Gangs in the News

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- On July 23 rival gang members opened fire at a car show in kent and 12 people were injured and a 13th was that same night at an apartment complex.
- the sheriff's office predicts that there is about 140 street gangs with more than 10,000 gang members in king county and the gang criminal activity increased 165 percent since 2005.
- in 2008 and 2009 there was 29 gang related homicides and 200 reported gang related shootings around the same time.
- Gagliardi says that there's about 5 or 6 latino gangs are responsible for most violence and most gang member are between 12 and 35 years old.
- Gang members committ crimes for their gangs to get money by committing burglaries, robberies, car thefts and trafficking in stolen property, including firearms.