They can also help justify why a particular anti-gang effort was undertaken when confronted by the media or the concerned public.
The interagency task force remains the most concentrated and extensive anti-gang effort in the County.
The county's anti-gang effort needs to add police officers and adopt an integrated approach involving social programs, law enforcement and rehabilitation.
She said she supported his anti-gang efforts but insisted that the problem was largely created by the Mayor's cutbacks in funding for after-school programs.
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Because of this, the incident briefly made local and national headlines and the school, which enforced the ban, was awarded $650,000 as part of its anti-gang effort.
Additionally, Buchanan introduced a bill to increase federal assistance for fighting gang crime and secured grant funding for local anti-gang efforts in Manatee County.
The most recent slashing was two weeks ago in upper Manhattan, said Inspector Jose Cordero, head of the Police Department's anti-gang effort.
The centerpiece of Gulf Avenue's anti-gang effort is the nonprofit Harbor Area Gang Alternatives Program.
Nancy Ryan, who heads the Manhattan District Attorney's anti-gang effort recalled a mother who refused to talk to authorities after seeing her son shot to death in 1983.