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The gangs do whatever they want, whenever they want, no one is safe, whether foreigner or Haitian. – Pierre Espérance	Found on New York Times 8 months ago
Attacks still happen, but they really have been reduced to small groups of effectively organized crime gangs. They don’t have anything like the weapons or reach that the IRA did. Nor do they have a coherent ideology. They might still be active, but the idea they could carry out anything on the scale of the worst days is just unimaginable now. – Norman Baxter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One debate the whole nation is going through is why these people or anybody who doesn't need guns, has guns, so that's one question but on the top, MY Project USA has seen that when we do the right programming, we can keep our children away from gangs and guns and we have proven that. – Zerqa Abid	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These children come in in debt to vicious cartels thousands and thousands of dollars. The teenage boys work for the gangs in every city in America, and the teenage girls experience a hell worse than that, with far too many of them human trafficked into sex slavery, joe Biden and Kamala Harris are responsible for the worst plague of slavery in America since the Civil War. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
They immediately tried to put the final squeeze on us, finish us off, and utterly destroy us. This is how it was in the 1990s and the early 2000s, when the so-called collective West was actively supporting separatism and gangs of mercenaries in southern Russia, what victims, what losses we had to sustain and what trials we had to go through at that time before we broke the back of international terrorism in the Caucasus ! We remember this and will never forget. – Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The desecration of the occupation army and settler gangs of al Aqsa Mosque crossed all red lines, and our people will continue to respond to this aggression. – Mahmoud Abbas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The concept of deputy gangs has just been nothing but a political campaign waged by the board against a sheriff they want to get rid of, it's (the investigation) designed for political motives only. It's not designed to get any information because everything that we've had, we've already given to the inspector general. – Alex Villanueva	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'd say the multiple gangs in the department are the single most powerful political entity in the department, they're running it like a mafia. – Alan Romero	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
i’ve been reading poems by notable poets about cows * sheep * pigeons * fish * deer & the like & honestly it makes me ill. i write about what i know: big cities, street gangs, the homeless, food stamps, death & suicide & i wonder who reads this boring crap, who gets inspired? I want it hard edged, baby, poems on razorblades cutting through skin, tendons, even bones, poems that make the blood flow & run deep in real rivers of life. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
Graffiti is not some dude writing ‘Jim was here,’ graffiti is about marking territory, by gangs or dealers, or even by people living on the streets, who are being used for criminal activity. – Ari Hoffman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The violence and lawlessness at the border caused by transnational cartels and gangs satisfies the definition of an ‘invasion’ under the U.S. Constitution, and Arizona therefore has the power to defend itself from this invasion under the governor’s authority as commander in chief, an actual invasion permits the state to engage in defensive actions within its own territory at or near its border. – Mark Brnovich	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The country was bad economically (under Hernández), you could never find a job, the gangs were always extorting and killing people. – Zayda Vayadares	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No family, no block, no community in the City of Chicago should have to endure the looming threat of guns and gangs, this is a tragedy, there are too many incidents just like this. We’re losing too many young people, and it’s really saddening. – Police Superintendent David Brown	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
One of the big drivers of crime in Los Angeles are guns and gangs and right now, this district attorney has basically said we cannot prosecute people for gang crimes and is not interested in prosecuting people for gun crimes, and that has really led to this surge in homicides. – Eric Siddall	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's very difficult. When you have family members, that's in gangs and it's like you just can't do certain stuff with them because they ops, as you want to call it, ops see you, and if they can't get them( family members), they'll be out to hurt you. So, it's certain things that you have to watch out for when you in Chicago. – Jemiah Johnson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I've spoken to too many mothers in that community who have told me they're afraid, afraid to step outside of their homes, afraid for their lives, afraid the gangs have taken over. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Gangs are one component of that, a lot of times when the cars are taken, many of these stolen vehicles are used to commit other crimes. It could be drive-shootings, robberies. – Patrick Lentz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In too many neighborhoods, gangs are targeting young boys – young boys with promise, young boys with a whole history and opportunity in front of them, but they’re targeting them with false promises of wealth, an easy life, and a sense of purpose and belonging. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While retailers have always suffered from general shoplifting there is a growing scourge of organized gangs which are stealing to order, the gangs are much more dangerous for retailers and for customers shopping in stores. – Neil Saunders	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The gangs are much more dangerous for retailers and for customers shopping in stores, the problem is that while store security and associates can take individual shoplifters to task, they are not able to do much against gangs as they are outnumbered. – Neil Saunders	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Nowhere is safe for children in Haiti anymore, criminal gangs are using children as bargaining chips and making money off parents' love for their children. – Jean Gough	Found on CNN 2 years ago
One trend over the last ten years is the increased presence of Mexican cartels in Ecuador, who hire and arm with local gangs to protect their drug corridors. – Mario Pazmiño	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have asked friendly countries for specific support to support the police, for the capacity to fight these bandits and get out of public life, so that the economy can pick up, so that our children can go about their business on a regular basis, everyone who is involved with the gangs, whether politicians, businessmen or other citizens, are bandits themselves and must have the same fate as the bandits. – President Jovenel Moise	Found on CNN 2 years ago
All across our country, gangs and guns are destroying the foundations of not only public safety, but business, no one is coming to New York if a three-year-old is shot in Times Square. – Eric Adams	Found on CNN 2 years ago

The gangs do whatever they want, whenever they want, no one is safe, whether foreigner or Haitian.

