The Impact Of Gangs On The Violence In Chicago

In todays United States we have a huge problem affecting society, gangs and the violence that follows them wherever they go. These days’ gangs aren’t just compiled of grown adults, they often lure in young teens to do dirty work and to add numbers to their turf. Despite laws aimed straight at these gangs they still defy the law and wreak havoc upon the territory that they claim. The members in the gang have a gang first mentality and will do everything possible to provide for and protect their fellow members. They will very rarely snitch on their own to help put a stop to some of the meaningless crimes committed by these savages.

In Policing Gangs in America, Charles Katz and Vincent Webb describes every issue in American Gangs today. The ultimate goal of this book is how the gang officers work and the different kind of atmosphere they work in. Their job isn’t like other law enforcement jobs. It’s one of the more dangerous occupation in the Criminal Justice system. These gang officers focus on how they react to public gang issues.

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Detroit tops Forbes list of the Most Dangerous Cities this year for the fifth year in a row. What is encouraging is the violent crime rate in the Motor City actually declined last year, despite crushing financial woes that drove Detroit into the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Crime affects the people of Detroit and the city’s reputation, employment, income and education. It should be stopped to make Detroit prosper and make the lives of the people living there better. Detroit had 316 murders in 2013, a rate of 45 per 100,000 people. That 's the highest rate among cities with populations over 100,000. In 2013 Detroit also reported 14,504 violent crimes. That 's also the highest per capita rate in the nation, according to the

because of all this crimes in American some cities some have a bigger crime rates

of homicides could reach 600 in 2016, a startling increase over any year in the past

Gentrification is displacing gangs and causing turf wars. Gentrification and the tearing down of public housing in Chicago left many gangs homeless (Brief outline). Due to this, gangs battle over land and housing, known as turf wars. The violence rises, along with the number of deaths. Therefore police attempt to limit the gangs, but that also leads to fighting and violence with police. The whole cycle involves violence and is vicious.

Chicago is facing a serious problem. Over this year 's Fourth of July Weekend, eighty four people were shot resulting in fourteen deaths. After this violent weekend, Mayor Rahm Emmanuel nearly called for total martial law, calling upon United States Military 's support to help protect Chicago 's citizens and patrol Chicacgo 's streets. So far in 2015, over 2,300 people have been shot in the city of Chicago, and it is only a matter of days until the death toll surpasses four hundred on the year. There are a number of factors that contribute to this inflated level of violent crime. Some would point to loose gun restrictions, others to gang fragmentation. I believe the most influential factor leading to these high rates of crime in certain

Chicago has always been known as a city full of crime and hate and more recently it has gotten even worse. In 2016, Chicago had 762 homicides this is more than what New York and Los Angles have combined, mind you two of the largest cities in the nation have had less homicides in their cities than Chicago has had. Chicago not only had 762 homicides, but also had 1,100 more shootings than they had previously in 2015. In comparison New York, which is the largest city in the nation, had only 334 homicides in 2016 and Los angles following behind with only 294.With all the homicides and shootings it has made the issue of gun violence a huge topic when pertaining to this city. In only the past year, police have retrieved 8,300 illegal guns. Another topic that has been brought into societies eyes is with the severe increase of violence is the areas where gangs are most typically active, these areas being areas with low-income families and predominantly black areas.

Crime rates as of 2015 in the United States according to Spies, violent crime did go up 3.8 percent after a two year decline, as far as violent crime is concerned. Spies also found the following:

In Chicago, there are geographic disparities that affect communities as a whole due to political- economic distortions and underrepresented communities that lack resources. The neighborhood I reside in, Pilsen, is one community in Chicago that is currently being affected by violence and gang rivalry. Pilsen is located in the Lower West Side area and is known as one of the primary Mexican American neighborhoods in Chicago. One current main social problem that Pilsen encounters in the neighborhood is violence in the community that result in high school drop out and death rates. As well as issues in poverty and limited resources. The violence occurring in Pilsen has brought community members to advocate for change within the area. As a member of the community I have seen violence as a social problem that is being committed by the own community members who are residing in the area.

Homicides last year increased by 17% in America’s fifty largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years. In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent. They are up nearly 60% in nearby Baltimore.

The National Bureau of Economic Research reports that a twenty percent dropped in wages. That lead to a 12 to 18 percent increase in youth crime. According to the report, 89 percent of murders and violent crimes in Chicago were in low-income. There mostly black and Latino people live. These areas where wages are lower and extreme poverty rates are higher.It may be possible to help reduce gun violence in Chicago. A city that saw over 500 homicides last year — in one simple step: Raising the minimum wage. Decades of research have demonstrated that there is a statistically significant link between low wages, income inequality and crime.Researchers have found that the majority of increases in violent crime can be explained by downward wage trends.Other

Park, H., & Katz, J. (2016, 09/11). Murder rates rose in more than a quarter of the nation's 100 largest cities, New York Times http://sks.sirs.com

This map clearly connects with the information i have gathered of the rate of homicides in different places of Chicago.As for the places i nominated to have a concentrated pattern, we can see that there is also a high number of gang activities.This gives us the idea that the gang activities causing the homicides may be because of fighting to own many large hoods.The other reason for the increase in homicides in some places is because after the gentrification gang groups were forced into one place and became squashed.This caused war as to which gang shall rule the neighbourhoods. This causes high murder rates in south and west of Chicago.The gangs which are in the south include the BlackGangster disciples which own the largest of all and