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Gang

Best Article Crime World

‘Either They Kill Us or We Kill Them’

Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.

Azam Ahmed New York Times May 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

Death By Instagram (7 Parts)

An investigation into a social media-fueled gang war in Detroit.

The Red Zone is part pharmacy, part killing field and part music studio where gang members peddled drugs, fought rivals and shot rap videos on street corners.

Robert Snell The Detroit News Apr 2018 Permalink

Crime

The Teens Trapped Between a Gang and the Law

On Long Island, unaccompanied minors are caught between the violence of MS-13 and the fear of deportation.

Jonathan Blitzer New Yorker Dec 2017 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime History

The Genesis of the Gang

On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

Jacob Riis The Atlantic Sep 1899 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

City of Fear

How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.

William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Apr 2007 40min Permalink

Crime

Taking Down Armenian Power, California's Modern Mafia

How the feds went after Thick Neck, Guilty, Stomper, Gunner, Lucky, Menace, and the rest of the Amernian mob in Los Angeles.

Hayley Fox LA Weekly Jul 2014 15min Permalink

Crime World

The Ballad of Daniel Wolfe

On the rise of Indian Posse, the largest of Canada’s native gangs, and the fall of its leader.

Joe Friesen The Globe and Mail Jun 2011 45min Permalink

Bosco Enriquez Was Beaten and Raped After Helping Miami Cops Bust Latin Gangs

His horror story is emblematic of a bigger problem that lawmakers in Florida and across the nation have only recently begun to recognize: Cops employ confidential informants — sometimes very young ones — to bust criminals. But there's little oversight, and the result of police carelessness can be horrific.
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Chuck Strouse The Miami New Times Mar 2012 15min Permalink

Crime World

In the New Gangland of El Salvador

How LA-style gang life migrated to the slums of San Salvador.

Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review of Books Oct 2011 15min Permalink

The Motorcycle Gangs

A profile of the Hell’s Angels following “front-page reports of a heinous gang rape in the moonlit sand dunes near the town of Seaside on the Monterey Peninsula.”

Hunter S. Thompson The Nation May 1965 15min Permalink