How to Use anti-gang in a Sentence

anti-gang

adjective
Definition of anti-gangnext
  • Salvadorans are euphoric over the sharp decrease in crime following the anti-gang roundups.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The discipline doled out to the Industry Station deputies fell under the department’s old anti-gang policy.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The department has also drafted a more robust anti-gang policy, the details of which are still being negotiated with the unions.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In the intervening years, the department dismantled or completely overhauled its anti-gang programs, to the point that gang officers today are among the most vetted in the department, Moore told The Times last year.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • While Bukele’s anti-gang crusade has led to human rights abuse allegations, securing the streets has helped his popularity soar.
    — By kejal Vyas, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
  • An observer from the State Department, which has funded everything in Guatemala from training border police to an elite anti-gang unit, also accompanied the mission.
    — Simon Romero Daniele Volpe, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2024
  • His anti-gang measures are wildly popular, but his country’s economic position remains fraught — inflation is on the march, and El Salvador still has high rates of poverty and unemployment.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Haiti’s National Police, which boasts an aggressive new anti-gang unit, has seen some success in apprehending some criminal figures and holding back gang expansion in a key areas of the city, including next to the US embassy.
    — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
  • His death came days before a sheriff’s deputy in the department’s anti-gang task force was arrested for allegedly smuggling heroin into a county jail, according to booking records and multiple law enforcement sources.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claims to have found the solution to the region’s criminal enterprise problem in a massive prison and anti-gang initiative that has dramatically reduced the number of homicides there.
    — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 20 June 2024
  • Biden has also used his executive power to get $70 million in weapons and other equipment to both the Haiti National Police and the multinational security support mission, whose main task will be to support the police in its anti-gang operations.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024
  • Annmarie Drago, who's accused of fatally running over an anti-gang activist in a dispute over a memorial, had her trial ended in a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a verdict on the top count of criminally negligent homicide.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The ultimate responsibility is upon the local and state governments to deal with crime and the federal government is there to provide additional resources to support anti-crime/anti-gang operations.
    — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Such concerns have also been frequently cited by U.S. officials when asked about the extent to which the foreign security personnel will be involved in anti-gang operations with the Haitian police.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 8 July 2024

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