to validate a gang member., known association with another gang member, admission and if they are a validated gang member, they are shipped off to one of three prisons throughout the state. >> those three prisons contain california's most restrictive cell blocks. they're known as security housing units or the shu. one is located at pelican bay. >> many of them are in here indeterminately. they'll never leave shu until a committee decides they are not a part of a gang anymore. >> this officer works at the shu. he told us a simple lapse on his part could result in gang warfare. >> if i were to pop two doors at the same time and they were, the mexican-american from los angeles and a mexican-american from sacramento, the odds are very, very good they would immediately commence to fight because that is expected of them in prison. that's the rules of the game. if word got out that they had an opportunity and didn't go after someone, they would have some explaining to do. that's just life in prison. >> they are restri

own gangs. by and large los angeles we're talking about latino and african-american. >> host: does your ethnicity determine which can you may or may not belong to? >> guest: it is becoming more elastic. it used to, but gains by four different members and want to become bigger. i know now that mexican gangs and central american games will take black members. african american games will. so the real answer to your question is it it depends. also, there are now taking female members. that did not used to be the case a couple of generations ago. >> host: house central to the lives of adolescence and young people in south-central l.a. are these gangs? >> guest: that is a great question. it depends. they are still there. they still -- not to the extent i have seen in the past. does it is still there, still part of the history, still part of the generation , but with the young people i see coming of they are beginning to perceive of alternatives. is a slow, slow process. nothing changes overnight, but

as being prison gangs. no ester familia is known as nf. or the family. the junior high school to their high school would be the northern structure. >> the northern structure is composed of california hispanics from north of los angeles. >> the nazi low riders, they refer to themselves as the nlr. >> the nazi low riders is a white supremacist gang formed in the '60s. membership can only be achieved by killing someone, and death is the only way out. >> the bgf is the black guerilla family. >> the black guerilla family is the only recognized black prison gang. street gangs like the crips and bloods are merely regarded by prison officials as disruptive groups. but the most notorious gang in the california prison system is called the mexican mafia. >> the mexican mafia is known as m.a., la m.a. they will be recognized by the eme, which is the spanish letter "m." >> the mexican mafia was born in california prisons in the mid 1950s. its members, who swear allegiance for life, are mostly mexican-americans from sout

own gangs. by and large los angeles we're talking about latino and african-american. >> host: does your ethnicity determine which can you may or may not belong to? >> guest: it is becoming more elastic. it used to, but gains by four different members and want to become bigger. i know now that mexican gangs and central american games will take black members. african american games will. so the real answer to your question is it it depends. also, there are now taking female members. that did not used to be the case a couple of generations ago. >> host: house central to the lives of adolescence and young people in south-central l.a. are these gangs? >> guest: that is a great question. it depends. they are still there. they still -- not to the extent i have seen in the past. does it is still there, still part of the history, still part of the generation , but with the young people i see coming of they are beginning to perceive of alternatives. is a slow, slow process. nothing changes overnight, but

we're a street gang. they consider us a street gang.t's not structured, we're not considered, you know, like mafiawise -- we don't control the outside, money laundering and things like that, you know what i mean? they can't validate us. >> what do you want to do with the bulldogs? >> whatever it takes. this is my life now, there's no chance for me to get out. i'm going to have to die sometime. i might as well go out with a bang, you know? >>> coming up, even in the shu, robert's always ready for battle. >> this is my shoe sole, i don't mess with my hands. i count, it's as close as we're going to get to pullups. >> and later, a gang dropout struggles with life on the sensitive needs yard. losing your chex mix too easily? deploy the boring potato chip decoy bag. with a variety of tastes and textures, only chex mix has twenty bags of interesting. pick your mix. today, more and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about long-acting levemir®, an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. and levemir

professor what did gangs teach you and how? >> what they taught me was her mother is very little difference between all of us it almost sounds like a cliche but i continue to learn that they're not that different from any of the rest of us with surgery lazore it is but somewhere along the way they took a different turn. >>host: how long have you been working with gangs? >>guest: if you go to the lapd your law enforcement they have of very strict definition, three or more people congregating in public's behalf with criminal activities you could get very specific down to the number. >>host: three or more people? eighty-one not just three people hanging out but in a criminal activity. so they make a plan to do something that does not fall within the range of the law. but to take up a broader look. i've had king member say law enforcement is the biggest gang of all. people that belong to restore your a fraternity. girl scouts or boy scouts and uniforms and rituals and symbols and so it depends. how long have i been involved trying

