How to Use anti-gang in a Sentence

anti-gang

adjective
  • Salvadorans are euphoric over the sharp decrease in crime following the anti-gang roundups.
    Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The discipline doled out to the Industry Station deputies fell under the department’s old anti-gang policy.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The department has also drafted a more robust anti-gang policy, the details of which are still being negotiated with the unions.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In the intervening years, the department dismantled or completely overhauled its anti-gang programs, to the point that gang officers today are among the most vetted in the department, Moore told The Times last year.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • While Bukele’s anti-gang crusade has led to human rights abuse allegations, securing the streets has helped his popularity soar.
    By kejal Vyas, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
  • An observer from the State Department, which has funded everything in Guatemala from training border police to an elite anti-gang unit, also accompanied the mission.
    Simon Romero Daniele Volpe, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2024
  • His anti-gang measures are wildly popular, but his country’s economic position remains fraught — inflation is on the march, and El Salvador still has high rates of poverty and unemployment.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Haiti’s National Police, which boasts an aggressive new anti-gang unit, has seen some success in apprehending some criminal figures and holding back gang expansion in a key areas of the city, including next to the US embassy.
    Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
  • El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claims to have found the solution to the region’s criminal enterprise problem in a massive prison and anti-gang initiative that has dramatically reduced the number of homicides there.
    Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 20 June 2024
  • Annmarie Drago, who's accused of fatally running over an anti-gang activist in a dispute over a memorial, had her trial ended in a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a verdict on the top count of criminally negligent homicide.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The ultimate responsibility is upon the local and state governments to deal with crime and the federal government is there to provide additional resources to support anti-crime/anti-gang operations.
    Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • His death came days before a sheriff’s deputy in the department’s anti-gang task force was arrested for allegedly smuggling heroin into a county jail, according to booking records and multiple law enforcement sources.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • Biden has also used his executive power to get $70 million in weapons and other equipment to both the Haiti National Police and the multinational security support mission, whose main task will be to support the police in its anti-gang operations.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024

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