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fuck this nigger be, if the animal is killed or are you better if you shoot me. "says the nigger did?

kun parittajat Da seimi pudota sitä kuin se kuuma pudota sitä kuin se kuuma pudota sitä kuin se kuuma!! :)

History: Also known as Black Gangster Disciples, GDs, or BGDs, the gang's origins go back to the 1960s and the south side of Chicago. The Gangster Disciples are part of the "Folk Nation." Some members will claim to be members of "Growth and Development" and out of criminal activity. The Gangster Disciples were the first modern street gang to show up in significant numbers in Memphis, back in the 1980s. For several years, they had the streets virtually to themselves.

Symbols, colors, and clothing: Utilize the six-point star as a primary symbol. "Six Poppin," a phrase used in graffiti, is another way to reference the six-point star. Other major symbols include a three-point devil's pitchfork pointed upward and a heart with wings. They will use several colors, including black, gray, silver and white. Among the pro and college sports clothing favored: New York Yankees, Oakland Raiders and Georgetown Hoyas.

Hierarchy: For many years, leader Larry Hoover ran the gang from inside prison. Members still speak of Hoover, now in the so-called federal Super Max in Colorado, with reverence. He is still considered Chairman. The gang has a Chicago Board of Directors, and there is a separate Memphis Board of Directors. There is an Overseer for Tennessee, and three for Memphis. Among the ranks below Overseer in Memphis: governors, assistant overseers, chief enforcers and chiefs of security, regents and soldiers.

Graffiti: The GDs are rivals of the Vice Lords and will use an upside down "A" to disrespect the Vice Lords, whose full name is Almighty Vice Lords.

Vice Lords

History: Began in the late 1950s in the Illinois State Training School for boys and became a full-on gang on the west side of Chicago. Members of the "People Nation," their literature instructs that they follow Islam. In Memphis, VL "sets" include Universal, Unknown, Traveling, Insane, Conservative and Four Corner Hustlers.

Symbols, colors and signs: Common symbols include the five-pointed star, the dollar sign, a pyramid with a crescent moon and the Playboy bunny. Their main colors are black and gold, and black and red. The latter might be worn as a war color. They will wear Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers clothing; the "P" on the Pirates cap refers to the "People Nation." Michael Jordan jerseys are popular for the color and the number: the 2 and the 3 add up to 5, for the five-point star. They use the thumb, index and middle fingers on a single upraised hand to form a "VL."

Hierarchy: Vice Lords have a Chief of Chiefs over the South. Other ranks include: supreme chief, five-star universal elite, three-star universal elite, city-wide enforcer and city-wide chief of security, five-star branch elite, three-star branch elite, and solider. Ronald Terry, who in 2006 went to prison for attempted murder, was a five-star universal elite in Memphis.

Graffiti: VLs will turn the GDs' pitchfork upside down to show disrespect.

Crips

History: Founded in 1969 in L.A., many Crip sets in Memphis are named after California sets, including Grape Street, Rollin 20s, Kitchen and West Side.

Color, signs, symbols, lingo: Blue is the main color, and blue bandanas hanging from a pocket are a way to fly their colors. But the gang will use purple, black and orange, too. A Lakers cap might be used to symbolize the Grape Street Crips, a Kansas City Royals cap to represent the Kitchen Crips. Los Angeles Dodgers caps are popular, too. The three-point crown is a favored tattoo. They refer to Bloods as "Slobs" as a way of disrespecting them. Crips call each other "Cuzz."

Hierarchy: Considered to be less structured on both the national and local levels, the Crips nonetheless are known to be selective about allowing membership to the gang. Little Loc, a 16-year-old Memphis Crip, says: "You don't come to Crip; Crip comes to you."

Graffiti: Crips use grapes as a symbol when tagging. Rivals with the Bloods, they will use "BK" for Bloods Killer.

Bloods

History: Created in the early 1970s in South-Central L.A., the Bloods were the alliance that grew out of war between the Crips and the Piru Street Boys. The Bloods are in Memphis in smaller numbers than the GDs, Vice Lords and Crips. Like the Vice Lords, they identify themselves as part of the "People Nation."

Symbols, colors, lingo: Their chief color is red and they avoid blue and the letter "C" because of their longstanding rivalry with the Crips. Bloods, and sometimes VLs, will wear the red No. 8 Budweiser jacket of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. The "B" represents Bloods to them, and the beer maker's five-point crown fits with the five-point star of the "People Nation." They refer to each other as "Dawg" and a dog is a favored tattoo. They will derisively refer to a Crip as a "Crab."

