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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. The Five Points, Manhattan is a location that was associated with gang activities from the early 19th century. In the late 1920s, Al Capone was the leader of the Chicago Outfit The Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club was founded in 1948 and is considered a criminal gang by American law ...
The Lunada Bay Boys or simply the Bay Boys, are a surfer gang in Palos Verdes Estates, California, known for their aggressive localism. In 2016, Newsweek called the Lunada Bay Boys "America's most notorious surf gang". [1] The group's territorialism of the Lunada Bay public beach has raised concerns in the legal and surfing worlds.
Bastards of the Party is a 2005 American documentary film directed by former Bloods gang-member Cle Sloan and produced by Antoine Fuqua. The film explores the creation of two of Los Angeles's most notorious gangs, the Crips and the Bloods, from the perspective of the Los Angeles community. The film also denounces gang violence and presents ...
Pages in category "American gangsters" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Polly Adler;
Blood and Power: Organized Crime in 20th-Century America (William Morrow, 1989 ) Gardaphe, Fred L. From wiseguys to wise men: the gangster and Italian American masculinities (2006) online; Hortis, C. Alexander. The mob and the city : the hidden history of how the mafia captured New York (2014) online; Reuter, Peter (Summer (Northern Hemisphere ...
Gangsters: America's Most Evil is a documentary television series that airs on Reelz [1] which profiles notorious criminals whose crimes involve murder, drug trafficking, racketeering, and human trafficking. Most, if not all of, the criminals profiled in this series were either brought to justice by local, state, and federal law enforcement or ...
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures that operate in the United States, both past and present. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( April 2017 )
Gangs of New York (2002), also directed by Scorsese, was the first modern gangster film to focus on the 19th-century Irish gangs. Although the gay nineties had been a popular setting for prewar crime films, from the 1950s until the early 21st century most gangster movies were set in either the prohibition era , postwar America, or the present day.