Chicago still has a murder rate three times that of New York City. ibid.
The Gangster Disciples once run like a large corporation are now broken into rogue cliques with no loyalty to anyone. ibid.
This gang has a problem with authority. Especially within its own ranks. The gang is destroying itself. It’s destroying part of Chicago. This is the messed-up world of the MLDs – the Maniac Latin Disciples. Gangland s2e1: Maniacal
The Maniac Latin Disciples weren’t always murderers. They started in the 1960s as a club. ibid.
These Lady Ds helped the gang steer clear of the police. ibid.
They used any weapon they could find. ibid.
Hernandez died. And with one act of violence the relationship between the Latin Kings and the Latin Disciples changed for ever. ibid.
Many LDs would do anything to wear the crown. ibid.
A new drug came to the streets of Humboldt Park – crack cocaine. ibid.
By the summer of 1998 the FBI had stepped in ... Operation Devil’s Head. ibid.
The gang survives. The Maniac Latin Disciples have ruled Humboldt Park for four decades. ibid.
A massive bomb explodes in the centre of the city. A message from the vicious motorcycle gang The Outlaws. Bikers driven by greed. Who will stop at nothing to protect their interests. The Drugs. The women. The brutality. We go deep inside the world of the Outlaws. Gangland s2e3: Biker Wars
Three goals: money, power and territory. ibid.
The Outlaws were waging all-out war on any club that supported the Angels. ibid.
God forgives; Outlaws don’t. ibid. Outlaws slogan
When the trials were over, sixteen were found guilty. ibid.
They are Chicago’s oldest gang. And one of its most violent. The Vice Lords: for decades they have shrouded the west-side streets in blood. They started off as a group of young boys. And rose to become one of the most feared criminal organisations in America. Gangland s2e6: Lords of the Holy City
While walking his dogs one morning Willie was ambushed. ibid.
The Vice Lords began in 1958 in a Juvenile Detention Centre is St Charles, a suburb of Chicago. The boys soon returned to their homes in South Lawndale ... By the early 1960s the Vice Lords were involved in every sort of criminal activity. ibid.
By 1966 the Vice Lords were part of the civil rights movement. ibid.
Heroin was changing the Vice Lords. ibid.
The streets of Chicago where the mid-West meets the wild West. On the south side one gang – the Satan Disciples – reigns supreme. These gangstas worship just one thing. Chicago’s south side is the Devil’s Playground. Gangland s3e3: The Devil’s Playground
The different sets are structured under one umbrella – the Satan Disciple Nation. ibid.
Bobby has lost two brothers to gang life. ibid.
Gangs formed for protection including the Latin Kings and the Vice Lords. ibid.
The Satan Disciples’ colours are yellow and black. ibid.
Their ink is full of devilish imagery. ibid.
Chicago: It is also the birthplace of the modern gang as we know it. Gangland s4e3: Divide and Conquer
Humboldt Park is the birthplace of the almighty Latin King & Queen Nation. ibid.
50,000 strong nationwide, making them a super-gang ... Yet all roads lead back to Chicago. ibid.
Latin Queens are every bit as hardcore as the Kings. ibid.
In the 1960s the Latin Kings found themselves in the thick of the Equal Rights Movement. ibid.
What is required is loyalty and the willingness to work. ibid.
It’s the crown jewel of America’s heartland. But Chicago’s cold winds blow deadly. The Four Corner Hustlers own these streets. But everything they touch turns to violence and death, even between brothers. Gangland s5e5: Hustle or Die
They pledge allegiance to the almighty dollar. ibid.
The Four Corners’ biggest rival – a gang called the Black Souls who claim turf just to the west. ibid.
In 2008 there were 229 gang-related killings in Chicago. ibid.
The Fours have crews all over America, but it started more than forty years ago in Chicago’s West Garfield Park area. ibid.
In the mid-seventies heroin flooded the streets of Chicago, and the gangs decided they wanted in on the action. ibid.
It’s on in the Motor City. And one gang has declared war. They are the Devil’s Disciples. Gangland s6e7: Devil’s Diciples [sic], History 2010
Dealing drugs isn’t their only vice. These gangstas reject society’s laws. ibid.
In addition to their house-mouse, members are allowed a certain number of girlfriends ... Women are never more than second class citizens. ibid.
Our organisation is a non-violent organisation. We fight to protect. We’re not the enemy. Jeff Ford, el presidenté Blackstone/Keystone Rangers
You are talking about the advent of the black organised crime. The Black Mafia. Terry Hillard, Chicago rozzer
It didn’t start out as a gang. We protected the store-owners, we protected the women, the mothers, the families ... I wanted to excel at something, and I did excel in violence. James Anderson (P Stone aka Satan)
The Power. The Prestige. The reputation. James Anderson
They call it the Twilight Zone. Ray Rolan, former Maniac Latin Disciple
Larry Hoover is King Larry, long time monarch of Chicago’s largest and most powerful street organization – the Gangster Disciples. American Gangster: Larry Hoover & the Gangster Disciples, BET 2007
1968: a merger: Black Disciples & Supreme Gangsters = Gangster Disciples. ibid.
‘I was making over a thousand dollars a day.’ ibid. Larry Hoover
As the leader, Hoover was often the target. ibid.
1988: the family business known simply as the Chambers Brothers came to a quiet end. American Gangster: Chambers Brothers and the Crack Commandments
Titans of industry in the drug trade: they even instituted a crack-house business code. ibid.
An estimated three hundred crack houses. ibid.
Some called them America’s first black street movement; to others they were Chicago’s most notorious street gang ... the Almighty Black P Stone Nation. Jeff Fort & the Blackstone Rangers
Federal money was bypassing city hall and going directly into the hands of TWO [The Woodlawn Organization] and gang leaders like Jeff Fort. ibid.
The Black Panthers were gaining force on the streets of Chicago, and trying to convince Jeff Fort to join with them as a force for social change. ibid.
Jeff Fort, raised as a Southern Baptist, had converted to Islam. ibid.
Chicago: home to some of the biggest open-air drugs markets in America. Gangs work in highly organised teams selling drugs on blocks and street corners. And the product they’re pushing hardest is heroin. Drugs Inc s4e3: Windy High City
An estimated 250,000 drug users in Chicago. Many of these users can be found on the West Side. ibid.
The popularity of Chicago Kush. ibid.
Chicago: the drug hub of the mid-west. Drugs Inc s6e12: Sin-Dependence Day
The stick-up crews are watching ... Their favourite target is cocaine dealers. ibid.
Recently switched from selling ecstasy to selling Molly. ibid.