I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 638 
To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 
to improve efforts to reduce gang activity and violent crime. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 23, 2007 
Mr. JINDAL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 
Act of 1994 to improve efforts to reduce gang activity 
and violent crime. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Violent Crime Reduc-
tion Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF AND ASSISTANCE FOR HIGH-IN-
TENSITY 
INTERSTATE 
GANG 
ACTIVITY 
AREAS. 
Title XV of the Violent Crime Control and Law En-
forcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C 14061 et seq.) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 150010. DESIGNATION OF AND ASSISTANCE FOR 
HIGH-INTENSITY INTERSTATE GANG ACTIV-
ITY AREAS. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section the following 
definitions shall apply: 
‘‘(1) GOVERNOR.—The term ‘Governor’ means 
a Governor or other chief executive officer of a State 
or the Mayor of the District of Columbia. 
‘‘(2) HIGH-INTENSITY
INTERSTATE
GANG
AC-
TIVITY
AREA.—The term ‘high-intensity interstate 
gang activity area’ means a specified area within one 
or more States that is designated as a high-intensity 
interstate gang activity area under subsection (b)(1). 
‘‘(3) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means a State 
of the United States, the District of Columbia, and 
any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the 
United States. 
‘‘(b) HIGH-INTENSITY INTERSTATE GANG ACTIVITY 
AREAS.— 
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‘‘(1) DESIGNATION.—The Attorney General, 
after consultation with the Governors of appropriate 
States, may designate as a high-intensity interstate 
gang activity area, any specified area that is located 
within 1 or more States, based on the criteria for 
designation under paragraph (4). 
‘‘(2) ASSISTANCE.—In order to provide Federal 
assistance to high-intensity interstate gang activity 
areas, the Attorney General shall— 
‘‘(A) establish a criminal street gang en-
forcement team in each high-intensity interstate 
gang activity area, consisting of Federal, State, 
and local law enforcement authorities, for the 
coordinated investigation, disruption, apprehen-
sion, and prosecution of criminal street gangs 
and offenders in such area; 
‘‘(B) direct the reassignment or detailing 
from any Federal department or agency (sub-
ject to the approval of the head of that depart-
ment or agency, in the case of a department or 
agency other than the Department of Justice) 
of personnel to each criminal street gang en-
forcement team established under subparagraph 
(A); 
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‘‘(C) provide all necessary funding for the 
operation of such criminal street gang enforce-
ment teams in each high-intensity interstate 
gang activity area; and 
‘‘(D) provide all necessary funding for na-
tional and regional meetings of criminal street 
gang enforcement teams, and all other related 
organizations, as needed, to ensure effective op-
eration of such teams through the sharing of 
intelligence, best practices, and for any other 
related purpose. 
‘‘(3) COMPOSITION OF CRIMINAL STREET GANG 
ENFORCEMENT TEAMS.—Each criminal street gang 
enforcement team established pursuant to paragraph 
(2)(A) shall consist of agents and officers, where 
feasible, from— 
‘‘(A) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; 
‘‘(B) the Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion; 
‘‘(C) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire-
arms, and Explosives; 
‘‘(D) the United States Marshals Service; 
‘‘(E) the Directorate of Border and Trans-
portation Security of the Department of Home-
land Security; 
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‘‘(F) the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development; 
‘‘(G) State and local law enforcement; and 
‘‘(H) Federal, State, and local prosecutors. 
‘‘(4) CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION.—In consid-
ering an area for designation as a high-intensity 
interstate gang activity area under this section, the 
Attorney General shall consider— 
‘‘(A) the current and predicted levels of 
gang crime activity in the area; 
‘‘(B) the extent to which violent crime in 
the area appears to be related to criminal street 
gang activity, such as drug trafficking, murder, 
robbery, assault, carjacking, arson, kidnapping, 
extortion, and other criminal activity; 
‘‘(C) the extent to which State and local 
law enforcement agencies have committed re-
sources to— 
‘‘(i) respond to the gang crime prob-
lem; and 
‘‘(ii) participate in a criminal street 
gang enforcement team; 
‘‘(D) the extent to which a significant in-
crease in the allocation of Federal resources 
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would enhance local response to the gang crime 
activities in the area; and 
‘‘(E) any other criteria that the Attorney 
General considers to be appropriate. 
‘‘(c) ADDITIONAL ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEYS.— 
The Attorney General is authorized to hire not more than 
94 additional Assistant United States attorneys to carry 
out the provisions of this section. Each attorney hired 
under this subsection shall be assigned to a high-intensity 
interstate gang activity area. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this section.’’. 
SEC. 3. GRANTS TO STATE AND LOCAL PROSECUTORS TO 
COMBAT VIOLENT CRIME AND TO PROTECT 
WITNESSES AND VICTIMS OF CRIMES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 31702 of the Violent 
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 
U.S.C. 13862) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) to hire additional prosecutors to— 
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‘‘(A) allow more cases to be prosecuted; 
and 
‘‘(B) reduce backlogs; 
‘‘(6) to fund technology, equipment, and train-
ing for prosecutors and law enforcement in order to 
increase accurate identification of gang members 
and violent offenders, and to maintain databases 
with such information to facilitate coordination 
among law enforcement and prosecutors; and 
‘‘(7) to fund technology, equipment, and train-
ing for prosecutors to increase the accurate identi-
fication and successful prosecution of young violent 
offenders.’’. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
31707 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 
Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13867) is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘SEC. 31707. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subtitle $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 
through 2012 .’’. 
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SEC. 4. GRANTS TO STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 
TO ESTABLISH STATE-WIDE CRIME PREVEN-
TION DATABASES. 
Subtitle I of title XXXII of the Violent Crime Control 
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 is amended by adding 
at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 320936. GRANTS TO STATE AND LOCAL LAW EN-
FORCEMENT 
TO 
ESTABLISH 
STATE-WIDE 
CRIME PREVENTION DATABASES. 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANTS.—The Office of 
Justice Programs of the Department of Justice shall 
award grants, in accordance with such regulations as the 
Attorney General may prescribe, to State and local pro-
grams designed to establish a State-wide database to track 
criminals, arrests, prosecutions, and convictions. 
‘‘(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this section.’’. 
Æ 
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