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What areas of New York City have the most gang related activities?
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According to a 2008 article in Time Out New York, gang activity in New York is unlike the patterns found in many other cities.
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According to the mayor’s Preliminary 2008 Fiscal Report, New York is home to some 17,000 gang members. “For a city as large as New York, it has extremely low numbers,” says Lou Savelli, retired commander of the NYPD Detective Bureau’s Major Case Squad, Gang Division, and editor of Gangs Across America (gangsacrossamerica.com).
But don’t breathe a sigh of relief just yet. “No area is immune to gang activity—I don’t care how wealthy your community is,” says Andrew Grascia, president of New York Gang Investigators Association. “When the largest growth of the gang population has been in rural America, to say Brownsville is worse than Manhattan would be inexcusable.”
“New York doesn’t have clearly demarcated gang territories like Chicago and Los Angeles,” adds David Brotherton, chair of the sociology department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Yet in Staten Island, where authorities have identified more than 1,000 members in roughly 55 different organizations, 600 affiliates live within a short distance of the 120th precinct alone. “The exact number is hard to know because they’re recruiting new members all the time,” says Assistant District Attorney Michael Drews at the Supreme Court Bureau.
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You can read more and see a gang-activity map here: Gangs of New York - This week in New York - Time Out New York http://newyork.timeout.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-new-york/20855/gangs-of-new-york#ixzz1AwxgGEo5
For a more updated report, check out The Global Incidents gang map. It allows you to see up-to-date reports of gang violence across the U.S.:
http://gangs.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
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According to the mayor’s Preliminary 2008 Fiscal Report, New York is home to some 17,000 gang members. “For a city as large as New York, it has extremely low numbers,” says Lou Savelli, retired commander of the NYPD Detective Bureau’s Major Case Squad, Gang Division, and editor of Gangs Across America (gangsacrossamerica.com).
But don’t breathe a sigh of relief just yet. “No area is immune to gang activity—I don’t care how wealthy your community is,” says Andrew Grascia, president of New York Gang Investigators Association. “When the largest growth of the gang population has been in rural America, to say Brownsville is worse than Manhattan would be inexcusable.”
“New York doesn’t have clearly demarcated gang territories like Chicago and Los Angeles,” adds David Brotherton, chair of the sociology department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Yet in Staten Island, where authorities have identified more than 1,000 members in roughly 55 different organizations, 600 affiliates live within a short distance of the 120th precinct alone. “The exact number is hard to know because they’re recruiting new members all the time,” says Assistant District Attorney Michael Drews at the Supreme Court Bureau.
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You can read more and see a gang-activity map here: Gangs of New York - This week in New York - Time Out New York http://newyork.timeout.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-new-york/20855/gangs-of-new-york#ixzz1AwxgGEo5
For a more updated report, check out The Global Incidents gang map. It allows you to see up-to-date reports of gang violence across the U.S.:
http://gangs.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
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