Organized Crimes of Recent Violence by Aboriginal Street Gangs in Canada

SENECA COLLEGE
INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICAL UNIT
INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
Organized crimes of recent violence including
aboriginal street gangs in Canada.
ISSUE
The Seneca College Intelligence and
Analytical Unit (SCIU) working jointly with the
Seneca College Police aims for the investigation of
the increase of organized crimes of violence led by
the indigenous and aboriginal youth gangs in
Canada. The growth of these gangs can be seen to
be a serious threat towards the public and to the
aboriginal youths becoming part of these gangs.
BACKGROUND
The criminal organizations in Canada that
can be seen to have a significant percentage of
Aboriginal members are referred to as the
‘aboriginal-based organized crime’. These gangs
can be described as ‘visible hardcore groups
coming together either for profit-driven criminal
activities or for the purpose of severe violence’.
The members of the gangs are identified by way of
their gang-specific clothes, tattoos or other
accessories and can be seen to be marking their
territories with graffities. As per a police report in
2004 it was seen that although the Aboriginal street
gangs are not highly organized like the other
criminal gangs operating in Canada, however these
gangs can be seen to be among the most violent
gangs operating in Canada. As of 2005 there were
over 1000 aboriginal youths who have joined
various aboriginal gangs. These gangs can mostly
be found to be conducting their operations
primarily in the regions of the Prairie Provinces
where a higher population of Aboriginal people are
situated. Almost twenty two percent of the entire
criminal gang population in Canada consists of
aboriginal members.
CURRENT SITUATION
As of 2018 with almost 1936 members
serving sentence the aboriginal gangs have been
seen to be surpassing the Italian organized crime
syndicates and the outlaw motorcycle gangs to be
the largest single group that had been held in the
federal prisons. These gangs can be seen to be
committing a wide variety of crimes that include
harassments of both sexual and non-sexual
crimes, drug trafficking, weapon procurement,
vehicle theft, intimidation, prostitution, robbery,
extortion, assault and homicides.
ANALYSIS
As per many researches that have been
conducted on the growth of youth gang crimes in
Canada it was found that the form of violence
committed by the aboriginal youth gangs are
comparatively different from the violence
exhibited by other youth gangs that operate in
Canada. As per the data gathered by various
projects based on the aboriginal gangs in Canada
it can be seen that the rate of internalized violence
among the aboriginal youths are way higher than
the externalized violent crimes committed by the .
the internalized behaviours can be seen to be
including drug overdose, suicide and self-harm.
The key-motivator for these types of violence can
be recognized as the hatred for one’s own self.
Although published data for this type of violence
cannot easily be found but there are data from
certain projects that are seen to be suggesting that
most aboriginal youth gang members are found to