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Jan 1, 2020 · Why have levels of violence in Chicago remained so stubbornly high, especially when they have continued to fall in most other U.S. cities? What role do the city’s street gangs play in this violence? Why have highly touted, evidence-based interventions failed to reduce violence in Chicago over the last decade and a half?
Aug 31, 2021 · Chicago isn’t the only city pointing fingers at gangs. Across the country, gangs have once again become a scapegoat for politicians and police navigating a violent crime resurgence during the pandemic. New York City is promoting gang takedowns as a cure, despite research showing their ineffectiveness.
- Lakeidra Chavis
Jan 8, 2021 · Chicago’s not-so-random gang violence: Just 6% of gang ‘factions’ tied to most shootings studied. An especially violent 18 days last summer might have seemed like a gang free-for-all. It ...
- Frank Main
- fmain@suntimes.com
Jan 29, 2019 · Chicago has always been a “city of neighborhoods,” and the violence that has resulted from the fragmentation of traditional gangs into new horizontal gangs and cliques should be addressed within a comprehensive neighborhood policy.
- The Narrative vs. The Numbers
- From Gangs to Cliques
- Two Shootings on Wood Street
- A Glamorous Life
Since the mid-2010s, the Chicago Police Department has attributed a steadily decreasing share of shootings to gangs, The Trace found. Last year, CPD designated 43 percent of fatal shootings as gang-related, down from 70 percent five years earlier. Over the same time period, the share of nonfatal shootings officially linked to gangs fell from 34 per...
Gangs have existed in Chicago for more than 100 years, transforming from predominantly white immigrant groups to Black and Latinx ones. The Trace analyzed annual reports published by CPD from 1965 to 2019, and found that the department rarely attributed murders to gangs or organized crime until the mid-’90s, the height of the “superpredator” era. O...
Kenneth Davis Jr.’s experience offers another perspective on a story that’s often one-sided. Before being released from prison earlier this year, he spent more than two decades reflecting on the incident that changed his life. In 1995, Davis shot and killed a man in a small park on Wood Street in Englewood. Davis was just 18 at the time, and says h...
While officials have consistently blamed gangs, many people interviewed said they haven’t done much to change the reason a young person in Chicago might join one. They sometimes miss it entirely. Just over a week after the two police officers were shot in early August, Mayor Lightfoot held an event celebrating her INVEST South/West initiative, a mu...
Dec 9, 2021 · Gangs have changed in the decades since ‘West Side Story’ first came out – they are deadlier, and their demographics are different – as are the means law enforcement use to control them.
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Sep 25, 2021 · The numbers of carjackings, shootings and homicides have risen in Chicago, leaving residents on edge and prompting city officials to generate new solutions to tackle the city's violence epidemic.
