evanston, 30 miles north of downtown chicago, home to northwestern university and multimillion dollar mansions. an idealic north shore suburb. >> this is a police search warrant. a police search warrant compromised. compromised. compromise. >> until you look closely. [ indiscernible ] >> got a guy right there, he's right there. >> when i get the [ bleep ] out of here, i know what time it is. >> it's d-day for sergeant jorn olanderring to with the police

and evanston pd, they're rounding up more than two dozen narcotics and traf wraepones traffickers p. they spent the last five months making cases an they are about to met a very big fish. >> down stairs, down stairs. down stairs, go! >> you ever work with the police before or no? >> go! >> search warrant. police search warrant. down stairs, down stairs.

downstairs, down stairs, go!sta. downstairs, down stairs, go! >> whatever you find belongs to me. whatever you find. >> you want us to tear the place up or are you going to tell us? >> no, i don't have -- there's heroin and a scale, it's mine. so anything else you find, i forgot about it or -- >> you have anything else on you. >> you? can pat me down too. i don't have anything on me, man. nothing. >> okay, we're going to taert house up. >> for what? i just told you there ain't nothing in there. >> evanston police have been waiting to tag this target, an alleged heroin dealer for a long time, pu they couldn't do it by themselves. not in a criminal commune think the small. they needed be a ace up their sleeve. >> we don't do much undercover with our own officers in town. it's almost impossible for us to get into the drug dealers because they know us, and our faces so we have to bring in outside people.

>> known me a long time, right? >> yeah. >> okay. you know i'm not -- >> so you know i'm not going. if i say there ain't nothing in there. >> you know this guy right here? >> now their trump card. >> an good day for you, man. you know what i'm saying? you got a bad case. you know what i'm saying? do you know what i'm saying? that was a question. >> okay i heard your question. >> okay, cool, cool. >> the look on his face was -- i'm screwed. i love seeing the look. right now, he's thinking, that moment, he knows he sold this guy drugs and this guy's a cop. he is standing in front of him with all the gear on. we got have a radio and everything. he knows. >> that's not all that ole ander and fellow officers have on their target. they have ceased enough illegal firepower from his house for a one-man army. >> we have everything from a 50

caliber desert eagle to 9 millimeter siging with we got springfield arms. >> at this point, all he can do is help himself. you know, it's on him. >> why would i want to talk to someone? what i'm saying, why would i want to talk to someone? >> the dealers, though know the game. they can talk and lessen it, maybe even walk. >> we've had brothers give up brothers. their own family. that's just the game. >> but even as police send the target and 35 other arrestees off to jail, they know they're only making a minor dent in a much larger problem. evanston's gang presence has been growing and so has its murder rate. in 2010, homicides rose by 600%. >> everybody's heard of evanston for northwestern university. very cultural suburb, beautiful suburb on the lake front.

very seldom do you go two or three blocks in, about the drug dealing. heroin, crack and all that. >> literally two blocks. >> yeah. it's right there. >> evanston's proximity to other affluent northern suburbs makes it central hub for drug sales north of chicago. many drug users are casual users experimenting with cocaine or heroin and some pay the ultimate price. fatalities in outlying areas more than doubled in two years. >> when a new strand of heroin comes into an area and they don't know how to cut it or the potency of it, they put it on the street. these kids are naive. human gunea pigs. that's what is frustrating. some kid for the first time comes out from one of these north enfluent neighborhood was goes into evanston to try heroin, hears it something could koo to try be a and dies the

first time. >> or lander and his team try something with the pd. this time moving higher up the food chain, taking aim at dealers who move bigger quantities of drugs. >> some of these guys don't sell from houses thp they learned that police buy from the house. they get a search warrant. so new n.o.w. they do their sales on the street. they are mobile, they feel more secure because they are mobile and moving, they are watching. what we do is make our buy byes from them there. we adapt to them. evanston, evanston. there has been a lot of shootings over there, man. the mayor knocks the project koun. guys nearing thousands of dollars. relocate to another area, this is my block. no, it's not. i'm going to show you who's

