicides.
