How to Use anti-gang in a Sentence

anti-gang

adjective
  • That’s when the anti-gang unit was launched.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • He was assigned to an anti-gang unit launched to win back the streets of Boston.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Salvadorans are euphoric over the sharp decrease in crime following the anti-gang roundups.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This year, France also provided about four tons of equipment for Haitian police anti-gang units.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Dec. 2025
  • He is required to return to the area four times a year for each year of his probation to host an anti-gang and anti-gun presentation, the judge said.
    — Nick Valencia, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Those anti-gang operations have produced some limited gains.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The judge is also requiring him to return to give four anti-gang and -violence presentations per year to Atlanta children.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The reported noted that at least 158 people were killed in anti-gang operations.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Pointing to recent anti-gang action, police say armed groups now control about 70% of the capital, down from 90%.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026
  • But in recent months, one of the most consistent criticisms focused on the delay in implementing a stronger anti-gang policy.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Box office hit The Stronghold (2021) was based on a real anti-gang unit in Marseille, his home town.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The department has also drafted a more robust anti-gang policy, the details of which are still being negotiated with the unions.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Group Violence Intervention is an anti-gang initiative that has seen success in other cities.
    — Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
  • While Bukele’s anti-gang crusade has led to human rights abuse allegations, securing the streets has helped his popularity soar.
    — By kejal Vyas, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The anti-gang force faces numerous challenges, including cutting off gangs’ access to weapons, illicit revenue streams, safe havens and strategic alliances.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 May 2026
  • The discipline doled out to the Industry Station deputies fell under the department’s old anti-gang policy.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The dual-island Caribbean nation off the coast of Venezuela will use the emergency to launch an anti-gang crackdown, authorities said.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2024
  • But the anti-gang operations and the new crossing point are doing little, so far, to help Gaza residents such as Sabha Abu Khousa.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Police officials said Tuesday that the anti-gang unit would be temporarily disbanded while the department reviews the matter.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • The government and police both chalked that up as a win for the patch ban and associated anti-gang measures that were introduced, but the data doesn’t actually spell out what offending is gang-related.
    — Todd Symons, CNN Money, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Baker previously was doing national security and anti-gang work for the FBI.
    — John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Bigger and more lethal than the MSS, the new anti-gang force has faced setbacks because of the war in Iran, bureaucratic red tape and other logistical challenges.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 May 2026
  • And multiple reports about human rights abuses, including torture and deaths in prison, have come out since Bukele instituted his anti-gang policies in 2022.
    — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 20 June 2024
  • Just as former gang members serve as effective anti-gang advocates, former extremists work with those who either volunteer to leave or have been court-mandated to go through deradicalization.
    — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 19 Mar. 2026
  • His death came days before a sheriff’s deputy in the department’s anti-gang task force was arrested for allegedly smuggling heroin into a county jail, according to booking records and multiple law enforcement sources.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • He is also required to come to the metro Atlanta area four times a year during his probation to give an anti-gang and anti-gun presentation at a school, Boys and Girls Club or similar group.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • An observer from the State Department, which has funded everything in Guatemala from training border police to an elite anti-gang unit, also accompanied the mission.
    — Simon Romero Daniele Volpe, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2024
  • His anti-gang measures are wildly popular, but his country’s economic position remains fraught — inflation is on the march, and El Salvador still has high rates of poverty and unemployment.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Rubio has also suggested that the leadership of the anti-gang fight should be spearheaded by a country or countries in the Americas region, not necessarily Kenya.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The City of Los Angeles agreed to a $30 million settlement over anti-gang curfews, which a court ruled unfairly punished people based on their neighborhood or family ties.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024

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