OTTAWA GANG SITUATIONOctober 17, 2012

Staff Sergeant Mark Patterson

Ottawa Police Service

Guns & Gangs Unit

WHAT IS A GANG?• any group of three (3) or more people, formally or

informally organized, which may have a common name or identifying sign or symbol, whose members individually or collectively engage in or have engaged primarily in street level criminal behavior, creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation within the community.

HOW WE CLASSIFY A GANG MEMBER

• The Ottawa Police Service refers to the 7 point criteria adopted across Canada, which was developed and disseminated by CISC for use in classifying persons as gang members.

• 3 of the 7 criteria must be met in order to classify a person as a confirmed gang member and criteria #4 must be one of those.

CISC criteria

#1 - Reliable information that a person is a gang member#2 - Police officer observes person associating with known gang

member(s)#3 - Person acknowledges gang membership#4 - Person is involved directly or indirectly in a gang motivated crime#5 - Court finds the person to be a gang member#6 - Person found to be displaying common or symbolic gang

identification or paraphernalia (street-name, tattoos, colors,)#7 - Physical evidence, including photographs, documents, data or

items of evidentiary value that speak to street gang membership, which are not outlined here

STREET GANGS in OTTAWA• At any given time, there are 15 to 19 identifiable groups

operating within the City of Ottawa that could be classed as ‘street gangs’. Most of these groups can be listed as sub-groups of the Crips or the Bloods.

• Traditional ‘Hardcore’ gangs & ‘ Hybrid’ gangs

• Approximately 473 members/associates

STREET GANGS in OTTAWA

Bloods 104

Boy Blue 10

Crips 236

Juggalos/ I.C.P. 65

Martian Gang 26

RuffRyder 28 Vanier Bloods 4

BloodsBoy BlueCripsJuggalos/ I.C.P.Martian GangRuffRyderVanier Bloods

As of October 2012

STREET GANGS in OTTAWA

As of October 2012

Bloods Boy Blue Crips Juggalos/ I.C.P.

Martian Gang RuffRyder Vanier Bloods0

50

100

150

200

250

62

148

65

26

41

86

41028

associate

confirmed member

Out of town

TOTALS Ottawa Based Street Gangs

As of October 2012

Bloods 104

Crips 236

Juggalos/ I.C.P. 65

Martian Gang 26Vanier Bloods 4

Bloods

Crips

Juggalos/ I.C.P.

Martian Gang

Vanier Bloods

GENDEROttawa Based Street Gangs

As of October 2012

Female 5%

Male 95%

FM

CURRENT AGEOttawa Based Street Gangs

current age in years

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 37

1 2

7 8

19

13

2119

16

30

3432

43

28

35

41

2623

18

5

10

1 1 2

As of October 2012

Age of First Negative Contact with OPS

As of October 2012

9 years2%

10 years4%

11 years7%

12 years11%

13 years13%

14 years17%

15 yeans17%

16 years15%

17 years14% 9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

Ottawa Based Street Gangs

Age of First Negative Contact with OPS

As of October 2012

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

8 712

25

36

46

60 5850 49

35

14 136 3 4 4 4

Ottawa based gangs

age in years

2012 Ottawa Shootings

As of October 3, 2012

Street gang 15

Non-gang 8

Unknown 8

31 shootings between January 1 and October 3, 2012

Street gang

Non-gang

Unknown

Ottawa Based Street Gangs

Boundaries Gang Group

West Priority Area Bloods

Central West Priority Area Juggalos

Central Priority Area A  

Central Priority Area B Juggalos

Central East Priority AreaBloods

Crips

South East Priority Area Crips

Street Gangs In the City of Ottawa

Questions?