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Law enforcement agencies estimate that tens of thousands of gangs operate across the United States today. These groups range from street gangs and prison gangs to organized criminal networks.

The investigative minds at How to Survive analyze the structure and influence of some of the world’s most dangerous gangs and ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Naika and Erica Lafleur stared at a pile of rubble where their house once stood in Haiti's capital and began to cry. Their mother had instructed the two sisters, ages 10 ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and law enforcement officials in the Golden State’s Central Valley announced the ...

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At just 13, a Massachusetts boy turned to alcohol and marijuana. By 15, he was hooked on heroin. Now, three decades later, the scars of that addiction run deep — and at 39, he’s been sentenced to ...

When we think of gangs, images of street crime and small-time operations may come to mind. But the reality of organised crime today is far more expansive and terrifying. Powerful criminal syndicates ...