The MS-13 Gang

July thirteenth of two- thousand three the murder of a former MS-13 name Brenda Paz who was seventeen and pregnant. She was stabbed to death for being an informant or a “snitch” for supplying the FBI valuable gang information. Such as gun shipments and drug shipments. On June twenty-second of two- thousand eight, forty-eight year old Anthony Bologna was shot and killed by an MS-13 gang member named Edwin Ramos who was twenty one (Wikipedia: MS-Publicized crimes). MS-13 is a Latin American based gang, it is also the largest gang in the world, and is currently active in the United States in states such as: California, Washington D.C, Virginia, Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Texas. This gang is one of the most violent gangs

These activities include drug trafficking, human trafficking, robberies, larceny, prostitution, illegal immigration, murder, assault and battery, kidnapping, and weapon trafficking (weebly). On December twenty-third of two- thousand four the most widely known MS-13 affiliated crime. When a transportation bus was ran down and was widely sprayed with assault rifles. Twenty- eight people were killed and fourteen people were injured. The gang did this to retaliate against the Honduran government for reviving the death penalty (wiki: MS13 publicized crimes). These are just a few of the crimes that were committed by MS-13 gang members that were made public not mentioning the ones that were not

Thus creating a task force to take down the gang. Attorney general Jeff Sessions declared the gang as priority due to the massive scale and violence shown by the street gang. “They will now be targeting the gang with a renewed and sharpened focus” (Washington Times). Before the MS-13 Task Force was only able to access case that involved drugs or money laundering, now with the gang being designated as priority. The MS-13 Task Force can now get involved in numerous cases such as murder, firearms violations, frauds, etc (Washington Times). The MS-13 Gang Task Force director says that the gang has increased the level of gang violence. He states that the gang is about respect and power. “If you do not respect the gang they retaliate with violence” he states to FOX News, which you can view on YouTube. When asked about how and where do they recruit people, he says how the go after kids in Latino communities, immigrant communities, and minors. He says that when the gang recruiters approach these children they exploit their issues with families. “We are not going to be able to arrest ourselves out of this problems, there is too many. We will need to set up programs that prevent these kids from joining this gang.” He states when asked about how to deal with the