gangs

  • I made a YouTube short for InSight Crime talking about why gang violence is exploding in Ecuador as the government declares a state of internal armed conflict. You can watch here.

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  • A California federal judge said Thursday that the First and Eighth amendments bar the government from stripping the Mongol Nation motorcycle club’s rights to its trademark-registered emblems as part of the group’s recent conviction under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The Mongol Nation motorcycle club has to give up its trademarked emblem, a California federal jury said Friday, in what prosecutors described as a first-of-its-kind verdict based on links between the image and the criminal activities attributed to the group, including drug trafficking and murder… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • El Salvador’s Congress passed a bill that makes permanent a previously temporary tightening of security measures in prisons, cementing a policy that has been criticized as ineffective and harmful to inmates’ human rights… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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  • In our February 22 Facebook Live session, Senior Investigator Héctor Silva Ávalos and Senior Editor Mike LaSusa discussed the criminal infiltration of El Salvador’s politics ahead of legislative and municipal elections scheduled for March 4… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime. Watch the full video below:

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