The gang can be traced back to apartments on Dixon road which is east of Kipling Avenue, west of Islington in the Rexdale community of North Etobicoke in western Toronto. The name of the gang comes from the Street the mostly hang around. The Origin has been said that the group has migrated here from as far as from New York in early 2001. The founder of the Dixon bloods is named "G-Shine" and is responsible for the gang appearing in Toronto. The G-Shine Bloods gang is the first bloods gang to form on the east coast of Brooklyn, New York in 1993.
The Gang has a long history in dealing with many major crimes. Some of these include; weapons trafficking, dealing with narcotics and most importantly, Murder. In 2013, police have arrested 43 gang
Dixon Bloods – Aravin Yogarajah Criminal Involvement According to Toronto police, the Dixon Bloods had been responsible for weapons trafficking and drug trafficking out of an apartment building on Dixon Road. Over the years, the Dixon Bloods have expanded their criminal activities across Toronto and various regions surrounding regions including Windsor, Ontario, Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta. They have also been involved in shootings and robberies. “Dixon Bloods” – Huffington Post. Web.
The gangs relationship with the community helped create their success because people would loot, fight, and make money then share it with The Butcher. Thus making the gang more powerful. The gangs in the film could never be eradicated by the police because the police worked for the gang. They were protected and paid by the gang which meant they could never leave, if they would try have no pull in the town.
Ask the average American to name a gang they are familiar with and chances are the response will be either the Crips or the Bloods. Over four decades ago, African American youth founded these gangs after many years of oppression, marginalization, and institutional racism. The Crips and the Bloods, who originated from neighborhoods of Southern California, have now spread across the nation with a presence in thirty-two states. They changed the American landscape forever.
Today the same things still goes on in LA. Los Angeles is considered the “gang capital” of the nation. There are over 450 active gangs in LA. “During the last three years, there were over 16,398 verified violent gang crimes in the City of Los Angeles. These include 491 homicides, nearly 7,047 felony assaults, approximately 5,518 robberies and just under 98 rapes” clames the Los Angeles police Department.
The gang formed in Missouri because they did not adapt to society after the civil war. They committed some crimes in Missouri but a former gang member told the police who was in the gang and about what they wanted to do. They traveled to Minnesota because they wanted to go somewhere where nobody had heard of them or knew they were
To solve the problems for young adult engaging in criminal behavior, Program, family and community must be the central roots to help youth to not be involved in Joining gang activities. After school program’s build self-esteem by exposing kids by healthy social relationship, such as an adult role model They also build self-esteem by meeting new friends. In the article’s “What should be Done in the Community to to Prevent Gang-Joining” by Jorja Leap who is a writer and Author, stated. “To ensure the connection between school and after school program in the community, build strategies include: school- Based violence prevention curricula, Trained street workers to do outreach and serve as positive role models, violence prevention curricula at
Prisons tried to separate the gang apart to other prisons like San Quentin, but they just made the gang more popular in other prisons which made it more stronger that they started getting bigger and they decided to start trafficking drugs around the United States and gambling and extortion rackets inside prisons. It got so that they began to control drug trafficking, extortion,contact killings, and debt collection inside walls. After some time the mexican mafia started getting more organized by setting their own rules or “commandments” and recruiting members from latin streets. Mexican Mafia enjoyed being not checked in the 1990’s but the the police officers caught 22 gang members and they were accused for murder and kidnapping the police officers think that they ended the mexican mafia’s business but they still continue their criminal
Prison gangs thrive on crime within the facility. If not addressed their involvement in crime will continue to grow and pose a threat to other inmates, staff, and the institution. If procedures are not put into place then gang membership will only continue and remain a safety concern. Administration must ensure their staff members are adequately trained and know how to act and deal with the gangs. Because the prison community is so private more research needs to be done to understand the workings of prison gangs and get more current, detailed, data.
Their criminal activity includes: drug trafficking, money laundering, gambling, prostitution and bribery. Corporate blackmail is in their second nature. Being as though they make it their business to expose business owners to get what they want. They’re known to be a very dangerous organization. The members in the gang are tested before entering, as they must complete
If one refuses, betrays or angers the gang in any way, that person could be facing serious punishment. Being involved with a gang has led to many risks. Children whose families are involved are frequently killed as a message to the family that messed with them. Gangs have had a big impact in South Florida for a while now. Due to the drugs coming in and out of Florida it isn 't going to end anytime soon.
They have a 70-pages constitution about the joining the gang which one have to agree with before joining the gang and a three page application for the membership. Not just that they have an organized
White gangs formed in the late 1980s but they was forming for decades just didn't actually come out. White gangs were very unorganized. The member's age ranged from teens to mid 20s. Early white gang members rode around on motorcycles like the Hell Angles.
They would usually get into many fights with other gangs because they disliked the people from the other gangs. These gangs didn’t really do violent things when they were first formed, but as the years passed by violence started becoming more common. They started murdering people, and doing drive-by shootings in their own communities. The age for people to join the gangs soon changed. The age was now 12
From songs like the notorious “Gucci Gang” and the repetitive “Thunder,” music has slowly been losing its depth. As Trevon Dunn once claimed: “Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.” However, to claim that all music lacks depth and only cares about consumerism, is rather generalized opinion considering there is an incredible amount of songs that are filled with emotion and meaning that are still consumed just as eagerly as ones thats aren’t.
Throughout the 17th-century gangs have been causing havoc in people's life and destroying the society. The National Institute of Justice (2011) has defined a gang as "A group of collective members which create an atmosphere of intimidation among citizens. " Many of these gangs are well organized, using different forms of violence to control neighbourhoods and to conduct their illegal activities. The National Gang Threat Assessment (2011) reports that “Gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions.” Street Gangs have caused incidences of violence that is confined in the inner city of many countries.