block it is. >> evanston is not the only community battling gang activity from the city. it's a widespread phenomenon, fueled in part bit closing of chicago's public housing projects. now, gangs are sprawling into 88% of the suburbs throughout cook county. >> the chief of police asked me, how do you know i have a gang problem? i tell him, chief, i have this. i understand what this stuff means. i can't be a gang expert if i don't know what this means. >> one of the best places it track the chicago's area 70 plus gangs and estimated 100,000 gang members is at the jail. most detaineeies here are held for trial as they've been charged but not convicted of crimes investigators with the criminal intelligence unit, or ciu, are assisting multiple police stationes from one. from evanston police, to schilling pd to the sheriff's police and sharing the latest

gang intel. recently, investigators began hearing about a renewed battle on the streets between two long time rivals. the latin kings and maniac latin disciples. >> it is hot over there. what kind of case you got? >> behind a mission. >> that's it? what's your background? >> couple misdemeanors. >> fighting. >> what they call you? >> maniacs. been at wares with big gangs. been at war with cobras, kang stas, kings. one of the worst is where they were killing each other. >> you see my face, you know, no single my gang. so don't shoot me. the maniac latin disciples or mlds are the second largest

street gang? chicago. they got their start on the city's northwest side and branched out from there. they now claim about to 3,000 members, who must obey strict codes of conduct. above all, no one is to cooperate with law enforcement. but sand vol and carpenter have seen gang members break that ca cardinal rule time and time again. they have personally recruited many informants from the maniac latin disciples, including this man who we're calling poncho to protect his identity. poncho's been in and out of jail several times. at one point, sand vol helped him work out a plea bargain or a drug possession case. >> ways in a bad situation and the man came and saved me. i owe him for that. >> now that he is out, he will call and who did what and what was it about. was it retaliation. he keeps us up-to-date on inside

and out. >> sand val brings a fellow member in his gang into the fold. they will work alongside each other as paid informants. >> he felt a vibe for me and he came to me and he is like, may, man, what's up? you know. i know you're doing this because i see you. and me being the man that i am, said, yeah, that's what i'm doing. he said, i want to help out too. >> it is very questionable. right now this is the beginning, helping each other out. we will see when they have their first disagreept how it turns out. >> i ain't slept all night. >> kos means kill on sight in latino gang slang. both of these men are taking extra precaution like wearing disguises on camera for their safety. er with giving poncho's partner a nickname, lefty, to conceal his identity.

>> just disappear. >> it is a fine line that you cross, that once you cross, you really can't come back. >> the maniac family is like a family. because there is the neighborhood that you grew up in, all these guys know each others for years and years. >> but for all of the gang's talk about loyalty, paranoia runs deep within their upper ranks, and for good reason. the ship's full of leaks. >> a lot of people are talking. a lot of people working with the police. they know people are working. they don't know who. so they like leery about everybody, you know. >> they have self preservation to play both sides of the fence. they also have another motive, money. both offer to help sand val and

carpenter set up a drug ring on city's west side. they could earn a percentage of any cash that police seize as a result of this sting operation. >> we can make some money, but i'm going to do it. because this is like a job for me. >> where are you now, j. >> one says it is a rush to set everybody up and they don't know who it is. it is a rush and they feed off that. this can go sour real fast. >> police, search warrant. police, search warrant. come to the door. come to the door. we're america's natural gas

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and a long time rivalry between two major latino gangs is already flairing up again. ciu investigators, adrian vand vol and drake carpenter have a pair of street informants from those gangs, the maniac latin disciples ready to go to work for them. >> it's good to have guys like me out here, there's go tock a lot of shooting. >> these confidential source is offered to set up a west side drug ring in return for money. we're calling them poncho and lefty for their protection. >> who can get us to this? >> i can. >> you can? >> yeah, i can. >> you got a kilo? >> there are ter tritories in chicago. sometimes they will work together if there's a financial opportunity. poncho and lefty are giving up members after black street gang that they do business with.

>> all about opposition, all about money. especially op on the west side. it doesn't matter what gang you're in. >> as a first step, the sheriff's police are sending an undercover officer to buy heroin from the ringleader. >> it doesn't serve a lot of people. we only serve a select clientele and our informant is one of them. >> sand val rides with one of four unmarked units while the deal goes down. >> where is he at now, j? >> he's interdugs the guy right now. >> a good deal. got 12, they are heading back to the meet spot. >>.

