City refused gangs map; Toledo reporter came up with it on her own

When the city of Toledo’s authorities refused to release a map showing territories controlled by gangs, Toledo Blade reporter Taylor Dungjen rounded up the information, one person at a time, and had the Blade art department draw the map to go with her series on gangs in Toledo.

Last June, nine people were shot in a handful of incidents. That prompted the request for a gangs map and the Blade series on gangs in the city just across the Ohio-Michigan border from Detroit.

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