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Mean Streets: Gangs Going Digital

Criminal Organizations Using the Internet to Recruit, Rob

By PIERRE THOMAS, JACK DATE and NITYA VENKATARAMAN

Imagine being a prisoner in your own neighborhood.

That’s how Wichita, Kan., police Chief Norman Williams describes communities struggling with the unexpected and emerging epidemic of gang violence in U.S. cities.

“They feel that there is no way out, that there’s no hope, and so they just have to live with it. It has a tremendous impact on quality of life in a in a neighborhood,” Williams said of those communities ... Full Story