11.   Mississippi officials appear to have confused the six-pointed Star of David with the five-pointed pentagram often favored by violent gangs and Satanists.

12.   Some of the boys join the violent street gangs that are everywhere in this corner of Los Angeles.

13.   Sweeting was later reportedly linked to the Untouchables, which authorities described as a violent street gang responsible for drive-by shootings and drug trafficking.

14.   That year Caldwell oversaw the prosecution of the Raysor Organization, a violent gang that prosecutors said dominated the crack trade in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

15.   The escapee, Kevin Saxon, had begun cooperating in a case against a violent Harlem drug gang.

16.   The investigation began, officials said, after sophisticated weapons began turning up in disturbing numbers among violent gangs in Northern California.

17.   The men were members of a violent street gang, the Park Avenue Boys, that robbed small stores and bodegas in the Bronx.

18.   Then there is a violent gang of black street fighters.

19.   They say Los Angeles has failed to combat violent street gangs or attract business investment to the valley.

20.   Violent juvenile gangs can leave broken bodies and ruin neighborhoods in their wake.