Elementary & Middle School Kids Are Joining Gangs

A study was done by the Baltimore City Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee. It identified more than two-thousand gang members in Baltimore. What is more alarming is that roughly 500 of the City's 26,000 gangs members attend elementary and middle schools. Some officials have studied the gang symbols and they see them all over. Police say they can even pinpoint the areas with heavy gang activity, by looking at the amont of crime and type of grafitti in neighborshoods. WJZ's Gigi Barnett talked to Jim Green, from Baltimore City Police. He says, "We've seen a spike in certain times of the year....and robberies have been one of the traditional gang initiation rites of passages. We see increases in assaults." The study found 95 percent of the members are black. Police say they gather information about suspected gang members from informants and admissions.