BLACK ORGANIZED CRIME

Black Organized Crime



Black Organized Crime

Introduction

Gangs have been around since forever. Gangs like the Sicilian Mafia have been around since the 1800s. Nowadays though the two most recognized gangs are the Bloods and the Crips. Gangs now have become a true threat to society. Members of gangs are now killing innocent people for fun. Even Females are getting in on the gang action. People today need to familiarize themselves with gang safety procedures in order to protect themselves.

Gangs have been around for as longs there have been inhabitants of this world. The word thug goes back to India in the year 2000 A.D. and it refers to a gang of criminals (http://www.gripe4rkids.org/his.html). In the 1800s, we saw gangs like the James Gang, Billy the Kid and other outlaws. In the late 1800s, immigrants began to establish gangs. Irish gangs came along like the Whyos, Dead Rabbits and Plug Uglies. Jewish gangs began to rise with the Monk Eastman Gang who terrorized the streets of New York. (http://www.gripe4rkids.org/his.html)

In the Early 1900s New York would see one of the most significant and notorious street gangs form called the Five Points Gang who were named this because of their home turf in the Five Points section of lower Manhattan. An Italian immigrant named Paolo Antonini Vaccerelli, also known as Paul Kelly, and his right hand man Johnny Torrio who was a significant member of the Sicilian Mafia led the Five Points Gang (http://www.gripe4rkids.org/his.html). The Five Points Gang became a model for young up and coming street gangsters and the Mafia. The most recognized recruit of the Five Points Gang was Alphonse Capone better known as Scarface. Capone went on to become the most violent and prolific gangster, as well as a model for future gangs and gangsters. Street gangs influenced by Capone flourished during the 1920s and 1930s and were a symbol of lower income neighborhoods and ghetto communities. (http://www.gripe4rkids.org/his.html)(Abadinsky, 2007).

The early gangs consisted of African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics, but in the 1940s, Mexican gangs began to form along the west coast. Gangs like the Latin Kings and the Vice Lords began to form in Chicago as early as 1950. In the 1960s, gangs began to form in New York, like the Savage Skulls, La Familia, and Savage Nomads. A gang by the name of the Rampers was formed which contained a member by the name of Sammy "The Bull" Garvano. (http://www.gripe4rkids.org/his.html)

In the late 1960s, early 1970s large Afro-American street gangs began to appear in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Crips gangs in Los Angles California began to form and became so dangerous and violent in ghetto neighborhoods, a rival gang named the Bloods was formed in order to challenge the strength of the Crips gang. At the same time gangs like the Black Gangsters, Devils Disciples, and the Black P Stone Rangers began to form in Chicago. (http://www.gripe4rkids.org/his.html)

By the late 1980s, the main operation of street gangs became drug operation with businesslike operations and violence being ...