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History. The Decepticons were a street gang or street organization that thrived from the mid-80s through the early 90s. Their members were teenagers and young adults ranging from the age of 15 to early 20s. The gang was most prominent in Brooklyn, but at their peak the group consisted of multiple branches all across New York City.
White Tigers (gang) The White Tigers (Chinese: 白虎; Jyutping: Baak6 Fu2) were a Chinese American street gang that was prominent in New York City's Flushing, Queens, and northern area of Chinatown from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s. They were formed in 1980 by immigrants from China of the ethnicity of Cantonese and Taiwanese, [1] and ABCs ...
0–9. 14K (triad) 18th Street gang. 80 Blocks from Tiffany's. 116th Street Crew.
Born to Kill, also known as BTK or Canal Boys, was a New York City -based street gang composed of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants. They were active in the 1980s in New York City's Chinatown. [1] The early 1990s proved to be detrimental to the Vietnamese collective following the arrest and prosecution of most of their New York-based ...
Hoe Avenue peace meeting. The Hoe Avenue peace meeting was an important gathering of gangs that took place in the Bronx, New York City, on December 8, 1971. [1][2][3] It was called to propose a general truce and an unprecedented inter-gang alliance. The impetus for the meeting was the murder of "Black Benjie", a peace keeper of the Ghetto Brothers.
The New York Times noted that, aside from being the nephew of former Westies, Bokun had no connection to any group using that name. [11] However, "The Westies" is a title created by members of the press in the mid-1980s to refer to the gang; as pointed out by English, at no point did members of "The Westies" ever adopt the label or refer to ...
Early 1970s. The East Harlem Purple Gang was a gang and organized crime group in New York City consisting of Italian-American hit-men and heroin dealers who were semi-independent from the Italian-American Mafia and, according to federal prosecutors, dominated heroin distribution in East Harlem, Italian Harlem, and the Bronx during the 1970s and ...
www.guardianangels.org. The Guardian Angels is a non-profit international volunteer organization with the goal of unarmed crime prevention. The Guardian Angels organization was founded on February 13, 1979, in New York City, by Curtis Sliwa. Since then, it has expanded to more than 130 cities and 13 countries worldwide.