gangs. and for some, suppressing gang activity is a daily challenge that comes with life or death consequences. >> slide out. slide out. on your stomach. keep going now. that's fine. >> on front line of the battles are gang investigators. >> they have walk a fine line, managing a difficult relationship with dangerous inmates and each one has a different way of doing business. but the investigator we met in cleveland really stood out from the crowd. >> clear. seven. look at me. >> he's known at the cuyahoga county correction center in downtown cleveland as big sam. >> you used him. who's the victim? you sit here won't even open your mouth to tell me nothing about what these guys did -- >> we quickly learned gang investigator sam mclaren had a personality to match his physique. >> big sam's style was one of dedication and passion. >> you have that candy -- >> sweet. >> i'll see you later. >> thank you. >> you take care of yourself. >> he could be very caring and heartfelt in his communication,

but now a new gang has emerged.n in san antonio and rapidly spreading both on the streets and in prisons and jails. they are called the tango orejones. >> at one point they were all together and then as the years progressed they eventually broke away and now they're at odds with each other. the orejones began as foot soldiers of the mexican mafia but in the late 1990s they split off to form their own gang, which today rejects the mafia's strict rules and structure. >> [ bleep ]. >> they're very loose. there's no constitution. there's no real process on getting in. you can literally be an orejone tomorrow if you want to be one. orejones recruit on a daily basis. you send one orejone to population, within 24 hours he's going to have three people with him. what started as a few members of orejones quickly grew into hundreds of members. and we went from having a small problem to having a large problem. >> orejone, baby! >> we eventually had to get all the orejones we confirmed and basically corral them to one living are

you are not a gang member? >> no. >> go back to your unit. >> thank you. >> thanks for your time. >> officer rodriguez and corporal garcia will continue to monitor perales and for now, would like to see her pen pal relationships continue. >> one reason why we're not jumping on that right at this point, we don't want to expose the fact that we know she's receiving mail. once we expose that they'll cut her off and this may be something we could potentially use to learn information. so, so far we'll go ahead and give her the benefit of the doubt that she's not doing anything, however we did warn her if anything comes out we'll take appropriate action. >> perales has no intention of giving rodriguez and his team any more to work with. she says her brief experiment with pen pals has been more trouble than it's worth. >> i mean, i don't even know who he is, i never seen that person. and, you know, i get letters and i can't even read them, i don't know what the hell it says and find out it has gsrp, whatever it is in

. >>> i guess the worst thing about gangs is paranoia. >> former gang members attempt to leave deadly rivalries behind. but for some, the past is anything but resolved. >> i don't think no one could ever take this pain away. >> the men in another housing unit deal with a completely different set of issues. >> you have your masculines that are more manly looking. are you masculine or fem? >> i'm gay. i'm gay. >> then you have your fems. they act like girls. >> fems to the fem side and masculine to the masculine. we don't let them intertwine. you are asking for problems. >> a surprise contraband raid turns one housing unit upside down. >> inmates are very crafty, and there are thousands of places where narcotics can be hidden within the units. >> anyone accused of a crime in san antonio will most likely pass through the bexar county jail. >> got to spread out on the wall right here. remove your shoes and socks and put them on the floor behind you. >> some will make bond and leave, but on any given day, about 3,500 men and women are housed here, awaiting trial for resolution of their cas

>> young and most of them are gang related. >> what gang? >> heartless felons. >> i don't see half of them as heartless felons, other half is general population. general population gets preys on by the heartless felons. >> sammy mcclaren is a veteran officer of 24 years. better known as big sam. the >> heartless felons is one of the many gangs we have in the county jail but they have the one we have the most problems with. they become very violent and persistent and they don't mind to letting people know what their agenda is. >> the heartless felons originated in 1999 inside the county's juvenile facilities. >> they felt they were getting disrespected and being mistreated and tired of people messing with them. they formed a group, which will be known now as the heartless felons and they demanded to have respect. >> i came in when i was 15 years old and we had no family, nothing, no money on our books, nobody to care about us or whatever. my rank is boss. i'm not at the top top. but i'm one of the people that call shots. i want to be the hnic

