Chicago Gangland 2013 News - Page 4

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10/14/2013 -- Cities Use Sticks, Carrots to Reign In Gangs

"Police in some cities are trying a two-pronged approach to tackle high homicide rates: community pressure to shame gang members and analytics software to help arrest the ones who continue to offend.

In the first step of a policing method known as Ceasefire, young people with prior gang-related charges are brought into meetings, known as call-ins, where police, district and federal prosecutors, social workers and community members show them the harm their violence has caused. The offenders are offered social services, such as career counseling and anger management, and warned of tough punishment if the violence persists."

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10/12/2013 -- Former High-Ranking Gang Member: Drug Cartels 'Allowed' to Run Chicago Streets

"Harold 'Noonie' Ward, a former high-ranking member of the Gangster Disciples, one of America’s largest street gangs, claims the deadly violence that is plaguing Rahm Emanuel’s “world class city” of Chicago is because Mexican drug cartels are being  allowed by “the powers that be” to operate freely and “run” Chicago’s streets."

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10/09/2013 -- 2 men found guilty in '09 fatal cop shooting

"Two gang members were convicted Wednesday in the murder of a Chicago police officer who had responded to a call of shots fired in the West Englewood neighborhood in 2009.

The convictions by separate Cook County juries came more than two years after a third defendant was found guilty in the murder of Officer Alejandro 'Alex' Valadez." 

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10/09/2013 -- 33 people — including gang’s reputed ‘king’ — charged in drug conspiracy case

"Nathaniel Hoskins and his family lived in Las Vegas.

But the reputed gang leader micromanaged drug spots in his hometown of Chicago and even ordered a murder in 2011, prosecutors said.

On Wednesday, Hoskins, 45, was among 33 people charged with participating in a narcotics enterprise."

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10/03/2013 -- One Dead, Two Wounded In Kenwood Shooting

"A Calumet City man was killed and two others were wounded Wednesday afternoon during a gang-related shooting in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood.

The shooting occurred just before 5 p.m. in the 4500 block of South Woodlawn Avenue, police News Affairs Officer Daniel O’Brien said.

The man who was killed was shot multiple times inside a vehicle, O’Brien said."

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10/02/2013 -- Injunction aims to weaken Addison gang presence

"DuPage County officials said Wednesday they have won a court victory that will make life more difficult for suspected members of an Addison street gang.

After a one-day civil trial, Judge Terence Sheen issued a permanent injunction this week prohibiting members of the Latin Counts gang from consorting with each other, State's Attorney Robert Berlin said.

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09/30/2013 -- Social Media Transforms the Way Chicago Fights Gang Violence

"The 15th District—like Chicago as a whole—has a murder problem. In cities such as New York and Los Angeles, homicides have fallen by nearly 80 percent since the early 1990s. Crime in Chicago has fallen too, but its murder rate has remained stubbornly high. While the homicide rate today is only half of what it was a generation ago, Chicago residents are twice as likely to be killed as New Yorkers or Angelenos. For young African-American men that likelihood is higher still. One out of every 400 young black men is killed each year in Chicago’s highest-crime neighborhoods. Much of the violence is associated with the city’s gangs. Chicago Police Department officials estimate that 50 to 80 percent of the city’s shootings and murders are gang-related."

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09/28/2013 -- City gives felon six-figure grant to open liquor store

"Officials knew the Convenience For You store was coming — in fact, the city gave it $105,000 in tax increment financing grants.

Ald. Deborah Graham, 29th, then pushed through a special ordinance lifting the moratorium, saying she wanted to help an African-American businesswoman with stellar credentials.

Actually, the new liquor store was bankrolled and launched by convicted drug dealer Frederick "Juicy" Sims, who has been tied to the Vice Lords street gang, a Tribune investigation found."

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09/28/2013 -- Fifth man charged in mass shooting at South Side park

"A fifth man has been charged in connection with the mass shooting in which a 3-year-old child was among 13 injured Sept. 19 in a South Side park, police said.

David Logan, 22, of the 3100 block of South Green Street, has been charged with unlawful use of a weapon and obstructing justice, according to Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada. Logan was expected to appear in court today."

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09/28/2013 -- Gang summit attracts few gang members

"When ex-gang member Robert White addressed about 20 people Saturday at a Far South Side church, he spoke animatedly about his days as a Black P Stone and how he turned his life around after spending a chunk of it in prison.

But to White's chagrin, the audience comprised mostly grieving relatives of Chicago's homicide victims and representatives from anti-violence groups — not the troubled youths he mentors."

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