>> with one successful buy under their belts, investigators plan to do many more with poncho's help in order to build a conspiracy case. but they want to send out his partner, lefty, next on an undercover buy. before he gets any second thoughts. >> right now, there's only been one guy working. the other guy can still hold that against him. obviously you can not always get along with somebody. it's risky. >> everything hinges on the relationship of the two informant. in a couple of days an unforeseen event will put that relationship to the test. 13 miles north of chicago, another sheriff's police operation is in spulful swing in evanston.

the north gang unit is helping a local pd put away its own raft of usual suspects. >> you have anything besides -- >> just the weed. that was it. but it was all bagged it sell. >> yeah, it was bagged up in nickels or dimes or whatever. i sue cush. >> that will be a felony. >> for john ridgeo, it's been his fifth time in six years assisting his evanston counter parts. >> we know thousand they work and they know how we work. we can provide surveillance, undercover, that the bad guys haven't seen before. that's why we are successful. >> ridgeo himself off then goes under cover playing a role to build trust with a variety of unsaforry characters. >> hey, girl, it's unory. what's up in you going to be around today. >> one of his newest targets, an ecstasy seller that names pills

after candy. >> i'm looking for the skit eles. all right wp let me know what paper is too. all right, cool. >> she asked me if i wanted a jar, which is a hundred. i said no, half a jar. but police buy 15 pills because that's all they need to buy. so we will get a search warrant and hopefully get it out of her also. >> hey i was going to be in the area in a bit. i was going to see if i could roll through. >> we try to talk like they do. a lot of people that we arrest, you will know terminology that they like use. >> call me back. >> you can probably count the steps he's doing. he's probably on his 500th step. yeah, he paces. wear out a piece of the grass up there. >> each time that ridgeo and his fellow officers launch a new operation in evanston, they face a shrewder more calculating

adversary. >> we basically teach them how to do their job better so we need to adapt to that as well. >> you got to think like them to a point. after doing this so many years, i've had people tell me that i'm tired of this [ bleep ]. my wife is a pharmaceutical rep. i go to theirs parties or dinner. i can't relate to these people. after doing a normal job, it is hard to relate to these people. >> she said, are you sure you're not the police. >> i said, no. i wish i i was. i would have a real job then. >> she reached in and took it out of her bro bra. she said the lighter wauns are better. the darker ones are good but the lighter ones are better. they have the ecstasy in them. >> the sheriff's pd is lining up 20 more buyes with informants. they will build the strongest cases.

eventually, they will arrest them all in a massive sweep. >> that's why they call them skit els. all the flavors, i guess. >> 37 miles to south in a suburb of markham, members of the south gang unit face a more immediate mission at hand. investigator matt jenna and his fellow officers are getting ready to execute their fourth search warrant in the past week. there's never a dull moment in their neck of the woods with a greatest proliferation of street gangs anywhere in cook county outside of the inner city. >> our target, we did three kol controlled buys. all crack cocaine. >> this guy is pretty much his whole family sloked up. sew will be joining them soon. >> pull it down, pull it down, pull it down. get on the ground! ttd# 1-800-345-2550

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what you want. nothing less than a 20. >> it's the middle after nonstop week for the cook county sheriff's south gang unit based in chicago's south suburbs. invest getter matt jenna is juggling five case eats once and has many more in the pipeline. >> we have arrested this guy seven times. our department alone arrested him seven times. he has ten arrests in his background. >> on average, the sheriff's gang units served ten search warrant for drugs and guns every month. jenna and his colleagues are focused on places like robins, harvey and midlothian. the suburbs have the hottest focal point of gang activity outside of city limits. >> there is gunfire, have a position to cover that you can move to. all right, guys, let's gear up and go outside and rehearse. >> this guy sold a lot of crack cocaine. he has really jet to see any jail time. hopefully this will be the nail in the coffin right here.

