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Insurrectionists broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in Washington, DC.
Analysis January 14, 2021
White Terrorism Often Leads to Harsher Punishment for People of Color
Amid calls for tougher laws after the Capitol assault, research shows that measures addressing White violence usually fall harder on Black people.
By Eli Hager
Attendees at the Indy 1500 Gun & Knife show in Indianapolis in January.
Southside November 1, 2018
The Gun King
A middle-class college student from the Chicago suburbs used Facebook to sell firearms to gangsters. But was he a kingpin or a scapegoat?
By John H. Richardson
Luis Vicente Pedrote-Salinas filed a federal lawsuit alleging he was targeted by ICE agents for deportation because he was wrongly listed in a Chicago police department gang database.
News August 28, 2017
How ICE Uses Secret Police Databases to Arrest Immigrants
Recent lawsuits claim the agency is targeting people for deportation based on spurious allegations of gang connections.
By Christie Thompson
A man walks past a corner where a victim of a shooting was discovered in Baltimore in 2015.
News July 27, 2017
Can Sex Sell Peace?
An adman thinks it can help.
By Justin George
Life Inside June 29, 2017
The Prison Skinhead Gang was My Family. Then I Walked Away
After a violent encounter, an inmate makes a life change.
By Daniel J. Royston
Life Inside March 17, 2016
My Memories of Being in Prison with Whitey Bulger
Tales of the “pale, white-haired, geezer in a wheelchair.”
By Nate A. Lindell
Q&A May 19, 2015
When The Gang-bangers Are White Guys
“If these biker gangs were non-white, we’d have a national freakout.”
By Dana Goldstein
News April 3, 2015
Gangs of New York
Allegations in Harlem the latest blow to a celebrated anti-violence program.
By Simone Weichselbaum
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