Website: www.nygia.org
State President: Andrew Grascia
Phone Number:
914 494 9005
EMAIL: andygrascia@nygia.org
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Funding available for Dutchess youth gang initiatives
Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA
POUGHKEEPSIE - The Dutchess County Youth Bureau is soliciting competitive Requests for Proposals for programs addressing youth gang prevention/intervention ...
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Two New Gang-Based Asylum Victories
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
IJ Eliza Klein granted asylum to a woman from El Salvador, who was threatened with death and was beaten by the MS-13 gang. This 12-page opinion, ...
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8 in NYC accused of torturing, robbing drug dealers
The Associated Press -
NEW YORK (AP) — A gang of police impersonators abducted and tortured cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multimillion-dollar stashes by holding ...
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Violent gang busted up in Buffalo
WIVB - Buffalo,NY,USA
Three took place in Florida. The FBI's Safe Street's Task Force have been investigating the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation for two years. ...
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gang with national ties
Buffalo News - NY, United States
Federal agents Tuesday raided this house at 569 Niagara Falls Blvd., home of Nemencio Rosario, a key member of the gang. They call themselves the Almighty ...
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Local Authorities Target Suspected Gangs in a Series of Raids
WIVB - Buffalo,NY,USA
Three took place in Florida. The FBI's Safe Street's Task Force have been investigating the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation for two years.
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Police say gang member, 2 others attack 3 Princeton students
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
PRINCETON, NJ - Police say a member of the Bloods street gang and two others beat three Princeton University students at a party on the Ivy League campus. ...
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US pushes police powers at Salvador "anti-gang" summit
World War 4 Report - Brooklyn,NY,USA
During an April 8 "Anti-Gang Summit" in San Salvador, United States Ambassador Charles Glazer urged Salvadoran authorities to quickly approve certain laws ...
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Albany's new sheriff
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
But so far, he's a sheriff who has tried to keep order by letting the rival gangs have what they want, leaving aside his better judgment. Gov. ...
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70 suspected gang members arrested in Plainfield raids
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
PLAINFIELD, NJ - Police in Plainfield have arrested about 70 suspected gang members in a huge roundup. State Police Captain Al Della Fave says the suspects ...
Curbing Teen Drinking Difficult in Urban Areas
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA
The researchers found that community leaders in the low-income, urban areas were more concerned about other problems, like housing needs and gang violence, ...
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More gang arrests expected in Nassau
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
The investigation into the Rolling 60s, a Crips-affiliated street gang with about 30 members in Freeport, Roosevelt and Uniondale, has lasted two years, ...
Two dozen suspected gang members arrested on Long Island
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
MINEOLA, NY - Two dozen suspected gang members have been arrested in a Long Island gang sweep. Nassau County Police say their officers along with the FBI ...
MS-13 Gang Member Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison on Racketeering ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
At his plea hearing on January 29, 2008, Hernandez admitted that he and others involved in the MS-13 gang conspired to participate in a pattern of ...
Were police hoaxed into airing warning about gang?
Buffalo News - NY, United States
Even some law enforcement insiders said the gang account is simply an urban legend. But Buffalo Police Commissioner H. McCarthy Gipson said the decision to ...
11 Charged for Syracuse Gang Activity
NewsChannel 9 WSYR - Syracuse,NY,USA
Syracuse (WSYR-TV) The Syracuse Gang Violence Task Force charged 11 people for selling crack cocaine Tuesday morning. The 11 charged are believed to be ...
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Police target gang activity in countryside
By Jeremiah Horrigan
Times Herald- Record
February 26, 2008 6:00 AM
NEW PALTZ — The gangs of New York — or Philly or Boston or even Middletown — are no longer urban or even suburban phenomena.
They've made the countryside their home as well; if you thought that living in a small town or village was insurance against gangs, it's time to think again, according to Bill Lopez.
"It's like if you have an insect problem. You spray in the kitchen and they go down to the basement."
That's why police, sheriff's deputies and state troopers are pulling overtime on weekends in New Paltz. A robbery in a Main Street bar, the appearance of graffiti "tags" on buildings and arrests of known gang members have convinced authorities that gangs have migrated from Kingston, Newburgh and Poughkeepsie.
Lopez is the Catskills regional director of the New York Gang Investigators Association, which sponsored a conference in New Paltz yesterday aimed at helping educators, correctional employees and social services counselors understand and identify the ever-changing indicators, codes and symbols of gang life.
Ron "Cook" Barrett, a gang prevention specialist from Albany, spoke passionately about the need for prevention and intervention in rapid-fire cadences as rhythmic as the rap music often associated with the gangster life.
"It's small things we need to do people! Small things! Job search skills. Phone skills. Even personal grooming classes. A generation is being lost — lost."
Speaker Paul Annetts told the crowd that when it comes to gangs, it's not just about rap music in particular or black music in general. Musical descendants of the white punk and metal scenes have morphed into varieties of less-well-known musical genres that espouse violence that spans the political spectrum, from white supremacists to extreme animal rights groups.
Both men said high-tech innovations like YouTube, and cheap visual and audio recording software and equipment have made it easier than ever for gangs to get their violent messages across to young people in a dramatic and seductive fashion.
In the end, Lopez said, no community is safe.
"These kids are looking for love, and if you don't respond to that need, they go to the gangs."
jhorrigan@th-record.com
