Gangs

MS-13 bedeviled U.S. law enforcement for decades. Then, as the bodies piled up, an inside man helped the feds infiltrate the world’s most brutal gang.

"This is a new phenomenon because it’s something that we never had in this country: crimes committed because of hunger."

Attorney General Sessions said he has authorized federal prosecutors to investigate members of the international MS-13 gang with all lawful tools.

Salvatore Gravano was a crime underboss-turned-informant whose testimony brought down mob chiefs including John Gotti, the Teflon Don.

Thirty-one members of two feuding New York gangs are indicted after allegedly promoting their “enterprise on social media websites.”

The state focuses attention on the issue at a time when President Trump gives speeches calling gang members “animals.”

MS-13 is among gangs categorized as the biggest threat to public safety based on relationships with Mexican cartels and high levels of violence and transnational crime.

Americans are "screaming from their windows" thanking immigration agents for liberating their cities, the president said at a rally.

It's not just criminal organizations who are responsible, agents of the Mexican state play their part too.

There is a belief that crime is rising, when in fact a quick look at the numbers will tell you that crime is at its lowest rates in 40 years.

Chicago had more than 700 murders in 2016, more than in New York City and Los Angeles combined.

North Carolina teen Wildin Acosta is threatened with deportation after fleeing Honduras under threat of death for his religious commitment.

For nearly the last half-century, a group of California surfers known as the Bay Boys have jealously protected access to the waves of Lunada Bay with verbal abuse, threats and vandalism, sometimes resorting to violence.

Gangs are preying on the children of Nepalese refugees, it has been reported.

The little boy was targeted because of his father's activities, authorities believe.

Of the 10 biggest U.S. cities, only Philadelphia's murder rate outstrips Chicago's.

While split on strategy, gang members say that the city's protests are a response to years of unprovoked police violence.

The deadly drug war in Long Island’s Hempstead ghetto is a harrowing example of free-market, laissez-faire capitalism, with a heavy dose of TEC-9s

Russian, Chinese and Georgian gangs, as well as the Italian mafia, are now pumping billions into legal businesses

Police say the allied Make It Happen Boys and Money Avenue, and their rivals, 3 Staccs fought a four-year turf war in Harlem