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Search results for "street gang" ...
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The Monster How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America -- and Spawned a Glboal Crisis
"The Monster" investigates the history of the subprime mortgage business by unraveling the corporate histories of the industry's two most important players, Ameriquest and Lehman Brothers. The book documents the widespread fraud and law-breaking that were largely to blame for the financial system's meltdown.
Tags: Lehman Brothers; Ameriquest; subprime mortgage; lender
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Gangs in Garden City: How Immigration, Segregation and Youth Violence Are Changing
Journalist Sarah Garland investigates how two of the most dangerous Central American gangs have made their way into the suburbs of Long Island. Garland also tells the story of several young people whose lives have been affected by gangs or gang violence. Her five-year investigation involves conversations with police, gang members and school officials. That information reveals a different opinion than that of the Department of Homeland Security, who believes the gangs to be a problem on the level of Al Qaeda.
Tags: street gang; gang violence; youth; Mara Salvatrucha; MS-13; Hempstead; immigrant gangs; Latin American gangs; Salvadorans With Pride; SWP; Long Island
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"Lake County Homicides"
Reporter Marisa Kwiatkowski takes an in-depth look at homicides in the Lake Country region and reveals that many of the cases have gone unsolved. She also examines some of the deadliest streets in Gary, Ind., and in East Chicago and takes a look at what neighborhood residents are doing to try to harness the violence.
Tags: Gary; East Chicago; gang violence
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Street of Broken Dreams
The authors investigated predatory lending on West Camile Street in Santa Ana, CA. They found that subprime lending had become so out of control, many residents of the area were being threatened with foreclosure after sales prices fell below the amounts they owed and monthly payments soared. The investigation reveals that most of the victims of subprime lenders are Latino; often the borrowers spoke little English and did not understand the terms of their mortgages. The story also examined the impact of the practice on the neighborhood; as homeowners packed tenants into their houses to pay mortgages, they caused crowding and parking problems. Furthermore, recently foreclosed houses are attracting squatters and gangs.
Tags: Philip Meyer Award; finance; class; poverty; mortgage; interest rates; lending; loan; loan sharks; Home Mortgage Disclosure Act; data analysis; CAR
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How the FBI Took Down A Deadly NJ Gang
"The story detailed for the first time the rise and fall of what was considered the state's oldest and most violent organized street gan, offereing a window into the a surging statewide crime porblem and how law enforcemnt was dealing with it."
Tags: The Double ii Bloods; East Orange; FBI; heroin; Crips; North Side Killer Gangstas; gang;
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The New Street Hustle
The series documented how mortgage fraud is taking place in Chicago's poorest communities, robbing vulnerable families of their homes and draining billions of dollars from the U.S. economy.
Tags: fraud; mortgage fraud; Cook County; gangs; Black Disciples; Associates First Capital Corp.; Citigroup; CitiFinancial; Home Mortgage Disclosure Act; FOIA
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When Moody Ruled
The story analyzed a gang war between the 51st Street Crips and Third Wall Bloods from 1997 through 2001. It recounts how Bloods and Crips came to Kansas City from Los Angeles and morphed into Kansas City sets broken up by neighborhood. Numerous sources identified a teenager named Steven "Moody" Wright as the most violent leader. His brutality was unprecedented. After Moody went to jail, a new war for control broke out and took the lives of children.
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Maximum Security
This investigation examined the California corrections system's efforts to break up prison gangs in its maximum security facilities. Gang leaders were isolated from the general population but still managed to run prison and street gang operations from the inside. The story also explains the federal government's strategy of dispersing gang leaders to prisons across the country.
Tags: prisons; prison gangs; corrections; California; Pelican Bay; criminal justice system
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Locked Down: Gangs in the Supermax
The documentary investigates the links between criminal groups based in prisons and street gangs, showing how California's harsh prison policies have contributed to the growth of gangs.
Tags: crime; violence; gangs; California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; prison; jail