>> young and most of them are gang related. >> what gang? >> heartless felons. >> everybody is not heartless felons in there. >> i don't see half of them as heartless felons, other half is general population. general population gets preys on by the heartless felons. >> sammy mcclaren is a veteran officer of 24 years. and the jail's gang investigator. >> heartless felons is one of the many gangs we have in the county jail but they have the one we have the most problems with. they become very violent and persistent and they don't mind to letting people know what their agenda is. >> mcclaren says the heartless felons originated in 1999, inside the county's juvenile facilities. >> they felt they were getting disrespected and being mistreated and tired of people messing with them. they formed a group, which will be known now as the heartless felons and they demanded to have respect. >> i came in when i was 15 years old and we had no family, nothing, no money on our books, nobody to care about us or whatever. my rank is boss. i'm not at the top to

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his presence during the interview is required by the gang. policy 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 it. >> i don't regret it. i don't regret it. the only 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 [ laughter ] ♪ oh >> some inmates at santa rita jail

gang members love to put their gang somewhere visibly on their body so rival gang members or their own gang members can identify them as, are they friend or foe? and we train our class officers to look for these identifiers and if they can't get the gang member to self-admit then they refer to the gang officers and we look at these tattoos. aside from their tattoos, we'll look at their history in the fassel. do they have a history of conducting gang-related activity. strong arming in the units. group assaults, things of that nature. in conjunction with that, we can establish whether or not the guy is a gang member. >> raymond diaz is up front about his gang-related tattoos. >> the stuff i got on me, a lot of it is gang related. they call them like stamps, you know. everything was done behind bars with a staple. we don't use fancy needles and all that. the main part on my chest, it's blast, dongo blast. it's probably one of the biggest prison gangs in texas. i chose to put it in big letters on my chest because when i get to a prison unit or a pod or something the first thing i do is i t

have a younger generation of case gang affiliates that are loosely aligning themselves with the gang to further criminal activity. >> reporter: they could be cease fire's next target. >> we can't necessarily say cease fire is the panacea, but you can say the model being used in the city of oakland is definitely driving the numbers down without a doubt. >> reporter: neighbors in hillside say everyday feels like a war. they want the mayor to see what is happening up close. >> we bolt her in. we have to to have her see us live like this. >> reporter: christin ayers, kpix5. >>> a bay area actress raped. police won't investigate. >> i was told my rape was not a good enough rape. >> tonight, what finally convinced them to test the evidence four years later. >> got milk? lots of stores in the bay area don't. at least the organic kind. we uncover what is behind the shortage. >> netflix says it is going to start making movies. theaters revolt. who will win? that's next. ,, ♪shining, shimmering, splendid ♪tell me, princess, now when did♪ ♪you last let your heart decide♪ ♪a whole new world welc

>> managing gangs. during our extended stay shoot in cleveland, we covered the activities of a homegrown gang known as the heartless felons. 25-year-old ramal hammond was facing several charges including robbery and assault to which he pled not guilty and was awaiting trial. he was regarded as one of the heartless felons' highest ranking members. >> how high up were you? >> i'm higc. >> it means that he can delegate. that put him a little bit above a boss. >> jail officials say hammond was the heartless felons' shot caller and targeted other inmates for theft, assault, and extortion, so they segregated him from most other inmates. >> i'm housed in the gang pod, 23 and 1, because they say i've been fighting too much. >> the first day we met hammond, he was petitioning gang investigator sam mcclaren to release him back to general population. >> i'm trying to get off 23 and 1. >> how you trying? >> i ain't got riders or none of that. >> you knocking out people, man. >> i'm not knocking out people, man. all

at santa rita, the largest percentage of those are gang dropouts. >> any time we get gang dropouts sayinghe 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

down. >> byrd gang.at what you are? why didn't you tell us in the first place? >> little bit of cooperation is better than none. >> during the search, knight and demerey also found a lighter hidden in the mattress of sandier's cell mate, alfredo roca moreno. knowing he has a lengthy history, correctional officers now want to take a closer look at the mattress. >> what have we got here? >> i need this mattress checked for contraband, please. >> we have to break this whole mattress down. regulations require that security check mattresses when they're brought in like this. lieutenant? this was the area that was concerned, right? >> yes. >> roca moreno is a known member of a puerto rican prison gang called the nietas. he joined during an earlier prison sentence he served in puerto rico, but he insists the nietas are not a gang. but a fellowship of sorts. >> it was a word from the warriors. they used to send it to the gods three times. that's why it means the birth of a new warrior. >> roca moreno says puerto

