Gangs in America 1 Pre unit quiz Why do people join gangs What was the RICO act What is prohibition What is organized crime Explain blood in blood out What is racketeering What is embezzlement ID: 299303
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Law and Order
Gangs in America
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Pre unit quiz
Why do people join gangs What was the RICO act What is prohibition
What is organized crime
Explain “blood in blood out”
What is racketeering What is embezzlement What is money laundering
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History of Street Gangs in America
Northeast Region (Mainly New York) First period of Gang Growth (1783-1850’s)
First gang-like groups emerged immediately after the American revolution ended (1783) Made up of white European immigrants
The first real gang (forty thieves) formed in 1826 in the back room of Rosanna
Peers’s greengrocery in New York Five points district
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Northeast Region ( New York)
Gangs also developed in Philadelphia and Boston but not to the extent of New York
Three developments that contributed to gang development
Social disorganization in slum areas
The establishment of greengrocery stores The involvement of politicians in street gangs
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Northeast Region (New York)
Second period of Growth (1860-1920’s)The government center for New York (Tammany Hall) grew more and more corrupt
The influx of millions of immigrants created deplorable conditions in the slums
gang membership skyrocketed
Police either could not fight the gangs or were so corrupt they turned a blind eye
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Northeast Region (New York)
By 1913 gang membership was at its highest point in history In 1916 a war on gangs was declared and the police arrested more than 200 gang leaders
China town was established in New York city and Chinese gangs controlled the opium, gambling and political power
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Northeast Region (New York)
Third period of growth (1930-1980) gang activity shifted from Downtown to Harlem and the Bronx
Immigrant groups started to come from Latin America (Hispanics mostly from Puerto Rico) and from the southern states (African Americans)
Black Gangs appeared in 1950’s
During the 1980’s new Asian and Non-Puerto Rican Latino immigrants populated gangs
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Midwest Region (Chicago)
Just after the civil war Chicago became a magnet for eastern European immigrants
There was a great need for labor and ghettos started to arise
They made up the early gangs (just like New York)
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Mid-west region (Chicago)
First periodMany of the first gangs came from the volunteer fire departments
after the an official fire department was established they emerged from the saloons
Similar to New York the politicians became involved
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Mid-west region (Chicago)
Second period This period started in the 1930’s
The immigrant population changed to Mexicans and African Americans from the south
They fought with the white gangs
Between 1940 and 1960 three major street gangs emerged: Devils Disciples, P-Stones, and the Vice Lords
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Mid-west region (Chicago)
Second period In 1960 the Latin Kings were formed
Around this time 51 high rise housing projects had been developed for low income people, these became breeding grounds for gangs
Black gangs fought with each other based on turf
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Mid-west region (Chicago)
Modern day gangsFrom 1980 to 1990’s four gangs dominated: Black Gangster Disciple Nation, the Latin Disciples, the Latin Kings and the Vice Lords
By 2006 Chicago had destroyed the high rises and gangs started to spread out of the city
Drugs and guns financed
the gangs
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Gangs in the West (Los Angeles)
1930’s to the 1940’s Latino gangs dominated They formed around barrios (neighborhoods) As new immigrants came north from Mexico they increased the size of the barrios
These gang members never fully acculturated to the United States
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Gangs in the West (Los Angeles)
1940-1964 another 4 million Mexicans settled in the United States, most settling in Los AngelesTwo major events proved pivotal in the forming of Los Angeles gangs
The Sleepy Lagoon murder and the
Zoot
Suit riots of the 1940’s
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Gangs in the west (Los Angeles)
Black gangs formed with the migration of African Americans from the south to the north Social dysfunction led to the creation of gangs (as in New York and Chicago)
Wars broke out between the Latino and black gangs fighting over territory
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Gangs in America
Violent crimeGang violence
There are more than 24,000 gangs in the United States
There are over 760,000 members
Department of Justice survey, 20 percent of students aged 12 through 18 had contact with street gangs
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Gang Violence
More than a quarter (28%) of students in urban schools reported a street gang presence
They fund their operations by selling guns, drugs and human trafficking
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Gang Violence
Why do people join gangs They want to feel accepted
They are looking for power
They are afraid
Peer pressure
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Organized Crime
Organized Crime: involves the criminal activities of a group of people whose purpose is economic gain
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Organized Crime
The roots of organized crime can be found in the political machines that operated in New York (Tammany Hall) and ChicagoGangs tended to organized by ethnicity
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Prohibition
The National Women's Temperance Movement and the Anti-Saloon League gathered support to pass prohibition into law
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th
amendment to the constitution was passed in 191921Slide22
Prohibition
The Volstead act gave power to the Internal Revenue to enforce the law Fines: possession $1000 and 1 year in prison If you sold alcohol $2000 and 1 ½ years
a permit was issued for the possession of alcohol for religious reasons and a prescription for medical reasons
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Prohibition
Bootlegging: (smuggling illegal alcohol into the United States) created great wealth for gangsters Criminals filled this void and organized around the sale of alcohol
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Organized Crime
Violence became a way of life as the early gangs ruled the streetsWith the 21
st
amendment to the constitution prohibition was repealed
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RICO
Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)Enacted October 1970 to put the mafia out of business
Under RICO any member of an enterprise that has committed two of the 35 crimes within a 10 year period can be charged with racketeering
If found guilty they face a fine of $25,000 and 20 years for each charge
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RICO
They would also forfeit all money gained from those illegal acts this includes any made by the business The act also allows any one who had been hurt by the criminal actives to sue in civil court for triple the damages suffered
When indicted on RICO charges all assets are frozen
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RICO
Famous cases Hells Angels Gambino
Crime family
Latin Kings
Winter Hill Gang (Whitey Bolger) Genovese crime family (first case where a mafia don was convicted under RICO)
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