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Gangs: Organized crime or disenfranchised youth?

by Jacki Billings

Once thought of as organized units formed to carry out criminal enterprises, street gangs have devolved. Operating with a loose structure and informal codes, they function on behalf of cyclical violence rather than money-making schemes.

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Feds award nearly $6 million in grants to fight gangs, gun violence

by Jacki Billings

Project Safe Neighborhoods will receive $5.7 million in federal grants to fund efforts aimed at curbing gang violence and gun crime, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

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Florida man gets 15 years for selling firearms, drugs to informant

by Jared Morgan

A felon with a history of selling guns and drugs was sentenced to 15 years in a federal prison Thursday for selling his wares to an informant working with law enforcement.

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