They mostly kept to Chinese neighborhoods and dealt within their own communities. I never even heard of a non-Chinese having trouble with those people. Funny story; In later years of my old neighborhood a group of Chinese moved in around the corner.

One day I was out mowing the lawn while my mother was clipping some hedges when this Chinese kid comes running over yelling for us to help him. He said these gangsters were trying to kill him. He looked about 20. Hot on his heels are about 8 tough looking Chinese kids with weapons. One had a hatchet, another one had a chain, and a couple had sticks.

My mother had a big Italian mouth and she started yelling at these 'gangsters'. "What the hell do you think you are doing here?' and etc. They all stood there with their heads and eyes down at the floor while this 5 foot 1 woman dressed them down for a good 5 minutes. We brought the kid inside but not before I yelled out " you should all be ashamed of yourselves!"...and they sincerely looked it. The 'gang' was deflated and they all just sort of walked away.

We brought the kid inside and let him make a phone call. Somebody came to pick him up [ looked like his mother ]. Anyway that was our Chinese gangster story.