James-Younger Gang

There are many fires around Chicago, but one of the most popular fire is THE CHICAGO FIRE is the biggest fire in Chicago. They say that the fire started at the o'Learys barn but who did it actually . Luis M Cohn was a heavy drinker and gambler. He gambled with the o learys sons. He turned over $35,000 to a school to say that the O'Learys was a fake. The O'learys had a son that was a part of the cause of the fire. To this day scientists don't know what cause the fire but they know that it happen…

In today’s society, gang warfare and mobs are not as popular as they were in the 1920’s. People like Al Capone roamed the streets and started gangs and were killing people. On February 14, 1929, four men that were dressed up as police officers forced seven of George Moran’s men into a garage, lined them up, and shot them. Al Capone and George Moran were sworn enemies. The two men fought over smuggling and trafficking operations in Chicago, Illinois. Capone and Moran have survived many attempted…

Ivan Serrano born on may 13 , 199 Atlanta Georgia Grady hospital. Ivan grew up in Fulton county till he was 12 his dad Concepcion banegas Martinez and mom Noemi Osiris Serrano gusman had been together since teenager years. Ivan parents are from a country name Honduras. Ivan was always a smart kid. Fulton county wasn't the place for him but he liked it there. Ivan grew up seeing to much violence and killing. he would see it so much he got used to it. Ivan's dad took care of them by illegally…

Chicago is home to two major things: big pizza and big traffic. When Capone was active in it though, it was known for a third thing, big amounts of gang crime! Capone is one of the recognized figures of gangland history. Throughout the early 1900s, he managed to run an entire crime syndicate and never got caught doing it. This was because Capone knew how to operate without getting his hands dirty, which can be found in how he operated himself, how he operated using the legal system, how he…

everyone’s lives. The Encyclopedia illustrates a gang as “being an organized group of criminals or a group of children or youth from the same neighborhood, who gather together and who may or may not participate in criminal activities.” Gangs have existed since the seventeenth century, and to this day gang participation is on the rise. It is one of the nation 's fastest growing problems within recent history. Many people assume that the reason why minors join gangs is because they don’t have a…

In America, people have wittiness or been informed of many different crimes and violence through their lives. Around the country, some locations tend to have a higher crime levels then other places. Yet crime happens every second throughout our lives. People know that various crimes are commitment in society every day; people have reasons to be involved in these crimes and by doing so, they are spreading violence as well. The justice systems role is to punish the criminals and enforce the law,…

In the transcript of the video, “Gangs and Guns Fuel Chicago’s Surge in Violence”, Chris Bury discusses the horror of violence during the summer, also called “the killing season.” Many promising young teenagers get caught in the crossfire which ends up with them wounded or worse. One of the teenagers named in the video was a seventeen- year- old boy named Vonzell Banks, who died during a family trip over the July 4th weekend. People are getting killed at any time. Around 11 PM the police are…

Los Angeles County is the most dangerous place in California because of the gang culture that moves around it (Bartholomew, 2015). Cholo, ese, vato are all words that hispanic gang members use to refer to one another. Here in California, Hispanic gangs began to form during the early 1920s or as also referred to the Roaring Twenties. These groups started to form and get together in their neighborhoods or as known as the barrios. These individuals who got together in these groups all had similar…

Gang leader. Over the decades, severe violence and drug trafficking has brought a serious negative connotation to this term. However, the connotation could not be any further away on the spectrum from the annotation. Something that is shown in ‘Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets’ by Sudhir Venkatesh, The book begins with a background narrative of Sudhir so the reader may obtain their own viewpoint through his eyes and experiences. During Sudhir’s first week as a…

I raise the question of: How many out of those who were and are convicted actually deserved the sentence received? In 2006, a man was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for being an enforcer for a gang called the Terminators in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This man brutally fought with competitor gangs, sold heroin, and killed a potential witness. Taking the previously stated strikes into consideration, it would be easy to say that this man does, in fact, deserve to be sent to prison, correct? It…