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Its a difficult thing to measure in general, and unfortunately the only widespread metrics available come from the Police and those numbers are challenging due to methodology changes, or their own agenda.
I think its probably true that gang violence is up, but that is and has almost always been gang on gang violence. I suspect there's a bunch of deprivation related crime that's being blamed on gangs, but is just down to people struggling to feed and house themselves.
Gang on gang can exist in a vacuum. Happy to have that as long as no one else is involved. They can just wipe each other out.