(2) that are located in a high-intensity inter-
state gang activity area designated under section 
204; and 
(3) that coordinate with after-school programs, 
nonprofit organizations, schools, and community or-
ganizations to create municipal-wide alliances to 
suppress gang activity. 
SEC. 204. DESIGNATION OF HIGH-INTENSITY INTERSTATE 
GANG ACTIVITY AREAS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may, after 
consultation with the Governor of each affected State, des-
ignate a specific area that is located in not less than 1 
State as a high-intensity interstate gang activity area. 
(b) FACTORS FOR CONSIDERATION.—In making a 
designation under subsection (a), the Attorney General 
shall consider the extent to which— 
(1) the area is a significant center of gang ac-
tivity; 
(2) State, local, and tribal law enforcement 
agencies have committed resources to respond to the 
gang crime problem in the area, thereby indicating 
a determination to respond aggressively to the prob-
lem; 
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(3) gang activities in the area are having a sig-
nificant harmful impact in the area, and in other 
areas of the country; 
(4) a significant increase in allocation of Fed-
eral resources is necessary to respond adequately to 
gang-related activities in the area; and 
(5) any other criteria as the Director deter-
mines to be appropriate. 
(c) MERGING OF AREAS.—To the extent that the 
goals of a high-intensity interstate gang activity area over-
lap with the goals of a high-intensity drug trafficking area 
designated under section 707 of the Office of the National 
Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1988 (21 
U.S.C. 1706), the Attorney General may merge the 2 
areas to serve both functions. 
(d) LOCAL COMMENT.—The Attorney General may 
not make a final designation under subsection (a) without 
consulting with and receiving comment from local elected 
officials representing communities within the affected 
States. 
SEC. 205. USE OF COMPONENTS. 
The Attorney General may use any component of the 
Department of Justice in carrying out this subtitle. 
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SEC. 206. MINIMUM AMOUNT. 
(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘quali-
fying State’’ means any State that has submitted an appli-
cation for a grant, or in which a unit of local government, 
Indian tribe, other public or private entity, or multijuris-
dictional or regional consortia thereof has submitted an 
application for a grant, that meets the requirements estab-
lished by the Attorney General under this subtitle. 
(b) MINIMUM AMOUNT.—Unless all applications sub-
mitted by any qualifying State and grantee within that 
State under this subtitle have been funded, each qualifying 
State, together with grantees within that State, shall re-
ceive in each fiscal year under this subtitle an amount 
equal to not less than 0.5 percent of the total amount ap-
propriated in that fiscal year for grants under this sub-
title. 
SEC. 207. MATCHING FUNDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Federal share of the costs of 
a program, project, or activity carried out with a grant 
under this subtitle shall be not more than 75 percent, un-
less the Attorney General waives, wholly or in part, the 
requirement under this section of a non-Federal contribu-
tion to the costs of a program, project, or activity. 
(b) HIRING.—For a grant for a period exceeding 1 
year for hiring or rehiring career law enforcement officers, 
the Federal share shall decrease each year for up to 5 
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years, by an amount determined by the Attorney General, 
with a goal of the continuation of the increased hiring level 
using State or local sources of funding following the con-
clusion of Federal support. 
SEC. 208. PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FORENSIC EXAMINERS. 
Section 816 of the USA PATRIOT Act (28 U.S.C. 
509 note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 
paragraph (6); and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (4) the 
following: 
‘‘(5) to hire additional forensic examiners to 
help with forensic work and to fight gang activity; 
and’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b), by amending paragraph 
(1) to read as follows: 
‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated $55,000,000 
for each fiscal year to carry out this section.’’. 
SEC. 209. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subtitle $700,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
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2011 through 2015. Any amount appropriated under this 
section shall remain available until expended. 
SEC. 210. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION. 
(a) MONITORING COMPONENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each program, project, or 
activity funded under this title shall contain a moni-
toring component, developed in accordance with 
guidelines established by the Attorney General. 
(2) REQUIREMENT.—A monitoring component 
required under paragraph (1) shall include— 
(A) systematic identification and collection 
of data about activities, accomplishments, and 
programs throughout the life of the program, 
project, or activity; and 
(B) presentation of the data described in 
subparagraph (A) in a usable form. 
(b) EVALUATION COMPONENTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Selected grant recipients 
shall be evaluated on the local level or as part of a 
national evaluation, in accordance with guidelines es-
tablished by the Attorney General. 
(2) ASSESSMENT OF INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS.— 
An evaluation conducted under paragraph (1) may 
include assessments of individual program imple-
mentations. 
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(3) EFFECTIVENESS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—In selected jurisdictions 
that are able to support outcome evaluations, 
the effectiveness of funded programs, projects, 
and activities may be required. 
(B) 
MEASURES.—Outcome 
evaluations 
conducted under subparagraph (A) may in-
clude— 
(i) crime and victimization indicators; 
(ii) quality of life measures; 
(iii) community perceptions; and 
(iv) police perceptions of their own 
work. 
(c) PERIODIC REVIEWS AND REPORTS.—The Attor-
ney General may require a grant recipient to submit to 
the Attorney General the results of the monitoring and 
evaluations required under subsections (a) and (b) and 
such other data and information as the Attorney General 
determines to be reasonably necessary. 