we're a street gang. they consider us a street gang. it's not structured, we're not considered, you know, like mafiawise -- we don't control the outside, money laundering and things like that, you know what i mean? they can't validate us. >> what do you want to do with the bulldogs? >> whatever it takes. this is my life now, there's no chance for me to get out. i'm going to have to die sometime. i might as well go out with a bang, you know? >>> coming up, even in the shu, robert's always ready for battle. >> this is my shoe, i don't mess with my hands. i count, it's as close as we're going to get to pullups. >> and later a gang dropout struggles with life on the sensitive needs yard. so what's this? check it out. i just saved 15% on car insurance in 15 minutes, so i took a selfie to show everyone how happy i am. really? because esurance saved me money in half that time. can i...? oh you can be in it! no need to photo-bomb me. hashbrown. selfie. yeah... that's not how it works. 15 minutes for a quote isn't how it works anymore. start wit

or gang dropout, which is me. don't get it mixed up. i'm a gang dropout. you can be whoever you want to be. you can be a transvestite. you can be a snitch. and no one is going to trip on you. if i go to main line, let's say i get escorted past the main lines, they are going to call me a piece of [ bleep ], rat because i've told certain things to get here. >> is your life in danger? >> yes. if i go to the main line, if i go to the streets and they recognize me as a gang dropout, they're going to try to hit me, which means kill me or slice me or shoot me. >> when he was younger, george might have carried out that very hit. but as he rose through the ranks, he questioned his involvement in the gang. >> it took me from '88 to '99 to figure out that it was a big ole lie, big old smokescreen. most of the people who are calling the shots are lifers anyway. and misery loves company. they would like to see you as a violator doing life just like them, caught up in the system doing life. >> you're moving my head that way. >> i'm not moving it. you're moving it. >> i

if you think they're gang?ain to you -- explain to me what the meanings are to you. >> why? they're for me, they're not for you, for anyone else. they're for me. >> in the back pages of your phone book, you have a lot of inmates' names and numbers. why? >> because they're my homies. >> so you consider them associates, homies? homies being your friends? >> why not? i know them. >> okay. has anybody tried to recruit you to be in a gang? >> no. >> do you have any tattoos that identify you as being a gang member? >> yeah, i do. street gang. >> what street gang do you belong to? >> west side. >> west side out of where? >> from mt. magordo. >> what we're going to do is we're going to keep this for now. we're going to make copies of the names and inmates you have in there and put it in your file then give it back to you. >> do you have any other questions? all right. >> armando hasn't been validated as a prison gang member yet, but he's on his way. back in level vi, happy is headed to the parole board. >> i just came

for instance, if they belong to some sort of white supremacist gang, hispanic gang, asian gang. >> ever been diagnosed with an std? >> no. >> ever had sex with an iv drug user? >> no. >> each inmate is given a thorough medical screening to determine their medical history and prevent the spread of disease. the inmates will spend most of their first day in this holding cell, named the library after its former purpose. it's here the inmates will have their first prison meal. >> a lot better than where i just came from, that's for sure. >> i was told it would actually be a lot better. after the population started getting worse and worse, the food started getting worse. >> randy russell is no stranger to usp. he first came in at the age of 15 and did 17 years on a robbery charge. >> randy, it's not good to see you. okay? >> now, randy's back on a parole violation, leaving behind a wife and four children. >> at one time when i thought i was going to come back i even asked my wife, should i run? she goes, i'm not going to make that call, she goes, but you can't take me with you. if i'm not wit

>> what gang are you affiliated with? how do you deal with your gang affiliation once you leave here? >> i'm going to ignore them and go to school. >> you think ignoring them is going to work? >> hopefully. >> did it work last time? >> no, last time, i didn't have future plans. i got out, i didn't have my ged. i didn't have no future plans. now i do. i got an education. i got my ged. i'm going to go to college and play football. >> what was your intent with the gun? why did you have it? >> protection. >> from? >> other gang members. >> let me ask you this -- if i sent one of my sergeants to shake your room down right now and your release was dependent on whether or not there was stg material in your room, are you leaving or not? >> coming up on "lockup, pendleton juvenile." >> you were just talking about your victims, you were smiling. why were you smiling? >> tension-filled hours for andrew and abel. there's no guarantee either will go home. later, we find out what happened to the officer marcus branch attacked. just vis

