The Gulf Cartel The Gulf Cartel is an organized crime unit that operates out of Mexico, primarily distributing drugs throughout the United States. The Gulf Cartel has several rivals, with the Sinaloa Cartel at the head of the pack. This particular type of organized crime unit (Mexican drug cartels) began making an impact in the early ‘80s and has grown stronger and more violent over the years. The structures of the many drug cartels have been referred to as being run like a “business,” but with violent consequences and the Gulf Cartel is no exception. The increase in power within the drug cartels makes the future of organized crime seem bleak regarding society, but positive for the OC units themselves.
The first story revolves around the Mexican police and how some of them are corrupt and either turn their head to the drug lords or are stand up citizens that want drugs off the streets. This story is about a State policeman Javier Rodriguez and his partner. Rodriguez is caught between his Captains corruption and the Mexican drug trade. The scenes shown in the Mexico were all shot in an Amber Hue to give the story an authentic Mexican feel. The second story is on Robert Wakefield, the U.S. Drug Czar and his daughter Caroline.
Mexico provides the United States with the largest supply of marijuana and is the second largest source for heroin. When the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon came to office and began to take on organized crime by arresting cartel leaders, was when the government and cartels began their battle. There is a war also between the five leading rival cartels for the production and smuggling of drugs. Violence has reached the point of beheading, murdering and hiding of dead bodies, and even the dissolving of human parts in acid. Kidnapping rates have also escaladed in Mexico to where an average of 70 people are abducted each month.
Mr. Untouchable Organized crime figure born on October 15, 1933, in New York City, sometimes called Mr. Untouchable, Leroy "Nicky" Barnes became one of the biggest drug dealers in New York City during the 1970s. He helped found a criminal organization known as "The Council," which handled a large share of the city's heroin trade. According to his autobiography, Mr. Untouchable , Barnes started selling drugs at an early age. He ran with a street gang for a time and developed a taste for heroin, which quickly became an addiction. In 1950, Barnes was arrested for possession of a hypodermic needle.
When he and others reached the mean streets of the L.A. ghetto, Mexican gangs preyed on them. The newcomers' response: to band together in a mara, or "posse," composed of salvatruchas, or "street-tough Salvadorans" (the "13" is a gang number associated with southern California). Over time, the gang's ranks grew, adding former paramilitaries with weapons training and a taste for atrocity. MS-13 eventually adopted a variety of rackets, from extortion to drug trafficking. When law enforcement cracked down and deported planeloads of members, the deportees quickly created MS-13 outposts in El Salvador
Pablo Escobar is often described as "the world's greatest outlaw." He was the leader of the Medellin Cartel, "an organized group of drug suppliers and smugglers who originated in the city of Medellin, Columbia." (March 28, 2011. ) The Cartel worked mainly in parts of Latin America, the United States as well as Canada, and parts of Europe as well. According to Cristin O: "the Medellin Cartel is said to have controlled roughly eighty percent of the shipments that entered into the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic with shipments brought mostly from Peru and Bolivia, as Colombian coca was initially of substandard quality.
These gangs were formed in the 1960s and 1970s in prisons in California. These gangs are as follows: Aryan Brotherhood, La Nuestra Familia, Mexican Mafia, Texas Syndicate and The Neta Association. However, Zackasee writes that in 2004 the Federal Bureau of Prisons classified the following prison gangs as disruptive groups. These are as follows: the Mexican Mafia, the Black Guerilla Family, the Mexikanemi, the Aryan Brotherhood, and the Texas Syndicate. The threat of prison gangs Usually prison inmates join these gangs in order to protect themselves from other gangs and also to ensure some form of protection from the harsh conditions in prison.
During the early 1940's, Mexican gangs stated to formed along the west coast of the United States By the late 1960's and early 1970's, the more modern urban gangs we still see today such as the Crips gang in Los Angeles were it is so violent and entrenched in ghetto neighborhoods that a rival gangs formed to challenge the strength of the Crips know today as the Bloods. By the late 1980's and early 1990's gangs needed a way to make money and their way of doing that was with drugs. Lives of gang members are filed with violence, criminal activities, drugs and alcohol. Urban gangs today have gotten a lot larger and more violent. One of the largest and most dangerous gangs in America and that is spreading throw out the world is a gang called Mara Salvatrucha 13 aka MS13.
In New York City, an average of seven Latin Americans were killed a year between 1986 to 1989 but, in 1990, that number increased greatly. In that year, twenty three Latin Americans were killed by police gunfire. When asked how he felt about racism being involved in police brutality, Yussuf Naimkly of the University of Regina Commented: “Excessive police force against blacks has always been tolerated, because as a formally enslaved minority African Americans are trapped in a cultural context specifically designed to inhibit their development and thus minimize their threat to white hegemony”. Another shocking incident of police brutality occurred in Reynoldsberg Ohio. A group of offices named themselves “S.N.A.T” squad.
It was originally founded by 13 inmates who were active Latino street gang members from different neighborhoods in the Los Angeles area. The gang's nickname became "La Erne," signifying the Spanish word for the letter M. Gang members banded together in prison to protect themselves from other gang members, inmates and prison staff. It was this perceived need for protection from another group that acted as a catalyst for the gang's formation. Today, Mexican Mafia members come from all parts