The Crips originated back in the late 60s in Los Angeles, California. The Crips first started off as one alliance, but quickly turned into a gang with a variety of sets along the West Coast, and involving themselves in open warfare with one another. The Crips have turned into one of the largest and most intimidated gangs in the United States. The gang started primarily between two people, Stanley Williams and Raymond Washington. These two men were once united together in the Crips, but ended splitting up and having their own sets.
In America in the time of the 1960’s drugs were a phenomenon. The rise of drugs began this decade. Law officials cant exactly pin point when, where, and how drugs came to America. But have worked many decades to lock up drug dealers who distribute to society. Many distributors are or well known as gangsters.
Northern gangs are bitter enemies to the EME and Southern street gangs. SYMBOLS FOR NORTENO GANGS: “Norte”, “XIV”, “X4”, “14”,The Huelga Bird, “TC”, the color red, 4 dots, 4 fingers held in the air, SF 49er® attire, (Sweet Fourteen, or Scrap Free), any NFL symbols (Nortenos for Life) and the northern star or any star. REGARDING SOUTHERN STREET GANGS: Violent conflicts between Northern and Southern gangs have been continuous since the 1960’s. The conflict began with the creation of the Mexican Mafia (EME) in the 1950’s. The EME was formed by Southern Hispanic gangs to gain control of illegal activities on the streets and in the prison
Intelligence says Sinaloa Cartel has won battle for Ciudad Juarez drug routes.”(CNS News, 2010) At the end of year 2010, 3,622 homicides were recorded in Ciudad Juarez. That was the most that was recorded within the past 6 years. Not only was this cartel known for its bloodshed, but for also for its trafficking of cocaine. This cartel trafficked 1,500 to 2,000 kilograms of cocaine per month to their Chicago cell. (Department of Justice, 2009) That is approximately 18,000 kilograms of cocaine per year in the city of Chicago.
BANG!!!! “Shots fired” or “Officer down” is all so common in our local communities, backyard and nearby school. The war on drug our local officers and drug dealer in our communities. Since early history, drugs have been a major problem in society. As early as the 1960’s and 70’s, our Officers have been dealing with numerous drug lords invading the street of Miami Police officer have been trying to find ways to catch drugs dealers and cleaning out our communities for decades.
Throughout American history from the early 20th century onward, organized crime has always been relevant and continues to grow as an empire in modern day society. Some of the most popular organized crime groups in America are the Italian Mafia or El Cosa Nostra, the Irish and Jewish mobs, and the South American and Mexican drug cartels which evolved later in the 20th century. Organized crime began with the massive European immigration to the East coast of the United States particularly in New York City. There were more people than jobs so young men had to turn to crime. After, organized crime grew quickly in the 1920’s during prohibition through the smuggling of liquor and separate crime organizations worked together in order to have more control over the law.
The Bloods are a well-known street gang that was formed in the early 1970’s in Compton, California. The gang started from a set called the Piru Gang, named after Piru Street in Compton, which formed as a rival to another popular street gang, the Crips. The Crips absorbed many smaller gang sets around this time and exploded in numbers. Gangs that did not want to associate with the Crips joined together and these anti-Crip sets eventually became known as the Bloods. These sets forming together resulted in a rivalry that stretched to higher-up affiliations between the rival gang alliances People Nation (Blood affiliation) and Folk Nation (Crip affiliation) which started in the Chicago area but has spread all over the United States.
K. By 1914, Rothstein had become one of the kings of gambling in New York. He was also highly skilled as a smuggler and trafficked in diamonds; heroin; cocaine; and later, liquor. He gained control of the garment industry first by using thugs to break strikes and then later by gaining control of labor
One definition is “a group of criminal or hoodlums who band together for mutual protections and profit”. This is not only definition of a gang but why gangs were formed in the corrections system. By the 1920s there were over 1300 gangs in the city of Chicago and were beginning to develop in Los Angeles, California. Over the next 40 years gangs continued to spread over the United States and in the 1960s gangs were clearly prevalent in the corrections system as evidenced in the California corrections system. As a U.S. Department of Justice publication notes, “Their organization was so firmly entrenched before authorities understood the danger confronting them that control of the institution was seriously threatened (Seiter, p. 250).
Usually people think gangs are just society’s problems, and label them as killers and drug dealers. A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals or close friends with identifiable leadership and international organization, identifying with or claiming control over territory in a community, and engaging either individually or collectively in violence. Although gangs exist internationally there is a greater level of study and knowledgeable information of gangs specifically in the United States. A member of a gang is called a gangster. (FBI) In the late 1940’s -1970’s public housing high rises became the home of many gangs, (Riis) In 2009 there were over 1 million documented gang members.