AAP reports the police operation targeted antisocial behaviour, bikie gangs and organised crime, with officers patrolling the area between 8pm on Saturday and 3.30am on Sunday.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2023/apr/02/australia-news-live-aston-byelection-peter-dutton-liberals-libspill-mary-doyle-anthony-albanese-daniel-andrews-china

Although the criminal gangs are largely motivated by financial gains from ransom payments, some have forged ties with jihadists from northeast Nigeria where they are waging a 14-year old insurgency to establish a Caliphate.

Source: https://guardian.ng/news/priest-burnt-alive-five-worshippers-abducted-in-niger-state/

And gangs could lead to gang war fare in schools.

Source: https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2023/02/12/beatings-of-teachers/

And in recent years, the far right has racialised grooming gangs by associating them with Asian men.

Source: https://socialistworker.co.uk/comment/the-far-right-doesnt-care-about-womens-rights/

And so a riot broke out between the two gangs after the 65s grabbed Miller.

Source: https://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2023/fbi-most-wanted-recap-05-09-23-season-4-episode-20-these-walls/

And the country’s president, Xiomara Castro, said that street gangs were being the brutal mass-murder.

Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/women-prisoners-burnt-alive-monstrous-30285362

Another no-bid contract under scrutiny went to Jose Cordero, a longtime New York City police official whose ties to Milgram go back to 2007 when as attorney general she named him New Jersey’s first statewide director of gangs, guns and violent crime.

Source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/apr/19/dea-chief-faces-probe-into-swampy-hires-no-bid-contracts/

Armed criminal gangs are said to be “imposing a regime of terror” and violence in most parts of Port-au-Prince, severely impacting the humanitarian, human rights and socio-economic situation in a country already hit hard by poverty, disease and disasters.

Source: https://stluciatimes.com/156696/2023/08/unicef-reports-unimaginable-violence-against-women-children-in-haiti/

A seperate team, also based at Mansfield Police Station, is also working to tackle organised criminal gangs targeting local retail parks.

Source: https://www.chad.co.uk/news/crime/prolific-mansfield-shoplifter-is-locked-up-and-banned-from-town-centre-4351823

At the weekend, news broke of dozens of kidnapped asylum-seeking children taken by gangs from a hotel in Brighton on the south coast of England run by the Home Office.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/26/letter-from-london-i-got-the-news-today/

Bus stop, bins and fence panels were also stained with graffiti in streets said to be rocked by gangs of youths.

Source: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/gallery/mega-vapes-gas-canisters-mcdonalds-27262673

By the early 2010s, with guards overwhelmed and outnumbered, many prison authorities began making deals with gangs.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/11/04/news/the-worlds-most-insane-prisons-are-in-latin-america/

Canada has been urging other countries to follow its lead by slapping economic sanctions on Haitians whom Ottawa accuses of empowering the gangs.

Source: https://www.baytoday.ca/national-news/mps-advise-against-military-intervention-in-haiti-but-call-for-improved-sanctions-6954182

County lines gangs have been using the social media platform as one of their main tools for recruitment.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11843555/Warning-parents-Snapchat-ads-luring-children-drug-mules-County-Lines-gangs.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Criminal activities have reportedly increased in upper Sindh areas in recent weeks, police said, as gangs of outlaws and dacoits appear to have intensified their operations following a police operation against them in several districts.

Source: https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2023/03/18/criminal-gangs-escalate-activities-in-upper-sindh-amid-police-operation/

Despite the FBI urging the public not to fret, they’re pledging to keep extra eyes on outlaw motorcycle gangs.

Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/biker-gang-shootout-left-3-30118514

During a recent meeting of the board’s Operational Services Committee, board member Christine Lensing wanted to know if A Safe Place will offer counseling to people trying to leave gangs.

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-lns-wraparound-update-st-1229-20231227-px7k4sqbsjfgxf5vovkeyj7mha-story.html

Everybody circles up around Nia and gangs up on her!

Source: https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2023/1/28/23571383/wwe-royal-rumble-2023-results-live-streaming-match-coverage-roman-reigns-kevin-owens-cody-rhodes

Every day, Vélina Élysée Charlier drives past barricaded neighborhoods and frequently sees dead bodies lying on the street, she said, a result of score-settling between gangs and vigilantes in Haiti’s capital.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/world/americas/haiti-kenya-force-gangs.html

Every day when Daniel Marie 's husband put on his flak vest and walked out the door for another day of fighting Haiti's gangs, she wondered if he would come home that night.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-portauprince-carmel-jovenel-moise-caribbean-b2266822.html