Hierarchy: Ranks range from First Superior or General to soldier. Bloods are more likely to form alliances with Vice Lords to sell drugs or engage in other criminal activity than they are with Crips and GDs.

Graffiti: They will tag with "CK" for Crip Killer and consider anything red, such as a stop sign, as representative of the gang.

June 30, 2008
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services

A group of nine gathered, ready for an initiation.

Juwan Johnson of Baltimore, Md., willingly took a savage beating to join the Chicago-based gang Gangster Disciples. He was punched, kicked and stomped until he was barely conscious. After the beating, his new brothers put Johnson back in bed where he later died from his injuries.

This did not happen in a back alley of a gang-infested urban city. It took place at Kaiserslautern Army Base in Germany.

In 2005, the decorated 25-yearold Army sergeant was killed after completing a tour of Iraq because he wanted to join a gang -- one he found while in the military.

According to an FBI published report, "gang-related activity in the U.S. military is increasing and poses a threat to law-enforcement officials and national security."

The report, released in February 2007, noted that members of nearly every major street gang -- including MS-13, Bloods, Crips, 18th Street, Hells Angels and various white supremacist groups -- have been identified on both domestic and international military bases.

"It really is not secret that gangs are in the Army," said Hector Ordonez, 39, a former resident of Victorville who was in the Army from 1989 to 1994. "There were a few guys in my unit from Los Angeles and a couple from Chicago."

"We don't have that issue out here," said John Wagstaffe, director of public affairs for Fort Irwin. "It surprises me, based on the fact that we are so close to L.A."

Wagstaffe went on to say that most gang members tend to be younger and because of the high number of officers at Fort Irwin, it was not a problem.

There are no official statistics on gang membership in the military, but some experts have estimated that 1 to 2 percent of the U.S. military are gang members, FBI gang investigator Jennifer Simon said in a published article. It is believed that only .02 percent of the U.S. population are gang members.

"Gang membership in the U.S. Armed Forces is disproportional to the U.S. population," she added.

Some experts have calculated that out of every 100 people who enter the military, two have some sort of gang affiliation.

One reason why more gang members are getting into the military is recruiting practices.

"As this war continues, recruiters have to drop their standards," said retired Los Angeles County Sheriff Sgt. Richard Valdemar, who is a gang expert and trains various law-enforcement agencies across the country about gangs and gangs in the military.

Valdemar attributes this to variances.

"This is where (recruiters) are allowed to break the rules of recruitment, and this happens mainly in the Army and the Marines," Valdemar commented.

Between 2003 and 2006, the Armed Forces permitted 4,230 convicted criminals into the Army, according to an investigation by the Michael D. Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Also admitted during that time were 58,561 people with drug use.

"As to recruiter impropriety, our practice is not to condone it," said Lt. Col. George Wright with the Army Public Affairs office in Washington, D.C. He went on to say that the number of known gang members is not a demographic group for which the Army keeps statistics.

In the Army, allowable offenses include making threats and kidnapping, according to Army Regulation 601-210.

According to a fact sheet released by the U.S. Armed Forces, since 2003 there have been at least 104 gang investigations conducted by the Criminal Investigation Command Department since 2003.

"The number of gang-related felonies continues to be an extremely small percentage of the overall number of CID investigations Army-wide," according to the statement.

But some gang experts see that number as flawed.

"That is because most military bases don't have the expertise to identify gang members," Valdemar said. "Also, most of the gang activity occurs off base."

As evidence of this fact, Hunter Glass, a former police detective in Fayetteville, N.C., has several pictures and even a video of military personnel throwing gang signs while on patrol, scrawling graffiti on walls and tanks in Iraq and even two men performing a Cripwalk for Iraqi children.

At an international antigang police summit in Los Angeles in March, some officials were split about whether gang members have infiltrated the U.S. military.

"These are just rumors," said Christy McCampbell, deputy assistant secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.

But at the summit, Martin Escorza, head of the National Gang Task Force, said the issue is real.

"Even with all this, the military will still say there is no gang problem," said Glass, who monitors gang activity at Fort Bragg and across the military. "Gangs are a bad word, but the truth is that gangs are real, they do exist and they are a huge part of our society as well as in the military."

