Question

What type of things have you learn about gang violence that you didn't know before?

Movies

What movies have you seen about gang violence?

West Side Story

West Side Story is a musical play about gangs. The Sharks and the  Jets, which one gang is white and the other one puerto ricans. The play is based on Romeo and Juliet. The gangs are fighting singing to each other. Maria, a puerto rican sister, get  in love with Tony, a white boy. Both gangs are fighting because of this love. At the end, Tony dies and Maria decide to kill herself. 

Gang Violence or Not?

Police are conducting a murder investigation after finding a man shot dead in a South Side alley early Thursday.

At 3:20 a.m., police responded to a man who was unresponsive in an alley at 147 W. 74th St., according to police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro. The man had a gunshot wound to his chest.

The man is believed to be in his 30s but remained unidentified as of 5:20 a.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

No one was in custody as of 4 a.m., Alfaro said.

The police think that this crime has something to do with gangs.

Different type of gang movies are American History X (1998), American Me (1992), Blood In, Blood Out (1993),Menace II Society (1993), Boulevard Nights (1979),Colors (1988), Boyz 'N the Hood (1991), South Central (1992), First Time Felon (1997), Training Day (2001), Gangs of New York (2002),and Gridiron Gang (2006).