somebody will always be there to step up and take over. cash is king when you re a gang banger. gang members outnumber police by a ratio of 8-1 in cook county. faced with insurmountable odds, authorities curb what gang violence they can. the way to go use your pran. we have information on gangs. let s use it, use it to anticipate where they go. the battlefront for the sheriff s police encounter 30 different townships. the gangs are inherently very smart in the sense they go to areas of least resistance. suburban departments are horribly undermanned and so we have become the layer over everything else. we don t have any geographical limitationses. we go everywhere. the key to success, jailhouse intel. drag carpenter talks to 30 to 50
gang members outnumber police by a ratio of 8 to 1 in cook county. faced with insurmountable odds, authorities curb what gang violence they can. the way to go stretching across 1,000 square miles. the gangs are inherently very smart in the sense that they will go to the areas of least resistance. a lot of these suburban apartments are horribly undermanned and so we ve become sort of the layer over everything else. we don t have any geographical limitations. we go everywhere. and the critical key to their success, jailhouse intel. investigator drake carpenter talks to 30 to 50 inmates a week. he is sussing out this wannabe informant, hoping he can provide an in to the south side drug trade.