>> all right. >> here we go. >> hands up, hands up! pull it down, pull it down, pull it down! get on the ground, get on the ground! >> police run into their target on the stairs by chance. >> police, search warrant! >> then, they hit his apartment. >> they find what they came looking for right in plain view. >> half of what we recovered. a nice amount of crack cocaine there. that's a good hit there, that's a real good hit. >> remember me? >> yeah, man. >> guess i caught you, huh? >> based on how much activity they see, the sheriff gang investigators find it hard to believe that crime is down in chicago as the city and some sub bush an police departments reported. >> you know, there is the

expression of lies for the lies and statistics. >> different towns have different agendas. most of them are noble. but there are other ones that the last thing they want to do is acknowledge a crime problem because it might impact housing and the rest. so there is an educated guess. the public would be flabbergasted if they knew how little police departments actually talked to each other. >> but one thing is certain, as theciy demolished more than 25 public housing units, the gangs moved out ward. they became a part of 100 thousand residents from other low-kin um sites, forced to relocate during the past two decades. that's made a lasting impact on communities to the south and to north, including evanston. >> evanston is kind after mini chicago. we have the diverse wit the

neighborhoods. we have $5 million house oepts lake and a lot of section eight housing and poverty and pockets of bad areas within the good areas. >> evanston police officers, liz lynn and jimmy pim ars are part of the police. they i have sai they know the drug tealers in town and have recruited informants to help bring them down. >> we do what it takes to get good charges on them. >> there is a lot of drugs here. this is the -- >> the hub. >> yeah, the epicenter of this area. >> you will see guys posted up here as either look outs or whistling down block. >> or handing out business cards. >> that too. >> we got this guy was handing out business cards. this particular business card. at one of the red lion stations and he actually gave it to one of my informants. his card says, a hundred bags, call me first.

which is bags of rock. street slang for crack cocaine. according to the informant, he had a whole of them and was just handing them out to people at the station. >> today an undercover sheriff's police officer will be buying product from the enterprising young dealer. six unmarked units roll out to set up surveillance outside the meet spot. >> the target's insigh the subway, sitting down looking at the stree. we are underneath a $2.69 daily special sign. >> come around towards howard from ashland. >> there you go. >> it's going to go down right next to us. >> target's in the back seat. >> tell him the target's still inside the vehicle. >> target just got out.

he has a walking -- >> all right. very good. >> uc claims it's a good deal. >> in an hour we will send an undercover officer back in. say this stuff is good. we will take six more. this guy now is known as well. >> nice. >> into the back seat. >> he is counting the money walking way. >> on to the next one. >> next on "the squeeze." >> the community is in an uproar over it, the police are in an uproar over it. >> it's a turn of the tide. >> get ready because we're going to hit the whole gang. [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up!

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because it takes guts, man. >> one informant alone shoulders enough risk by working with authorities. but a team of two, enormously ups the stakes as each entrusts his life with the other. investigator adrian sand val and this pair of informants who we have been calling poncho and lefty, just started an investigation it nab a drug ring on chicago's west side. their plan takes a 180 degree turn, however, one week later. it's at this place ground that gunfire erupts in avondale park, a neighborhood on the northwest side. bullets strike two little girls, a 7-year-old and 2-year-old. piercing one in the back and grazing the other in the head. both survive their injuries. and police capture the alleged gunman. a maniac latin disciple trying to shoot at a gang rival and missed. >> this was an outrageous act. >> chicago's new police superintendent declares war on

the maniac latin disciples. >> their entire organization is going to be held accountable for the actions of one of them. >> it's a turn of the tide and everybody, we won't be playing. well set an example and anybody shooting kids, get ready, because we're going to hit the whole gang. >> poncho and lefty who belong to the gang, now find themselves caught in the middle. prior to the shooting they helped sand val map out the entire city wide hierarchy of the association. >> so the governor and minister. >> now that information takes on a whole new relevance. >> how accurate is this? is he the chief enfon forcer? >> they are well organized, obviously. it can help them and also hurts them. they have structure. they have somebody to answer to and somebody to delegate what will happen. but if one of their main guys who is highly involved decides to help us out, it is so much

easier to take them all down. >> they share the intel with chicago police who have a massive crack down. within two weeks of the shooting, chicago police arrest 120 maniac disciples. many on misdemeanors and outstanding warrants. >> when a cops come and sweep ut the area, not only did you send a message to the maniac lat disciples, you send a message to all gangs city wide. >> one of the informants, lefty in the meantime -- >> lefty claims the shooter acted alone without authorization from the gang pep had been fighting with some latin kings but now, not even his own gang, will defend them.

