The man was beaten, strangled and set on fire in the Yankee Stadium parking lot. 9, killing a 16-year-old student who was looking out his apartment window.Ī group of Latin Kings go on trial later this year for the torture and murder of a non-gang associate who failed to alert them to a rival’s impending attack.

Last week, armed members of both gangs opened fired on one another at West 134th Street and Broadway killing a 15-year-old boy and wounding another teen.īloods gang member Sean Gordon, angry with a girlfriend, fired three shots into the air in Bushwick on Oct. Two fast-growing Dominican groups called Dominicans Don’t Play and the Trinitarios have infiltrated scores of schools in The Bronx, Manhattan and Queens. But the NYPD employs a 240-cop-strong gang unit. The New York gang problem pales in comparison to Los Angeles, where cops estimate gang membership at 150,000. Gang street crime surged 37 percent between fiscal years 20 – to 713 incidents, from 520 – according to police statistics cited in the Mayor’s 2006-2007 Management Report. THEY prey on high-school students, second-generation immigrants who want protection or a sense of identity.Īnd they boast on their YouTube and MySpace pages – posting pictures and detailing their exploits.Īs New York’s gang population swells to more than 15,000, membership is increasingly Hispanic – spurred by a wave of street toughs from Mexico – and younger.

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