James Babbage, the NCA's director general of threats, described 'com' networks as "the online equivalent of urban street gang committing crimes to make money cause fear and harm and gain notoriety".

Stark warnings have been issued by law enforcement chiefs about so-called Com networks, described as the “online equivalent of urban street gangs”. The National Crime Agency (NCA) raised the ...

Barfoot said the legislation applies to all criminal groups, not just urban street gangs who, according to law enforcement in some of Alabama’s largest cities, are partly responsible for a spike ...

But studies have shown that between 350 to 400 street gangs, organised in larger mafia-like alliances, exert influence in virtually all low-income and middle-income neighbourhoods.

The 9Raq gang and Thirdside gang are allegedly responsible for 12 shootings from May 2021 to May 2025 that injured three ...

Best Of Grizzard - Street Gangs. Friday, September 16, 2022; ... With the growth of urban spawl it also caused the increase in crime to include murder, rape, armed robbery, ...

The street gang was founded in the 1980s by ... Between 50,000 and 70,000 MS-13 members are concentrated in urban areas in Central America or locations outside this region with a large ...

The new book "Gangs of the El Paso-Juárez Borderland: A History" looks at 100 years of street gang history in region.

Two "urban street gangs" in Bristol have been linked to at least some of the knife crime seen in the city in the past year, a police chief has said.

At the time, local governments were cracking down on wall writers with anti-gang legislation, such as California’s 1988 Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act, and a variety of ...

It was like a scene from a gangster movie. As 17-year-old Tyler McDermott emerged into the night after a party, he was shot in the head at point-blank range before being slashed by a machete as he … ...

Some of the most prominent members of the Proud Boys, a far-right militant group that functions more like a street gang than a militia, have been sentenced to long terms in federal prison for ...