New York Suburbs See Rise In Gang Activity

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY - DECEMBER 1: Suffolk County Police from the anti-gang unit keep track of rival gang graffiti for evidence of competition and intelligence of new gang factions in the area near the Central Islip Junior High School in eastern Long Island's Suffolk County December 1, 2005 in Central Islip, New York. The Bloods, an Afro-American street gang, had its name painted over by a rival gang starting another series of expected violent gang encounters. Most of the police work done by the Suffolk County anti-gang units involves either Latin or Afro-American street gangs like Mara Salvatrucha 13 or the Bloods and the Crips. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)