The NGIC is a multi-agency operation -- federal, state and local – headed up by the FBI to bring together intelligence on gangs and gang activity.
Their latest report devotes four pages to the problem of gang members in the military and lists about 50 gangs with members with military backgrounds.
Younger gang members, who do not have arrest records, are reportedly making attempts to join the military, and also attempting to conceal any gang affiliation, including tattoos, during the recruitment process.
The report also specifically relates the 2010 cases of three former Marines arrested in Los Angeles for selling illegal assault weapons the Florencia 13 gang, and a U.S. Navy SEAL charged in Colorado with smuggling military-issued machine guns and other weapons from Iraq and Afghanistan into the U.S.
"Gang members armed with high-powered weapons and knowledge and expertise acquired from employment in law enforcement, corrections or the military may pose an increasing nationwide threat, as they employ these tactics and weapons against law enforcem4nt officials, rival gang members and civilians," the NGIC report says.
Wow! Now there's a scary thought!!!
ReplyDeleteThere has been some concern issued in the past about the new volunteer military who are free to murder and mutilate at will in Afghanistan coming home. Way too often, ex-military goes into law enforcement. Scary that unstable men and women will be roaming the streets armed with a license to kill.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course they learned the trick of always carrying a drop weapon in the military as well.
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