They say the gangs provided structure that their parents did not ... “The gangs have become family for a lot of young men here in Chicago and across the United States. They gravitate toward ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Interim Chicago Police Supt. Charlie Beck has announced a sweeping reorganization of the department on Thursday, to move most detectives and gang intelligence and narcotics ...

They attributed their lifestyles to a lack of opportunity, adding that a major factor driving gun violence in Chicago is that the gang structure themselves have fallen apart. "There's no one who ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Police Supt ... the department was slow to react to the changing gang structure. McCarthy said he hasn't spoken to the mayor about his comments, but said "What I suspect is ...

Chicago's new police superintendent. The changes in gang structure have not weakened the gangs' ability to dispense drugs or violence, and while there are fewer all-out gang wars directed by ...

With the structure of storied supergangs like the ... Let’s look at these devastated neighborhoods,” longtime Chicago gang researcher John Hagedorn, one of the report’s authors, told the ...

“The varying structure of these systems impeded CPD’s ability to keep the most updated and relevant gang information readily available to the police officers who protect and serve Chicago’s ...

And before you go there, it’s not Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s fault or the Chicago Police Department’s fault or the alderman’s fault that the gang structure still exists in Chicago. During the ...

CHICAGO - The Black Disciples ran a business that was the envy of Chicago’s underground economy. The South Side gang’s distribution network for heroin and crack cocaine brought in as much as $ ...

CHICAGO — As Chicago enters the tail end ... a nonprofit media outlet devoted to gun-related news. The nature and structure of gangs has radically changed in the last two decades, and the ...

Former gang leader Larry Hoover, who attracted support from celebrity rappers, is one of several people who had sentences ...