Sentence examples for targeting gang from inspiring English sources

This was targeting gang task force members.

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.

The easy answer is because aggressively targeting gang members, even killing them, is actually quite popular.

This more aggressive approach preferred by Giacalone would also include targeting gang violence and making more gun arrests.

Hogan-Howe has talked about a more selective use of stop and search, targeting gangs in high knife crime areas.

At least half the homicides committed in Chicago, he reckons, are gang-related; the city has reduced its murder rate by targeting gangs.

The force already works with its Gang Multi-Agency Partnership (GMap) team to identify new ways of targeting gangs and keeping them out of the criminal justice system.

"We don't want to see a return to a million stop and searches, but there is an argument for more use of stop and search focused on high knife crime areas and targeting gangs," he said.

A Sussex Police spokesman said: "We believe this is a spike related to operations conducted during the period in the Worthing, Adur and Arun areas that were targeting gangs, predominantly from London, coming into the county to deal drugs".

Its founder Gloria Morrison told the BBC: "The law [as it stands] isn't actually targeting gangs, it is targeting anyone who is on the periphery of a crime".

US Marshals make arrest during a 2011 operation targeting gangs in Tulsa, Oklahoma.