>> as the maniac latin disciples wait for dust to settle, their drug sales dry up with all of the heat on their neighborhoods. they also expect their rivals, latin kings, to retaliate since they were the intended targets. for poncho and lefty, the stakes suddenly couldn't be higher. >> [ indiscernible ]. >> you could have definitely been caught, the w the sweep going down. you could be sitting behind bars. >> investigators sand val and carpenter decide to strike while the iron's hot. they want to use poncho and lefty it take down the so-called

nation house where the maniac latin disciples store their firearms. >> this is where they mostly all hang out. but this house is in charge of supplying all of the guy nets neighborhood. with weapons, ammunition. >> they will have security probably front and back. so we will definitely have to be prepared. >> despite the risk, their informants agree to help. they identify one house in particular where gang not only keeps guns but also sells narcotics. the next 12e7, the sheriff's police will send an undercover officer there to buy drugs to obtain a search warrant. >> well take out the mid level people in that gang, hopefully from that point. some of the violence will slow down. snooze these guys are out there shooting people so we can hurry up and get these guns off the street. that will be great. >> coming up on "the squeeze". >> i right his name and i get absolutely nothing. like he doesn't exist. >> he is the person you want to deal with further.

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♪ it's not acceptable even in jail. they don't accept guys who kill kids. there are guys with a lost anger or animosity that would love to beat up one of these guys that didn't follow the rules of children. >> in wake after gang-related shooting that wounded two little girls on chicago's northwest side, authorities are cracking down on the maniac latin

disciples. as we saturate their neighborhoods they are sending more and more so-called maniacs to jail. the alleged shooter himself is being held here under tight security. >> this kid is in fear for his life. we have to care about him getting killed. his actions caused efrp to get locked up. now the maniacs from humboldt park might go where wr this they might retaliate and because this kid affected our drug sale now we have to send a message because of his action. >> what's going on with your guys, man? >> i don't know. the police, number one his lit right now. >> i know, if he shot the girls, i beat them up myself. that's crazy. >> that's not part of the game. >> no, you don't shoot in an open park. you shoot at the person you shoot. not in the open park. >> when you talk to them, you can listen to the truth.

shootings are happening all over the city, nobody cares. happened to be two little girls if a nicer neighborhood. what happened? >> chicago police, their objective it so catch us and arrest us. our objective as gang bangers or criminals is to get the hell away. they are doing their job, i'm doing mine. >> 24 miles south of chicago, sergeant terry tab and his team are playing the cat and mouse game today in a town full of gang activity. >> we get people that will call us directly in our office and say, this person is selling drug overs here. this person was seen with a gun. just different stuff a lot of times. we try to follow up on it any time we get the complaint. >> several individuals -- >> went to the lovely town of harvey. got a couple of citizens complaints in an area where a

lot of vice lords are at. >> as tan and his fellow officer roll through a hot block, they make a traffic stop on a driver who is a little too eager to get away. >> you want to start playing these games, i'll lock you up right now for obstruction. >> i need to see his id too. >> the house that we just passed by, that he picked this guy up, is the house we're looking at. he is giving us attitude. as far as his passenger, he has given us a name and date of birth and nothing in the bag. >> i need to identify who you are. >> just look at them and see how nervous they are. you got to pay attention to things like that. you never know. somebody might be ready to take off, somebody might be toward pull a gun out. somebody might be ready to do anything. >> he is shaking like a leaf. see his chest?

i run his name out of texas and illinois and get absolutely nothing, like he doesn't exist. what's up with you? you never been arrested before in your life? what's your social? >> i don't know it by heart. >> you don't know it by heart? >> no, don't know it by heart. >> you don't know a social. nothing coming back. that ain't right, man. something ain't right. >> while matt jenna focuses on the passenger, sergeant tab makes a curious discovery on the truck's rear bumper. >> yeah, those do look like blood drops right there. >> absolutely. >> those right there. >> i think he needs to come out and explain this. >> what were you hauling that was all ready? yeah. stuff that looks like blood all over your tailgate. i got to make sure you don't have anybody in there. >> my tailgate all red? >> come on, step out of the car. >> this guy right here, we

mention blood splatter and his neck was shaking like you wouldn't believe. >> take my vehicle, take it. >> i don't want to take it. i want it make sure there is nobody in your tailgate. >> i'm not trying to be an [ bleep ] man. >> i'm being very professional. >> i can't be simple because i'm upset right now. can you open my tailgate and do whatever you want. >> are you going to open it or go to jail? >> i'm testimonying you i'm upset. >> i'm just making sure there ain't nobody in here, man. >> you want to tell me what that red stuff is on the back of the truck? >> that's ruby red mulch. >> that's mulch? >> there's no body in the truck but tab and jenna discover that the passenger has a warrant for assault in illinois after he confesses his real name. their records show he is classified as armed and dangerous. they take him into custody.

