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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-pilliI was assigned to L.A.’s Men’s Central Jail, Module 2400, without the benefit of any custody training at all. There were about 250 inmates divided among...
https://www.policemag.com/373153/going-to-gang-school-part-one
Tagger crews often include people from different ethnic backgrounds and both male and female members. The boys are “Kings” and the girls are “Queens.”...
https://www.policemag.com/373246/taggers-tagger-crews-and-tag-bangersIn Los Angeles, the Armenian Power street gang was linked not only to the Sureño alliance and the Mexican Mafia prison gang, but also to their elders in the...
https://www.policemag.com/373750/roots-of-the-armenian-power-gang
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-shanksThe drug is dangerous to law enforcement in several ways. The chemicals utilized are highly toxic and volatile. Clandestine labs are often booby trapped...
https://www.policemag.com/373114/gangs-on-meth
"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
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
Even in the murderous world of gangs, the most wicked killings are perpetrated by individuals who seem motivated by some other dark, twisted presence within...
https://www.policemag.com/374231/are-some-gang-members-serial-killers
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
Like the evolution of the Italian Mafia in U.S. cities such as New York and Chicago, Mexican smugglers or "contrabandistas" evolved from crude thuggish...
https://www.policemag.com/373699/blood-brothers-roots-of-a-cartel-warAny suspect, who may feel cornered, may unexpectedly turn and ambush pursuing police officers. Situations for possible gang-ambush traps may spring from...
https://www.policemag.com/373548/how-gang-members-ambush-officersI have never arrested a gang member who lawfully possessed a gun and who purchased it legitimately. So banning legitimate gun-related purchases only...
https://www.policemag.com/373051/gangs-guns-and-political-gamesGangs have evolved in criminal and technical sophistication from the school dropouts of the 1960s. Today's gang members utilize all the modern electric...
https://www.policemag.com/373227/gang-turf-in-cyberspaceThis wanton disregard for others including the innocent children who must live in a gang household is like the twisted sickness that causes arsonists it...
https://www.policemag.com/373631/angels-and-angel-dust
Do not underestimate gang members because they are young or small, scrawny wolves. Maybe you have even encountered and dealt with several of them...
https://www.policemag.com/373471/the-wolf-pack-mentality
The Mexican press estimates that 19.5% of the official ballot boxes were installed in areas controlled by the drug cartels. Many voters avoided the poles...
https://www.policemag.com/374111/mexicos-deal-with-the-devil
The abuses from professional sports would eventually taint college recruitment. Money under the table, trips to strip clubs and topless bars, and steroid...
https://www.policemag.com/373776/corruption-in-collegiate-athletics
Operation Black Flag was another "staggering and comprehensive blow" to California's most powerful gang, according to U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte. However,...
https://www.policemag.com/373888/taking-down-mexican-mafia-cliques-in-the-o-c