the majority of the gang members here belong to white supremacist gangs. prison officials suspect that asatru might be a front for white supremacist gangs. marcus murray denies that. >> there has never been anything in my studies that says one race is more dominant over another one culture. nor one religion dominant over another. asatru believers believe that our religion is fine, your religion is fine. >> guy radcliffe who has been practicing asatru for several years here. said there's one group that is not welcome. >> if we found out someone in the community was a child molester, he would be banned from the community. he cannot participate. it's a bylaw, you cannot be a sex offender and be in asatru. >> radcliffe also defended the fact that some members have swastikas tattooed often their bodies. >> the swastika was around long before adolf hitler came along. okay? now, i don't have nothing against uncle adolf, but he took something from my religion, which was a sun wheel and made it part of his party. it goes back to ancient civilizations. they had a sw

the gang structure in l.a. already set up in neighborhoods all over southern california became like a mc donald's franchise for the mexican cartels. in the early 90s the san diego gang member named david thoreau, they called him pop by, developed a strong relationship with the tijuana mexican drug cartel and idea for ms. or you know felix brothers. top five based on his successes for the cartels running back and forth across the border from seeing diego into mexico. at 1992, he was a made member of the california mexican mafia under the tutelage of another mafioso named josÉ marquez, better known as bat or kaz. these guys shipped 10 intensive drugs across the border and they arrested trio of hotties behind. among those bodies, the 1993 assassination as a guadalajara airport in the 1997 ambush of the tijuana newspaper and jesus bunker nail us. and the mexican assassin in the streets. federal wiretaps in 1994. recorded other mafia members in the los angeles area, bragging about his exploits. not in america, but a

the reason being that the gangs want it that way. the blacks are over here, the hispanics is our main gang here at san quentin. it's because they're better organized. the white guys over here an the parallel bars and the picnic table, over in the corner you see where the asians are sitting. >> you can't just walk and sit down at a table. i have to explain that. confrontation with that two or three times. i saw a table, i sat down. it's not like that. you got to ask for permission to sit down there. >> even such a minor misstep can be taken as a sign of disrespect. and that can lead to widespread violence. though correctional staff is constantly on the lookout for weapons, it's well known that many on this yard are armed for battle and none more so than the northern hispanics. >> they have a minister of defense and his thing is he's to have ten weapons ready at any time down here on this yard. their weapons are all hid over there. and in the morning we'll come over and search that area and try to find their weapons, but they're gettin

gangs. the fed say 70,000 of those gang members live in los angeles. i have seen other estimates up to 120,000 and i tend to believe those more. that arguably makes los angeles the gang capital of the united states and those l a game this that migrated across most of the country and into mexico and central america. the mexican mafia was founded in 1957. it started as a prison gained in california and its influence has spread exponentially in the last 20 years. joe morgan, the godfather of the mexican mafia, a man known as a peg leg had a relationship with a mexican heroin kingpin in the 1970s but he was the only one, the organization as a whole was not that organized as it is today. in the early 19s a new generation of mexican mafia members, known as the pepsi generation expanded their influence in california and moved south of the border. in deer >> host:s there were an estimated 50 to 60,000 gang members in los angeles. the mafia so enact a plan to unite the latino gang members under the m

>> being a gang member and having swastikas. >> i have tattoos but no gang -- >> you have some on your neck. can i see those? >> it's a cross. rest in peace. my mother and grandmother died. >> what is this on your arm. >> smile now, cry later. >> that's stated that you are supposed to be a leader of a gang unit or white supremacist activity. >> i have black children. my whole family is black. how can i be prejudice? how can i walk around with a swastika when my entire family is black, white and puerto rican. >> i'm just asking. >> i'm telling you, i'm not -- if i was prejudice i wouldn't have mixed children. >> also accused of allegedly possibly be involved with commissary theft. >> listen, i have my own money and commissary. why i do have to steal from anybody? if you're going to accuse me, prove it. i will pass a lie detector test. i will pass it with flying colors. get me a lie detector test and i will pass it. >> you don't steal stuff. >> i steal stuff at stores at home, yes. >> i'm talking about here. >> no. give me a lie detector test. i guarantee i will pass it with flying color

