On Monday, the Sheriff, Ty
Trenary, two Sheriff’s Office detectives and an FBI agent testified before the
Law and Justice committee of the County Council on the gang activity in the
county.
Since early 2015, there have been
56 gang-related shootings that have killed two people and injured 14. Many of
the people involved in this gang violence have been teenagers with the
shootings occurring in and around schools and apartment complexes in South
Snohomish County. The danger to the public, in addition to becoming injured or
killed in crossfire, includes a rise in robberies and property crimes such as
theft, car theft, car prowls, burglary, vandalism in the form of graffiti, etc.
The Sheriff’s Office team
emphasized proactive police work in the form of working with other local law
enforcement agencies, working with schools to lower the level of truancy, and
developing community-based prevention strategies.
One of the most important things
that you can do initially to prevent gang related crime is to educate yourself
about the gang problem. Please look at the following sources of information.
Here are a couple of links to the
testimony before the Council:
Briefing paper:
Video (the testimony starts at
about 11 minutes from the beginning) Testimony lasted about 40 minutes: http://snohomish.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=5767
This article gives a good summary
of the problem,
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