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Gang violence is increasing across the board in big cities and small towns. Gangs and gang culture are nothing new. The Office of Justice Programs traces some of America’s first gangs to the 1700's.
Almighty Latin King Nation graffiti of the "King Master" along with the abbreviations "L" and "K" on the sides. [1] [2] Street tag of the Crips gangApproximately 1.4 million people in the United States were part of gangs as of 2011, and more than 33,000 gangs were active in the country. [3]
The Crips are a primarily African-American alliance of street gangs that are based in the coastal regions of Southern California.Founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1969, mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams, the Crips began as an alliance between two autonomous gangs, and developed into a loosely connected network of individual "sets", often engaged in open warfare with one ...
Today, the Italian-American Mafia cooperates in various criminal activities with Italian organized crime groups, such as the Sicilian Mafia, the Camorra of Campania and the 'Ndrangheta of Calabria. The most important unit of the American Mafia is that of a " family ", as the various criminal organizations that make up the Mafia are known.
Often they take the gang name and act independently of the nationally-known gangs, he said. They also form their own subsets of gangs, such as the 15th Street Boys, Richardson said.
“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.
A street level rumble of Apache gang members battling Parisian Police officers en masse on 14 August 1904. A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior ...
The gangs, along with many Haitian politicians and business people, earn money from an illicit brew of “taxes" gleaned through extortion, kidnappings, and drugs and weapons smuggling, Fatton said.