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Old 09-25-2012, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Wicker Park/East Village area
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I found this great article on the new gang problem in Chicago. It's an interesting read and all of us who live here have a vested interest in containing the violence in the city...

The New Face Of Chicago Gang Violence | Progress Illinois
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Old 09-25-2012, 10:16 AM
 
Location: Wicker Park/East Village area
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Here's a new gang map...

Interactive Chicago gang map: How big is Chicago's gang problem? | WBEZ 91.5 Chicago
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Old 09-25-2012, 10:38 AM
 
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I didn't realize the GD's claimed...Boystown?
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Old 09-25-2012, 10:46 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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I didn't realize the GD's claimed...Boystown?
Gays are some of the best consumers of pills
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Old 09-25-2012, 10:59 AM
 
Location: Berwyn, IL
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Gays are some of the best consumers of pills
I think you need to edit that to say 'certain subsets of the gay population'. Otherwise, it may be as offensive and over-generalizing as 'blacks are some of the best consumers of collard greens'.
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Old 09-25-2012, 11:38 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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They know who they are.
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Old 09-25-2012, 04:13 PM
 
Location: Nort Seid
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Looks extremely similar to the Chicago Gang Book that came out in maybe 2003, not sure there's much that is new here, many of these gangs have been entrenched for 30+ years, at least on the North Side.
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Old 09-25-2012, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Nort Seid
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I didn't realize the GD's claimed...Boystown?
Nature and gangbangers abhor a vacuum.
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Old 09-25-2012, 04:24 PM
 
Location: Wicker Park/East Village area
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...not sure there's much that is new here...
The article made some interesting points about how the old structure of top-down gang heirarchies are being dealt with by essentially - the police cutting the head off. So the article is saying the new gangs are smaller in number and often there's no clear leader or the leaders are young, like 17, and easily replaceable, so they are fighting smaller gangs that can adapt better and faster to the police tactics. Read the article, it explains it better than I can.
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Old 09-25-2012, 05:10 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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A lot of those gangs with the same name follow different people.
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