2010 National Youth Gang Survey Highlights from U.S. Law Enforcement

Annually since 1995, the National Youth Gang Center has conducted a systematic survey of U.S. law enforcement agencies regarding local gang problems. This fact sheet summarizes findings from the 2007 survey, based on a nationally representative sample selected in 2002. The author is Arlen Egley.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in youth gang presence based on annual survey data
• Modeling geographic distribution of gang problems based on law enforcement agency reports
• Profiling gang characteristics and activities from survey summaries

Strengths

• Data collection has been conducted annually since 1995, providing a long-term perspective
• Survey uses a nationally representative sample of U.S. law enforcement agencies

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

National Youth Gang Center (NYGC)

Collection Method

Systematic survey of law enforcement agencies

Time Range

2007 survey data, with annual collection since 1995

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Geography

United States