Very rare anyone of them straighten out , as i said before most likely they got killed by their 30's,some of them leave that life and start washing dishes at local restaurant. Classic low-life

I don't know, Aces. What are you saying here? That black people are simply genetically unintelligent and incapable of handling sophisticated tasks, by way of their racial DNA? It seems like this is your overall point. Do you believe this?

I did not say LCN members are not low-lifes,classic thieves, murderers, same shit,just on higher level.

Most gang members go on to working class jobs. And no, not dishwashers. Most would rather stay in a life of crime than do undignified work. Typically work that involves physical labor, or maybe sales.

Most gang members go on to working class jobs. And no, not dishwashers. Most would rather stay in a life of crime than do undignified work. Typically work that involves physical labor, or maybe sales.

I don't know, Aces. What are you saying here? That black people are simply genetically unintelligent and incapable of handling sophisticated tasks, by way of their racial DNA? It seems like this is your overall point. Do you believe this?

I'm sure Pope is a composite of the '80s cocaine Godfathers like Felix Mitchell and Darryl Reed, but they weren't anything like the syndicate bosses. Nor do I think they wanted to be. That's what some people here don't understand.

Gambling is the only real racket in the bay area and I'm sure it's mostly Russians and Asians running it today. Oaks Card Club in Emeryville, started by Frank Costello associate Elmer "Big Bones" Remmer (pictured in my profile pic), is run by Asians today, and they've been subjects of investigations in recent years.

Lanza and Cerrito families were mostly into legitimate business, they'd carry out favors for families back east, like whacking Patriarca associate Joe "The Animal" Barboza.

Police in the bay area were always adverse to east coast racketeers. The only exception was Emeryville in the early 20th century, which at the time was as mobbed up as Nucky Johnson's Atlantic City, and that's not an exaggeration. Literally all of Emeryville's city council was on the take, and Remmer was the defacto mayor of that town. Obviously, there was no way a black person could be a racket boss in these days.

it's probably also worth to mention that the lcn was founded by italian immigrants, who carried on a tradition from a country where racketeering was and to some extend still is just the way society worked - and that their succes was heavily boosted by the money and power they gained during prohibition.

Latin and black gangs started out of poverty stricken neighborhoods heavily infested with drugs and these people were generally not accepted in circles where real political and economic power could be earned. How do you think society would have reacted if a black guy tried to sell everyone on a bunch of casinos i a desert in the 40's? And by the time black and latin people reached a point where they were taken more seriously by society, the rules had started to change and it wasnt that easy to bribe your way in to the mainstream society unless you like the lcn had a solid base of power in the first place.

You'd be surprised when you dig into those scenarios.

Oak, where did you hear that the SF LCN had Barboza killed? I've always heard that JR Russo from East Boston pulled the trigger on that.