Ray Kelly Goes Gangbusters: NYPD to Double Size of Anti-Gang Unit; Target Facebook Thugs
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Kelly is calling the plan "Operation Crew Cut," which will bring the number of detectives assigned to the department's anti-gang unit from 150 to 300 in response to a particularly violent summer, during which many innocent victims -- including several children -- were injured or killed by warring "street crews."
"We'll focus those resources not on large, established gangs such as the Bloods and Crips, but on the looser associations of younger men who identify themselves by the block they live on, or on which side of a housing development they reside," Kelly will say during his speech (see full text of the speech below). "Their loyalty is to their friends living in a relatively small area, and their rivalries are based not on narcotics trafficking or some other entrepreneurial interest, but simply on local turf."
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