among gang activity? >> making people aware of possibility did is sometimes lacking in violence, poverty. >> he won an oscar for his portrayal of the ugandan leader. to prepare for the film, he learned swahili and how to play the accordian just as the dictator had? >> i am driven by my fear of not knowing. i am trying to get enough information to be able to do do it in a true way. >> forest also talks about race relations in america. he was falsely accused of theft and publically frisked in new york. >> allotted of people of color have experienced these kind of discrimination the. is this this guy decide dodd this. >> the actor reflects on the late robin williams? >> it was tragic, you know. amazing loss, a beautiful person, amazing mind. >> he joined us at our studios in new york. >> i want to talk about the whitaker peace and development initiative. i want to talk about the unesco, all of this work you are doing around the world. i want to start by asking you. what time inspired you to do all of this? >

an alleged gang leader becomes a magnet for trouble. >> you're talking like we're equals. we're not. you do not run the institution. >> then, a high-speed chase ends with the discovery of a 21-year-old murder victim. now the jail must deal with her cold-blooded killer. >> he's potentially one of the most dangerous inmates we've ever dealt with. >> you're going to miss me when i'm gone, aren't you? >> i'm going to miss you like a hemorrhoid. >>> located across the hudson river from new york city, bergen county, new jersey, ranks among america's wealthiest communities. its largest city is hackensack. just outside downtown is its own crossroads of the world. but virtually no one comes to the bergen county jail looking for good times. >> peanut butter and jelly. i ain't 4 years old. >> most of the men and women here have only been charged with crimes and awaiting resolution of their cases. >> gentlemen, to your cells. go, fellows, put it down. to your cells. let's go. >> having spent nearly two years in the jail's maximum security unit as his case moves through the courts, dav

the police department presented gang crime data at the may why are's gang task force meeting. but police made no mention of a 70% drop. just the mayor. he's comparing total violent crimes in january to total crimes in september. >> i think anybody who's taken math can look at those numbers and see that we've had a significant decrease in gang crime this year. it went from 28 in january down to eight in september. >> reporter: january had the highest number of crimes and september had the lowest so far this year. you're comparing the highest month to the lowest month and skipping everything between. do you stand by it going down by 70%? >> that's pretty simple math when you go from 28 to eight, that's a any% differential. >> reporter: one example, he says gang-related robberies dropped from eight in january to one in september. but what about the months in between? this year's total so far, 36 gang-related robberies. last year over the same time period, there were 23. so a rise, not a drop, in gang-related ropries. homicides, eight last year. seven this year. rapes, none last y

gang-related crimes do occur here. in the city's bergen county jail about 15% of the inmates are gang affiliated. while most are divided among racial lines, the dominant gang here has found strength in diversity. >> the predominant gang inside bergen county jail is united blood nation. they recruit anybody. they believe in numbers. it's a numbers game for them. there could be bloods from different ethnic backgrounds, black, white, hispanic. when i worked in the state prison system system i actually had a blood gang member who was a hindu. their willingness to accept anybody into their gang is what makes them the most dangerous. because we don't know where they're coming from. >> sometimes blood members don't even know each other. one blood everyone seems to know is michael bates, who has just met with his attorney and is not pleased with what he has learned. >> i got to go to trial now. >> why? >> they're throwing double-digit figures at me. i don't want it. if i got to do some time, they got to give it to me. i'm not

o gangs admit to killing almost 40 students in southern mexico. the bodies may have been found in a mass grave uncovered over the weekend. and african union groups back somali militants to push out al qaeda in an area. also coming up this hour, a look at the copyists and move -- copy ists in the louvre, working to perfect their craft. shares in the owner of disneyland paris lament after it announces plans to raise one billion euros -- vomit after it announces plans to raise -- voplummet after it announces plans to raise one billion euros. dilma rousseff will face an opponent neves in a runoff. the biggest upset was the loss of the popular green candidate marina silva who looked set to become brazil's first black president. more now from brazil. let's bring in bruce douglas. are people surprised at the results from the first round? >> yes. the opinion polls really did get it wrong until just a few days ago. marina silva was almost a certainty to be in this second round, but as we saw in -- but as we saw last night, she faded away at the last minute

