Photos, jewelry, hairstyles and body piercing are among the obvious physical traits investigators look for when profil­ing gangs. But understanding...

Patrol officers are an essential source of gang information and usually make up the front line defense against gangs. Through field contacts and ...

The ultimate goal of a gang investiga­tion is to find the truth. What happened? Who did it? How? As law enforcement officers, how do we arrive at the...

The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a massive dragnet for the two men who sprayed an LAPD officer with gunfire, after a pedestrian stop in South...

In cases involving gang violence, get to the scene quickly, find the witnesses, and document who these witnesses are and what they say. Then if gang...

A gang murder investigation requires your best detective skills to solve the crime and protect the witnesses.

Getting the case to court and obtaining a favorable decision by the bench or jury is always the goal in a gang investigation. And one of the greatest...

Simply put, the more information you have in a case, the better your chances of solving it. While this is common knowledge to most officers, we tend to...