No one really knows why gangs do what gangs do. In the 80s and 90s we thought it was because of turf and drugs. Now a gang will kill you simply because you're not a member of their gang--not even because you're a member of another gang.
I propose a solution that "worked" in South America some years ago: government sanctioned gangs. Right now we call this "insurgency" in the middle east. The same concept can and should be applied in urban environments in the U.S. You take a guy who's nuts, likely a former gang member or mafia head, let them recruit some other guys, give him some legit police and call them a "task force." The law cannot apply to them because clearly who they are fighting doesn't have regard for the law themselves. Much like the rules of engagement are different in these times of insurgency they should be different on the streets. Let them do what they know how to do best. Give them one mission and pay them--and if they don't do it they don't get paid and are "replaced." It doesn't have to be transparent--it can all be done under the table as far as I'm concerned. If tomorrow some new gang popped on the scene taking out other gangs and repping peace in the community and the government didn't make a move on them I'd be completely okay. In the 60s we had the Black Panthers (which somehow became the Crips and Bloods in California). We need a return of something like that. An group armed to the T ready and willing to protect our communities from ignorant fucks. With sign off from the government.
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Sho-nuff: I grew up in a neighborhood infested by gangs in the 80's in Chicago. WESTSIIIIIIDDDEEE! Gang members will kill peers who do not want to join the gang or belong to a rival gang. They did that even back in the 80's.
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