Gangs

BAD GIRLS

Are you tough enough for Katrina del Mar?

Slain Guardsman Posthumously Promoted To Sergeant; Investigation Into Shooting Continues

The National Guardsman fatally shot by an NYPD detective earlier this month was laid to rest on Friday. He also got a promotion.Guardsman Noel Polanco held the rank of specialist in life. Friday, he was posthumously promoted to sergeant."This is a promotion for outstanding accomplishments and servic ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse on the FBI: "We're Doing the American Thing--We're Suing"

"At first, I laughed! Just like everybody else," Insane Clown Posse's Violent J admits, seated on his tour bus. "Now I just realize how fucked up it is." It's Friday afternoon at the Gathering of the Juggalos and the Detroit horrorcore emcee is recalling his initial reaction to the news that our fed ... More >>

Why Not Allow These Mexican Kids to Live Here?

Brower Boys Street Gang "Taken Down" Thanks To Facebook And Stupid (Alleged) Criminals

Here's a tip for any potential criminals out there: don't bicker about the proceeds of robberies you've committed on Facebook. Believe it or not, cops also have access to Facebook, and monitor it for dopes dumb enough to announce to the world that they're criminals.That said, more than a dozen membe ... More >>

Night and the City: Walter Hill on The Warriors and The Driver

Sucker for the underbelly of urban life

"Very Crispy Gangsters" Suspected in East New York Shooting

Donzell Rogers, slain at a "Freaky Friday" party.​The shooting at a house party in Brooklyn Friday night that killed one man and injured eight is suspected to be gang-related. Specifically a gang called the "Very Crispy Gangsters," which is a real name for a real gang. It would be almost funny if ... More >>

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Zaire Paige Not Only Played a Movie Killer, He Became One in Real Life.

This is how he squandered his big chance to go straight.

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What the Jail Guard Saw

Rikers officers encourage gang violence: surprising testimony and the stats to back it up

The Fudgitive

Crack maker to cake baker: One sweet tale of a drug kingpin's decade on the lam

'Wild Hogs'

'Waist Deep'

'Dead Man's Shoes'

Mobster on a Mission

A talented mafioso who helped the FBI beat the KKK still haunts his ex-handlers

'Kamikaze Girls'

An Unfathomable Plot, Burdened With Magic Reality

Unstoppable

Veterans look back at hip-hop's big-bang birth in the Bronx

Straight Stories

In hard-edged doc, parolees struggle with life after prison

Letters

Aristide's Tinderbox

Haitian Militants Losing Faith in President’s Promise of Reform

Big Bad Wolf

Anthony Jones Upholds the Legend of Puff Daddy’s Bodyguard

Roaming Rikers

Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony

Pulp Friction

Raising Patrick Bailey

The painful journey for justice for an unsung victim of alleged police brutality