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23/05/2024

Rafael Pérez : The Crooked LAPD Officer Who became a street gangster

In 1998, Rafael Pérez the man behind the rampart scandal, he was arrested for stealing $800,000 worth of co***ne from an evidence room. And by 2000, he’d cut a plea deal and implicated 70 of his fellow CRASH officers in misconduct ranging from drinking on the job to murder. As a result, the city was forced to vacate more than 100 tainted convictions and pay out $125 million in settlements.

22/05/2024

America's deadliest Prison Gang: The A***n Circle

The A***n Circle is an organized crime group; It originated in the Texas prison system in the mid-1980s. For many years it was a small group, but by 2009 it has become the second largest white supremacist gang in the Texas prison system. The A***n Circle has four distinct segments: its Texas prison population, its federal prison population, its out-of-state prison population, and its "street" or "free world" population. The total number of Circle members is probably over 1,400, making it one of the largest white supremacist groups in the United States. Perhaps the most disturbing trend is the rapid growth in its "free world" membership, which has resulted in an epidemic of criminal activity across Texas and beyond.

21/05/2024

How Michael Dowd Became The Most Crooked Cop In The NYPD

Michael Dowd joined the NYPD in 1982 and was assigned to the 75th Precinct in Brooklyn. There, he began working with drug dealers, robbing their rivals, and selling co***ne.

16/05/2024

The fall of James "Wh**ey" Bulger

Bulger was born to working-class Irish immigrants and grew up in a housing project in the neighbourhood of South Boston. In his early years he earned the enduring nickname “Wh**ey” on account of his whitish blond hair. An unruly youth, Bulger was involved in a street gang as a teenager and was arrested several times, on charges ranging from forgery to assault and battery. However, he always managed to elude any serious consequences for his wrongdoing, which nurtured in him a sense of entitlement and invincibility. In 1948 he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. Despite a record of disciplinary problems while in the service which included a r**e charge in Great Falls, Montana his discharge four years later was certified as honourable.

15/05/2024

The 1990s most Deadliest Hitman

A notorious Los Angeles killer from the 1990s known as "Big Evil" is eligible for parole after serving more than 25 years on charges that once landed him on death row. Cleamon "Big Evil" Johnson, 55, pleaded no contest and was convicted of a sole count of murder in a case stemming from five murders in the early 1990s, when he was the leader of a small but disproportionately violent subset of the Bloods — the 89 Family Swans — in South Los Angeles.
Johnson was once on death row at San Quentin State Prison for two of the five assignations , but racist comments made by the lead LAPD detective on the case prompted a judge to decide that Johnson would no longer be subject to the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole if he was convicted at retrial. The convicted killer has already been in state prison more than 25 years, meaning he is eligible for parole now, though that does not mean he will be granted it.

13/05/2024

Memphis Gang Violence: Uncovering the Dark Past

Memphis, Tennessee serves as the Southern headquarters for Tennessee based street organizations in the Southern United States. In 2021, there were approximately 102 gangs with 13,400 gang members in the city. Gangs in the Memphis area are concentrated in high crime black neighborhoods like College Park, Hollywood, Hickory Hill, Parkway Village, Westwood, Raleigh, Frayser, Orange Mound, Whitehaven, Binghampton, Klondike and Smokey City; their presence is also felt in the suburbs of Tipton County, Tennessee.
After a series of gang related robberies at Tom Lee Park on the river bluff in downtown Memphis, the Memphis Police Department said that "they often feel powerless to control these out-of-control teens.In May 2013, high school students warned Memphis City Schools against a proposed school merger of Booker T. Washington High School and Carver High school. "It's like putting the Crips and Bloods together in a national convention.

04/05/2024

The Shower Posse Gang: The Worlds Most ruthless Assassins

Jamaican Shower posse, often referred to simply as posses, are a loose coalition of Jamaican gangs, based predominantly in Kingston, Montego Bay, London, New York City and Toronto, first being involved in drugs and arms trafficking in the early 1980s. Jamaican posses have links to the main Jamaican political parties, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP). Legal authorities have spent years trying to dismantle Jamaica's Shower Posse. It's one of the world's most violent criminal gangs and controls an international weapons and drug-smuggling ring with tentacles reaching into Europe and North America.

03/05/2024

Luis Felipe's brutal rule over New York's Latin Kings

Luis Felipe, also known as “King Blood”, is a Cuban-American former gang leader and the founder of the New York chapter of the Latin Kings (ALKN) street gang. Born in Havana, Cuba, Felipe came to the United States during the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. Six years later, in 1986, he established the New York chapter of the Latin Kings. Unfortunately, in 1995, he was convicted of ordering multiple homicides from prison by communicating with members of the Latin Kings outside. Judge John S. Martin Jr. sentenced him to life imprisonment plus 45 years, imposing extraordinary conditions that included serving the sentence in solitary confinement and restricting communication to only his lawyer and close relatives, of whom Felipe has none. Interestingly, Judge Martin himself took control of the case rather than the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Luis Felipe is currently incarcerated at ADX Florence, a Supermax prison in Fremont County, Colorado.

02/05/2024

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