The gangs in Chicago

The phenomenon has caught on primarily in modern societies and in the multi-ethnic society, especially in the metropolis, in fact, often depending on the neighborhood and minority ethnic affiliation, street gangs have been identified in a strong sense of rivalry with each other, which is why cause often urban guerrillas.
The members, in addition to contend territories and engage in criminal acts, identify between them through greetings, symbols and phrases to complete. This phenomenon, also, is not exclusively male, in fact, the bands do not exclude the presence of women.



In 2004, the FBI created the MS-13 Gang Task Force to operate against the gang's activities in the United States
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Main article: Main article: Crime in Los Angeles.
The street gangs have affected the United States first in the late sixties and seventies. Their components were predominantly African-American, but today also include other ethnic groups. Since their beginnings, the gangs have made use of several firearms and have been known to drug trafficking, prostitution, vandalism in general, graffiti and especially for the countless murders derived from the strong rivalry with each other, which tends to they can be identified between them.

The County of Los Angeles is probably always the urban area with the highest number of bands and with the highest number of affiliations to the same for all States. Anyway, it is the place that gave birth to important street gangs. Among these there are the Bloods, also known as Pirus (name derived from the way in which the gang was born), the Crips (called "Crabs" by the Bloods in a derogatory manner) and the Latin Kings.

In 1991, in Los Angeles alone counted more than 700 murders in which gangs were involved.

Some gangs operating in the country are:

18th Street Gang
Bloods
Crips
Latin Kings
Mara Salvatrucha
Trinitarios
The Los Angeles Police Department, despite its reputation for brutality ', not' able to penetrate these fortresses of the underworld and therefore leaves that "kill each other", focusing only in preventing gang transgresses the boundaries of the areas residential. In this way, even those who would break the vicious circle of violence and give up the street life find themselves without a real alternative. For more 'many of these young people and these young people are already' mothers and fathers of a new generation, a generation that since more 'tender age' accompanies them on the streets to sell heroin with a gun under his arm.

Kody Scott, one of the legendary leaders of the Crips, today held in a maximum security prison, he wrote an autobiography, "Monster", which tells how much of the murders committed by gangs are due to trivial reasons (he writes that "there fight for a specific purpose, but only for the destruction of individuals "). At the same time the matter of dollars and 'hallucinating. The F. B.I. estimated that Bloods and Crips alone control a third of the market of "crack" (the most derived 'crude cocaine).

Chicago and 'really' more 'haunted than any other metropolis. The members of "El Rukns" were responsible for hundreds of murders and a drug ring worth billions. Today, the city 'and' largely fought over by the "Gangster Disciples" and "Vice Lords", both blacks. Then there are the Hispanic gang, the "Latin Kings" and "Latin Disciples."

All four have been around since the early 70s, but only in the late 80's began to dominate the criminal life of the city '. At one point there were two major alliances, the "Folk" (ie gangs that have "Disciples" in the name) and the "People", which gave battle without mercy 'for the streets of the South Side.

The police estimated that the gangs in Chicago have about fifty members armed to the teeth, an army worthy of the Bosnian Serb army. In 1993, a giant battle and 'exploded in the Robert Taylor Homes, a popular neighborhood, leaving the bodies in the streets of thirteen children (not' know the number of the wounded, he 'and' never heard the name of the battle).

A member of the "Gangster Disciples" confessed that the gang earns about three hundred million dollars a year from drugs (mostly cocaine) and now has a twenty thousand members scattered in more 'than sixty cities' more' than twenty states: a real corporation. The turnover is directed by Larry Hoover, called "Chairman", from the cell where he is serving a sentence of two hundred years of prison.

In 1994, Robert Sandifer had the privilege (posthumously) to climb to national headlines. Sandifer, seasoned member of the Gangster Disciples, had fired on a crowd of teenagers, killing a young girl. A few days later he was in turn killed. This 'which made him famous was the age': he was eleven years old.

Another "hero" of Chicago and 'emblematic of how it changed also the' morality '"within these groups. The "Four Corner Hustlers" were founded by Walter Wheat, known as "The King". For years dominated a piece of Chicago. They stole, killed, terrorized. But not a hair twisted to a child or a woman, and no traditional 'never again. The gang that came after no longer have 'such qualms. Wheat and E 'was killed in 1994. Romanticism of a time and' was replaced by the charm of cruelty 'end in itself.

And 'especially in the streets of poor neighborhoods that takes the tragedy of so many teenagers without family.

In the teen gang finds its identity 'and a sense of being, the very things that the company' has taken away as a child. It 'important that the "gang" forming a little' in all areas, even in the computer world, with the "cyberpunk" and "hackers."

If in the 60s the gang phenomenon was a predominantly "black", and now 'a general phenomenon that is being extended not only to other ethnic groups (including white) but also outside of the metropolis, in the towns of the province. In a sense, the gang is replacing the role traditionally played by the family: the crumbling of this, it increases the emotional connection that increases the value of the security and protection offered by the gang.

In 1995, three children are murdered in Little Rock, Arkansaw, with mafia-style execution. The killers are all very young, and one of them, and 'even a relative of one of the victims. They belong to the "East End Players", a kind of branch of the "Bloods" in Los Angeles. From the "crews" in Washington to "posse" of North Carolina phenomenon has no more 'borders.

A report of the "National Institute of Justice" in 1992, lists five gangs with 250,000 members, spread across 79 cities. '