Talk:Spanish Cobras

Possible sources
So there is WP:RSed coverage via newspapers.com especially starting from around June 1977 and from the Schaumburg Police Department educational pamphlet on street gangs. Surely, any city police department with a gang unit would most likely have material on them.

And in books: many more...
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=nwxjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT41&dq=spanish+cobras&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjl3Y_itdKBAxWGlGoFHXj_BGIQ6AF6BAgLEAI#v=onepage&q=spanish%20cobras&f=false
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=3Plr62cveLEC&pg=PA50&dq=spanish+cobras&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjl3Y_itdKBAxWGlGoFHXj_BGIQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=spanish%20cobras&f=false
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=YyDCDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=spanish+cobras&source=gbs_navlinks_s

There's:
 * https://www.chicagoganghistory.com/gang/insane-spanish-cobras/ site by a guy who says he's interested in / researching 20th century gangs
 * https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/05/06/gang-war-to-blame-for-string-of-shootings-in-hermosa-west-logan-square-police-say/
 * https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/the-printed-relics-of-chicagos-predigital-gangland/
 * https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/2011-national-gang-threat-assessment

Perennial crime coverage, and stay tuned for more to come!
 * https://www.wisn.com/article/store-owner-retells-robbery-at-hands-of-arrested-spanish-cobras/5992707#
 * https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140115/albany-park/jurors-convict-gang-member-of-murder-arson-plot-gone-wrong/
 * https://wwmt.com/news/state/fbi-busts-child-prostitution-ring-operating-out-of-flint
 * https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/05/06/gang-war-to-blame-for-string-of-shootings-in-hermosa-west-logan-square-police-say/
 * https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2023/08/flint-woman-ordered-to-serve-probation-in-mans-gang-related-death.html

And this:
 * https://unitedgangs.com/spanish-cobras/
 * https://www.hourdetroit.com/community/erasing-the-past/

Also in research work by scholars:
 * 41 Crime L. & Soc. Change 53 (2004) Forging the vacancy chain: Law enforcement efforts and mobility in criminal economies, Friman, H. Richard [ 26 pages, 53 to 78 ]
 * The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 15:58, 30 September 2023 (UTC)