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Two New York officers threatened in a gang wanted poster should consider the threats from the bad guys a true compliment. It means they are making a real...
https://www.policemag.com/374282/police-officers-on-wanted-posters
In the last three years, 23,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the Mexican drug gang violence. This daily body count rivals totals from Iraq...
https://www.policemag.com/373543/mexican-cartel-violence-none-dare-call-it-terrorism
Every victim or witness had heard the stories in the ghetto about gang retaliation against those who were foolish enough to snitch on gang members. Most of...
https://www.policemag.com/374187/gangs-in-the-courtroom
One afternoon about five years ago, I was summoned from my desk at the detective division of a major Southern California urban sheriff's department and...
https://www.policemag.com/339501/murder-ink
Many of the Mexican cartel crimes in the illegal alien community go unreported. The ugly crimes of kidnapping, human trafficking, extortion, gang violence,...
https://www.policemag.com/374367/is-mexican-cartel-activity-in-the-u-s-exaggerated
Like war, police work can be an ugly job. Like military service, it can be dangerous physically and psychologically. But who's better prepared to endure...
https://www.policemag.com/374318/why-we-should-hire-returning-veterans
They may seem disorganized, they may act stupid, they may look really young, but they are deadly and cunning as sharks.
https://www.policemag.com/339945/never-underestimate-a-gang-member
"End of Watch" provides a refreshing avoidance of the Hollywood formula. This production has captured the most realistic depiction of everyday police...
https://www.policemag.com/374245/will-end-of-watch-shift-the-perception-of-cops
Wake up California; you've been sold a lie. This lie has allowed the Mexican (and other) cartels and gangs to produce huge crops of unregulated marijuana...
https://www.policemag.com/373950/medical-marijuana-californias-biggest-losers
"Rampart" is another depiction of the evil white-guy cop, played this time by over-the-top Woody Harrelson, and the good black guy played by...
https://www.policemag.com/374021/movie-review-rampart
Just because a gang may seem unsophisticated and maybe it's just a pseudo-Sureño gang, don't ignore their potential for violence. They may start slow on the...
https://www.policemag.com/373883/keep-your-eye-on-pseudo-surenos
In a strange way, the iconography ties together much of the evil perpetrated by the gangs that are trafficking in drugs and human beings and their violent...
https://www.policemag.com/373526/patron-saints-of-the-mexican-drug-underworld-part-1-of-2
Based on my experience, I'd say my paintball games were more realistic and useful training experiences than any contrived multiple-target drill, falling...
https://www.policemag.com/373670/paintball-wars-effective-reality-based-training
The Barrio Azteca gang members organize themselves using a paramilitary structure and apply English terms or their Spanish equivalent words for ranks such...
https://www.policemag.com/373990/knocking-down-barrio-azteca
Sureños identify with the color blue and use tattoos with the number 13, sureño, sur, south sider, or "kanpol" (a word taken from the ancient Aztec language...
https://www.policemag.com/374040/surenos-understanding-kanpol-and-pilli
The 211 Crew is a white-supremacist prison gang. The loosely structured group had its early formation in the Denver County Jail, and its members included a...
https://www.policemag.com/374270/evil-evan-ebel-and-the-211-crew
If you live in one of the cities that accepted Katrina refugees, you know what followed. While most Katrina survivors were appreciative of their host...
https://www.policemag.com/373454/criminal-gangs-and-the-perfect-storm
Although the Brown Berets claimed to be advocates of education and the politically informed, the majority of the Brown Beret members were high school...
https://www.policemag.com/373939/chicano-power-and-the-brown-berets
The jail-made "shank" is fashioned from this material by sharpened by scraping the metal on concrete floors. A handle is fashioned from paper or cloth....
https://www.policemag.com/373727/prison-shanks