Thread: Justice Department Releases MS-13 Threat Assessment

Justice Department Releases MS-13 Threat Assessment
Jim Kouri, CPP



They’ve severed the fingers of their rivals with machetes…brutally murdered suspected informants, including a 17-year-old pregnant federal witness…attacked and threatened law enforcement officers…committed a string of rapes, assaults, break-ins, auto thefts, extortions, and frauds across the US…gotten involved in everything from drug and firearms trafficking to prostitution and money laundering…and are sowing violence and discord not just here in the US but around the world.

MS-13 members perpetrate violence—from assaults to homicides, using firearms, machetes, or blunt objects—to intimidate rival gangs, law enforcement, and the general public. They often target middle and high school students for recruitment. And they form tenuous alliances…and sometimes vicious rivalries…with other criminal groups, depending on their needs at the time.

Who are they? Members of Mara Salvatrucha, better known as MS-13, who are mostly Salvadoran nationals or first generation Salvadoran-Americans, but also Hondurans, Guatemalans, Mexicans, and other Central and South American immigrants. And according to our recent national threat assessment of this growing, mobile street gang, they could be operating in your community…now or in the near future.

Based on information from our own investigations, from our state and local law enforcement partners, and from community organizations, we’ve concluded that while the threat posed by MS-13 to the US as a whole is at the “mediumâ€

MS 13 operates, recruits and has murdered in our area. They recruit in schools, often in the early grades, and this is one more big problem from illegal immigration.

What is the truth about how you can separate from the gang? Incarceration, the hospital, or death. Possibly all three.

Matthew 18:20

Last year, the MS-13 task force coordinated a series of arrests and crackdowns in the US and Central America that involved more than 6,000 police officers in five countries. Seventy-three suspects were arrested in the US; in all, more than 650 were taken into custody.

One year crackdown involving 6000 police, nets 650 gang members world-wide and only 73 suspects in US.

MS-13 is a terrorist group.

"All that is required for evil to triumph is for a few good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke

My favorite cousin is afraid to go out of her house at night because of them, she lives in Omaha. If anybody is familiar with the town, she is in the southwestern part that was formerly known as Millard. This is supposed to be one of the BETTER parts of town.