Transcript Immediate Action

Transforming Gang Policing
Strategies With 21st Century
Leadership
Association of Criminal Justice Research (CA)
67th Semi-Annual Meeting
Sacramento, California
Presented By:
Deputy Chief Charlie L. Beck, Chief of Detectives
Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles, California
March 13, 2008
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Los Angeles Police Department
Criminal Gang/Homicide Group
GANG PERSPECTIVES
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Deputy Chief Charlie Beck
Commanding Officer
Detective Bureau
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Gang Facts
• Increased violence throughout Los Angeles County and
Southern California.
• Los Angeles-based gangs are migrating and are reported
in 42 states. Criminal enterprises are expanding in
adjoining cities.
• Hispanic gangs are becoming more organized and
operating drug enterprises in various Southern California
cities.
• Black gangs are expanding operations outside of the area
while still maintaining a stronghold in neighborhoods
within South Bureau.
• Los Angeles-based fugitives are hiding in small
surrounding cities.
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Gang Defined
A gang is a group of three or more
persons who have a common identifying
sign, symbol or name and whose
members individually or collectively
engage in or have engaged in a pattern
of criminal activity creating an
atmosphere of fear and intimidation
within the community.
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Historical Perspective
• Gangs are known to exist since early 1930s.
• Organized to protect neighborhoods from rival
and as a form of racial separation.
• As migrant groups increased, they organized
themselves.
• With the influx of drugs, violent and more
organized street gangs were formed.
• Gangs now feud for drug turf, organized crimes
and for issues of respect within racial or territorial
lines.
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Identifying A Gang Member
A juvenile or an adult who has been
positively identified and documented
as a gang member under the
California Department of Justice (DOJ)
approved criteria.
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Gang Membership
Gang Membership Criteria (Two or more must be
met for CAL/GANG inclusion):
– Admits to being a gang member in a non-custodial
situation.
– Has been identified as a gang member by a reliable
informant or source.
– Has been identified as a gang member by an untested
informant or source with corroboration.
– Wearing gang attire.
– Seen displaying gang hand signs or symbols.
– Has gang tattoos.
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Gang Membership (Continued)
• Gang Membership Criteria (Continued)
– Frequents gang areas.
– Openly associates with documented gang members.
– Has been arrested, alone or with known gang
members, for a crime consistent with usual gang
activity.
• Affiliate Gang Member
– A juvenile or an adult who is identified by a gang
officer as one who associates with a gang, but is not
necessarily a full member.
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City Of Los Angeles
469+ Identified Gangs
39,565+ Identified Mbrs.
OSB - 122 Identified Gangs
OSB - 22,000 Gang Mbrs.
469 square miles
3.8 million Daily Population (+/-)
Gang Population (CALGANGS)
Hispanic
22,781
Crip
10,318
Blood
4,213
Asian
1,130
Stoner
562
White
561
9,631 LAPD Police Officers
364 Uniformed GED Personnel
Los Angeles County (including City of Los Angeles)
1,253 Gangs
81,745 + Members
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Los Angeles Police Department
2007 Gang Initiatives
• Launch of the South Bureau Criminal/Gang
Homicide Group.
• Designation of the Department Coordinator.
• Placement of a Los Angeles Police Gang
Member on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.”
• Identification of the City’s “Top Targeted Street
Gangs.”
• Implementation of the “Community Safety
Operations Center.”
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Los Angeles Police Department
2007 Gang Initiatives (Continued)
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Patrol Proliferation Strategy
204th Street Gang Abatement Strategy
Gang Abatement Legislation
Convergence of Local, State, and
Federal Law Enforcement
• Community Awareness Symposiums on
Gang Awareness
• Bulletins
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Operations South Bureau
Criminal Gang/Homicide Group
Commanding Officer - Commander Patrick Gannon
• Inception April 2007 - Currently provides oversight
of:
– 120 of LAPD’s most experienced
Homicide Detectives.
– Homicide investigations for Southeast, 77th
and Southwest.
– Bureau Gang Suppression Unit
14 Officers; 2 Supervisors.
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Operations South Bureau
Criminal Gang/Homicide Group
• Violent Crime Task Force –
8 LAPD; 3 FBI; 1 ATF.
• Special Crimes Unit (Gang Financial) –
2 LAPD.
• Gang Intelligence Section – 1 Officer.