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from the bridges to the parus to the lights and other gangs.hat affected me and caused me to change my life. at one point i had difficulties with a gang, and my mother decided to send me an hour away to school, actually took about two hours on a bus, hour in a car. that affected my life. this touches with conflict, started to affect me. when i start to work with child soldiers. that happened. the idi amin movie, is that where you were exposed to what war does to children. >> it was. there was a place in the north of uganda called hope north. a friend of mine was running it, and i starred working there, and i started to talk to the children soldiers, and started to realise and hear parallel stories for the gang members that i knew at home. i started to recognise my connection on a global level, in a deeper way and see myself in others, no matter where that was, and started my work there. i have been working with them, had a programme. we have a programme at hope north in the north of uganda, and we are finishing the training facility. >> w p.d.

gang homicides from one in january to none in september. gang assaults dropped from 19 to 7. san jose mayor credited the gang task force and leadership of larry eskavale. >>> hotel boom. a new record. thanks to levi's stadium. >>> plus in our bay area proud series. these sunny veil alum's may no longer have a school but may always be remembered. >>> then at 6:00, the inside of the plane came apart in mid flight forcing emergency landing. now we investigate. new at 6:00. . closed captioning provided by . californians are discovering the real risks behind prop 46. it was written and paid for by the trial lawyers to make them millions... while, for the rest of us, health care costs go up. no wonder every major newspaper in the state opposes prop 46. they say 46 "overreached in a decidedly cynical way." it's a ploy "for trial lawyers to enrich themselves." and prop 46 has "too many potential drawbacks to be worth the risk." time to vote no on prop 46. >>> an active day in san francisco for many reasons. picket signs are coming down after union workers held a one-day strike around

the eqgcy won't fund programs explicitly aimed at current gang members.fice on latin america: >> i think that's understandable. i think it's a mistake. people aren't going to leave gangs unless there are alternatives and somebody has got to work with that population. and related to that, people coming out of prison are going to go back if they don't have some alternative. and they're going to go back because they pick up gang life again and they are recidivists and they go back to extorting people and threatening them and the whole range of that kind of thing. >> reporter: fierstein says while there may not be programs aimed directly at current gang members, the youth centers don'ç do background checks for those who come for services and training. >> people are not being filtered when they arrive there. so if someone, you know, comes to a youth center and wants to participate, u1uz to get workforce training, they're welcome to do so. >> reporter: usaid officials say the youth centers are only a piece of their effort. meanwhile, the pentagon and state depa

local police were working with the drug gangs.uthorities have arrested 36 officers and a will root this corruption. they believe gang influence goes much further. they are calling for the resignation of the governor. >> the extent of impunity, we can see it does not work. the public executions are not working nor in tracking down the perpetrators. >> under pressure to show they are doing something, authorities have offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the finding of the students. searches have already found dozens of bodies. in a climate of corruption and impunity, much of the mexican public is unconvinced. tens of thousands are expected to join a march on wednesday calling for those responsible to be brought to justice. >> the first direct talks between student protest leaders and authorities came up and the in hong kong. one later said a decision in august not to allow a free choice of candidates have emasculated the region. government officials say they were not prepared to go back on their decision. further talk

recruit for your gang you'll be confined in here. >> that's what society calls us, a gang. i tell you right now i'm not a gang member. i don't gang bang. i'm part of a brotherhood, a nation. this is my church, this is my religion. this is what i believe in. i am a blood. i swore to myself this is what i'm going to do for the rest of my life. >>> coming up, an accused murderer and rapist seeks a relationship. >> i want to be the girl in your dreams tonight. only god can judge us. >>> at the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida it's not just the inmates who must cope with the impact of incarceration. >> don't kick yourself any more. >> we slip, we fall but we have to get up. >> sonya is concerned about the affect her arrest is having on her family. she is in jail for violating her probation on a cocaine possession charge. >> i have two girls and i don't want to be a role model thinking that my girls think it is cute to go jail or use drugs or depend on a man. i don't want them to make the same mistakes i've made. there's no way in hell. >> tell me what keeps bringing yo

