verb (used with object) 1. to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy. 2. to remove or correct defects or errors in.
Today, the Chicago Police Department is doing something similar with gangs. Using a tool academics call ânetwork analysis,â the CPD is mapping the relationships among Chicagoâs 14,000 most active gang members. Itâs also ranking how likely those people are to be involved in a homicide, either as victims or offenders.
âGang membership between ages 5 and 17 years in the United States,â published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, challenges many popular demographic stereotypes about gangs, finding that an average of 2 percent of U.S. youth are gang members, with involvement highest at age 14, when about 5 percent of youth are in gangs.