– Pierre Espérance

Found on New York Times
8 months ago

Attacks still happen, but they really have been reduced to small groups of effectively organized crime gangs. They don’t have anything like the weapons or reach that the IRA did. Nor do they have a coherent ideology. They might still be active, but the idea they could carry out anything on the scale of the worst days is just unimaginable now.

– Norman Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One debate the whole nation is going through is why these people or anybody who doesn't need guns, has guns, so that's one question but on the top, MY Project USA has seen that when we do the right programming, we can keep our children away from gangs and guns and we have proven that.

– Zerqa Abid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These children come in in debt to vicious cartels thousands and thousands of dollars. The teenage boys work for the gangs in every city in America, and the teenage girls experience a hell worse than that, with far too many of them human trafficked into sex slavery, joe Biden and Kamala Harris are responsible for the worst plague of slavery in America since the Civil War.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They immediately tried to put the final squeeze on us, finish us off, and utterly destroy us. This is how it was in the 1990s and the early 2000s, when the so-called collective West was actively supporting separatism and gangs of mercenaries in southern Russia, what victims, what losses we had to sustain and what trials we had to go through at that time before we broke the back of international terrorism in the Caucasus ! We remember this and will never forget.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The desecration of the occupation army and settler gangs of al Aqsa Mosque crossed all red lines, and our people will continue to respond to this aggression.

– Mahmoud Abbas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The concept of deputy gangs has just been nothing but a political campaign waged by the board against a sheriff they want to get rid of, it's (the investigation) designed for political motives only. It's not designed to get any information because everything that we've had, we've already given to the inspector general.

– Alex Villanueva

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'd say the multiple gangs in the department are the single most powerful political entity in the department, they're running it like a mafia.

– Alan Romero

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

i’ve been reading poems by notable poets about cows * sheep * pigeons * fish * deer & the like & honestly it makes me ill. i write about what i know: big cities, street gangs, the homeless, food stamps, death & suicide & i wonder who reads this boring crap, who gets inspired? I want it hard edged, baby, poems on razorblades cutting through skin, tendons, even bones, poems that make the blood flow & run deep in real rivers of life.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

Graffiti is not some dude writing ‘Jim was here,’ graffiti is about marking territory, by gangs or dealers, or even by people living on the streets, who are being used for criminal activity.

– Ari Hoffman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The violence and lawlessness at the border caused by transnational cartels and gangs satisfies the definition of an ‘invasion’ under the U.S. Constitution, and Arizona therefore has the power to defend itself from this invasion under the governor’s authority as commander in chief, an actual invasion permits the state to engage in defensive actions within its own territory at or near its border.

– Mark Brnovich

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The country was bad economically (under Hernández), you could never find a job, the gangs were always extorting and killing people.

– Zayda Vayadares

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No family, no block, no community in the City of Chicago should have to endure the looming threat of guns and gangs, this is a tragedy, there are too many incidents just like this. We’re losing too many young people, and it’s really saddening.

– Police Superintendent David Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One of the big drivers of crime in Los Angeles are guns and gangs and right now, this district attorney has basically said we cannot prosecute people for gang crimes and is not interested in prosecuting people for gun crimes, and that has really led to this surge in homicides.

– Eric Siddall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's very difficult. When you have family members, that's in gangs and it's like you just can't do certain stuff with them because they ops, as you want to call it, ops see you, and if they can't get them( family members), they'll be out to hurt you. So, it's certain things that you have to watch out for when you in Chicago.

– Jemiah Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I've spoken to too many mothers in that community who have told me they're afraid, afraid to step outside of their homes, afraid for their lives, afraid the gangs have taken over.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Gangs are one component of that, a lot of times when the cars are taken, many of these stolen vehicles are used to commit other crimes. It could be drive-shootings, robberies.

– Patrick Lentz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In too many neighborhoods, gangs are targeting young boys – young boys with promise, young boys with a whole history and opportunity in front of them, but they’re targeting them with false promises of wealth, an easy life, and a sense of purpose and belonging.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While retailers have always suffered from general shoplifting there is a growing scourge of organized gangs which are stealing to order, the gangs are much more dangerous for retailers and for customers shopping in stores.

– Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The gangs are much more dangerous for retailers and for customers shopping in stores, the problem is that while store security and associates can take individual shoplifters to task, they are not able to do much against gangs as they are outnumbered.

– Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Nowhere is safe for children in Haiti anymore, criminal gangs are using children as bargaining chips and making money off parents' love for their children.

– Jean Gough

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One trend over the last ten years is the increased presence of Mexican cartels in Ecuador, who hire and arm with local gangs to protect their drug corridors.

– Mario Pazmiño

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have asked friendly countries for specific support to support the police, for the capacity to fight these bandits and get out of public life, so that the economy can pick up, so that our children can go about their business on a regular basis, everyone who is involved with the gangs, whether politicians, businessmen or other citizens, are bandits themselves and must have the same fate as the bandits.

– President Jovenel Moise

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All across our country, gangs and guns are destroying the foundations of not only public safety, but business, no one is coming to New York if a three-year-old is shot in Times Square.

– Eric Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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