Definitions

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  • adjective Intended to combat or reduce the activity of criminal gangs

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ gang

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Examples

  • When gang warfare is fed and fueled by law enforcement, funds are generated for the so-called antigang units.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • When gang warfare is fed and fueled by law enforcement, funds are generated for the so-called antigang units.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • When gang warfare is fed and fueled by law enforcement, funds are generated for the so-called antigang units.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • When gang warfare is fed and fueled by law enforcement, funds are generated for the so-called antigang units.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • For instance, principals in Glen Ridge are mandated to take an antigang seminar, including the two principals who lead kindergarten through second-grade schools.

    A Modest Proposal in Glen Ridge 2010

  • I was being watched by CRASH, an antigang and drug unit, and they made it a point to know everyone who was anyone in that neighborhood.

    KILLING WILLIS TODD BRIDGES 2010

  • I was being watched by CRASH, an antigang and drug unit, and they made it a point to know everyone who was anyone in that neighborhood.

    KILLING WILLIS TODD BRIDGES 2010

  • Back in 1999 the LAPD antigang units argued, as they do today, that Alex Sanchez was a secret leader of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13) while posing as a peacemaker in the streets.

    Has Bratton's LAPD Really Reformed? 2009

  • But the arrest of Sanchez, carried out by antigang units of the FBI and LAPD at dawn on June 24 after a secret three-year investigation, reopens the question of whether reform has been successful.

    Has Bratton's LAPD Really Reformed? 2009

  • The charges against Alex Sanchez, the 37-year-old executive director of the antigang organization Homies Unidos, include conspiracy to commit murder -- allegedly during his time with the group, which describes itself as a nonprofit that seeks to prevent gang violence.

    Antigang Activist Faces Federal Racketeering Charges 2009

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