California, with its enormous urban population and complex socioeconomics, has become home to some of the most infamous and influential criminal gangs in the United States. Names like the Crips, ...

Chief Stanley McFadden said officers arrested Isaac Grosvenor, Destiny Willis, Kevin Le, Jovon Frank, and a 16-year-old on ...

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Orange County’s top prosecutor moved to dismiss all active gang injunctions Tuesday, making it the latest California jurisdiction to move away from the controversial court orders in recent years. Dist ...

Update as of Friday, Sept. 12: On September 11, 2025, law enforcement agencies executed numerous search and arrest warrants in El Dorado County, California; Alpine County, California; Douglas County, ...

The California Supreme Court handed down two decisions last week that could impact decades of sentencing for gang-related offenses and allow thousands of people to petition courts to reexamine their ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The California Supreme Court handed down two decisions last week that could impact decades of sentencing for ...

Both rulings turned on a 2021 law that raised the standard of evidence for proving that someone broke a law as part of “criminal street gang activity.” In different ways, the Supreme Court chose to ...