Saturday, 24 December 2016

Bored, Broke and Armed: Clues to Chicago’s Gang Violence

Bored, Broke and Armed: Clues to Chicago’s Gang Violence

The young men who call themselves Gangster Disciples skirted by an empty lot. They marched past a “Stop the Violence” mural painted on a corner store, coming to a halt when they saw members of a rival gang, the Black Disciples. It was late September on a busy South Side intersection, and now tensions were escalating, gang members who were there recalled. There were glares, they said. Then words. “You’re a rat,” a Black Disciple said to one of the Gangster Disciples who he believed had given the police information about him.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/us/chicago-gang-violence.html?source=Snapzu

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