then telling you he's in a gang. not going to tell them. they're humble people and deserve respect. >> reporter: their 16-year-old son ended up here. it looks like a bus station. but it's the city morgue. and dozens of people are waiting out here for information on their loved ones. there's just bodies piled up in here from all of the violent. this woman has been waiting all night and all day to claim her husband's body. he was shot the night before for his cell phone, killed right in front of her. >> reporter: her father waits nearby. at first, barely able to speak. >> i'm afraid. >> reporter: you're afraid for your daughter's life? both of them are so scared. >> they don't want us to show their faces. you're thinking about leaving. where would you go? >> wherever. it doesn't matter. any country, any place where we can find peace and work. >> reporter: a few feet away, parents are desperately looking for their missing children. unsure if they are dead or alive. later that night, the family who sent their son away fo

he was shot to death by the gang.won't show the parents' faces or their names because they're still in danger. the gangs are after their oldest son, too. >> reporter: for their son's protection, they send him into hiding, to a safehouse, a few hours away. tonight, they will take us to see him. do you feel like you need to get out? >> reporter: gang violence, fueled by drug trafficking, makes here the ground zero for migrants being the danger zone. forcing some parents to hand off their children to strangers to save them. this exodus is causing the crisis on the u.s. border. 80% of the cocaine that comes into the united states, passes through honduras first. here we are. we're at another crime scene now. we got word that three people were shot. and may have been a drug shoot-out. one guy is playing in the parking lot behind his truck over here. the car just riddled with bullet holes. gangs and cartels are the usual suspects. during the week we were here, 39 people were murpded in and around san pedro sula. many of them

his presence during the interview is required by the gang.olicy is to have a monitor whenever one of them speaks to the media. >> what are you listening for as far as what he can or can't say? >> you know, the basic stuff? just stuff you can't say. you know. like the lifestyle, you know. prison, politics. jail politics. it stays with us. it doesn't go nowhere. >> the gang life has led to more serious implications in nieves' life, such as his mobility, he doesn't regret. >> i don't regret it. i don't regret it. >> the own thing i miss is fighting. that's it. fighting because i could defend myself. i could defend myself against anybody. >> coming up -- >> he made a statement that we don't have to speak. we're just two inmates in a cell. >> so you are not talking to each other? >> no. >> two cellmates have a falling out. and -- >> you just told all over on yourself. >> i am in jail anyway. >> danielle benefield comes clean about the skirmish that landed her in segregation. [ laughter ] ♪ oh >> some inmates at santa rita jail fill the void in the

to get out of a gang inside a prison. and in order to do that, there's a whole debriefing process they have to go through. and it basically entails the inmate coming in and confessing everything's he's done with the gang and sometimes even, you know, throwing some people under the bus and confessing against other people. so it's really a deadly thing for someone to do inside a prison. >> when inmates debrief, they must write a lengthy account of their criminal history both in and out of prison. the review process can take months. but if accepted, the inmates will be allowed to live in the safety of a protective custody unit and be granted many more privileges than they would have had as confirmed gang members. >> because of your march 11th, '99, incident with another inmate that you almost killed, came very close to killing, we have a question about your sincerity about debriefing. >> "lockup" cameras were at california state prison corcoran when thomas spiller, a long-time gang member, went before the inmate review board

so here once again we talk about gang members, gang members. do you ask 5-year-olds whether they're in gangs? >> again, i'm looking into -- >> because you got to ask them all, right? 3, 4, 5, 6, 7-year-olds. >> it is my understanding when we believe someone presents a national security or criminal justice threat, based on the biometric data we collect, we follow up. i don't imagine we often do that with 5-year-olds or probably never. >> that's what i thought. but they're probably going to want you to ask 5-year-olds if they're gang members. do you check them for ebola but they're probably going to want you to ask 5-year-olds if they're gang members. do you check them for ebola virus? >> well, i do know that individuals -- >> because they're very concerned about that. >> i do know that individuals do receive health screenings at the border. >> they do receive health screenings. so maybe next time they're going to ask you, you should check them, see if they have that virus before they contaminate everybody in the united states. so when they come

at santa rita, the largest percentage of those are gang dropouts. >> any time we get gang dropouts saying gang for whatever reason, were whether it be politics, caught a charge that wasn't going to put them in good standing with the gang and they're in dropout, we can't put them in general population because they'll be subject to attack. >> it's cold as hell. >>> it is. >> gabriel is in protective custody because he left one of the most notorious gangs, the northerners. >> they like to leave a mark on your face, specifically the cheek, cut you with a razor. it's an identifying mark to let everyone know you're no good. i am not trying to sound like i'm tougher than i am. let me be the one to tell you, i'm not a gangster. i'm trying to get by. i'm a hustler. i'm a product of the ghetto. >> he said he left the gang in part because his status had suddenly become uncertain. >> when i was 18 or 19 i was put in maximum security unit and there was a question mark on my head that i had something to do with one of our so-called homies being decease. i didn't kill the guy, but they had a question ma