. >> a skinny white boy going to prison for gang members. >> he attempts to join a gang. his heart was elsewhere. >> dear mailman if this gets lost do not send it to me. send it to prison to my daddy. >>> located on the edge of downtown tulsa, it looks like any other government building. but behind the walls of the tulsa county jail, things play out daily. >> let him go. >> the jailhouse as 1,800 men and women. most have been charged with crimes and are awaiting trial. >> unless they violate the rules or need to be segregated for security reasons, they spend the majority of the days outside their housing units. a single officer, completely exposed to the inmates, exposed in the pod. >> there is one officer in the pod at all times. just one. >> it's not about physical anymore, it's about maintaining control. they don't have weapons when they go to the pod. they are in the pod with 94 inmates, every day, all day. they are conversing with them, looking in the cells. >> we are going to treat you as a human until you prove you can't be. >> studies show it cuts down on inmate v

the gang is one of the oldest crime syndicates.rom there, it controls much of the cross-border drug traffic. the u.s. had a $5 million bounty on his head. the arrest has been hailed as a major victory. >> the criminal organization he let up until today promoted the growth of different tanks -- gangs, which turned warez -- juarez into one of the most violent cities in the world. >> the 51-year-old is accused of bribing security forces and police to gain control of the drug trade. he also formed alliances with other cartel losses -- other cartel bosses. 43 students were allegedly kidnapped by corrupt police working with a gang allegedly associated with the cartel. and intelligence services report links the police chief's wife to the disappearance of the students. it says the students had been planning a protest on september 26, the night they disappeared. the mayor's wife asked police to stop them, for fear they would interrupt a speech he was giving that night. she and her husband are now on the run. twitty six local police officers

. >> [ bleep ] keep gang banging, gang banger. >> deputies have just separated two such inmates who got into a brief fistfight. >> you just ran out to see him. >> they are temporarily placed in different cells. but that doesn't stop their taunts. >> a real life -- >> like i said, i'm on you every time. >> i swear to god i'll beat your ass right in front of the police and everything. shut your scary ass up. you already know what's up. >> [ bleep ]. >> bitch. >> sir? >> the two inmates are corey long and -- >> do you have anything on you? no injuries? >> here you see the inmates as i'm bringing the inmates in, i open the door, they're stepping in. the fight is actually taking place right now. >> the fight occurred just to the left of the surveillance camera's view. deputies respond within seconds. when they deploy pepper spray to break it up, other inmates can be seen reacting to it. >> they got pepper spray now. so we identified the one person in the purple shirt. >> handcuffed by deputies, long is now in the camera's view. robinson has already been removed from the scene. both men have

you have a history of being identified as a gang member in the past.its in that unit. why would he do that? >> i don't know who he is. >> it doesn't matter who he is. the point is he identified you. obviously something's happening in there if he's identifying you. >> we want to weed out the major prison gangs from the general population because they prey upon the weaker inmates in the facility. we want to get them out of population so we can make the jail as a whole a safer place for inmates and staff. >> so you understand what i'm telling you, right? >> i'm going on lockdown? >> you probably will today. >> why? >> my job is to figure out where we're going to house you at. >> but i'm not doing nothing. why should i go on lockdown if i'm not doing anything? you could look at my reports. >> i am looking at your reports. >> i'm not getting in trouble. i'm not getting write ups. >> we just talked about a report that you were involved in where an inmate identified you. why do you think this guy would identify you as a member of the mexican mafia if you're n

he's not a gang member. he's just a white supremacist, a skinhead. there was a really, really severe difference. >> i'm no part of them. i've never been a part of them. nor will i ever be a part of them. those dudes in my mind are weak, and they're not white supremacist, more will they ever be. >> at that point one of the officers leaned in to my ear and said if you use that, he's going to get attacked. he's going to get stabbed. >> while inmates like allgier are completely aware that talking about gangs could put them in peril it is a risk they have taken time and time again when interviewed on "lockup." >> we knew that theoretically that sound bite might put him in danger but we also knew on the other hand how important it was to curtis that that distinction be made. and that's the choice that we went with. >> two years after this interview, however, curtis allgier would make the worst decision of his life. one that virtually guarantees he will die in prison. >> the suspect was able to get the guard's weapon away from him and at least one shot was

