What happened to the Asian gangs in Chinatown, the Russian mob in Brighton Beach and the remnants of la Cosa Nostra? Something in this report doesn’t add up.
What happened to the Asian gangs in Chinatown, the Russian mob in Brighton Beach and the remnants of la Cosa Nostra? Something in this report doesn’t add up.
Smart enough not to get arrested?
“What happened to the Asian gangs in Chinatown, the Russian mob in Brighton Beach and the remnants of la Cosa Nostra?”
I think that are viewed/handled more like organized crime, than violent street gangs. Even the Chinese youth gangs are not really like the typical black and hispanic gangs. The Chinese gangs are pretty tightly controlled farm teams for older Chinese criminal networks. They make very little random street violence. They also overwhelmingly constrain their criminal activity within the Chinese and Vietnamese communities.
It has long been the case in NYC that while white guys for the same area might hang out together, fight together, and in some cases conduct crimes together like gangs, they seldom would adopt formal gang names or create enduring organizations. Folks would just eventually grow up, get married (or go to jail) and drift apart.
The only thing comparable among whites is motorcycle gangs, and they are few and far between in the city, nothing like the block by block demarcation of black neighborhoods into specific gang territories.
The enduring (multi-generational) violent street gangs with the teenager appeal, who make an ongoing visible show of how tough they are, how crazy they are (the hazards to pedestrian traffic), are just overwhelmingly black and hispanic.