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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 January 2025. 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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. List of groups engaged in illegal activities This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of criminal enterprises, gangs, and ...
American prison gangs, like most street gangs, are formed for protection against other gangs. [64] The goal of many street gang members is to gain the respect and protection that comes from being in a prison gang. [64] [65] Prison gangs use street gang members as their power base for which they recruit new members. For many members, reaching ...
“The real issue is that America has allowed gangs to enter our country,” said a young Gangster Disciples member, David, standing on a high-volume drug-dealing corner near Martin Luther King Blvd.
Investigators believe the gang is local and not connected to a national criminal enterprise. Nationwide, violent crime was down 15% in the first three months of 2024 compared to a year earlier ...
The self-described “king” of one of Haiti’s more notorious gangs has been sentenced to nearly four decades behind bars in federal prison in the United States for his role in a gunrunning ...
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 ...
Al Capone (1899–1947) is one of the most notorious American gangsters of the 20th century and has been the subject of numerous articles, books, and films. From 1925 to 1929, shortly after Capone relocated to Chicago, he was the most notorious mobster in the country. Capone cultivated an image of himself in the media that fascinated the public.