• Gang Intervention Team – 2 Supervisors.
• Prevention/Education – 1 Supervisor.
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Crimes Associated With Gangs
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Homicides
Aggravated Assaults
Assaults on Officers
Rape
Robbery (Street, home invasion, business)
Carjacking
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Crimes Associated With Gangs (Continued)
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Kidnapping
Shots at inhabited dwellings (Drive-bys)
Arson
Criminal Threats
Extortion
Vandalism
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2006 - 2007 Homicide
January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007
OPERATIONS SOUTH BUREAU
2006
2007
196
152
Change
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Gang Related
2006
2007 Change
125
96
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Operations South Bureau has experienced a
72% clearance in Homicides
Operations South Bureau has experienced a
29% reduction in Gang Homicides
Operations South Bureau has experienced a
3.8% reduction in gang crimes in 2007. Compared to
2002, the Bureau has experienced a 28 % reduction.
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Efforts To Target The Top
7 Identified Gangs
• 18th Street, 204th Street, Black P-Stones, Grape Streets,
Rolling 40s, Rolling 30s, and Rolling 60s
• Over 400 Arrests
• 1,460 Field Contacts
• 336 Citations
• 52 Search Warrants
• 136 Guns recovered
• Jordan Downs Housing Developments have seen a 17%
reduction in violent crime, 13 % reduction in Robberies,
20 % reduction in aggravated assaults.
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GANG MEMBER ASSAULTS ON POLICE OFFICERS
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• 2006 gang member
assaults on Officers:
89
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2006
2007
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• 2007 gang member
assaults on Officers:
65
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0
Jan
April
July
Oct
Dec
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ASSAULTS ON POLICE OFFICERS
2006 / 2007
80
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2006
2007
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• 2006 total assaults on Officers :
682
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• 2007 total assaults on Officers :
479
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0
Jan
April
July
Oct
Dec
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Gang Injunctions
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18th Street
(Rampart, Hollywood, Wilshire)
38th Street
(Newton)
Avenues
(Northeast)
Blythe Street
Van Nuys, Devonshire)
Bounty Hunters
(Southeast)
Canoga Park Alabama
West Valley, Devonshire)
Culver City Boys
(Pacific)
Eastside Wilmas
(Harbor)
Harbor City Boys
(Harbor)
Harbor City Crips
(Harbor)
Harpys
(Southwest)
Krazy Ass Mexicans
(Hollenbeck)
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Gang Injunctions
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Langdon Street
(Devonshire)
Pacoima Project Boys
(Foothill)
Rollin 60’s Neighborhood Crips
(77th Street)
Varrio Nueva Estrada
(Hollenbeck)
Venice Shoreline Crips
(Pacific)
Venice Trece
(Pacific)
Westside Wilmas
(Harbor)
Grape Street
(Southeast)
Hoovers
(77th and Southeast)
204th Street
(Harbor)
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Intervention
Sergeant Curtis Woodle
Sergeant Lloyd Scott
• Consistent dialogue with Gang Intervention
Groups
• Direct involvement after gang related shootings
• Efforts to deter retaliatory shootings
• Community Education efforts
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Intervention and Education
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South Bureau Boot Camp
Neighborhood Councils
Community-Police Advisory Board
Community Police Academy Graduates
Clergy Council Members
Faith and Civic Leaders
Public and Private School Principal and
Administrators
• Community Youth Programs
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Intelligence Inter-Agency Efforts
•E-mail crime information sharing efforts with
surrounding agencies as well as federal and state
agencies.
•Coordinate information between area gang units,
homicide units, and outside agencies.
•Evaluate crime trends and provide information to
ensure proper deployment of resources in the
bureau.
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Intelligence Inter-Agency Efforts
•Assess problem specific areas or events and ensure
resources are put in place.
•Attendance at monthly gang strategy meetings, (i.e.,
CGIA, IAGTF, Parole, FBI, ATF, and LAUSDPD
meetings).
•Inter-agency monthly gang suppression task force to
focus on specific areas of crime spikes in participating
agency areas.
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COMPSTAT and CAD
• Bureau Intelligence Sharing with Areas, outside
agencies and other Department entities.
