A relentless shooter armed with a high-powered rifle terrorized a San Diego neighborhood Wednesday, opening fire on police officers and bringing air traffic...

The hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse is threatening to sue the FBI for designating its fans, known as Juggalos, as a criminal gang. The group is...

President Trump signed a number of Executive Orders aimed at curbing the uptick in violence against law enforcement, reducing rising crime rates, and...

Whitey Bulger was convicted Monday of racketeering and conspiracy by a Boston jury that found he committed 11 murders and a raft other crimes as an...

A federal trial in Charlotte began today with a goal of convicting half a dozen MS-13 gang members from one of the broadest investigations in that city to...

Street gangs in America are nothing new.  Some of the earliest identified groups with gang-like behaviors formed after the Revolutionary War in...

In coming months, City Attorney John Russo will seek Oakland's first civil gang injunction, his office said. Such measures bar gang members from associating...

A Reno, NV, officer was wounded and a suspect was killed in a shooting that occurred after a traffic stopy Thursday night. Police continue to look for a...

Tattoos are an excellent tool for law enforcement and corrections officers to use to identify known or suspected gang members. This gallery includes...

Wilson opened fire on Officer Williams with a shotgun while being pursued by the officer, Rausch said. He then stopped his car, got out, and fired multiple...

Las Vegas-area police and federal law enforcement agencies have crippled a longtime area gang, indicting most of its members in a state racketeering case,...

Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department were joined by FBI agents in raids on Wednesday that resulted in the arrest of 38 people.

A former Brooklyn gang member who apparently became a Hasidic rabbi is facing dozens of charges after he allegedly posed as a law enforcement officer in a...

Approximately 55 officially titled "Security Risk Groups" (SRG) are being tracked at Rikers, including major national gangs such as the Latin Kings,...

A New York City police officer arrested two wanted suspects during a visit to the Brooklyn neighborhood where he was shot in the head more than a year ago.

A Northern California man has pleaded guilty to operating a cocaine trafficking conspiracy for the Nuestra Familia prison gang, federal authorities...

Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said cellphones helped stir up trouble Sunday night at the Lee Correctional Institute in Bishopville. He says the fights...

We have for years debated the growth of gangs. From inter­viewing hard-core gang members in and out of prison, there seems to be a pattern that...

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office requested the L.A. Board of Supervisors continue to keep secret a report that details how closely...

"Tyshawn Lee was murdered in probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I've witnessed in 35 years of policing," Chicago Police...

The complaint details the history and customs of the gang, including its violent initiation practices, its use of the color red and the symbol of five dots.

The recommendation was announced Monday for Marvin Mercado, 37, who committed the crimes in the 1990s, yet eluded police for a decade by fleeing to the...

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has filed one count of filing a false police report against a man who claimed to have been shot and left...

Between mid-May and late-August, the U.S. Marshals Service, FBI, Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Colorado Springs police,...

“He started the movement in an effort to stop the shootings in the inner cities,” she said. “It’s kind of morphed into something other than what he...

New York detective Ricky Smith has devoted his life to battling for control of the streets.

Two FBI agents serving an arrest warrant suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds Tuesday morning at a Park Forest, IL, home, and a suspect in the...

Despite the high number of shootings, McCarthy applauded the officers for working 12-hour tours and the department for taking the "extraordinary step" of...

A gunman with an AR-15-style rifle opened fire on four plainclothes police officers in an unmarked car Thursday night in West Baltimore, police said.

The explosion of gang violence in and around San Francisco's Visitacion Valley this summer—it has claimed seven lives and has the southeastern neighborhood...

A Marietta, GA, police officer conducting a traffic stop was dragged down the road for more than a mile at high speeds. More Here.

The gang alleges the Greensboro PD has "continually harassed members since 2005 because of their race, color or national origin by filing numerous baseless...

Gangs can develop from seemingly harmless groups of friends into hardened criminals who may not be obvious as gangbangers.

Las Vegas-area police and federal law enforcement agencies have crippled a longtime area gang, indicting most of its members in a state racketeering case,...

Authorities say two police officers were wounded and a man has died in a shootout in Aurora, IL, after two special operations investigators followed a...

Baltimore police officers on Tuesday disarmed a man who brought a loaded handgun into a police station claiming that Black Guerrilla Family gang members had...

More than 1 million youths in the nation are gang members — more than triple the number estimated by law enforcement, according to a new study that shatters...

Officers of the Hempstead force say they have learned to accept the glares of hate. What they find more unsettling is that they are being surveiled.

By the mid 1980s Cambodian street youths started to band together for protection from the street gangs.  These young kids realized that as a ...

"All black people are their enemies," Deputy Dist. Atty. Gretchen Ford said in the murder trial of two Latino gang members. "Really innocent people could...

The first phase of the Iraq War alone cost $79 billion and more than $100 billion may be spent on the reconstruction of Iraq. Back at home, American...

On my drive home that evening, I remembered that first day in the police academy.  I'd been told I wasn't there to make a difference in people's ...

The hand-assembled firearms — which are legal for people who are legally allowed to possess other firearms — are effectively untraceable, because the most...

A Will County (IL) Sheriff's deputy was saved by body armor Tuesday night when he was shot in the back while serving a warrant in Joliet. A second deputy...

Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry said the crimes of 37-year-old Marvin Mercado deserve "the greatest sentence this court can impose." Only two of his...

The ACLU and other groups seeking access to the database say that they want to know the demographic background of people in the system—such as race, age,...

The Aurora Police Department says two special operations investigators followed a vehicle they'd spotted leaving a suspected gang house and pulled it over.

Nearly 1,000 gang members and associates from 239 different gangs were arrested in 282 cities across the U.S. during Project Wildfire, a six-week operation...

The Denver Post reported that among those arrested in "Operation Triple Beam Colorado" was Lester Bell. Reportedly a member of the Gangster Disciples, Bell...