The gang long has controlled the area of the Hole, though most of the other buildings in Robert Taylor are the turf of their rival, the Gangster Disciples. After their leader, Mickey Cogwell, was gunned down in front of his South Side home in 1977, the gang adopted the name Mickey Cobras in honor of him. They were originally known as the Cobrastones, and were formed in the Robert Taylor Homes in the early 1960s. Like many of Chicago street gangs, the Mickey Cobras have a long history. I've caught them as young as 12 on the line." "It's a fallacy that they put on paper that you have to be 16 on the line. "But none of the kids abide by it," he said. Matt Brandon of the CHA tactical unit.īrandon said the Mickey Cobras' rules "is just some attempt by the hierarchy to keep some sort of order. "The loyalty is to the dollar," said Sgt. There, he said, teenage gang members are more interested in their own pocketbook than gang loyalty.
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Take this excerpt from the Vice Lord constitution: "Every member of the Amalgamated Order of Lordism will at all times maintain him or herself within the Code of Conduct Chain of Command, and the principals of law in the highest manor."īut a Chicago Housing Authority sergeant who works in the Robert Taylor Homes said despite the sophistication of the drug trade, rules and bylaws created by imprisoned gang leaders are routinely violated on the street. Knox's textbook, "An Introduction to Gangs," lists several gang constitutions, which are filled with rules, pseudo-religious ramblings and the expected problems with spelling. Violations of the instructions in the memo "most certainly will not be tolerated," the chairman and his board write in the memo.
The memo notes that interrogations are inevitable because "not all business can be taken care of in a smooth way" and reminds gang members that police legally must inform them of their right to remain silent or have an attorney present before interviewing them.
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"If any of you have ever had the opportunity to go on a hunting trip (in the free world) before being locked up, then you know full well that if the duck had kept his mouth shut, instead of quacking, he wouldn't have given his position away and, naturally, wouldn't have been our dinner." The memo begins by reminding "all brothers of the struggle" about the story of the duck: One memo from "the chairman and the board of directors" and dated July 23, 1983, addresses an important gang edict: Don't talk to law enforcement interrogators. Gang investigators over the years also have confiscated edicts from imprisoned gang leader Larry Hoover, the "chairman" of the state's largest street gang, the Gangster Disciples, Knox said.
Among its demands: exact change, no cutting in line and no $1 bills. Last summer, Hilbring recalled, officers seized an instruction list that a West Side gang was passing out to its drug customers. They get lunch breaks, set time for shifts, are not supposed to socialize." "If there's no rules, no one knows what's going on. "It's just like any other corporation," said Donald Hilbring, commander of the Chicago police gang unit. In the last two decades, authorities said, they have confiscated typewritten gang bylaws and constitutions, rules for drug dealing, charts of gang hierarchy and a how-to guide for drive-by shootings.
Knox and gang investigators said lists like the one belonging to the Mickey Cobras are not uncommon among street gangs. "And they really do have elaborate procedures." "They look at the buildings as their retail drugstore," said George Knox, a criminal justice professor at Chicago State University who has studied Chicago street gangs.
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