Gang Violence In Chicago

In the year 2015 2,996 people were shot & wounded, 447 people were shot and killed due to gang related shootings in Chicago. Gang Violence is a burden on us because it destroys communities, it makes people feel unsafe, and people start to move out the community. Gang violence happens because two gang are at war with each other. The community gets torn apart, the population decreases, and people are heartbroken when lives are lost. Did you know that in 2015 at Chicago a person is shot every 2 minutes and 55 seconds, and a person is killed every 17 hours and 29 minutes. Isn’t that mind blowing?

Furthermore, there is usually an initiation into a gang that is a ritual ceremony. They do this to see if you have what it takes to join a gang. Some

I asked the man why he joined a gang. He gave me a short story about how when he was younger he would get picked on. His family moved, so he didn't want to get at his new school so he joined a gang. He continued to say, “I became a bully myself, I didn't bully kids I bullied others and rival gang members and people he didn't like.” Next question I asked him was, “How can you tell if someone is in a gang. He responded by saying, “It really hard nowadays, back in the days you could tell if they in a gang if they wear a solid colors for example all blue for crips, if they hat is tilted a certain way, and how they walk, and if they wore a certain accessory. But what I look to see if someone is in a gang if they wear a particular color a lot, any tattoo of numbers, letters or symbols.” For example the Mexican Mafia. M is the 13 number is the alphabet so someone would tattoo the letter M or the number thirteen if they are in that gang. Another example is the Vice Lords. If you see someone with a five pointed star tattooed anywhere that might mean they’re in a gang. After that I asked Pete “Why gangs fight each other or have war?” I found out they fight over petty things like girls, turf or neighborhoods, customers,and drugs. They also fight each other because of disrespect of dead friends or gang members. Also because they kill one of their gang member and so on. After that I consulted him with

There have been multiple attempts. One of the most popular and effective ways is a gang summit. I asked Pete, “Do gang summits work?” He articulated “Yes, gang summit can work because you get to hear to side of the gang members, but it depends on the what the point of the summit is.” A gang summit was used at Los Angeles in 1992 to sever the war between the Blood and the Crips. Which ended 30 years of fire but didn't hold long as gang violence between the two groups is still a problem in Los Angeles. They asked for a ceasefire and truce. In Chicago in the first seven months of 2013, the murders are down 25 percent and shootings are 23 percent down according to abc 7. Stopping gang violence is almost a fairytale. In other words it is near impossible to stop it. The only one effective to exterminate Gang violence is to have equality and fund low income