DixieDestroyer
04-15-2010, 04:54 PM
Ah yes, another wonder of (PTB enabled) mass immigration to Europe...from "turdworld" countries...<cufon style="width: 67px; height: 58px;" alt="LA " ="cufon cufon-canvas"><cufontext></cufontext></cufon><cufon style="width: 134px; height: 58px;" alt="streets" ="cufon cufon-canvas"><cufontext>
LA Gangs Take Over UK Streets</span></font>
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DAD-of-three Twilight helped broker the 1992 Los Angeles Bloods and
Crips
truce.
He hopes to use that experience to crush gang violence in London.
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... Twilight</div></div>
He said it was important to establish a universal language between UK
rivals.
Rules that worked in LA were: Disbanding of gang colours and territories
and
allowing individuals to resolve disputes themselves rather than
involving
neighbourhoods.
He said: "This last one saw the murder rate plummet.
"In London, where you have territorial gang violence and cases where
children are being knifed for showing disrespect to other gang members,
this
could save lives."
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BRITAIN is becoming a battleground for the notorious Bloods and Crips
gangs
that once brought fear to Los Angeles.
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Around a QUARTER of mobs in London now align themselves with the
two
crime networks.
The massive UK market for cocaine has led to second generation members
launching a new "front" here and in Spain.
A recent police census into gangs in the capital found 17 of 70
recognised
crews are now Bloods or Crips.
<div style="width: 380px;" ="margin-top-5 margin-right-10 padding-bottom-5 float-left">http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01024/SNN1519D-380_1024764a.jpg<div class="img-cap">Menacing ... LA Bloods in a
car</div></div>
Officers have reported a "more organised aspect" to street gang
activities.
A Sun investigation found that hundreds of
members are donning the gangs'
red or blue colours and bragging of their allegiances on social
networking
sites.
Insiders said small street crews have been grouping together - copying
the LA
supergangs' culture and tactics and communicating with overseas
counterparts.
Youth worker Twilight Bey, 40, warned yesterday: "Britain's gang problem
in
2010 is where LA was in the bad days of the 1980s.
<div style="width: 380px;" ="margin-top-5 margin-right-10 padding-bottom-5 float-left">http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01024/SNN1519B-380_1024761a.jpg<div class="img-cap">New front ... London Crips</div></div>
"Youths here have adopted a culture they don't fully understand and the
consequences will be a generation of shattered lives."
Ex-LA gangster Twilight - who now works to curb gang violence in West
London -
said kids as young as SEVEN are carrying knives and swearing
allegiance to UK Bloods and Crips.
He said: "For some it's not serious - they see it as games or part of
their
street culture and identity to adopt practices from LA.
"But the problem starts when they carry knives and get into arguments -
then
the violence follows and gang membership escalates."
<div style="width: 380px;" ="margin-top-5 margin-right-10 padding-bottom-5 float-left">http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01024/crips_380x223_1024894a.jpg<div class="img-cap">'Supergang'
... LA-based Crips</div></div>
UK crime expert Wensley Clarkson said former LA-based Bloods and Crips
are now
plying their trade in Europe.
He added: "Britain offers rich pickings for these gangs as there's still
a
huge market for cocaine."
Ex-LA Crips member Melvin Johnson, 38, said youth knife crime in the UK
has
"shocked" criminals in California.
He works to prevent gang crime after serving 11 years for drug offences.
Melvin said: "Britain needs help bad. Over here was terrible but your
country
is now famous for being Broken Britain."
Police told The Sun Bloods and Crips rivalry in London intensified after
the
stabbing of Seyi Ogunyemi, 16, in Stockwell last April.
He was caught up in tensions between the Bloods-supporting O-Tray gang
and the
Crips' All Bout Money.
Some gangs like the South London-based Cherry Young Bloods have posted
videos
of themselves in red scarves on the web.
More than 1,000 gangs were known to be operating in Britain last year.
The Crips were founded in 1969 and made huge profits from crack cocaine.
Their name referred to their "crippled" victims.
The Bloods were a splinter group who inflicted horrific violence.
Murdered rap legends Biggie Smalls (The Notorious B.I.G) and Tupac
(2Pac)
Shakur were allegedly linked with the Crips.
