How anti-gang policies backfire The government promises banning gang patches and giving police more dispersal powers will "restore law and order" and reduce crime.

Police say gang patches are a license to print money. But what counts as gang insignia, and what will police be able to about them under the new law?

Gang patches seized by police following the gang patch law crackdown on organised crime. Montage / Phil Welch Police have laid more than 6000 charges against gang members – and seized 132 ...

Gang patches will be banned from being worn in public from November 21. By RNZ Police officers are ready to enforce the ban on gang patches, the Assistant Police Commissioner says.

Government Ministers are being accused of deliberately dodging consultation on a new power that would allow courts to ban gang patches in the home. Expected to pass its third reading in the House ...

The feds have called the Mongol Nation "the most violent and dangerous" biker gang in the country, and they're trying an unusual tactic to dismantle them: Stripping them of the trademarked patches ...

The best criminal justice reporting tagged with "gang patches," curated by The Marshall Project.

Two rival California gangs moving to 'felon-friendly' ND Oil Patch Officials in Bakersfield, Calif., say they're very aware of gang members traveling from there to North Dakota's oilfields, often ...

Prosecutors have dismissed felony charges against the alleged president of the Antelope Valley chapter of the Vagos biker ...

International research suggests many anti-gang policies actually increase crime, rather than reduce it. These local experts could help us do better – if New Zealand’s politicians would listen.