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Ebbets Field Houses - Brooklyn, NY (file / credit: Wikipedia)

U.S. Attorney Announces Gang Indictments For Murder, Racketeering In Brooklyn

They have street names like “Tiger,” “Gunner,” “Dancer,” “Swerve,” and “Bones.” Federal prosecutors charge they are as reckless as they are ruthless in their turf wars.

2012/01/31

Rival Plainfield Gangs Call Truce In Summit At IHOP Ending A Violent 18-Month Feud

Five members from two rival Plainfield gangs got together to end an 18-month feud that has claimed 15 lives.

2011/05/20

Police Keeping Close Eye On ‘Gang Initiation Day’

Police are the lookout this Easter Sunday for any suspicious activity related to what has become known as “Gang Initiation Day.”

2011/04/24

(R to L) Espalliat, Linares, Rodriguez, City Councilman Robert Jackson (Photo/Sonia Rincon)

Officials Speak Out Against Washington Heights Violence

A spike in gang recruitment and violence, including the murders of two young men this month, in Washington Heights had Upper Manhattan officials demanding action.

2011/01/23

Police Search For Final Bronx Beating Suspect

The NYPD says the first seven gang members charged in a sadistic spree of violence against two teens and a man all because they were gay have shown no remorse.

2010/10/10

Alleged "Latin King Goonies" gang members

NYC Officials Outraged Over Anti-Gay Gang Torture

Police are hunting down the last suspect in a heinous hate crime in the Bronx amid cries for the suspect to surrender to police.

2010/10/09

Jack Abrams Intermediate School, in Hungtington Station, was shut down in July over fears of violence. Photo/Mona Rivera

Suffolk County Official Suggests Creating Gang Registry

As Suffolk lawmakers agree to establish a police substation in gang-plagued Huntington Station, there’s a call from the county executive to create a gang registry.

2010/09/09

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