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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has published a Fact Sheet summarizing the findings from the 2006 National Youth Gang Survey. Information on the "number of gangs, gang members, and gang-related crime" are provided. Survey data was collected from police departments that serve larger cities, suburban counties, smaller cities, and rural counties.
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