Large mafias barely exist any more. But the sheer effectiveness of cracking down on organisation has unintended consequences
Archer and Kedzie, on Chicago’s South West side, is far from the city’s prettiest intersection. What it does have however is wide streets, which in the early hours of the morning of October 23rd, made it a perfect place for a car meet. These, which are especially popular among young Mexican-American men, are when a caravan of fast cars and huge modified trucks known as “rammers” take over a road junction to perform tricks.
In the Chicago newspapers, the shooting was covered as just another tragic incident in the city’s more violent neighbourhoods. Over 600 people have been murdered so far this year—in fact a modest decrease on last year’s tally. Yet people in the neighbourhood say that this sort of sudden, spontaneous violence is new. And one of the reasons why is that youth gangs these days are much less organised than they were in the past.
At its peak, the organisation had chapters all over America, particularly in big cities with large Latino communities. It was heavily involved in the drugs trade, but also made money from extortion rackets, and by protecting illegal businesses, such as those involved in the sale of fake social security numbers. Much of that still goes on. But these days the group is less vertically integrated.
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