OTTAWA GANG SITUATION October 24, 2011

Staff Sergeant Mark Patterson

Ottawa Police Service

Guns & Gangs Unit

WHAT IS A GANG?

• A self-formed group of youths and/or adults

interacting with each other who engage in a range of

criminal behaviour. It may be loosely or well

organized with established rules of conduct

HOW WE CLASSIFY A GANG MEMBER

• The Ottawa Police Service uses the 6 point criteria

adopted across Canada, which was developed and

disseminated by CISC for use in classifying persons as

gang members.

• 3 of the 6 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-Persons 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,)

OTTAWA STREET GANGS

• At any given time within the City of Ottawa there can be between

15-19 identifiable groups operating, 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 434 members/associates

Street Gangs In the City of Ottawa

Bloods, 102

Boy Blue, 10

Crips, 228

Juggalos/ I.C.P., 62

RuffRyder, 28

Vanier Bloods, 4

Gangs in Ottawa

Bloods

Boy Blue

Crips

Juggalos/ I.C.P.

RuffRyder

Vanier Bloods

Total of 434 individuals

Street Gangs In the City of Ottawa

61

142

62

41

86

41028

0

50

100

150

200

250

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

RuffRyder Vanier Bloods

Gangs in Ottawa

out of town

gang member

associate

Ottawa Based Gangs

Bloods, 102

Crips, 228

Juggalos/ I.C.P., 62

Vanier Bloods, 4

Ottawa Based Gangs

Bloods

Crips

Juggalos/ I.C.P.

Vanier Bloods

total of 396 individuals

Ottawa Based Street Gangs

6 711

20

33

39

57

48 4846

33

14 13

63 4 4 4

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

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

Age

Subject's age when 1st negative contact with OPS

Based on Ottawa gangs

Ottawa Based Street Gangs

9 yrs2%

10 yrs4%

11 yrs6%

12 yrs11%

13 yrs13%

14 yrs18%

15 yrs15%

16 yrs16%

17 yrs15%

Subject's age when 1st negative contact with OPS

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

Based on Ottawa gangs

Ottawa Based Street Gangs

1 2 37 7

1916 16

28

34 33

42

27

35

41

2622

18

5

10

1 1 2

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

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

Current Age

Current Age as of Dec 31st 2011

based on Ottawa gangs

Street Gangs In the City of Ottawa

20, 5%

414, 95%

Breakdown By Sex

total of 434

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 Area Bloods

Crips

South East Priority Area Crips

Street Gangs In the City of Ottawa

Questions?