Today. the Department of Justice reports that in the United States there are some 25.000 different street gangs. There are more than 652.000 members of these gangs. And they are not loosely organized. They are not the street kids glamorized in West Side Story. Todays gangs are very different. They are organized. They are sophisticated. They are traveling crime syndicates much like the Mafia. They regularly cross State lines to recruit new members. They traffic in drugs and weapons. they smuggle illegal aliens. they steal. and they murder. In just one city. Los Angeles. consider this: Nearly 7.300 of its citizens were murdered in the last 16 years from gang warfare7.300 citizens.
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