• Ensure daily review of COMPSTAT statistics and
maps with the prior night trends for deployment
issues.
• Meet with CAD regularly and ensure that all e-mail
distribution lists are up to date.
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COMPSTAT and CAD (Continued)
• Discuss area crime problems, trends, patterns,
and series.
• Ensure that information is disseminated to adjacent
cities for possible trend crossovers.
• Share all intelligence with concerned watch
commanders, gang supervisors and other
specialized unit supervisors.
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Patrol Proliferation Efforts
• Provide Patrol Officers Of Hazard Locations (i.e.,
disruptive Areas, narcotics locations, information
on threats, and areas affected by crime spikes).
• Ensure patrol efforts are target specific. Through
the use of surveillance, warrants, and crime
suppression efforts.
• Ensure efforts to focus on quality of life issues.
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Patrol Proliferation Efforts (Continued)
• Ensure officers are sharing information,
focus on areas of violent trends, target gang
loitering areas.
• Ensure Officers are trained regarding Gang
Injunction efforts.
• Ensure officers effectively pass on the
information to provide a consistent presence.
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Use Of Partner Resources To
Target Crime
• Other Department Units
• Other Agencies (City and County)
• Parole and Probation
• FBI, ATF and DEA Task Force Groups
• City Attorney Neighborhood Prosecution
• Building and Safety
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Use Of Partner Resources To
Target Crime (Continued)
• Code Enforcement
• CGIA or NARCO Officers Association
• Department of Children Services
• Housing Department
• Homeland Security
• LARGIN and LA CLEAR
• Many Local, State, and Federal Task Forces
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Prison And Jail Gang Information
Is Beneficial
• Contact LASO Regarding Custody Visitors, Mail,
Phone Calls.
• Contact Prison Agents Regarding Mail, Shot
Callers, Letters.
• Our Information Should Come Directly From
Those Working The Problem Not Second Hand.
• Provide Jail personnel with street trends.
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Parole/Probation Resources
• Attend Monthly release meetings.
• Generate a list of releases and pass on to each
area.
• Disseminate violent offender information to
robbery, gang and homicide detectives.
• Complete a parole/probation sweep once a month
of new violent offender releases.
• Obtain gang correspondence from mail intercepts
and distribute accordingly.
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What Is Intervention?
• Intervention approaches focus on
helping young people get out and stay
out of gangs.
• To be effective, these approaches must
identify at-risk young people.
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Operations South Bureau
21st Century Policing
A program for gang intervention to
be developed by school leaders,
community leaders and LAPD
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Key Ideas From
The Connie Rice Report
• 75% of youth gang homicides occur in LA
County.
• Crime suppression strategies must be linked to
prevention, intervention and communitystabilizing activities.
• Approaches must address the precursors that
originate in the home, such as domestic
violence, negative parenting, and tolerance of
gang culture.
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More Ideas
• Carefully defined programs designed to address
circumstances of gangs and gang-specific risk
factors should be developed.
• Programs must also be aimed at providing
sufficient resources to those who want an exit
from gang life.
• LAUSD will have to become an asset in violence
reduction strategies to prevent and interrupt
campus violence.
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Multi-faceted Initiatives
• Develop A Plan For Intervention That Addresses
Key Reasons For Youth-gang Membership.
• Develop A Network Of Community Leaders,
School Leaders And Police.
• Develop A Structure For Implementation That
Allows Plans To Move Forward.
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Comprehensive Concepts
• There is a direct connection between school
failure and gang involvement.
• Many young people are looking for alternatives to
gangs: job placement, trade schools, after-school
programs.
• Illiteracy makes being trained in marketable skills
impossible.
• Need For Rehabilitation Of Returning Prisoners
Must Be Confronted.
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Community Awareness
• We should centralize and coordinate programs
as well as resources to make them readily
available.
• Humanize police so community can relate to
officers.
• Programs must emphasize integrity, discipline,
self-esteem, and life skills.
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Group Activity
• Divide into sub-committees.
• Discuss ideas presented and develop 1 or 2
activities or programs.
• Come back together and present your ideas to
the larger group.
• We will meet again to present a completed plan
and make decisions about implementation.
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Los Angeles Police Department
Operations South Bureau
BE SAFE
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