If in 1975 there were hardly 13 thousand gangsters in the city, then by 2000 there were already 80 thousand of them, and the number of gangs had increased to 700. The primacy of gangs took shape at this time and, starting from the 80s, the most powerful groups remain: Crips, Bloods, Pirus, as well as Latin American gangs Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street gang.

Each of them has tens of thousands of participants, which is why their structure turns out to be rather “loose”. The same Crips are made up of groups that are often at odds with each other, and the Bloods alliance is created as a fragile confederation of African American gangs to fight the Crips and the Mexicans.

The so-called "Young Helpers" (Affiliates) gang Grape Street Crips. We would call these "sixes"

Members of the Grape Street Crips mimic the shooting of a junior high school student

But they don’t sit behind video games - they have fun outdoors and with friends from the area

Grape Street Crips mobster wearing the gang's signature purple hoodie

Here, apparently, two members of the warring gangs from different branches of the Crips are depicted at the time of the 1992 truce (at that time, during the city riot, gangsters united against the police)

Detained members of the Mexican street gang 18th Street Gang

Gangsters from Grape Street Crips again

Grape Street Crips posing with Gs and Ws, 1988

The most important role in the formation of gangster culture is given to the Los Angeles district of Watts, in particular the Jordan Downs complex. It was here that the famous Crips gang was born, whose branches spread throughout LA. Now in the city there are about 200 groups that have left the Crips, which does not prevent them from actively feuding with each other.

Still the same Jordan Downs, Watts. In the area

The leader of the Sons of Samoa (sons of Samoa) - a warring gang of Polynesian origin with the Crips. Here he is shown paralyzed after being attacked with a gunshot.

Gangsters are clearly not reproached for forgetting their bros who are in a wheelchair

Another photo of the paralyzed leader of the Sons of Samoa

Here you can see another attribute of a gangster: a bandana and different variations of wearing it.

Stereotypical gangster trait: showing the letters of your gang and generally identifying with these signs. This one, for example, from Crips:

And this one is from the warring gang community, the Bloods:

And this young patriot generally wears a badge with the name of the gang:

Dodge City Crips Second Street Mob graffiti, San Pedro. The group is clearly not racist.

Taking pictures against the backdrop of a wall with the names of their bros was generally fashionable

Gangster from Grape Street Watts Crips posing with a shotgun

East Coast Baby Dolls - Affiliated, all-female branch of the Samoan gang Sons of Samoa, Long Beach

Again Coast Baby Dolls

Coast Baby Dolls girls in a fight

Members of the Mexican gang East Side Longos, which is part of the Sureños conglomerate. The most famous gang from Long Beach. For some reason, Asians are not particularly favored.

The Malditos - minor branch of the East Side Longos gang

Most of these shots were taken by German-born photographer Axel Koster. As an immigrant, he himself experienced the difficulties of socialization in Los Angeles, one of the most criminal cities in the world. It is surprising with what simplicity this visiting German managed to gain confidence in different, moreover, opposing gangs. He could take a picture of the paralyzed leader of the Sons of Samoa and immediately go to the area to the Crips, who just shot him.

Crips(from English "Cripps") - a street gang, a criminal community in the United States, consisting mainly of African Americans. As of 2007, the number of Crips members is estimated at up to 40 thousand people.

A distinctive sign of gang members is wearing bandanas (and clothes in general) in blue shades, sometimes wearing canes. In order to join a gang, a guy needs to commit a crime in front of witnesses. The famous C-walk dance also originated among the gang. Developed its own slang and alphabet.

Bloods often refer to themselves as Damu ("blood" in African Swahili) or Dawg (DOGS). Members of the Bloods adorn themselves with dog tattoos, usually a bulldog. The Bloods also use the acronym M.O.B. (Member of Blood or Money Over Bitches).

In 1971, gang members attacked elderly Japanese women, who then described the perpetrators as lame (cripple), since all the participants in the attack were with canes. Local newspapers wrote about this incident, and the name stuck to the gang - Crips

Currently, the Crips gang is considered one of the largest in the United States. Its members are charged with murder, robbery, drug trafficking and other crimes. Most Crips in California, where it began to develop

Rappers Snoop Dogg and Xzibit left the Crips

Snoop Dogg
Xzibit

Bloods(English bloods - Bloody) - one of the US street gangs, founded in 1970 in the suburbs Los Angeles, California State. The Bloods are known for their "war" with the Crips street gang. The creation of the Bloods occurred after a small gang from Compton, the Piru Street Boys, did not find understanding with the vastly superior Compton Crips and entered into open conflict with it. In an effort to enlist the support of other groups, the leaders of the Piru Street Boys gathered all the other non-Crips street gangs in Los Angeles, and the decision was made to form Alliance Bloods. Since the Crips wore a blue bandana as an identification mark and dressed mainly in blue, red was adopted as the Alliance color, a red bandana as an identification mark, and Bloods (English blood - Blood) as a name, that is, "Reds" .

