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It is already almost a year, a dozen youths were thrown at a Mountain View gas station and attacked a man - apparently because he was wearing a red T-shirt and hat in the bad part of town.

Anchorage Police Department Deputy Chief Ross Plummer

The police estimated that the city of the first band of territorial disputes. Some of the attackers reportedly of links to the Crips gang, by the color blue. Red is the colour the rival Bloods.

“It was really only crime: he has a colour, as they do not have” Anchorage deputy police chief said Ross Plummer. “That is what we are trying to ensure that this is not the case.”

Anchorage police are increasingly associated with gangs, members of the road with higher rates and prosecutors - both federal - and they last longer behind bars. Prevention Programs for troubled children to keep the culture of violence, some to keep the road.

Since the beginning of Mountain View, high-profile gang-shooting were again endangered. But there were no links. Countdown at least 50 police incident reports this year, “said Plummer, graffiti and other offers of flights, drive-by shootings and attacks.

With summer comes close again, the police, building efforts to ensure that all the streets and react. What can be expected in Anchorage?

“We are dealing with a large number of young people unrational decisions and not hesitate to use force, unfortunately,” said Plummer. “This is a certain incident. We are not able to any incident, but we hope to keep it.”

‘WARRING FACTIONS’ CHILDREN

Passage work here, unlike his colleagues in the inner city in places like Los Angeles, where they are often divided into strict race, lines, the accession of the rigidity of rules on the opening and territorial integrity fierce, “said Plummer.

“We have not yet soundtrack activity in the sense of what happens in Lower Town 48, where a small number of different groups, the Federal,” said Alan McKelvie, a researcher at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Justice Center in New York studied gangs. “We are not here to top. What’s up is a form of war, children minority parties.”

A report, submitted by the police late last year, 22 were confirmed in gangs in the city, with at least three other suspected by the company. Comptait 150 police officers to validate links with another 300 or more, teenagers and young people under suspicion, members. More than 100 people were employed strip, said the report.

These figures suggest a significant increase in the band from another test in the year 2006, but police think it was a sign, rather than to discover that the tapes were under the radar.

Anchorage gangs, which are often young people who live in the same environment, regardless of race, and they changed affiliations and allegiances often. Some are members of the band, which lies north of Lower Austria 48 cities, while other people who are trying to establish themselves, “said Scott Lofthouse officer of the patrol, the band works for the Intelligence from the police.

“Wannabes are the ones who do, crime and violence, as it tries to respect,” said Lofthouse. “They can be dangerous or even more in some cases.”