Criminal Street Gang Membership and Ideology: Poison Ink (Rerun 1) Hosted by Tactical Edge Law Enforcement Training

Symptoms of gang activity can be observed in various forms long before it surfaces as a law enforcement problem and directly impacts the community. Tactical Edge Law Enforcement's Criminal Street Gang Membership and Ideology: Poison Ink webinar focuses on the most important identifiers of criminal street gang membership and ideology: tattoos, body art and graffitti. An invested community should understand the strong correlation between gang tattoos and graffiti and their importance to the criminal gang enterprise and their members. If observed and analyzed correctly these telltale signs can provide teachers, law enforcement, counselors, probation officers and corrections personnel with an early warning system of growing gang activity or major changes in membership and dominance. This one hour webinar, based on Tactical Edge Law Enforcement's full length training program that is routinely delivered to law enforcement, school groups and citizen's organizations, will provide as in depth an understanding as is possible in one hour on how to properly, legally and successfully; recognize, analyze and act on the information encoded in gang tattoos, body art and graffitti as well as the ideologies behind gangs in general and certain particularly threatening and widespread gangs, as well. This webinar is a must for everyday survival in the violent world of gangs. There will be an opportunity for online questions and answers during the live program.

About the Presenter
Lt. Rich Hampton currently works as a District Commander for the Collier County Sheriff's Office in Naples, Florida. Rich  is the former Street Gang Unit Coordinator for the agency. During this time he served as the Vice-President for the Florida Gang Investigators Association, Board of Directors for four years.

Since 1999, Lt. Hampton has presented gang-awareness training programs to more than 5,000 Law Enforcement Officers, citizens and teachers and government bodies in over 20 cities nationwide. He has been recognized as an expert witness on the gang subculture and specializes in the gang mentality issues and social disorder that communities face every day.

Lt. Hampton began his career in the United States Air Force in 1990 and has since worked as a Corrections Officer for the Florida Dept. of Corrections, Corrections Deputy and Drill Instructor for sentenced juveniles, Patrolmen, Patrol Supervisor, Gang Investigator, Gang Unit Sergeant and Patrol District Commander.