in london the problem of gang crime may have been falling but the problem of gang culture is still very much real that's leading to fears of a ticking time bomb shelters and a farmer takes up the story. gang crime and shocking scenes like these were becoming rarer in london cheatings had fallen by half in stabbings by a third over the last two years but community leaders a nice sounding the alarm over recent upturn in violence and ironically some blame operation trident a police game relaunch to tackle gangs after the london riots in twenty eleven what tribe has done taken out many of the low low level to put soldiers that used meat on the street and in the small amount of drugs and let the boy and now people are fighting over it out for it and the people who are now stepping into that void are more violent than the one that it's a concern born out in recent crime figures in parts of north london knife crime has risen by thirty percent in the last twelve months while turf wars have been sparked by the vacuum left after active gang members were jailed community project leader sheldon tho

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s we've been really clear that you don't solve a problem like gang crime by police action alone it's really about understanding what are the things that causes a young person to get into a gang what are the things that would get them to leave a gang and of course there are things that the police on the expert in things like addressing mental health concerns keeping people opportunities for employment of training those are things so the rest of london needs to join together and i think we've seen some success in that. success though that's been hamstrung by cutbacks but him ducasse has worked hard to fight gang culture in london's could if communities. do two or three of the measures funding to community groups charities willing to introspect up is reduced dramatically so i think government has to find or think twice about tackling this is a key issue as well. there is no doubt that london's gangs have been weakened since the riots of twenty eleven but the long term wisdom of projects like operation trident and i being questioned putting offenders under lock and key may bring down cri

but here's the point i want to make, gang. if it takes four seconds to go from here to here, it takes four seconds to go from here to here. so i ask people when they get up there, do you suppose if you jump, you could hit the pool? and how would you find out? and here's what you do. you figure out how fast, how far out you could jump in one second, okay, in one second, then multiply that four times and you got it. it turns out you'll really hit way down here. let me--i hit something like way in here, see? in one second, i can jump that far, two seconds that far, three seconds that far, four seconds that far. so it turns out, it gets very, very steep very, very quickly and you get so far. knowledge of physics. you people are gonna find out that as you learn more and more physics, your social life is gonna increase because people are gonna gather around you. people are gonna find you more interesting, okay, because you're gonna have things to talk about now, okay? just like the time years ago, a fellow came to the town in san fr

that's right, it's one second, gang. 'cause if it's gonna take one second for something to fall five meters and you toss it out, it's still five meters vertical. it's like this thing over here. if this is five units down, this one comes out, it's still five units down stretched out, huh? so it's gonna take one second. so 25 meters divided by 1 second gives you 25 meters per second. isn't that neat? there's some good physics there, gang. do you like? let me ask you a question. would the ball be in the air for a longer time if there were a hill like this? yes. would the ball be in the air for a longer time if the earth's curvature came into play? yeah. it turns out if he throws that thing really fast, it might go so far out that the curve of the earth is falling away. you see that? in fact, if he keeps throwing faster and faster and faster, he might throw it off the earth altogether. isaac newton, physics type in 1700, figured it out like this. consider a mountain on the earth that's so high that it's up above air drag and

you go from one gang, as a dropout and you form another gang.it just doesn't seem to end. >> these people in here, they want you to do something for them. i'd rather just take care of mine, handle my business, see my family one day, you know? >> when you come to prison, it's still our obligation to protect you no matter what. you know, the department's view about gangs is to disassemble, get those individuals to drop out, tell on each other, because we gain better control of our population. it's an ongoing process that never stops. >> let's go, gentlemen. come on. let's go. >> i'm in protective custody because i'm a dropout. dropping out means telling. it means you gave up everything you had to give up to secure a place over here. if you try to fake a debrief, they'll know about it. and then they'll just put you at the back of the list and you'll have to wait all over again and that's probably another five to six to seven years because people are dropping like flies. there's a lot of people just like me. i mean, we're involved in drug traffickin

