Chain gang

The three officers under J.T. made only $7 an hour, and the foot soldiers made just $3.30. One also has to consider that for this little pay, gang members also “stand a greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas” (Levitt & Dubner, 2009, p. 102). Gang members do this because when they grow up crack dealing was “the best job they thought they had access to” (Levitt & Dubner, 2009, p. 102). But like most every…

I remember when this 6’2 busta from forestville tried to buck at the gang He was trying to show off and smack at us, so we got our AR 15 and made him do a layout Fools always trying to stunt and act hard, but we always decimate them Just everyday life, we attack fools and wrench suckas when they owe us five-spots I remember…

aren't like Dally. Cherry sees this when Johnny stands up for Cherry and her friend Marcia. Johnny and Ponyboy begin to talk with the two girls, who they surprisingly get along with. Throughout this friendship both groups find out more about the other gang. In the end Pony even says to Cherry "Were not actually all that different after all are we?" and "You see the sunset real good from the West side?" Cherry responds "Yeah real good." This is very remarkable and truly expresses that even though…

result, it is estimated that over 1 trillion USD flows through organized crime syndicates every year (according to the CIA). These groups can be highly organized and bureaucratic in nature, due to extensive rules and operational procedures, a distinct chain of command, and multiple cells for various tasks. Notable examples include Mexican drug cartels, the Japanese Yakuza, Italian mafia, Russian mobsters, and African counter-political insurgencies.…

“The Culture that drives the people” In 1908, during the reign of many Boxing greats, the world’s first black heavy weight champion became Jack Johnson; He fought in many challenging (Chitterling) circuits in order to prove himself. It is believed that this ‘Jail house style of boxing’ was formulated during his boxing matches or surfaced during the Ragtime, Dixieland and the Blues era and no later than the Swing and Jazzy Bebop-hip culture of the 40’s and 50’s. Music has always been the…

June 19, 1929- Gang of rum runners kidnap photojournalist, Horace Wild, for Border Cities Star. The following details come from an interview between Marty Gervais and Leon Wild, grandson of Horace Wild, and is found in Chapter 12 of Gervais’ book: The Rumrunners: A Prohibition Scrapbook (2009). Gervais explains that Horace, his 16 year old son Noel, and two Star reporters went to a river in Amherstburg to take some photographs of bootleggers passing through. Approaching a dock by boat, the group…

their organizations direction guided by strategy. Furthermore, they closely resemble the Porter’s five Framework, organizing themselves effectively in a cut throat market yielding $320 billion a year in drug trading. Utilizing an efficient value chain they create their illegal drugs and distribute them across the United States and into the European market. However, these successful organizations are far from ethical, they…

Organized crime is a syndicate that is formed by a group of people who share a common objective of engaging in illicit activities in order to gain income. This has been advanced by the recent technological innovations and globalization. They can carry out these crimes at the national level or globally through a structured and disciplined system, whereas crimes related to drug emanate from either the use of drugs or the need to get these drugs or sometimes getting involved directly in these drug…

After the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1820, banning the selling and use of alcohol, bands of criminals across the country rose to satisfy many Americans' need for alcohol and much more. This was the catalyst that ignited a spark of crime that burned in America for decades to come. These criminals hid behind the bustle of everyday life, simply doing their job of organized crime. Whether it be bootlegging, laundering, stealing, or murdering this heterogeneous mix of criminals were…

This short story ”The Death of Tommy Grimes” is about a relationship, between a father and his son, who is twelve years old trying to become an individual, a man. The main character, named Tommy remembers that he has been instructed by his father on his shooting skills. Together they have spent endless hours training. While Tommy is practicing and increasing his shooting ability, by that his father demonstrates, explains and teaches Tommy about how nature works. One evening, Tommy´s father and…