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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
Gangs in Ottawa
RuffRyder,
28
Vanier
Bloods, 4
Boy Blue,
10
Bloods
Juggalos/
I.C.P., 62
Crips, 228
Bloods, 102
Boy Blue
Crips
Juggalos/
I.C.P.
RuffRyder
Vanier
Bloods
Total of 434 individuals

Street Gangs In the City of Ottawa
250
Gangs in Ottawa
200
86
150
out of town
100
gang member
41
142
associate
50
0
61
10
62
28
4
Bloods Boy Blue Crips Juggalos/
I.C.P.
RuffRyder
Vanier
Bloods

Ottawa Based Gangs
Vanier Bloods,
4
Juggalos/
I.C.P., 62
Ottawa Based Gangs
Crips, 228
Bloods, 102
Bloods
Crips
Juggalos/ I.C.P.
Vanier Bloods
total of 396 individuals

Ottawa Based Street Gangs
60
Subject's age when 1st negative contact with OPS
57
50
48 48
46
40
33
39
33
30
20
10
6 7
11
20
14 13
6
3 4 4 4
0
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Age
Based on Ottawa gangs

Ottawa Based Street Gangs
Subject's age when 1st negative contact with OPS
9 yrs
2%
10 yrs
4%
16 yrs
16%
15 yrs
15%
17 yrs
15%
14 yrs
18%
11 yrs
6%
12 yrs
11%
13 yrs
13%
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
Based on Ottawa gangs

Ottawa Based Street Gangs
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Current Age as of Dec 31st 2011
42 41
34 35
33
28
27 26
22
19 18
16 16
10
7 7
5
1 2 3
1 1 2
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
based on Ottawa gangs

Street Gangs In the City of Ottawa
Breakdown By Sex
20, 5%
414, 95%
total of 434

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

Street Gangs In the City of Ottawa
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