01. Kun tyttö tuijottaa suutasi
> suutele häntä
02. Kun tyttö tönäisee tai lyö sinua
> halaa tiukasti, äläkä päästä irti
03. Kun tyttö alkaa kirota sinua
> suutele ja kerro rakastavasi häntä
04. Kun tyttö on hiljainen
> kysy häneltä, mikä on hätänä
05. Kun tyttö lähtee luotasi
> vedä hänet takaisin viereesi
06. Kun näet tytön alkavan itkemään
> pidä häntä vain sylissäsi, äläkä sano sanaakaan
07. Kun tyttö on peloissaan
> suojele häntä
08. Kun tyttö nojaa päänsä olkapäitäsi vasten
> nosta hänen päänsä ja suutele häntä
09. Kun tyttö kiusoittelee sinulle
> kiusaa takaisin ja laita hänet nauramaan
10. Kun tyttö tarttuu kiinni käteesi
> pidä siitä kiinni ja leiki hänen sormillaan
11. Kun tyttö sanoo sen olevan ohi
> hän haluaa sinun olevan edelleen omansa
12. Kun tyttö laittaa tämän eteenpäin
> hän haluaa sinun lukevan tämän

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DigBT_BhbPA&feature=related <3




the song says Africa : it's the joy of life, family: uncle, aunts, cousins, we all together, hot weather, good vibes. Africa it'.s not just war,
this song insits on the happiness of the mother land : unlike the other comment-translation: it is not defensive, it's completly positive .

good positive french lyrics about unity, family, solidarity, good vibes but the english part has nothing to do with the message of the song. it brings it down

I'm sorry but are you a little dim? First of all if i spelled "lyrics" wrong then so did you, three times over. Africa is the birth place of humanity, so its been said, there for Africa may be called a she or can be refered to as a women. "I wanna travel every inch of your curves" "I got my ears i can hear when you call" Knaan is refering to Africa as a women, and he is saying Africa is beautiful. Maybe it's you who doesn't fully understand lyrics.

This song is sooo good !!!!!!!!!! hope the best for Africa <3

The same happens with any type of people, religious or not. Religion's just another type of ideology, like democracy or communism. It's not religions fault, but more the natural fault of the human being in general.

As a final belief, I wish to educate you on the types of Atheists there are. I am the type that wants to further society, and my fellow man. Where as others have religious restrictions, I have none. I believe we are all brothers and sister. I am however realistic, there will never be peace with religion. With religion comes extremists. If it were up to me, every new born child would be free to find their own way..however we are raised by our parents/regional norms.

must agree with you on this. I watched an interview about how western European countries dumped nuclear waste into the coasts of Somalia. This had to have killed numerous people for radiation poisoning. As you say the pirates have never killed a hostage. I would have to agree, that this was a long time coming. When the please to the international community fall on def ears, one has to take matters into their own hands.

I am not "restricting" anyone's freedom of choice. If anything the rights of those who are not religious have their freedom violated on a daily basis. When a law is passed for the ceasing of stem cell research, abortion, and so on...this is religions doing. If I have a dying relative that can be saved by these scientific advances, I will be ecstatic. However "we can't play god" Who are you to tell me that I can't save my families lives?  Be civil, name calling is for children.
The ignorant misconception that is used as a weapon of "Hitler was an Atheist, Stalin wan an Atheist"....etc is just that. Religious propaganda. When an attempt by German officers to assassinate Hitler (Operation Valkyrie) failed, Hitler believed he was saved by god the almighty. It's been documented. Quotes referring to his beliefs in god have also been documented. Atheist DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT believe in GOD. He may not have been a typical "Christian", but he believed in god.

Once you start restricting peoples freedom of peaceful expression, wether it be religion, art, speach or whatever; then you become no better than what you apparently hate.

Infact I see people with your stance as either being hypocrites or just extremely ignorant.

Hitler and most of the evils in the last century were also caused by atheists believe it or not.

The pirates have nothing to do with extremists like Alshabaab. Infact they were former fishermen restricted from their livelihood by greedy foreign fishing boats taking advantage of Somalias situation.

I don't agree with these pirates as they cause problems for honest men trying to provide for their families. However we can't deny that necessity pushed them to this and other honest men. You have to also remember that the pirates have not killed even one hostage so far!

One thing I don't get is how he seems to somewhat support the pirates, but aren't the pirates/Islamic extremists that fight in Somalia one in the same? Is it not extremists that rolled up on K'naan and his two best friends...mowing them down, leaving only him to live?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu3biFTak2I&feature=fvsr

Ah guys... we don't need to have wars, blood or any more carnage...
Just light up a bud and listen to this shit and it's all good. My friend presented me with these ideas of these strong military leaders demanding things like "Goddamn it Johnson, get me another shot!" When it could be "Aw man, Johnson. This song is kick ass." Sounds good, eh? It's all going one step towards it guys, keep lighting and spreading the word! :)

dude this song is related to smoking weed cause its fucking awesome to listen to when your baked. just like the majority of all the songs hip hop/ reggae songs out there. so smoke weed and just enjoy what these songs are about.

a feel good song ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xVwBP4WfQU&feature=PlayList&p=59DA3E3AD8D37F22&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3

Born in Mogadishu, Somalia,[3]
K'naan spent his childhood in the district of Wardhiigleey ("The River of Blood") and lived there during the Somali Civil War, which began in 1991. His aunt, Magool, was one of Somalia's most famous singers. K'naan's grandfather, Haji Mohamed, was a poet. K'naan is also a Muslim. His name, K'naan, means "traveller" in the Somali language.

