Chicago Gangs Word Tour (of duty)
So this news story is so good I could not pass it up. I was doing a little research on what gangs have what influence in different parts of the city as I traverse through schools in various Chicago neighborhoods and stumbled upon a dozen or so articles on this phenomena.
For those of you who do not know Chicago is the birthplace of the majority of modern gangs (with the noticable exception of the Crips and the Bloods). The various gangs that have spurned from Chicago fall into one of two camps the People and Folk Nations (Think of them as the American and National Leagues of Urban Warefare). It seems the three most extensive Chicago gangs, the Latin Kings, the Gangster’s Disciples, and the Vicelords have taken advantage of the army’s lax wartime recruitment standards and thus…
Gang tags are being found all over Iraq, on bulidings, army vehicles, in millitary installations, and even on mosques. This is not apparently a group of former gang bangers who joined up to change their lives but active gang members seeing the world and claiming turf.
In a series of interviews it was indicated that these gangsters were actually asked to join up by their gangs in order to steal supplies (army flak jackets have been found in Gresham and North Lawndale) and learn high end weapons operation and urban warfare tactics.
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