The Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project in Chicago

number of offenders in the District increased only from 91 to 102 (Table 15.16). The largestdecrease occurred for the combined other Latino gangs (-44.4%), followed by no change at allfor Latin King offenders (0.0%). The number of Two Six offenders rose. As with aggravatedbatteries involving a firearm, the combined targeted gangs had a slightly smaller percentageincrease in offenders for aggravated assault across the program period, compared to other Latinoand African-American gangs combined (11.3% versus 13.8%).Other Offenses, By GangIn addition to looking at the gang-motivated violence index offenses in Little Village, weexamined gang offender trends in District 10 across gangs to determine whether other gangmotivatedcriminal activities showed an increase or decrease in offenders. Gang-offender dataare presented rather than incident data, to allow for comparison by specific age and gangaffiliationcharacteristics of offenders.Armed Robberies. Table 15.17 contains offender information on gang-motivated armedrobbery. The data indicate that an overall increase in the number of offenders – 163.2% –occurred over the program period; the larger increase being among members of other Latino andAfrican-American gangs. The Latin Kings showed the lowest increase in this crime category –52.4%. The increase for the Two Six was very large, but this is mainly an artifact of the lownumber of robbery offenders (n = 1) attributed to the Two Six in the pre-program period.Damage To Property/Trespass. The largest number of offenders involved in criminaldamage to property/trespass-related offenses (probably mainly graffiti) were from the targetedgangs (Table 15.18). The largest change occurred for the Two Six, whose offenders increased15.15