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Good gang investigators need to learn how to read the writing on the walls and know who wrote it.
December 31, 2008
Tagger crews often include people from different ethnic backgrounds and both male and female members. The boys are “Kings” and the girls are “Queens.” The most prolific are kids from 13 to 17 years old. Taggers dress like most other kids but can adopt gang-like dress. Mostly they wear baggy dark colored clothing or perhaps professional sport team clothing.
Taggers need their tools so they often travel with various sizes of aerosol paint tips in a case. They carry “Mean Streak” paint markers, scribing tools, gloves, and sometimes weapons. They commonly “jack” or “rack” the aerosol paint, spray tips, and markers by “rushing” a store in packs. Read Full Article
author: Richard Valdemar | posted @ Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:43 AM |
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Warring gangs often kill innocent people who they mistake for the enemy.
December 22, 2008
The TRG shooters ran back to the barbecue on Orange Street then changed their clothing in a garage. An associate hid the 9mm and a second pistol in a laundry basket in his closet. Read Full Article
author: Richard Valdemar | posted @ Monday, December 22, 2008 2:24 PM |
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The songs of this popular Mexican balladeer glorified antiheroes and drug traffickers.
December 17, 2008
After Chalino Sanchez, corridos became Mexico’s and the American
Latino’s equivalent to gangsta rap and they became super popular.
Chalino wrote about his brother, Armando, and his boss, Rigo Campos. He
wrote about the good, the bad, and the ugly. He sang about men who
overcame impossible poverty to survive and prosper (for a while) as men
of means and power, as valientes. They lived and died by violence in a
corrupt system standing up for their own dignity. Read Full Article
author: Richard Valdemar | posted @ Wednesday, December 17, 2008 5:28 AM |
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Violent gang members often get their rocks off in violent and abusive ways.
December 01, 2008
For females recruited into a gang the male ritual of the “jump in” may be replaced by the ritual “sexed in,” requiring the female to have sex with several or all of the gang members.
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author: Richard Valdemar | posted @ Monday, December 01, 2008 9:36 AM |
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