Like any gang, Bloods has its own slang and its own alphabet (English alphabet with modified characters). Using these symbols, gang members "mark" their territory with spray paint, leaving tags. In Bloods slang, members of the Crips gang are called crabs (Crabs).

The B-walk dance (Blood Walk) also appeared among the gang, which is an analogue of the C-walk (Crip-Walk), created in the Crips gang as a way of transmitting signals between gang members and recognizing each other

Tupac Shakur producer Marion Suge Knight, Jr. was Bloods.

The main rivals of the Reds and Blues in California are the Latin Kings, Hispanic gangs made up of descendants of Mexican and South American immigrants. Latin Kings are approximately equal in number and degree of influence to both Bloods and Crips, they also operate throughout the country, although the southern and western states, and primarily California, are considered their traditional territory. IN Lately there has been an increase in Asian criminal gangs.

The most dangerous gangs in the USA ( new york, Los Angeles)

Of course, there are many more dangerous gangs in the United States that deserve close attention, but we will focus on the top five.

(slang for "gang of wandering ants") or MS 13- by far the most powerful and dangerous street gang operating in the United States, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and a number of other countries Central America. In 2012, US authorities declared MS 13 the first international criminal organization in history.

Mara Salvatrucha was formed in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, when hundreds of thousands of emigrants from Central America poured into the United States. Initially, the backbone of the gang was formed from citizens of El Salvador, and then people from Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras began to replenish it.

At first, it was one of the many street gangs that operated on the streets of Los Angeles and spent much of their time in brutal wars with hostile groups, primarily blacks. Then the Salvadoran lively boys were swept up by respectable uncles from the Mexican mafia and offered a criminal alliance - Surenos (Surenos). According to the agreement, the task of supplying fighters for the dirty work that the Mexicans entrusted to them fell on the shoulders of the ants, and they, in turn, undertook to provide all support to the Salvadorans in street wars and in prisons. After that, the authority and power of Mara Salvatrucha grew by leaps and bounds.

To date, there are about 10-12 thousand members of this gang in the United States, while the total number of Mara Salvatrucha in all of America reaches 70 thousand people. The geography in the US of MS-13 is quite extensive, judge for yourself: California, Washington, Texas, New York, Maryland, Illinois, Florida, Virginia, Oregon, Michigan, Nevada, Utah, Georgia, Oklahoma and even. The ants have branches in at least 40 American cities.

Tattoos: MS 13 member tattoos, often covering their owner from head to toe, can tell knowledgeable people about a lot - who he is and what he is, for what and how long he was imprisoned, whom he killed, and so on.

Criminal activity: drug trafficking, control of prostitution (including children), racketeering, protection of criminal and semi-criminal business, extortion, arms trafficking, murders, organizing the delivery of illegal immigrants to the States, various dirty jobs on behalf of the allied Mexican mafia.

Also known as Barrio 18 or M-18- a large street gang from Los Angeles, whose brigades, in addition to the "city of angels", operate on the territory of 120 American cities in 37 states. For decades now, the main enemies of the M-18 have been Mara Salvatrucha and a number of African-American groups. The main ally is La Eme (Mexican mafia).

The gang appeared in the 60s of the last century in Los Angeles. Its backbone was made up of Mexicans and people from Central America. Today, the 18th Street Gang is considered the largest gang in Los Angeles - only in this city and adjacent territories there are about 10 thousand members of this group, in total, according to some reports, up to 30 thousand people are loyal to it.

The main income of M-18 is formed by street drug trafficking. Also, gang members are engaged in protection business, illegal immigration, forgery, extortion, underground gambling, kidnapping, murder, in general, everything that such gangs do.

The FBI began looking at the M-18 guys back in the 1990s, but it wasn't until the mid-2000s that they really got down to business with a series of large-scale raids against its members.

The M-18 is considered its main enemy to be the famous Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), with which it has been for long years bloody showdowns continued, and this despite the fact that these two gangs have the same main ally - La Eme(Mexican mafia).

