The New York Times reported the same thing today. Gangs are more violent today because they've divided and are now killing each other. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/nyregion/bronx-gang-violence-murders.html Gangs are not as top-down and regimented as they once were, or unified any longer by a vision of racial solidarity and rivalries with opposing gangs. Rather, the Bloods are fighting increasingly among themselves, sometimes to fill leadership vacuums as older leaders are locked up through