Executive Email Format, Using Bullet

¶ … executive email format, using bullet points. Make sure you get right to the point using major facts and problems. It must discuss the status of gang violence on long island in New York for the past 3 years. Has it increases or decreased? Please discuss gang ms13 in detail as well as other gangs on long island. What can police do to help the gang situation?

To the department:

The problems of gangs in Long Island have shown a notable and disturbing increase.

According to New York Police Department (NYPD) statistics compiled in a report entitled "New York/New Jersey high intensity drug trafficking area drug market analysis" by the National Drug Intelligence Center:

Gang-related incidents increased 47.3% and gang-motivated incidents increased 44.4% in the greater New York City Metro area

Gang-affiliated arrests increased to 430 from 246 only a year previously

Furthermore, gangs in the region are "attracting younger members" and "absorbing smaller gangs" which means that gangs are becoming larger, better-organized, and more entrenched in communities

Also, according to the report, in Long Island specifically:

Nassau County (primarily in the towns of in Farmingdale, Freeport, Hempstead, New Cassel, Roosevelt, and Westbury) and Suffolk Counties (in the towns of Brentwood, Copiague, Huntington, and Islip) on Long Island have experienced a particularly notable increase in gang activity and violence.

Of these gangs, MS-13 is the "most violent and fastest-growing gang"

Facts about MS-13:

Not a locally-generated gang, but one with a disturbing national outreach (Buckley 2007)

MS-13 uses machete attacks, beheadings and ritualistic killings (Buckley 2007)

Photos of its members show their faces and torsos entirely covered in tattoos (Buckley 2007)

Tied to Central America (Buckley 2007)

Formed in Los Angeles in the 1980s by refugees from El Salvador (Buckley 2007)

F.B.I. estimates the gang membership at 10,000 in 42 states and an additional 50,000 members in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico in 2004, the F.B.I. created the MS-13 National Gang Force (Buckley 2007)

Initiates members by beating them (Buckley 2007)