that's a gang under the folk nation. the first gang experience was probably when i was probably 14. part of it was just kind of like another family, and the other part of it was just fitting in. it's an adrenaline rush. it got your adrenaline pumping and i don't know. a lot of teenagers, that's kind of what we do it for is that adrenaline rush. i got my first felony when i was 9, and like a lot of my family kind of -- they was with me at first and then they kind of gave up on me. because they seen i kept getting locked up and they figured there was no hope for me. >> the adolescents, sometimes when they go through the court system, i like to say they're a three-time loser. many of the parents have been through court, numerous times, they've seen their child kicked out of school, kicked out of the community. honestly, once they come in to our system, a lot of the parents have said i can't do this anymore. >> indiana department of correction commissioner david donahue says it takes a special kind of person to work with the juvenile population. >> our community support or lack thereof

that's how the prison gang system works. so me and two friends of mine, fellow gang members, went into his cell to play cards with him. the plan was for his partner in pinochle lose on purpose and to get him down to do push-ups. and when he got down to do push-ups, i got down on his back and applied a little pressure. that was my excuse to get up next to him. at which time, i put my arm around his throat, kind of choked him out a little bit to make him weak. but he wasn't dead yet because i wanted him to feel exactly what was going to happen to him. i didn't want him to make a lot of noise, because the co is 15 tiers away. he could have heard me at any time. and another inmate passed me a razor shank, and i slashed his throat repeatedly. blood was everywhere. and then another inmate passed me a shank about that long, with a handle on it. and i just started stabbing him. stabbed him over 100 times, in the back, sides, neck, he was crying, telling me to stop, begging for me to stop. and he was still alive through all of it. th

bug, we just exported the gang life out there. >> randall's gang activity led to his incarceration at the youth facility and soon after, prison. there he joined a militant gang called the black guerrilla family. >> ended up in 15 years solitary confinement. for my prison activities and conduct. tried to get back into the main line, but it was kind of hard. after facing walls for 15 years and handcuffs everywhere i went, i didn't adjust too well. i still became more assaultive, more combative, more violent. >> after 25 years of incarceration, randall had plenty of violent episodes to share. >> i had threw a bomb in an inmate's cell and blew his toilet off the wall and blew a patch of his leg off. an officer came to my door. i made a zip gun out of some magazines and i shot him in the face. >> as the story unfolds about why he's there, what he's done in prison, it can send chills up your spine. then it occurs to you, i'm sitting right in front of this guy. anything can happen to me. >> most of randall's violence was directed at his cellmates. >> i don't have a problem taking a cellie bu

i would be forced to join a gang. everybody knows if you refuse to join a gang, they will kill you. >> [speaking spanish] >> my mother fled from allsop adore many years ago because of the violence. i do not know all the details but i know i do not want to go back to my country because i do not want to die and i am afraid of facing the violence. >> [speaking spanish] >> in the united states, i feel safer. i am with my mother and i don't have to be afraid of the gang members. i have a bicycle here and i don't have to worry about encountering gang members. >> [speaking spanish] >> i crossed the border from mexico into the united states of april of this year and was immediately caught while we were crossing the rio grande. i was caught by u.s. immigration agents at about 1:00 in the morning. >> [speaking spanish] >> i walked 30 minutes to the immigration station where i was placed in a big room with 200 children. they were aged 10 and up. the room was very cold. there were not any beds. they gave us nylon which barely eve

and we do know that there are enough gang members from some of the most violent gangs in the world using these processing facilities not only to enter the united states but to get to their family members who have been living here illegally which is all official border patrol documentation that also using these subs, 40 percent of the miners ariane man. it is a perfect breeding ground. we are talking about violent people they very much engage in murder. and in terms of border patrol not been able to separate them out, that is a policy. washington d.c. policy that does not allowed that determination between miners and juvenile is engaged in border activity. so their job, if you are an aging you fall in line. process these people through and then turn them over to ice. then ice does something with them, whether they deliver them to their parent who has been living in the united states illegally are not, that happens. there are not a lot of answers about where people are being taken. all i know is that there being scheduled to be placed somewhere in the united states. and they're given a cou

every year. >> you are in a gang. >> yes. >> what gang are you in?> south gate marijuanos. >> he told us he joined a gang when he was 14. >> you have a job outside. >> no. >> you gonna get a job. >> i don't think so but you never know. >> how are you going to survive. >> there's ways to survive out there. self-employed. >> i continue to question him. i started pressing, started finding out, trying to find answers to things, what really motivates him to do that. his gear shifted from being like a goof ball to, you know, you're crossing the line here with your questioning. >> what kind of things you do as a gangster in your daily job? >> no comment on that one. >> just like -- i'm sure you have an every day thing. you guys organize, don't you. >> kick it, get drunk and party. >> yeah. make sure ain't nobody tripping around you. >> he stared me down and kind of gave me that junkyard dog look, like i think we're done here. >> these kids don't know how to act like proper gangsters anymore. >> the 44-year-old inmate spent almost 25 years in either jail or

