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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
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