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unusual facts about street gangs



Social problems in Chinatown

In modern times, competing Asian street gangs and organized crime, such as the tongs and the Hong Kong-based triads, continue to plague the metropolitan Chinatowns worldwide where Triads have their operations, including London, United Kingdom; San Francisco, California; New York City, Sydney, Australia, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Voluntary association

In California, during the 1980s, then Los Angeles district attorney Ira Reiner decided to use California's unincorporated associations law to attack street gangs and the habit of their members of tagging graffiti in public spaces, in an attempt to abate vandalism and to recover cleanup costs.


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Gangs in Australia

There have been increasing cases of Australian gangs claiming the name of American street gangs such as the Bloods, Crips, People Nation and Folk Nation with no affiliation to the original gangs.

Grassy Park

Neighboring Parkwood was featured in the National Geographic television series Taboo: Blood Bonds for its street gangs, particularly The Americans, Hard Living and Clever Kids.

GTA Faith Alliance

The Alliance has modelled its activities on the work of Reverend Eugene Rivers of Boston who has utilized a corps of pastors to who have worked to create alternatives to street gangs for disadvantaged Black youths.

Southerner

A member of the Sureños (Spanish for "Southerners") group of Mexican American street gangs

The Office of Envigado

Originally founded by former Popular Liberation Army guerilla Diego Murillo Bejarano, aka Don Berna, as an enforcement wing for the Medellín Cartel, it is made up of an endless pool of Pablo Escobar's most brutal street gangs, killers for hire and sicarios; young assassins from the lower-estrato neighborhoods of Medellín.