Sentence examples for target gang from inspiring English sources

Officials say it will target gang leaders who left the cities because of a government crackdown.

South said that as well as the threat posed by online propaganda, which had been put to devastating effect by ISIS to recruit support worldwide, locals were also vulnerable to radicalization through Salafist street preachers, who he said had a tendency to target "gang members, or people with a violent, aggressive, or volatile nature, because they are easy to brainwash".

The Elizabeth police do not target gangs because it is not illegal to be in a gang, Mr. Cosgrove said.

We create workshops to target gangs, saying, this is what they're doing to us, this is how society is labeling us.

The accident led to the European Union agreeing a naval mission to target gangs smuggling migrants from Libya, but a broader plan to deal with the influx is in doubt due to a dispute over national quotas for housing asylum-seekers.

This was targeting gang task force members.

The police department has also targeted gang members with raids and beefing up community policing.

Last week Nike was forced to remove a full-face balaclava from its website after being accused of targeting gang culture for profit.

In Chicago, police say they are trying to deal with the number of illegal guns on the city's streets, targeting gang members with raids and beefing up community policing.

Authorities in Chicago say the violent crime there is largely being committed by repeat offenders with illegal guns, and police have targeted gang members who they say are known to law enforcement.

That police would only be targeting gang members misses the point: the LAPD's gang-membership database is run without oversight or right of appeal, so the rule change would effectively give police officers free rein to target anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally.