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Re: Street Gangs
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09/14/04 12:59 AM
09/14/04 12:59 AM
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Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 839 Elmwood Park, Illinois
YoTonyB
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"Our enemies grow strong on what we leave behind." They are legitimate organized crime. Their interest is drugs, generating huge profits, and achieving in real life the same success that Tom Hagan feared when he voiced his concerns to Vito just prior to the Sollazzo meeting. And I believe they have penetrated all social strata of society, and that they have achieved the level of influence necessary for them to accomplish anything they want. Just as maifa associates and made guys walk freely in the world of legitimate business, so too do the street gang members. In the mafia, the social stigma of drug dealing coupled with the threat of long jail sentences made this business too much of a risk. Street gangs were willing to take that risk and it has paid dividends as they use their profits and their influence to control the jails! Where the money goes beyond that is anybody's guess. But based on the volume of business generated by the drug trade, they have the profits to become involved in any business at any level. I had bookmarked a couple of sites about street gangs because you really can't tell the players without a scorecard in Chicago. Here\'s a great series from the Chicago Sun Times with a special section (scroll down) on gangs, including their enormous reach, wealth and connections to organized crime. The Chicago Crime Commision Gang Handbook is also a good resource. Also, Crips and Bloods, which are primarily West Coast/LA affiliations, would be similar to the "nation" affiliations, Folk and People, which started in the Illinois jail system. Vice Lords are affiliated with People. (Think Major League Baseball with an American League and National League. Sorry Plaw...there is no fantasy league!) tony b.
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Re: Street Gangs
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09/15/04 12:36 PM
09/15/04 12:36 PM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 6 Newark, New Jersey
Mr. Paulie
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Bloods just don't be in the ghetto, they in white hoods to
I'm like Paulie in GoodFeallas you can me tha don.
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Re: Street Gangs
#200868
09/15/04 08:33 PM
09/15/04 08:33 PM
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Posts: 8,536 West Chester, PA
Patrick
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Street gangs were huge in the 90's, shrunk a little bit in the late 90's, and are now becoming big again. There's A LOT of Spanish gangs in Reading. If you ever come to Reading, you don't mess with the Puerto Ricans. They mean business. Just last year, they fucked up this black kid after school. About 8 or 9 of them jumped him and started kicking the shit out of him. -Pat
"After every dark night, there's a bright day right after that. No matter how hard it gets, stick your chest out, keep your head up, and handle it." -Tupac Shakur
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Re: Street Gangs
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09/16/04 09:00 PM
09/16/04 09:00 PM
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Posts: 50 new york
Geovanni-Martino
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Street gangs are "primitive" forms of gangsters, Mafia of any kind is on a whole nother level, mentally and economically, they are just a bunch of poor thieves from a neighborhood that team up to steal and kill, nothing more.
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