By focusing so heavily on the Hispanic MS-13 gang, Montgomery County Police are glossing over a much more dangerous and steadily increasing group, the Bloods, one of the nation’s experts on gangs told The Examiner.

Det. Patrick Word, the lead gang officer for the Gaithersburg Police Department and president of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Investigators Network, said this week that information presented to the public at a summer news conference was at least six months old and does not tell an accurate tale of the gang situation regionally.