CHICAGO — Calling the Chicago police chief’s ultimatum to stop resorting to violence a waste of time, current and former members of some of the city’s most notorious street gangs held an unlikely news conference Thursday to send their own message to police: You’re not playing fair.
Representatives of the Traveling Vice Lords, Four Corner Hustlers and other gangs gathered before TV cameras to bemoan a recent message police Superintendent Jody Weis gave to reputed gang leaders at what has been billed as a “gang summit” — that if gangs don’t stop the killings, police will go after their leaders.
Former gang member Reginald Berry Sr. said police would be better off if gang members were given job offers instead of threats of jail time.
Denver Post wire services
