Last July, the Florida Supreme Court impaneled an 18-member statewide grand jury at the request of Gov. Charlie Crist to investigate the rise of in gang activity in Florida.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum came on IN Your Head Radio in October to discuss the gang problem and how his department was finding gang activity in all counties across the state. We wrote about the problem in Escambia County in October 2007: The War on Gangs
According to the Sun-Sentinel:
The grand jury found that gangs are using the Internet, particularly MySpace and other social networking sites, to recruit new members and are trying to infiltrate the military and law enforcement academies to get advanced weapons training. The report also points out that the gangs are branching out into white collar crimes such as identity theft and fraud.