Gang Information

Facts About Gangs:

• Act in ways that harm public health and public morals and drive out businesses.
• Reach into nearly every city and town, and into every high school in the country today.
• Make people in their city, town, or neighborhood feel fearful and endangered.
• Are recruiting children at record rates.
• Often have drug trafficking as their main occupation.
• Come from many ethnic groups and in many cases are networking across the country.
• Are composed primarily of boys, but 10% of gang members are girls and the number is growing.

Key Dangers of Gangs

• In order to join, new members go through an initiation, which can range f