The Chicago police gang enforcement unit makes an arrest after stopping a car with four suspected gang members in June. Gang Violence Smolders On Hot Chicago Streets This has been a summer of blood, sweat and tears in Chicago. The city has been scorched by historic heat, and the homicide rate has soared. When the sun goes down behind the glimmering lakeshore skyline, blocks on the South and West Side of the city can ring with shots and sirens. The streets of neighborhoods like Englewood, Grand Crossing and Garfield Park are empty, even during the day. In the middle of this summer, it is rare to see a child ride a bike or walk a dog. “A child should not have to say, ‘I can’t go out because I might get shot.’” resident MichelleHarris says at a community meeting at the Englewood police station. “That’s bad, that’s bad.” Chicago’s street gangs span generations. The Black P. Stone Nation and Gangster Disciples gangs are older enterprises than Microsoft and Yahoo. You can see those names on police blotters this summer, but they may be names that smaller gangs just put on like a baseball cap. The word most people now use is “cliques.” READ MORE FILM: The Interrupters 
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The Chicago police gang enforcement unit makes an arrest after stopping a car with four suspected gang members in June.

Gang Violence Smolders On Hot Chicago Streets

This has been a summer of blood, sweat and tears in Chicago. The city has been scorched by historic heat, and the homicide rate has soared. When the sun goes down behind the glimmering lakeshore skyline, blocks on the South and West Side of the city can ring with shots and sirens.

The streets of neighborhoods like Englewood, Grand Crossing and Garfield Park are empty, even during the day. In the middle of this summer, it is rare to see a child ride a bike or walk a dog.

“A child should not have to say, ‘I can’t go out because I might get shot.’” resident MichelleHarris says at a community meeting at the Englewood police station. “That’s bad, that’s bad.”

Chicago’s street gangs span generations. The Black P. Stone Nation and Gangster Disciples gangs are older enterprises than Microsoft and Yahoo.

You can see those names on police blotters this summer, but they may be names that smaller gangs just put on like a baseball cap. The word most people now use is “cliques.”

READ MORE

FILM: The Interrupters 

Source: NPR

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