Gang Summit
This comes from Laura Eimiller at the FBI's Los Angeles press office:
The second annual International Chiefs of Police Summit on Transnational Gangs will be held this week over a three-day period at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Hollywood, California.
The summit will conclude on Wednesday, March 5th.
Law enforcement officials at the local, state and federal level from Los Angeles and international cities directly impacted by the criminal activity of transnational gangs will attend the three-day summit, and will be joined by international Chiefs of Police from the nations of El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, Canada, Nicaragua and Spain, where MS-13 criminal activity and organized crime trends of other Central American gangs has increased.
The Summit is being hosted by the following agencies:
FBI and the National Gang Task Force
United States Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Agency
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
United States Marshals Service
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
United States Department of State
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department
Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office
The United States Attorney’s Office/U.S. Department of Justice
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office and the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office will also participate in the summit.
Comments
Is this yet another reason why we need to enforce immigration laws. The 18th street gang was started by mexican immigrants, and years later the MS-13 gang was started by immigrants from El Salvador. These gangs started in Los Angeles and are now all over the country, diversity at it's best. (sarcasm)
Posted by: archie bunker | March 3, 2008 7:55 PM