http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/16/AR2005071600927.html
"It is estimated there are 840,000 active gang members in the country, operating in every state and in 90 percent of major cities. Youth gangs, she said, are highly organized, hierarchical 'corporations' that recruit children as young as 7 and kill seven times as many people as organized crime outfits. Federal prosecutors in Virginia are trying to crack down on a gang known as MS-13, one of the most violent street gangs in Northern Virginia."
