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We have to decipher which one is the bull. >> for ciu investigators, beginning a relationship with a new informant is described as "breaking the ice." >> we don't really know each other. we're trying to gain trust. we want to make sure we're completely honest with each other. trying to give us a little bit, see what we can do with it. if it seems like it's working in their best interest, they'll give you more and more each time. >> today, investigators sandoval and carpenter are going to check out a tip given by a gang-affiliated inmate. he revealed the stash spot for a gun on chicago's south ...

Time in a state penitentiary. >> we choose to go down this road, so now we got to pay the consequences for what we do. >> i'm going to be home one day and when i am i'll still be fairly young. i'll be 42. i can do something. >> i don't want to be in this situation again. i'm through with it. and i will never be in this environment no more. and that's all i got to say. >> how many times you said that before? >> no, i got to give it up somewhere. you know what i'm saying? i got kids to think about, man. i don't want to be 50 years old up in here. >> the jail's criminal intelligence unit offers i...

>> no, there's two punkins out here. >> when we're interested in a specific area, we know who the players are. we have information. we have intelligence. the jail is such a fluid place where we have 10,000 people there a day that are coming and going with great fluidity that our intelligence that we get out of there is as timely as you're ever going to get. >> we'll get a call from one of the guys that's on that gang intelligence unit down at the jail and they'll say, hey, you know what, conrad, i've got a guy that can give you information about an operation that's going on out there, illegal ...

Police who shot him. he's been shot up -- how many times you been shot up? >> 15. >> 15 times he's been shot up. >> bullet right there. >> see a bullet? protruding out of his skin. >> if you have a street corner and another gang infringes on it or wants control of it, people are going to get shot and killed over it. whoever controls the drugs gets the money and that's what it's about, money. >> caution indicator. dangerous. >> to stay on top of criminal activity, cook county sheriff's police rely on intel from their jailhouse colleagues. these officers constantly track who's who in the gangs a...

Many of them possess valuable information that can help authorities battle an ever-rising tide of gangs and drugs. investigators here gather intel that they then share with the cook county sheriff's police. one of the most important tools that they generate, gang hierarchy charts. >> we're in a better position to accurately produce them than most policemen on the street are. we've got hundreds of gangster disciples in here. a policeman on the street may have one informant that's a gd giving him information, maybe two. [ speaking foreign language ] >> this complex is predominantly hispanic. the...