at least one suspected gang member reportedly died. spring, government officials say they have set up army patrols to try pushing out the gangs. >>> hong kong's leaders say he will not resign. a live look at crowds. protesters had threatened to storm government buildings after a midnight dead line passed. they want to select their own candidates. hong kong is a top financial center and major tourist destination. just last year, the city attracted more than 54 million people, more than seven times its population. officials there say the protests forced shops to close and local stocks to plu s ts to plunge. econo >> we're in critical hour. >> just approaching 4:00 a.m. friday night. the two day national holiday is coming to an end and in the next three to four hours, government offices will be reopening and they have sworn to shut up to hose offices including the hong kong chief executive. that man held a news conversation today as which he would he would propose talks. the umbrella group runs these protests has welcomed that, but you th

during a police operation, the head of the gang, was pursued by federal forces.y protect against the students disappearance. >> the prisoners are are holding at least 12 guards and 160 other inmates hostage at the law gar da prison. with fives and clubs dend maaing better conditions. military police are negotiations with the prisoners. brazilian jails are severely overcrowded and are are notorious for violent uprisings. >> but as al command drove now reports some residents have succeeded in keeping the gang war off the streets. >> a glimmer of hope. they were once infamous for the violence, gangs would bring their victims to one of the houses. to cut him into pieces. he used to live next door. >> nobody could say a thing. we had to pretend to be deaf, blind, and mute, or we would suffer the same fate. >> but when a woman was butchered in broad daylight, the community decided the horror had to stop. >> with the help of local and international groups they set up an urban humanitarian zone. >> we started making contact in secret with these associations and on sunday

those guns were then being trafficked to gang members. we call that straw purchasing. >> more him, getting the guns was easy. all he had to do was cross the state line into indiana. there, he scoured the state for gun shows, filling duffel bags with dozens of guns. he brought them back to chicago and resold them on the street. >> he could bias many guns as he wanted, because indiana has no restrictions on state residents buying weapons from private dealers. after flashing an indiana driver's license, he wasn't required to fill out any paperwork on the weapons gun shows. those guns nearly impossible to trace back to him made their way to chicago's most violent street gangs. >> of those guns being used in shootings by gaining members, a high percentage are coming from indiana than anywhere else. >> so america tonight decided to visit an indiana gun show with hidden cameras, to see how easy it might be to set up a straw purchase. at the fairgrounds in lafayette, thousands of guns from a.q.47 semiautomatic rifles to 357 magnum revolvers were

i think it was just, you know, i mean i was in a gang. i was street entrepreneur. ties to the streets. i've been able to do things here they couldn't do. that other folks can't do and law enforcement can't do. let me just tell you. i've been shot before. >> show me. >> that looks like a gunshot wound. >> the shooting that preceded that shooting was a hit from my gang to take me out because i was trig to make a transition to different life. >> reporter: did you do time? yeah. >> reporter: how long? i did three months in prison. ♪ >> reporter: the st. louis economic partnership hired the 32 year old native of memphis, tennessee to work for the city of ferguson after the teen sho shooting. and then the partnership recently fired devon james because they say james didn't tell them that he killed a guy. but the mayor and the chief say they new james killed a guy and sold dope in his past. the one of things they liked about him and they're keeping him on. >> his past is a drug dealer, gang banger, killed a guy. that bonus in your book? >> i think it helps to add perspect

. >> approximately 180 or so street gangs within boston. just neighborhood street gangs.hey're all comprised of a couple of blocks, sometimes a project, sometimes an entire neighborhood, certainly. almost every case, every group has some sort of serious feud with at least four to five other groups with in the city of boston. >> and over the past 10 years, the structure of those gangs has changed and that's had a serious impact on the jail. >> such as it was, there was a bit of a code about what you did and what you didn't do. and that seems to have gone by the wayside, and what that translates into is some of this wild west mentality and sort of shooting for any slight, real or imagined. >> that's just how it is. bank robber robs banks, a nurse helps patients, gang members shoot each other. >> back to the [ bleep ]. >> 22-year-old delshaun bloodworth says he spent the last ten years as a member of boston's local street gangs. >> i really, really liked the lifestyle. i like the lifestyle. it's easier. it's easier than just showing up to work every day, seeing the same peop