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More than 2,900 gangs with approximately 73,650 members are criminally active in the East Region, according to NDTS 2008 data and interviews with local law enforcement officials. (See Figure 6.) Also according to NDTS data, the percentage of state and local law enforcement agencies in the East Region that reported gang activity in their jurisdictions increased from 37 percent in 2004 to 57 percent in 2008. The most significant gangs operating in the East Region are Crips, Latin Kings, MS 13, Ñeta, and UBN.7 (See Appendix B.)
Figure 6. East Region gang membership by county.
Gang-related trends:
- UBN is proliferating and expanding its influence over previously unaffiliated local gangs.
- Trinitarios8, a Dominican street gang, is increasing its presence in the region.
- Over the past few years, MS 13 has posed a significant concern to law enforcement in the region, particularly in Maryland and Virginia. However, recent law enforcement actions against MS 13 members may have disrupted some of the gang's operations.
- Gang-related violence has increased in many larger cities in the region.
Predictive NGIC/NDIC intelligence:
- National-level gangs, specifically Bloods gangs, and regional-level street gangs increasingly will attempt to influence and control local gangs, resulting in an escalation of gang-related violence in the East Region.
- Gangs in the East Region very likely will continue to expand their operations from urban communities into suburban and rural locations throughout the region and into the Southeast, New England, and Central Regions.
7.
United Blood Nation (UBN) is a loose confederation
of street gangs that formed in the Rikers Island Jail in New York City in 1993 and
spread throughout the East Coast of the United States. It is one of the largest
street gangs that follow the Bloods gang culture.
8.
Trinitarios (meaning the Trinity or Special One)
street gang was formed as a protection gang for Dominican inmates in New York prisons
during the early 1990s. Upon leaving prison, members banded together as a street
gang, calling themselves Trinitarians/Trinitarios to separate the gang from other
Dominican street gangs in New York. Trinitarios members are establishing a reputation
for extreme violence throughout the area.
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