. >> i'm assuming it has to do with gang activity. >> if it's territorial i mind. >> in case it's gang related and they are marking our territory i would like to paint it over. >> anything with numbers like x iv or x 13 west side mob and the bay view those are gang related. with gang related or profanity we will abait it as soon as possible. >> i consider it an art. there are circles of people that form around it whether or not they should ruin public property. >> this is art work i'm for it. unless it's on someone's property and they don't want it there. judge kids with silver paint expressing their ego needs doesn't belong on our property. >> graffiti is when you don't have permission to write anything on their property. >> eighth street is part of your regular rout? >> yes. >> everyday. >> eighth street. divisidero street. irving street. every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the poles the utility boxes, mailbox. >> thank you. >> okay. >> put the drop cloth. come on around. >> there you go. force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate gra

so now the problem is we have teen gang members, gang members and criminals saying our relatives are inside the united states so we should be with them and that has got to stop. even by self-admission these criminals and illegal immigrants and criminals are saying yeah we're members of gangs. why can't we stop that at the border? >> there's a lot of focus on obvious reasons on the kids but there's also teenagers and young adults that are members of gangs. murderous gangs. >> this goes back to president obama not being interested in enforcing the laws. the administration has passed on orders to the border patrol on how people are used to not enforce the laws. so i don't care whether you have bracelets or no matter what you do, you want preferential treatment. if the president of the united states wants to ignore the law and ignore the constitution there's not much you can do. >> bill i wish it was as easy as a card but sometimes you're stuck with hard decisions that are not easy to enforce like this issue. i don't think a card is going to be enough. >> my card could be adapted to fit

. >> there's nothing that goes on that at least one gang member is not involved with. nothing. >> the outside world probably don't want to know what goes on in here. >> these places can make a monster. it's a struggle to stay sane. >> there's a growing problem affecting correctional facilities in this country. how to confine and treat the mentally ill. an estimated 16% of u.s. prison and jail inmates have psychiatric problems. this edition of "lockup" is one of the most graphic and disturbing ever, as we take you inside a facility in indiana, where nearly one-third of the prisoners have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. they tell us in detail how they got there and how they survive. situated in america's heartland, among acres of indiana cornfields, is a prison that houses not only the state's most violent offenders but a large population of the mentally ill, the wabash valley correctional facility. the challenges of running a maximum security prison are compounded by the increasing number of a new kind of prisoner. >> approximately 700 of the 2,200 offenders we h

springfield -- and now washington -- in its fight against gang violence. the f-b-i is sending 65 more agents to the city's high-crime neighborhoods. they will work with chicago police officers -- mostly on thursdays and fridays -- to prevent street violence. the agents will also target street-corner drug sales, and round up illegal guns. at the same time, 40 illinois state troopers will join local police in an intensified search for gang members wanted on murder warrants. they will be dressed in plainclothes and it will go out in pairs to be teamed up with five officers as part of each unit. they will work four shifts in four high crime areas. inglewood and austin. governor clinton made that offer to the mayor a few weeks ago and mayor readily accepted. the sun times is reporting the fbi agents will be assigned to gang suppression missions on thursday and friday for the next three-four weeks. the police superintendent often said the easiest way to reduce crime is to get fugitive's off the street. but the chicago police union president and his counterpart a

gangs have made survival daily battle.his is an oasis, a youth center, shelter from the brutal world outside the gates. >> it exists on a string and a prayer. >> reporter: katherine works for catholic relief services which runs the center. >> we're giving them hope and a new opportunity within and amidst all of the problems that are going on here. >> reporter: you live in fear. you don't go outside. this 18-year-old who asked not to be identified says this is the only place he feels safe. he's lost three siblings to gang violence. his brother was killed three weeks ago. he told us a gang member recently showed him his gun and told him he's next. his hope is that instead he'll take these skills and find a job that others have through this organization. a job, he says, can be a ticket out of neighborhoods that haven't seen this much bloodshed since the country's 12-year civil war. >> i worked here during the war. this is much harder. >> reporter: this is tougher than the war? >> during the war you kind of knew what you were