One of the most notorious and violent prison gangs in the US. Initially, having originated in 1964 as an ordinary racist group, over time, AB has transformed into a full-fledged criminal syndicate, where today money comes first and only ideology comes second.

The Aryan Brotherhood accounts for approximately 20% of all murders committed in federal prisons in the country. Despite the racist ideology, one of the main allies of the gang is the Mexican mafia, for which at times the "Aryans" carry out contract killings. AB also has contacts with some Asian groups that deliver drugs to the United States, but it is believed that the "Aryans" will never have anything to do with blacks. By the way, the main enemy of AB is the Negro group "Black Partisan Family".

To date, the ranks of the Aryan Brotherhood have more than 10,000 people. To join a gang, a white prisoner must kill another prisoner, preferably black or Hispanic. For leaving the gang - death.

ABs are involved in drug trafficking, racially motivated and hired killings, racketeering, arms trafficking, and so on. As mentioned above, it is impossible to leave the ranks of the gang - AB members released from prison must supply their brothers with money, drugs and other contraband.

Characteristic tattoos: abbreviations SS and AB, swastika, zig runes, 666.

Crips

Crips- one of the oldest criminal alliances in the United States. The Crips are made up of many African American gangs, with no central control. The gang was founded in 1969 by teenagers Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams, in Los Angeles. Today, there are up to 40 thousand fighters in the ranks of the "cripples".

For many years now, another African-American group, bloods (z), has been considered the sworn enemies of the "cripples". In addition to the "bloody", crips feud with such well-known gangs as the Neighborhood Pirus, Mara Salvatrucha, the Nazis from the Aryan Brotherhood and Nazi Lowriders, as well as the Surenos. Often the gangs that are part of the crips alliance are at war with each other.

Criminal activities: murder, drug trafficking, robbery, theft, car theft, document forgery, arms trafficking, extortion.

Gang attributes: Blue color, blue bandanas, British Knights sneakers, specific tattoos, gangster graffiti. Has its own slang.

Initiation: A Crips candidate must commit a crime in front of a member of the gang. Girls are accepted after intercourse with several older "cripples".

Bloods/bloodz (bloody)

Bloods/bloodz (bloody)- an alliance of African American street gangs, formed in South Los Angeles. Distinctive feature The gang is wearing red clothes, which is supposed to symbolize blood. The Bloody Alliance is predominantly composed of African-American groups (sets), although it also includes Hispanics and white fighters. The ranks of the bloods number about 15-20 thousand fighters.

The Bloods formed in 1972 in the famed South Central Los Angeles. The main reason that some street gangs had to urgently organize an alliance was another, no less famous Crips group (cripples), whose power and appetite grew by leaps and bounds. All the gangs that were attacked by the "crips" received an offer to enter a new alliance, and thereby become much more competitive in relation to the crips. For decades now, Bloods and Crips have been implacable enemies for each other.

Crime activities: drug trafficking, robbery, murder, extortion.

Hello dear.
It's been a long time since we talked about organized crime :-)) I think it's time.
Today we will talk a little about street gangs in Los Angeles. Moreover, these initially local groups have long outgrown their metropolis and entered the federal level.
Although initially the whole city of Angels was divided into approximately 2 equal halves - red-black versus red-blue. And these are not American fans of two famous football antagonists - Milan and Inter. Not at all. These are the 2 colors of the two largest street gangs in Los Angeles - the so-called Crips And bloods.

Crips came first
At the very end of the 60s, 16-year-old juvenile delinquent Stanley Williams, nicknamed Tuki, who had just been released from prison after a short term for car theft, and the leader of a local youth gang, Raymond Washington, formed a new alliance, which soon became known as the Crips. What is the success of this association, I do not understand. There were many such gangs, but it was these that rose (and rather quickly). Apparently Tuki was charismatic, as well as merciless and lucky.
By the way, the name of the gang comes from the nickname cripples - "cripples", which was awarded to members of the group by local residents for their characteristic shuffling waddle.


Almost immediately, the official color of this gang became blue. And a sort of uniform blue bandanas along with blue Levi's jeans and leather jackets. Considering that 90% of the gang consisted of dark-skinned guys, they began to be called blue-blacks.
Crips acted brazenly, and mercilessly. This could not fail to please other street gangs, and in 1972 an alliance was formed that became the main antagonist of the Crips for decades to come. Red was chosen as the identifying color of the new alliance, hence their name - Bloods(English bloods - bloody, red). Later, many other gangs that feuded with the Crips joined the Bloods alliance. Since the Bloods were also overwhelmingly black. then they began to call them black and red.

