A Partnership for a Gang Free North Carolina

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• Captain
• Mark Bridgeman
• Fayetteville Police Department

President North Carolina Gang Investigators
Association
Board Member National Alliance of Gang
Investigators Association
NGIC Executive Police Fellowship Program FBI
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Intimidation
GANG EXPERTS
Graffiti
Witnesses
Gang Literature
GANG Intelligence
Tattoos
Retaliation
Gangs in NC
Initiation
Rivals
Hand Signs
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Why is this article significant?
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Gangs Big City Gangs

• Average size of NC Police Department 12-15
  Officers
• Average size nationally 25 Officers
• Gangs have a greater impact on medium to small
  agencies
• North Carolina Gang Investigators Association
• bridges the intelligence sharing gap
• Provides needed information and POCs
• Provides training, conferences and community
  symposiums

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Recent Gang Activity

• Gang Fight at Raleigh Mall 300 participants
• 1st Degree Murder Cases dismissed
• Raleigh, Durham
• Witness Intimidation
• MS 13 Hoax
• Unnecessary use of Law Enforcement Resources
• E-mails Text Messaging

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What are WE to do?NC GCC 2008 Assessment

• 550 gangs across 62 counties
• Average county having nine gangs
• 550 gangs have a total of 14,500 members
• Average gang consisting of 26 members
• 449 gangs have links with larger groups or with
  gangs outside of the state.

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What are WE to do?NC GCC 2008 Assessment

• 520 gangs for which age data were available 30
  were exclusively youth gangs
• It is estimated from limited data there could be
  between 29,000 and 41,300 gang members in North
  Carolina in 2012 based on NC GCC research models.

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Gangs in North Carolina

• Age Ranges
• Reports of Ages 6 70
• Average age youngest gang member 15 years old
• Average age oldest gang member 27 years old
• Significant levels 13 15 yrs old
• Highest among 16 24 yrs old.
• Significant decrease 25 yrs and older.
• Gender
• Females in 60 of all reported gangs.

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Gangs of North CarolinaNDIC/ NGIC 2007 Assessment
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What can WE do?

• North Carolina will not ARREST our way out of the
  gang phenomenon
• Four Prong Approach
• Prevention
• Intervention
• Suppression
• Reentry

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Bottom Line
Gangs are Bad
North Carolina Gangs are Bad
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Demographic Indicators

• Hispanic Population Growth

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2007 Key Findings

• Mexican drug traffickers are supplying illicit
  drugs directly to North Carolina-based gangs for
  retail distribution these gangs are distributing
  the drugs independently and not as components of
  Mexican drug trafficking networks.

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2007 Key Findings

• Increased cooperation between some North
  Carolina-based street gangs and Mexican drug
  traffickers is enabling the gangs to expand their
  drug distribution capabilities.

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NC BOP STG info

• 2007 of the over 38,241 inmates
• 2,433 inmates identified as STG members
• United Blood Nation had the highest identified
  membership with 1,132
• In 2000 the Division had less than 200 inmates
  identified as STG members
• 2007 2,433 STG members
• This is an increase of 1,116.5 during this
  period

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Gangs in North CarolinaNC DOC Security Threat
Groups
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Below lists the top 5 counties that generate the
Division of Prisons STG Population
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Promising Initiatives

• New Hanover County Gang Task Force
• Model for other agencies
• Gang of One
• Community Involvement
• NC Governors Crime Commission
• Assessments since 1998
• Gangnet
• Grant Funding

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Department of Community Corrections

• Validation of Gang Members on Probation
• Community Threat Group Members - CTG
• 1st Community Corrections to initiate this
  program.
• Higher level of supervision when probationers
  meet validation criteria
• 100 CTG Officers in NC
• One per county
• May invite Local Law Enforcement to participate
  in warrantless searches

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Federal Assistance

• FBI Safe Street Gang Task Force
• BATF Firearms Violations
• ICE - Community Shield
• US Marshall Service Operation Falcon
• Limited assistance due to resources and often
  long term investigations
• Advantage of long term sentences in the federal
  level
• The Juvenile question exists in the federal
  system

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NC Legislation

• Signed by Governor Easley
• July 8th 2008
• Statewide Gang Definition
• Continued funding of GangNet
• 10 million in funding for
• Prevention
• Intervention
• Reentry
• Suppression.

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