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Status for the rest of the night. >> clearly the gang problem is so large, no part of the prison is safe from the politics. before officer garcia and the igi staff consider putting former gang members together on the sny, they must be convinced dropouts are sincere in their desire to leave the gang lifestyle behind. after the debriefing interviews have been conducted and the inmates have been approved, they move into the integrated yard program. >> this is phase two. what they have to do, is come over to this yard. it's an integrated yard program. they're going out to the yard with everybody t...

Comes down to fighting the riot. i have to be part of it. >> why? >> if i'm not a part of it, then it's all mad for me. with my people. i'm a soldier. and if i don't do my duty, then it's up to them to take me out of the ball game. >> what does that mean? >> that's it no more. >> the white guy broke it up. he went to the shock collar for the south siders in the building and said you need to check your people. the south siders said, no, i am not going to check my people, you need to check yours. it got heated. the next thing you know, the dorm filled up with south siders and whites. the cops sa...

>> we try to have an informer on every deck of the compound, that's literally thousands of informants. every single one of them can call our office direct, a lot can call our cell phones directly from the tiers and tell us what's going on. >> since january, 2008, the ciu has solved 20 murders and more than 150 drug cases. but with its limited budget and staff, the unit faces an uphill battle against chicago's rapidly growing gang problem. >> gang members per capita by state, we have the most gang members per population of anywhere in this country. we beat california. more gang bangers on the s...

Block it is. >> evanston is not the only community battling gang activity from the city. it's a widespread phenomenon, fueled in part bit closing of chicago's public housing projects. now, gangs are sprawling into 88% of the suburbs throughout cook county. >> the chief of police asked me, how do you know i have a gang problem? i tell him, chief, i have this. i understand what this stuff means. i can't be a gang expert if i don't know what this means. >> one of the best places it track the chicago's area 70 plus gangs and estimated 100,000 gang members is at the jail. most detaineeies here are ...

Establishment and the local political establishment. >> in monterey, people are too scared to talk about the fire in front of their own face. but not samara perez. >> translator: i am not afraid. i lost my fear when i lost my son in that casino. i want mexico to change. >> she holds on to the ashes of her son. who would have turned 19 today. the murder of 52 civilians shows how the mexican drug cartels are expanding. beyond drugs to extortion. most of those killed were women, playing bingo. on a thursday afternoon. in monterey, mexico, steve harrigan, fox news. >> chris: the f.b.i. says the ga...