And the war began, which then fades, then continues to this day.
Both gangs have their own set of specific traditions. So, the creeps prefer not to use the letter combination “ck” in the letter, associating it with Creep Killer, and replace it with “cc”, and also, if possible, avoid using the letter “b”, changing it to “bk” - Blood Killer. In turn, the “bloods” try to exclude from their vocabulary words that begin with the letter “s”, thus turning, for example, “coffee” into “bofe”. The "creeps" traditionally refer to each other as "kazz" and "blood killaz", their opponents, in turn, simply refer to each other as "blood". On the streets of American cities, you can see graffiti with the letter "b" with a cross inside or a crossed out "c" - this is how members of warring factions try to offend rivals.


It should be noted that this confrontation does not make these groups stronger, even though they have reached the federal level. The Bloods are the 5th largest in the country, and the Crips are the third, although there were a lot of people in their gang famous people, for example the same Snoop Dogg.

They were ahead of such large gangs as Mara Salvatrucha, Latin Kings, Norteños, Sureños And Folk Nation
Mara Salvatrucha aka MS-13 is one of the biggest street gangs in the world. It unites all of Central and North America and can even compete with serious guys from the Major League a la 'Ndrangheta, Camorra, Mexican and Colombian cartels. Initially, it was founded by Salvadorans, so in slang this gang is called nothing more than "Salvadoran wandering ants brigade." It was joined by the Guatemalans and all the other inhabitants of Central America, and then by everyone else. They are international, although Spanish is considered the basic language and the basis is Latin Americans. One of the most famous groups. It is about her that the good movie "Training Day" is mentioned.

The motto of the gangsters from MS-13 is the cry "Mata, Viola, Controla" ("Kill, rape, subdue"). Among them, the slogans “You live for God and mother, but die for the gang” and “What belongs to God belongs to God, but what does not belong to Him is ours” are also popular.
A distinctive feature of Mara Salvatrucha members are tattoos all over their bodies, including on the face and inside of the lips. The number "13" in the name and, accordingly, the tattoos of the gang stands for the letter "M" (the 13th letter of the Latin alphabet). According to the most common version, the number "13" refers to 13th Street in Los Angeles, where the gang originated. Other popular tattoos are "goat" representing the horns of the devil in the shape of the letter "M", telephone codes and Maya-style ornaments. An important component of the gang's paraphernalia are wall graffiti, which mark the borders or sections of the controlled territory, and are also applied in memory of fallen comrades.


Mara Salvatrucha members prefer blue and white in their clothing.

Latin Kings(“Latin American Kings”) is perhaps the most bloodthirsty gang in Los Angeles, which has many branches in Spain and a considerable number of supporters. Their colors are black and gold.

Among Mexicans, the most popular are two gangs of eternal antagonists - Nortenos(inhabitants of the north) and Surenos(southerners), depending on which part of California they are based.
The Norteños use the number 14, which represents the fourteenth letter of the alphabet, the letter N. This is sometimes written as "X4", or in Roman numerals as "XIV". The emblems and clothing of the Norteños are based on red - a red belt, red shoes and red laces. Although often red should be combined with black and white. These 3 colors are official. Norteños tend to refer to each other with the term "ene".

The Sureños use the number 13, which represents the thirteenth letter of the alphabet, the letter M, in tribute to Mexican organized crime and the cartels. Common Sureño brigade markings and tattoos include: Sur, XIII, X3, 13, Sur13, un tres, trece and 3 dots. Most are Hispanic, but some Sureño brigades allow people of other ethnic backgrounds to join.

They wear blue and gray for identification. These are the colors of the gang.

Folk Nation was originally a Chicago gang, but has long and firmly taken its place in Los Angeles. The most international of all the gangs, uniting under its wing whites, blacks, Latinos and residents from the East.
Gangs demonstrate their characteristics, which are symbols, colors, graffiti, numbers of the initial letters of the names of the gangs included in the association, for example, Gangster Disciples uses 74, since G and D occupy 7th and 4th places in the English alphabet.

Most gangs use a six-pointed star, a pitchfork, and identify themselves with signs on the right side of the body, such as wearing hats and bandannas facing right. Gangs use the slogan "All is One" to greet each other. The six-pointed Star of David, Jewish religious symbols in honor of King David are used in graffiti.

