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Database will track S.C. gang members |
Law enforcement officials across the state are being trained to use a new tool that tracks gang members, their associates and the crimes they commit.SCGangNet, a statewide Web-based gang database, will be unveiled Monday at a Greenville conference hosted by the South Carolina Gang Investigators Association.Law enforcement agencies often kept gang information to themselves, but now they have a central place to share it, said Lt. Bruce Otterbacher, supervisor of SLED’s Gang Intelligence Team.“The whole idea behind this is to get everybody on the same sheet of music,” he said.Since the database was launched in January, 42 law enforcement agencies have been trained how to use it and 242 gang members in dozens of gangs have been entered into the database, Otterbacher said.
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