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He ran the city's first gang diversion program and returned to school, getting his BS in 1985 and his MA in sociology in 1987 from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Hagedorn studied under Joan Moore and received a PhD in Urban Studies in 1993 from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
In the 1991 film New Jack City, the character Nino Brown and his associates were largely based on the Chambers Brothers. As in the movie, the Chambers Brothers were also known for taking over an apartment complex known as the Broadmoor on E. Grand Blvd and Ferry St. on the lower east side in Detroit (name was changed to "The Carter" in the film ...
Like other Detroit street gangs, such as their Westside Detroit counterparts in the late 1970s; the Nasty Flynns (later the NF Bangers), and 7 Mile Killers or 7 Mile Dogs or the drug consortiums of the 1980s such as Young Boys Inc., Pony Down, Best Friends, Black Mafia Family and the Chambers Brothers, the Errol Flynns grew out of the racial and economic unrest that transformed Detroit in the ...
Detroit’s challenges are complex and rooted in its Rust Belt history. Once the global center of the automotive industry, Detroit was the fourth-largest city in the U.S. in the 1920s. Its ...
DETROIT (FOX 2) - Three members of a national gang will spend many years behind bars after being sentenced by a jury in federal court for violent crimes in Detroit. The US Department of Justice ...
During the Prohibition era, a gang of Detroit Mafiosi known as the River Gang smuggled Canadian beer and liquor into the United States from Ontario and controlled most of the bootlegging market in Southeast Michigan. [10] The Detroit Mafia also formed close links with Toledo, a major hub for bootlegged whiskey. [11]
The station served as the police station for the Detroit Police Department's sixth police precinct for over 56 years, covering a portion of Southwest Detroit neighborhoods from 1930 until 1986. It served another 19 years (from 1986 until 2005) as Gang Squad Headquarters for the Detroit Special Crimes Section. The building was abandoned from ...
Osborn High School student Jaiden Mabins, left, shows his 4.0 grade point average to Deonte Morris, right, of Detroit, a member of the 4s, while talking after rival gang members from the 4s and 5s ...