Well, a couple more gangs are worth highlighting cool gangs. 18th Street Gang, Clanton 14, also known as C14th St, Bulldogs Fresno, also known as F-14, FBS and BDS, as well as Asian gangs Asian boyz, or ABZ, wah ching, also known as "Dub C", Tiny rascal gang or TRG and many more others.
Have a nice time of the day.

Among other things, he promised, if not to put an end to street banditry, then to deal a serious blow to it. As the Republican candidate explained, many groups are made up of illegal migrants, and it is enough to tighten immigration policy and give more powers to the police, and the problem will be solved by itself. There is some doubt that this plan will work. Many gangs have been around for decades and seem serious about outliving Trump, as they have outlived many presidents. Among these groups are the famous Bloods and Crips, black gangs whose feud has already become part of American culture.

For freedom with brass knuckles

The Crips came first.

Los Angeles in the 1960s was a place where a black teenager from a poor family could hardly succeed. Mass unemployment, the inability to get a quality education, discrimination pushed young people of color into the streets, forcing them to fight for a place in the sun.

On a spring evening in 1969 (according to other sources, 1971), 16-year-old high school student Stanley Williams, nicknamed Tuki, an aspiring bodybuilder, an experienced street fighter and the leader of a small gang, who had recently been released from prison after a short term for stealing a car, came to unusual guests. The leader of a local youth gang, Raymond Washington, and his friends offered Williams and his guys an alliance in the fight against other groups. Washington and Williams took an immediate liking to each other. Everyone was satisfied with the results of the conversation: Raymond enlisted the support of Tuka, and he got a chance to realize his old dream - to become the leader of the largest and most powerful gang in the world. The new alliance was named Crips.

From the very beginning, the "creeps" were surrounded by a romantic halo, which they carefully maintained, creating for themselves the image of Robin Hoods - fighters for the rights of oppressed blacks. The mysterious abbreviation was as soon as not deciphered: "Resources of the society for an independent people", "Common revolution in progress" and even "Public revolutionary inter-party service". Williams later claimed that the Crips were conceived as the heirs of the famous Black Panthers.

In fact, everything was much easier. The name came either from the erroneously transcribed name of the gang of Washington, Avenue Cribs, or from the nickname cripples - "cripples", which was awarded to members of the group by local residents for their characteristic shuffling waddle.

The struggle against the regime did not work out. If the Black Panthers pursued political goals, then the main goal of the Crips was to establish control over the streets of Los Angeles. Of course, romantics who dreamed of a black revolution and the fight against discrimination also turned out to be in the ranks of the group, but it was not they who determined the face of the gang, but the realists Washington and Williams, who went through the harsh street school of life.

Blood for blood

Crips, clearing their habitat from competitors, acted extremely harshly, often going too far. So, student Robert Bellow was beaten to death by a gang just because he refused to take off his leather jacket, which, as the "creeps" believed, only they had the right to wear. They managed to intimidate many, but it only embittered others.

Small gangs, fleeing from destruction, created their own alliance, which they called the Bloods. The "creeps" treated the new opponents with contempt. Soon, as part of a demonstration of who was boss in the city, a group of Crips members in June 1972 killed one of the Bloods. Those in response shot the killers' friends. This was the beginning of the war.

The Crips initially outnumbered the Bloods three to one, and they didn't seem to stand a chance. Only drastic measures could save them. The “Bloods” proclaimed the slogan “take no prisoners” and based their tactics on aggressiveness, brutally attacking the enemy at every opportunity.

Blue and red

February 27, 1973 right hand Tookie Williams, 16-year-old Curtiss Morrow, nicknamed Buddha, got stuck on the street in a small brawl. It was a trap: the opponent turned out to be from the “bloods”, there was a support group nearby, and the Buddha eventually bled to death on the pavement. Morrow was not loved and feared even by the "creeps" themselves (he was cruel, bloodthirsty, unpredictable and obeyed only Tuki), but he was his own. A crowd of thousands gathered at his funeral, and each "creep" put on a blue bandana on his head - the same as the Buddha wore.

Since then, blue bandanas, along with blue Levi's jeans and leather jackets, have become a distinctive symbol of the Crips, and blue has become their heraldic color. In turn, the Bloods chose red (the color of the college where their founding fathers, Sylvester Scott and Benson Owens, originally attended), harmonizing so well with the group's name.

