“We still worry about them.”Police and community leaders in East Boston and other nearby cities where MS-13 has long been active credit a case winding down in Boston federal court for the current break in gang violence. And in Fresno County, California, MS-13 has been linked to more than 12 deaths in the past two years. More than two dozen gang members and affiliates were rounded up in August. Since the Boston raid, violent crime in the communities where MS-13 is most active has dropped, though police note that less-heralded crackdowns on other violent gangs, including MS-13’s rival 18th Street, have also been a factor. And in the East Boston neighbourhood, there have been just two murders in the past two years, which police say are also not linked to MS-13.

Source: National Post October 08, 2018 04:40 UTC