You stated that LE is clueless, which I took to mean incompetent (some are, some aren’t). As for how the gangs are organized... well, I used to live next door to MS13 when I was in a townhouse in NoVA. Frankly, the only thing the predators understood was that the hubby and I were bigger predators, and we were left alone. The neighbors, unfortunately, were sheep and got fleeced. :(
Rewriting what I wrote doesn’t make your comments fit as a response to what I wrote either.