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Aug 31, 2021 · Over the past 30 years, most of Chicago’s historic gangs have deteriorated because of federal racketeering and drug prosecutions. The breakdown in leadership structures — and the city’s destruction of public housing projects — resulted in gangs splintering.
Jul 5, 2024 · And ONS knows it's a different world than the one they grew up in. Organized gangs are now splinters and factions and are more violent than ever. Brandon said old-style street gangs no longer...
Sep 25, 2021 · While Chicago's violence is still driven by a combination of gangs, guns and drugs, it's also being fueled by social media. Lance Williams, a professor at Northeastern University, said it "kind...
Aug 31, 2021 · Over the past 30 years, most of Chicago’s historic gangs have deteriorated because of federal racketeering and drug prosecutions. The breakdown in leadership structures — and the city’s destruction of public housing projects — resulted in gangs splintering.
Nov 26, 2023 · Neoliberal education reforms that closed many schools in poor neighborhoods is just one form of deprivation that has intensified gang violence in Chicago, forcing students to cross through rival territory to reach their new schools. Scott Olson / Getty Images.
Nov 23, 2022 · In Chicago alone, over 250 more people were murdered in 2020 than in 2019, and that heightened level of violence continued into 2021. Murders are down slightly this year in Chicago and many other...
Apr 21, 2021 · As gangs were targeted by police and federal authorities using anti-racketeering laws from the 1970s onward, many gang leaders were incarcerated in federal prisons. That left behind a more fractured and anarchic gang culture, say gang experts.
Nov 29, 2021 · The gangs allegedly responsible for the violence range from well-established organizations such as the Latin Kings and Four Corner Hustlers to smaller factions that are little-known outside their...
Jan 30, 2019 · Gang and urban policy experts at the conference concluded that policymakers, the news media and police too narrowly define Chicago’s violence by outdated ideas about gangs and the drug trade.
Jan 29, 2019 · The nature of gang violence in Chicago has been changing, but policies and practices toward it have not. This was the main conclusion of “The Fracturing of Gangs Conference,” held at the Great Cities Institute in Spring 2018.
