National Gang Intelligence Center   National Gang Threat Assessment 2009   January 2009

Key Questions

Analysts used these key questions to frame the discussions in this assessment:

• What threat do gangs pose at the national and regional levels?
   
• How many gangs and gang members are in existence, and where are they located?
   
• Which gangs pose the greatest threat?
   
• Which gangs have ties to drug trafficking and transnational organizations?
   
• What types of criminal activity do gang members engage in?

Key Assumptions

Analysts made the following assumptions in the production of this assessment:

• The term "gang," for analytical purposes, has the same meaning across local, state, and federal jurisdictions, although legislation in various jurisdictions may define the term in a slightly different manner.
   
• The number of gang members in a particular jurisdiction was estimated at the mean of the range reported by that jurisdiction in response to the 2008 NDIC NDTS.

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