For some time now, Houston gang movement has become more prevalent in suburban areas. Among the reasons: a crackdown by law enforcement in the city, pushing gangs to operate out of town, a wealth of wholesale illicit drug suppliers, and high profit expectations from suburban drug operations.
Folks in the burbs tend to associate gang crime with city life.
We talk with Mark Schmidt, a gang specialist from the Harris County Sheriff’s Department, about how suburbanites may want to re-think their long-held beliefs about gangs.
