Bloomberg published a highly detailed article on drug trafficking that goes from Mexico all the way to Chicago. What is significant is that this article also discusses the nature of violence within the city.

To summarize, the city is pretty much divided into territories spearheaded by individual cliques or cells. These cells each have their own distributors and distribution routes within the city of Chicago.

Violence breaks out whenever members of one cell enter the territory of another cell. Police in the region do not know how many cells are active, so they cannot be sure how many individualized territories there are. Nor can they predict where one territory ends and another begins.

Police would like to stop shipments before they enter the city proper, but I don't think that's possible or the right option. If you want my thoughts, I believe that the real issue is defining these territories and ranking them by order of activity.

Overall, the violence can be mitigated by creating neutral zones (which gangs cannot touch) and then forcing these individual cells into more condensed territories (which the general public would then be told to avoid at all costs). Infighting would escalate but most of the cells would wipe themselves out or merge with the most powerful cells.

Eventually an entire region of the city would have dedicated to the most powerful cells, and military operations could go in and seize nearly the entire cash crop. Again, this is just my stance on the situation. I'd love to hear what you all think.

Additionally, I was wondering if any Dollars members who live in the Chicago area, or who live on a major transport artery which connects Mexico to Chicago, would consider trying to track these trends. I think that could turn into a mission of its own.

Anyway, this is sort of what I mean by creating territory maps. You'd start by dividing the areas surrounded by major highways, as shown in the map below. Then you would assign people individual quadrants (in this case, person 1 would take quadrant A, person 2 would take quadrant B, etc.).

Each person would then divide their quadrant into smaller sub-quadrants, and begin to log information for all gang-related activity in the past three years. Subquadrants with the least activity would become neutral zones. Those with the most activity would become avoidance areas.

After all of the neutral zones and avoidance areas are collected, they would be linked between main quadrants and the quadrants would then have to be redrawn. A completed map could then be submitted to the authorities in Chicago. That is the mission I would propose. But I'm not going to make it a mission unless people are willing to invest their time into it.

While I'm completely up for the idea,and it's a very well thought out one at that, the real mission is finding people to do it with you. until then, I'm on board to do it.

I agree with Cerebella this is a really cool idea.

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If this were to become a mission, the primary objective would be to secure and maintain neutral zones. Expansion of those zones is a secondary aim, provided they could be maintained. It would NOT be the mission of the Dollars to enter the gang-contested territories.

this is not news

>>7 Article is. We're just discussing whether or not a mission could be based on it.

Here's an update on the situation. Talk is increasing on the use of armed force in conjunction with local law enforcement. This is very similar to the tactics in post 1, but it still lacks the necessary organization to pull off effectively.

So Chicagos going to become an even bigger battle zone? I bettter be careful when I start walking outside.

Crazy stuff man. The things people do to get a fix baffles me. But hey, their choice. Be careful BH2 and company.

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