Both gangs have their own set of specific traditions. So, the "creeps" prefer not to use the letter combination "ck" in the letter, associating it with Creep Killer, and replace it with "cc", and also, if possible, avoid using the letter "b", changing it to "bk" - Blood Killer. In turn, the “bloods” try to exclude from their vocabulary words that begin with the letter “s”, thus turning, for example, “coffee” into “bofe”. The "creeps" traditionally refer to each other as "kazz" and "blood killaz", their opponents, in turn, simply refer to each other as "blood". On the streets of American cities, you can see graffiti with the letter "b" with a cross inside or a crossed out "c" - this is how members of warring factions try to offend rivals.

Otherwise, the two gangs are an example from the field of dialectical materialism, embodying the law of unity and struggle of opposites. Both are built on the same principle, representing umbrella structures, which include numerous "sets", often not united by anything other than belonging to an alliance. "Sets" are often at enmity with each other, making peace only when it is necessary to confront the enemy group.

Members of both gangs put specific tattoos on their bodies, feud with Latin American criminal structures in Los Angeles, practice initiation rites: a girl must sleep with any of the older members of the gang, a guy must demonstrate courage and loyalty by attacking a member of a rival gang. Both groups actively use Swahili words to emphasize the belief in the superiority of the black race. And, finally, both are engaged in crime: they kill, rob, pimp, sell stolen goods and trade in the main wealth of the underground world - drugs.

Powder, come!

Drugs play a special role in the life of gangs. Until the early 1980s, neither the Bloods nor the Crips got into the business, preferring to stay away from the white powder. However, by 1983, the Bloods, who, thanks to their cruelty, lasted more than 10 years, but were pressed on all fronts, turned to the cocaine trade in search of salvation. And they didn't fail.

Crack was truly a lifesaver for them. The flow of money was such that the "bloods" instantly won back all the lost ground, recruiting new supporters, entering into alliances with previously hesitant groups and massively bribing officials and policemen. The "creeps", although they entered the drug business later, eventually managed to win back market share.

The struggle between the two groups, which until then had been fought on the streets of Los Angeles, spilled over beyond its borders. "Bloods" and "creeps" in search of markets traveled around the country, all new gangs from all over the United States declared loyalty to one or another group, adding CRIPS or BLOOD to their name and joining great war. The feud has also reached the East Coast, with two major black criminal alliances, the People's Nation and the Folk Nation, forging alliances with warring Los Angeles gangs. Drugs promised a lot of money, which means that the showdown was conducted in an adult way - with machine guns and grenade launchers.

Need more cocaine

The market stabilized in the 1990s when both gangs made an agreement with the Mexican. For Mexicans, this meant a guaranteed distribution network, and for "bloods" and "creeps" - a reliable supplier. The cartel takes over the purchase of coca from Colombian farmers at a price of about two thousand dollars per kilogram and transportation to the American border. In Mexico, they give 10 thousand per kilogram, in the States - 30 thousand. For wholesale consumers, such as "creeps" and "bloods", the price ranges from 17 to 25 thousand. According to the most rough estimates, the sale of this kilogram at retail brings them up to 100 thousand dollars. Given that we are talking about tons and tens of tons, we can imagine the level of income.

In America, of course, morals are softer than south of the border. Showdowns between rival drug dealers rarely end in dozens of corpses - a mere trifle compared to what happens in Mexico, where people are shot by entire villages and the heads of overzealous drug cops are beheaded. Therefore, the indignation of the Mexican drug lords, which was caused by the excessively harsh methods of American gangs, leaked onto the pages of the press, looks rather strange.

"El Chapo (Shorty - leader of the Sinaloa cartel, recently arrested by the police - approx.) respects street gangs, but believes that they are unnecessarily violent and harm business: too much violence attracts the attention of the police, former Sinaloa militant Pedro Guerrero told American crime journalist Kevin Deutsch. “Don't forget, El Chapo orders an average of six murders a day before even drinking a cup of coffee. And this person thinks that the "bloods" and "creeps" are too addicted to killing each other.

Recently, Sinaloa's position has been shaken, and there have been reports that the warring factions have begun to look for new suppliers. However, things did not go far: faced with competitors in the person of Mara Salvatrucha, Barrio-18 and other similar groups, the black gangs retreated, preferring a bird in the hand to a crane in the sky and the likelihood of receiving the severed heads of their couriers as a gift.

Wrote). Both have become part of American gangsta rap culture: their exploits are sung by the Bloods & Crips, which includes current members of both groups (the composition is often updated due to the fact that one or the other artist of the ensemble is behind bars or sent to the cemetery ) and which performs songs in the general style of "Brotherhood, do not shoot each other." And it seems that both the "bloods" and the "creeps" do not care who will be in power in the United States: both under Obama and under Trump, they will feel like masters of the streets.