In 1989, delinquent gangs were located in almost all 50 States. Together, 35 cities reported 1,439 gangs, with California, Florida, and Illinois leading the Nation in gang concentrations. Of the total 120,636 gang members reported in all surveyed cities, 70,000 were estimated to reside in Los Angeles County and 12,000 in Chicago...
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Of the total 120,636 gang members reported in all surveyed cities, 70,000 were estimated to reside in Los Angeles County and 12,000 in Chicago. As of 1991, an estimated 4,881 gangs with 249,324 members existed across the Nation. According to Alonso’s definition of a gang, he states, “a gang is a collective group of individuals with a common ethnic and/or geographic identity who collectively and/or individually regularly engage in a variety of activities, legal and/or illegal that claim to be the dominant organization in their locale, exercising territoriality either permanent or fluid and engaged in at least one rivalry with another organization...
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