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LA Gangs Take Over UK Streets</span></font>
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viewing ... London Bloods video</div>
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DAD-of-three Twilight helped broker the 1992 Los Angeles Bloods and
Crips
truce.
He hopes to use that experience to crush gang violence in London.
<div style="width: 120px;" ="margin-top-5 margin-right-10 padding-bottom-5 float-left">http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01024/TwilightBay_120x17_1024917a.jpg<div class="img-cap">Ex-gangster
... Twilight</div></div>
He said it was important to establish a universal language between UK
rivals.
Rules that worked in LA were: Disbanding of gang colours and territories
and
allowing individuals to resolve disputes themselves rather than
involving
neighbourhoods.
He said: "This last one saw the murder rate plummet.
"In London, where you have territorial gang violence and cases where
children are being knifed for showing disrespect to other gang members,
this
could save lives."
</div>
</div>
<div style="line-height: 0px;"></div></div><div ="clear-left"><div><div ="clear-left">By VIRGINIA WHEELER and NADIA BROOKS
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Published: Today
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<h2 ="padding-bottom-7" style="font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.05em;">
BRITAIN is becoming a battleground for the notorious Bloods and Crips
gangs
that once brought fear to Los Angeles.
</h2>
Around a QUARTER of mobs in London now align themselves with the
two
crime networks.
The massive UK market for cocaine has led to second generation members
launching a new "front" here and in Spain.
A recent police census into gangs in the capital found 17 of 70
recognised
crews are now Bloods or Crips.
<div style="width: 380px;" ="margin-top-5 margin-right-10 padding-bottom-5 float-left">http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01024/SNN1519D-380_1024764a.jpg<div class="img-cap">Menacing ... LA Bloods in a
car</div></div>
Officers have reported a "more organised aspect" to street gang
activities.
A Sun investigation found that hundreds of
members are donning the gangs'
red or blue colours and bragging of their allegiances on social
networking
sites.
Insiders said small street crews have been grouping together - copying
the LA
supergangs' culture and tactics and communicating with overseas
counterparts.
Youth worker Twilight Bey, 40, warned yesterday: "Britain's gang problem
in
2010 is where LA was in the bad days of the 1980s.
<div style="width: 380px;" ="margin-top-5 margin-right-10 padding-bottom-5 float-left">http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01024/SNN1519B-380_1024761a.jpg<div class="img-cap">New front ... London Crips</div></div>
"Youths here have adopted a culture they don't fully understand and the
consequences will be a generation of shattered lives."
Ex-LA gangster Twilight - who now works to curb gang violence in West
London -
said kids as young as SEVEN are carrying knives and swearing
allegiance to UK Bloods and Crips.
He said: "For some it's not serious - they see it as games or part of
their
street culture and identity to adopt practices from LA.
"But the problem starts when they carry knives and get into arguments -
then
the violence follows and gang membership escalates."
<div style="width: 380px;" ="margin-top-5 margin-right-10 padding-bottom-5 float-left">http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01024/crips_380x223_1024894a.jpg<div class="img-cap">'Supergang'
... LA-based Crips</div></div>
UK crime expert Wensley Clarkson said former LA-based Bloods and Crips
are now
plying their trade in Europe.
He added: "Britain offers rich pickings for these gangs as there's still
a
huge market for cocaine."
Ex-LA Crips member Melvin Johnson, 38, said youth knife crime in the UK
has
"shocked" criminals in California.
He works to prevent gang crime after serving 11 years for drug offences.
Melvin said: "Britain needs help bad. Over here was terrible but your
country
is now famous for being Broken Britain."
Police told The Sun Bloods and Crips rivalry in London intensified after
the
stabbing of Seyi Ogunyemi, 16, in Stockwell last April.
He was caught up in tensions between the Bloods-supporting O-Tray gang
and the
Crips' All Bout Money.
Some gangs like the South London-based Cherry Young Bloods have posted
videos
of themselves in red scarves on the web.
More than 1,000 gangs were known to be operating in Britain last year.
The Crips were founded in 1969 and made huge profits from crack cocaine.
Their name referred to their "crippled" victims.
The Bloods were a splinter group who inflicted horrific violence.
Murdered rap legends Biggie Smalls (The Notorious B.I.G) and Tupac
(2Pac)
Shakur were allegedly linked with the Crips.
</div>
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