The gangs of Chicago, make no mistake about it, are surely organized.
Organized crime members were as Chicago's gangs are now-a force that will not relinquish its arrogant power unless challenged by a far greater force. If we look back at the federal government's attempts to stop organized crime in the U.S., no amount of community involvement brought it to an end. Chicago's gangs are a powerful force that is not going to be intimidated by words or attempts at reason. Those horrific numbers of murders and attempted murders through the years speak for themselves. It's the idea that Chicago's gang thugs would be the least bit interested in any of those activities. It's not cynicism but experience that sometimes has me scoffing at the calls for stronger community policing, extended library hours, organized sports activities and workshops. Six years later, newly elected Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor, has repeated those same words.īut since 2012, Chicago has had over 4,000 souls murdered and over 20,000 wounded, mostly due to gang warfare.
attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, one of Fardon's first statements about Chicago's seemingly endless epidemic of violence was that the city was "not going to arrest our way out of the gang problem." Back in 2013, after President Barack Obama named Zachary Fardon the U.S.