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State Assessment Finds Shift In Top Gang Threat

An annual state assessment of threats posed by gangs reports a new gang poses the top threat to the state.

2013/04/02

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DPS: Cartels Are State’s Greatest Crime Threat

State public safety officials say Mexican cartels pose the single greatest organized crime threat to Texas.

2013/03/28

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Mental Illness Rates Rise In Texas Youth Facilities

A criminal justice expert has told lawmakers that rates of mental illness exceed gang affiliation among juveniles in Texas jails.

2013/02/14

Feds Swoop Down On Aryan Brotherhood Of Texas Gang

Federal prosecutors say four top leaders of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang are among the nearly three dozen gang members charged in a 43-page indictment that accuses them of a multitude of offenses

2012/11/09

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Opinion: Big Cities’ People-in-Power Don’t Understand Crime And Murder

For America’s big cities: the people who are supposed to have, need to have, and claim to have all the answers simply don’t have a clue.

2012/07/11

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Teens In Texas Adult Prison System Get Help

Had they not been certified as adults by Texas courts, the 63 youths in a little-known program at the Clemens Unit would have landed in one of the state’s six state-run lockups for juveniles.

2012/06/04

Grand Prairie PD Make Arrest In Gang Shooting Death

Grand Prairie police have made an arrest for a murder that happened there during the Summer.

2011/11/04

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Charter School Helps Former Gang Member On Road To Success

A North Texas teenager remembers his life as a gang member. Now the 18-year-old is president of his senior class at Evolution Academy Charter School, about to receive his high school diploma and hopes to go to SMU.

2011/05/18

Fusion Center Targets Crime

A new tool to deal with terrorists, gangs, drugs and other crime opens in Austin.

2010/10/21

105 Arrested In Sting Targeting Gangs

Federal authorities say they made 105 arrests in the Dallas area during a five-day operation that targeted suspected foreign-born gang members and their associates.

2010/07/19