The Hood: Violence & Prohibition Chapter 2

The Hostage  “Captain, what’s the plan?” I ask my police Captain Bianchi. “Plan?” he responds confused. “Officer Torrence,” when he refers to me as officer, I know I’m about to regret speaking, “You think there’s a plan? I have never been in a situation like this before, and neither has any other goddamn officer here. […]

The Hood: Violence & Prohibition Chapter 1

The Message Chicago. A living, breathing, cesspool. It’s gestating in the Midwest of the United States, the home of the brave, of freedom, and equality, if you live in the right place. I wonder if the rich-wig men who created this country would have expected their nation to be roughly the same over a century […]