Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

by Jill Leovy

Fundamentally gangs are a consequence of lawlessness, not a cause.

Some version of gangs has characterized lawless settings throughout history.

The tendency for people to band together when state power is weak is so inevitable it can even seem innate. “The latent causes of faction,” wrote founding father James Madison, are “sown in the nature of man.”

“It’s not the gore. It’s the grief,” she said. Even if a notification went smoothly, “I walk out and I’m shaking and I’m suppressing the urge to cry,” said Bryan Hubbard, a trauma surgeon at California Hospital.

Toll of gun violence on doctors

So-called gang loyalty is often like this: men go along to get along, as battered women go along with their abusers.