Thread: Illegal Alien Gangs Flourish In America

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Illegal Alien Gangs Flourish In America
By Jim Kouri
Jan 18, 2007


Law enforcement officers from communities unaffected by gangs until the 1980s or early 1990s often find themselves scrambling to obtain training relevant to what are called hybrid youth gangs in the 21st century. These include gangs with large memberships of illegal aliens from Mexico (Mexican Mafia), El Salvador (MS-13), the Dominican Republic, and others.

When gang-related training first became widely available in the early 1990s, it often emphasized historical information, such as the formation of the Los Angeles Crips and Bloods in the late 1960s or the legacy of Chicago-based gangs (the Black Gangster Disciples, Latin Kings, and Vice Lords).

As law enforcement officers learned about the origins of these influential gangs, they sometimes attempted to apply this outdated information in their efforts to deal with illegal immigrant gangs in their jurisdictions.

The assumption that new gangs share the characteristics of older gangs can impede law enforcement's attempts to identify and effectively counter local street gangs, and actions based on this assumption often elicit inappropriate responses from the community as a whole. Citizens may react negatively to law enforcement efforts when they sense that gang suppression actions are geared to a more serious gang problem than local gangs appear to present.

Because of uncertainty in reporting on problem groups such as "cliques," "crews," "posses," and other nontraditional collectives that may be immigrant gangs, some police department staff spend an inordinate amount of time trying to precisely categorize local groups according to definitions of traditional gangs.

When training law enforcement groups on investigative issues surrounding drug trafficking or street gangs, instructors must resist the tendency to connect gangs in different cities just because the gangs share a common name. If the groups engage in ongoing criminal activity and alarm community members, law enforcement officers should focus on the criminal activity, regardless of the ideological beliefs or identifiers (i.e., name, symbols, and group colors) of the suspects. This practical approach would circumvent the frustration that results from trying to pigeonhole hybrid gangs into narrow categories and would avoid giving undue attention to gangs that want to be recognized as nationwide crime syndicates.

The expanded presence of gangs is often blamed on the relocation of members from one city to another, which is called gang migration. Some gangs are very transient and conduct their activities on a national basis. This is especially true of illegal immigrant gangs.

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We have now tolerated gangs in this country long enough that their capacity for evil has become an accepted part of American society.

Why do we put up with this scourge?
I think we are being forced to tolerate gangs in part because law enforcement is ham stringed by organizations like the ALCU.

Gangs and related problems are a huge problem, we need solutions not feel good civil rights attorneys.

The assumption that new gangs share the characteristics of older gangs can impede law enforcement's attempts to identify and effectively counter local street gangs, and actions based on this assumption often elicit inappropriate responses from the community as a whole. Citizens may react negatively to law enforcement efforts when they sense that gang suppression actions are geared to a more serious gang problem than local gangs appear to present.

??????? I don't understand...

Almost 50 years and they still don't know how to handle these gangs, of course not they let it go so long the gangs are just like the insurgants in Irag, How pathetic, get rid of Gonzalas and if the next attorney General does not show progress in a year throw him out two. We need to get rid of people in government that do not know how to do their jobs !!! Simple

SOSADFORUS wrote:

General does not show progress in a year throw him out two. We need to get rid of people in government that do not know how to do their jobs !!! Simple

Exactly, that is the only way that this will change around is when we REFUSE to tolerate it anymore.