(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Beginning not later than 
October 1, 2011, the Attorney General shall submit 
to Congress annual reports describing the extent to 
which the approaches under section 202 have been 
successful in reducing the rate of gang activity in 
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‘‘§ 521. Criminal street gang prosecutions 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this chapter: 
‘‘(1) CRIMINAL
STREET
GANG.—The term 
‘criminal street gang’ means a formal or informal 
continually operating group, club, organization, or 
association of 5 or more individuals— 
‘‘(A) who individually, jointly, or in com-
bination, have knowingly committed or at-
tempted to commit for the direct or indirect 
benefit of, at the direction of, in furtherance of, 
or in association with the group, club organiza-
tion, or association at least 2 separate acts, 
each of which is a predicate gang crime— 
‘‘(i) 1 of which occurs after the date 
of enactment of the Fighting Gangs and 
Empowering Youth Act of 2010; 
‘‘(ii) the last of which occurs not later 
than 5 years after the commission of a 
prior predicate gang crime (excluding any 
period of imprisonment); and 
‘‘(iii) 1 of which is a crime of violence 
or involves manufacturing, importing, dis-
tributing, possessing with intent to dis-
tribute, or otherwise dealing in a controlled 
substance or listed chemical (as those 
terms are defined in section 102 of the 
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Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
802)); and 
‘‘(B) whose purpose or purposes is the 
commission of at least 2 separate criminal acts, 
each of which is a predicate gang crime; and 
‘‘(C) whose activities affect interstate or 
foreign commerce, or involve the use of any fa-
cility of, or travel in, interstate or foreign com-
merce. 
‘‘(2) PREDICATE
GANG
CRIME.—The term 
‘predicate gang crime’ means— 
‘‘(A) any act, threat, conspiracy, or at-
tempted act, which is chargeable under Federal 
or State law and punishable by imprisonment 
for more than 1 year involving— 
‘‘(i) murder; 
‘‘(ii) manslaughter; 
‘‘(iii) maiming; 
‘‘(iv) assault with a dangerous weap-
on; 
‘‘(v) assault resulting in serious bodily 
injury; 
‘‘(vi) kidnapping; 
‘‘(vii) robbery; 
‘‘(viii) extortion; 
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‘‘(ix) arson; 
‘‘(x) tampering with or retaliating 
against a witness, victim, or informant; 
‘‘(xi) burglary; 
‘‘(xii) sexual assault; 
‘‘(xiii) carjacking; or 
‘‘(xiv) manufacturing, importing, dis-
tributing, possessing with intent to dis-
tribute, or otherwise dealing in a controlled 
substance or listed chemicals (as those 
terms are defined in section 102 of the 
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
802)); 
‘‘(B) any act punishable by imprisonment 
for more than 1 year under— 
‘‘(i) section 844 (relating to explosive 
materials); 
‘‘(ii) section 922(g)(1) (where the un-
derlying conviction is a violent felony (as 
defined in section 924(e)(2)(B) of this 
title) or is a serious drug offense (as de-
fined in section 924(e)(2)(A) of this title)); 
‘‘(iii) subsection (a)(2), (b), (c), (g), 
or (h) of section 924 (relating to receipt, 
possession, and transfer of firearms); 
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‘‘(iv) section 930 (relating to posses-
sion of firearms and dangerous weapons in 
Federal facilities); 
‘‘(v) section 931 (relating to purchase, 
ownership, or possession of body armor by 
violent felons); 
‘‘(vi) sections 1028 and 1029 (relating 
to fraud and related activity in connection 
with identification documents or access de-
vices); 
‘‘(vii) section 1512 (relating to tam-
pering with a witness, victim, or inform-
ant) or section 1513 (relating to retaliating 
against a witness, victim, or informant); 
‘‘(viii) section 1951 (relating to inter-
ference with commerce, robbery or extor-
tion); 
‘‘(ix) section 1952 (relating to racket-
eering); 
‘‘(x) section 1956 (relating to the 
laundering of monetary instruments); 
‘‘(xi) section 1957 (relating to engag-
ing in monetary transactions in property 
derived from specified unlawful activity); 
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‘‘(xii) section 1958 (relating to use of 
interstate commerce facilities in the com-
mission of murder-for-hire); or 
‘‘(xiii) sections 2312 through 2315 
(relating to interstate transportation of 
stolen motor vehicles or stolen property); 
or 
‘‘(C) any crime involving aggravated sexual 
abuse, sexual assault, pimping or pandering in-
volving prostitution, sexual exploitation of chil-
dren (including sections 2251, 2251A, 2252 
and 2260), peonage, slavery, or trafficking in 
persons (including sections 1581 through 1592) 
and sections 2421 through 2427 (relating to 
transport for illegal sexual activity). 
‘‘(3) SEXUAL ASSAULT.—The term ‘sexual as-
sault’ means any offense that involves conduct that 
would violate chapter 109A if the conduct occurred 
in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of 
the United States. 
‘‘(4) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means each of 
the several States of the United States, the District 
of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or 
possession of the United States. 
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‘‘(5) PATTERN OF CRIMINAL GANG ACTIVITY.— 
The term ‘pattern of criminal gang activity’ means 
2 or more predicate gang crimes that are related to 
each other or to related to the membership of the 
perpetrator in a group, club or association. 
‘‘(b) PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL STREET GANGS.— 
It shall be unlawful— 
‘‘(1) to engage, or conspire, or attempt to en-
gage in a pattern of criminal gang activity— 
‘‘(A) in furtherance or in aid of the illegal 
activities of a criminal street gang; 
‘‘(B) for the purpose of gaining entrance 
to or maintaining or increasing position in such 
a gang; or 
‘‘(C) for the direct or indirect benefit of 
the criminal street gang, or in association with 
the criminal street gang; or 
‘‘(2) to employ, use, command, counsel, per-
suade, induce, entice, or coerce any individual to 
commit, cause to commit, or facilitate the commis-
sion of, a predicate gang crime— 
‘‘(A) in furtherance or in aid of the activi-
ties of a criminal street gang; 
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