and reluctantly let the driver go. >> this guy, he has been around the block quite a few times, you can tell. he is the type of person that you just want to dig further because he seems like he was hiding something for sure. maybe he thought we had something on him already. how many guys will they search? you know what i'm saying? we want to figure out away to get a warrant by thursday. >> time is of the essence for adrian sando val whose plan to target the maniac disciples is in motion. two of his informant, who we are calling poncho and lefty, agreed it help take down a so-called nation house where the gang stores weapons and sells narcotics. their access will enable the sheriff's police it make undercover drug buys at the house for the purpose of getting a search warrant. >> they see the strong hold to

that block or that area. this location isn't just the little hangout. >> within a few days, investigators wrap up enough buys for a warrant. they want to hit the house fast before the maniac latin disciples, who are already feeling the heat, move their weapons elsewhere. >> went inside the house. police search warrant. police, search warrant. , search. police, search warrant.

the community is in an uproar over it. the police are in an uprover over it. so hitting this house, we will hopefully send a message. >> they are in the drive way now. >> police have declared war on

the maniac latin disciples in chicago, following a gang-related shooting that hit two little girls that were by stapders. standers. now eight days later, the sheriff's police have a warrant to sear after so-called nation house where the gang allegedly stashes guns and drugs. went inside the house. >> back inside the house. >> come to the door. come to the door! police, search warrant. police, search warrant. come to the door, come to the door.

>> police clear the house within minutes. they find a tenant, an alleged maniac latin disciple inside. they take him into custody and begin searching the premises while the neighborhood watches. the last thing that investigators expect to happen, however, is to walk away with almost nothing. they find a misdemeaner amount of marijuana and paraphernalia but not the weapons that they counted on. >> you have two options. charge you and you go to court tomorrow. or you work with the police. i know there was guns in your house at one time because this is nation stash house. okay? you moved them. because of that chicago. i will take the weed and paraphernalia and send it to the state lab. of that, i can charge you any time i want. but within the next week, you hand me two guns and this is how your case is going to go away.

>> there was a lot of guys on that block bp so a lot of people seeing them get hit. a lot of people seeing him get let kbo. go. we will see what happens. and he knows if he doesn't come through, it won't be hard to catch him. >> in the weeks that follow, the suspect decides it take his chances with authorities. he never turns over the guns. >> what are they saying at the meetings, other than stay down? >> stay low, man. stay low. i just play is by ear, you know. >> after the failed police raid, investigators sandoval and carpenter follow up with their informants. poncho and lefty claim that gang moved its weapons to another location a day before police arrived and they only found out after the fact.

[ indiscernible ] >> in certain respects, both informants weather the storm better than anyone else. timing and luck were on their side. >> kind of worked out bet are for them. they're not worried about anybody thinking they will be up here working with the police when everybody is trying to hide from the police right now. >> they have have a bun now. if they didn't before, they have one now. a code of silence between them will be real strong. >> as long as chicago police continue cracking down on the maniac latin disciples, the gang will stay on its heels, losing status and money in the drug trade. >> we got to find the connects. [ indiscernible ] >> knock the whole organization out in one fell swoop. but it has definitely done some damage.

sent a big shock wave. >> now they are not retaliating and fighting back against law enforcement, but they will try to stay a step ahead. which is what they normally do when they are organized. they will do what they have to do to survive. >> authorities are getting ready to hit the gangs in evanston in one fell swoop. as the joint operation between the sheriff's police and evanston pd nears its end game, investigators are looking at arresting 20 targets in the area. >> i would like it keep this rolling through july, august and do the sweep right before school starts. because once we hit them hard like that, everything shuts down. then these kids can go to school, they are pretty much all that crack will be off the street for while. so that would be ideal. >> before the summer ends in chicago, a reputed maniac latin disciple bludgeons a boy a