Ever taken the time to perhaps do some basic research on where the gangs might be located in your city? It’s certainly not an unreasonable thing to do, especially should you be in the market for a first house, perhaps curious about the neighbors in your apartment complex, or particularly frightened by a show on the History channel on a random a Tuesday night. If you’re like me, and if you happen to be reading this wholly obscure blog you most certainly are, then you’ve probably made your favorite search engine the focal point of your search (I’m wasn’t in the mood to be particularly different and just used Google). Should you be worried that your Internet search might tip off the local authorities, breathe a sigh of relief my friend: no true gangbanger starts his career through a crafty Google search.
In fact, forget about your search bearing any fruit. Not surprisingly, it’s incredibly hard to find real facts about anything for local gangs. The most productive item I came across was a forum on city-data.com, which of course quickly devolved into a heated exchange between the paranoid, ex-Marine, concealed carry guy and the trendy, young law student (with absolutely no one in 9 pages answering the inital post, “Where are the gangs located in Columbus?”). Yes, from one point of view you could say that the police probably should make a map of sorts available to the public for safety purposes, but I’d side with the officers who would point out that they’d rather keep that under wraps. No need to publicize where eager future members should go to sign up.
If you’re really concerned about where the gangs are in your hometown, maybe searching for the locations of fellow curious denziens searching for gangs on the Internet needs to be your first step. If anything, you’ll know exactly where in town the gangs definitely AREN’T, which, of course, answers your original question anyway.
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