street racing: Murder

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“It’s an adrenaline — it’s hard to explain — but you feel free in the moment,” said Draco, the name the 21-year-old uses on the circuit of street drifters. “You know, it’s one of the few times where I feel I am in control of my destiny.”

The Takeover’s in Chicago are organized in minutes through a social network that taps into the culture of street racing. Many times, people leaving a meet broken up by police will drive around until getting the coordinates of another meet that same night.  Across the country, the underbelly of street racing is plagued by murder, drugs, and now organized gangs.

The street racing crews are becoming highly organized criminal syndicates, broken down by neighborhoods, or affiliations with existing gangs.

Law Enforcement across the country are struggling to crack down or understand the new phenomenon, inside cities like San Antonio, Chicago, Milwaukee, Oakland, streetn racing has not only become a police issue, but a political issue.

On Sunday October 23, 5 people were shot and 3 young men were killed when gang warfare broke out inside a street racing meet up in a working class Chicago neighborhood.  The Chicago PD is investigating this as a mass shooting.