When young delinquents are asked why they joined a street gang, many answer that they were seeking protection. This response is surprising when we know that, according to several studies, members of ...

Nearly two dozen people have been arrested as part of a massive investigation in Alabama targeting criminal activity associated with a violent street gang. Operation Gang Shield, launched seven months ...

Even in the cutthroat world of Los Angeles street gangs, the saying associated with one Crips faction stands out as cold-blooded: “You ain’t a Rollin’ 60 ‘til you kill a 60.” The Rollin’ 60s ...

Post-war America came upon a rather unique "issue" in 1945 when the conflict was done. Thousands and thousands of WWII veterans were coming back home; They'd experienced intense camaraderie, constant ...

California, with its enormous urban population and complex socioeconomics, has become home to some of the most infamous and influential criminal gangs in the United States. Names like the Crips, ...

A gang of illegal migrants running amok in Queens’ “Market of Sweethearts’’ — extorting brothels, beating rivals and selling drugs and phony IDs to finance an illicit network based in El Salvador — ...

Cynthia Gonzalez, vice mayor of the southeast Los Angeles County suburb of Cudahy, is coming under fire for a video she posted on social media in which she appeared to call on street gangs to organize ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has condemned a California city official for what it said was encouraging criminal gangs to commit violence against ICE. In a video on social media, Cynthia ...

Athens-Clarke police have charged six men, alleged to be members of a street gang, with the murder of a Winterville man who died after falling off an apartment balcony while fleeing from an attempted ...

Cynthia Gonzalez, vice mayor of the southeast Los Angeles County suburb of Cudahy, is coming under fire for a video she posted on social media in which she appeared to call on street gangs to organize ...