K'naan's father, Abdi, left the country, along with many other intellectuals to settle in New York City and work as a cab driver. He mailed money home to his family (As mentioned in "If Rap Gets Jealous").[4] As the civil war continued and the situation in Somalia continued to deteriorate, K'naan's mother, Marian Mohamed, petitioned the United States embassy for an exit visa. In 1991, on the last day the US embassy remained open as the government of Mohamed Siad Barre collapsed their visa was approved, and they boarded the last commercial flight out of the country.[5]

They joined relatives in Harlem, New York City, before moving to the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Rexdale, where there was a large Somali Canadian community.[6] His family still lives there. In his new country, K'naan began learning English, some through hip hop albums by artists like Nas and Rakim. Despite speaking no English, the young K'naan taught himself hip hop and rap diction, copying the lyrics and style phonetically.[5] He then also began rapping.[4] He dropped out of school in grade ten to travel for a time, rapping at open mic events, and eventually returned to Toronto.

K'naan became a friend and associate of Canadian promoter, Sol Guy, who helped him secure a speaking engagement before the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1999, where K'naan performed a spoken word piece criticizing the UN for its failed aid missions to Somalia.[7] One of the audience members, Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour, was so impressed by the young MC's performance and courage that he invited him to contribute to his 2001 album Building Bridges, a project through which K'naan was able to tour the world.[6]

This project led to his work at other UN events, as well as the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Halifax Pop Explosion. It also helped him meet Canadian producer Jarvis Church and his Track & Field team in 2002, who produced his debut album The Dusty Foot Philosopher, which was released in 2005 to critical acclaim. In 2006, it won the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year, and was nominated for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize. It also won the BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music in the newcomer category for 2007.[8][9] The Dusty Foot Philosopher will be re-released and re-packaged as a "Deluxe Edition" featuring new mixes and a bonus DVD in the United States (and various international territories) by the emerging media company and record label iM (Interdependent Media, Inc.) in 2008.

Since then, he has been on tour promoting his album and working on his follow-up release, "Troubadour," his debut album for new label A&M/Octone Records. He has also been working with artists like Nelly Furtado, Mos Def, The Roots, Dead Prez, and Pharoahe Monch on tours such as Live 8[10] and Breedlove Odyssey.[6] He also collaborated with Damian Marley on the "Welcome to Jamrock" touring session.[11]

In 2005, the Canadian music scene featured a low-key feud between K'naan and k-os, one of the most prominent Canadian hip-hop artists. Following the release of the music video for the song Soobax, which was shot by K'naan and a film crew in Kenya, k-os released a track B-Boy Stance attacking K'naan : "They took cameras to Africa for pictures to rhyme / Over; Oh, yes, the great pretenders [...] Religious entertainers who want to be life savers." Though the feud never became high-profile, with K'naan expressing confusion at the attack and respect for k-os, he nonetheless responded with the mixtape Revolutionary Avocado which argued "You the all-knowing with a beer bottle / Wishing you was Plato and me Aristotle? / ...Suburban negro turned hip-hop hero / Is there a reason he really hates me, though?" — a rebuttal CBC's Matthew McKinnon called "cold-cocking the champ".[5] He recently released The Dusty Foot on the Road, a collection of recording made during his recent world tour on Wrasse Records.[12]

His second studio album, Troubadour, was released on February 24, 2009 on A&M/Octone Records, and will be distributed through Universal Music Group worldwide. The album's first single, "ABC's", was released to radio in late 2008. K'naan has featured in several video games such as "Madden NFL 09" with his song ABC's, and "Fifa 06" with his song soobax. The song "If Rap Gets Jealous", a rerecording of a track of the same name - with different verses - from The Dusty Foot Philosopher, features Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett. K'naan was also the first featured artist on X3, a collaborative project between CBC Radio 3, Exclaim! magazine and aux.tv to promote new Canadian music
In a December 30, 2008 interview with Hard Knock TV K'naan states that Somali piracy while not to be condoned has a reason for existence. According to K'naan Somali fishermen organized and armed themselves so that they could protect the Somali shoreline from illegal dumping of Nuclear Toxic Waste from private companies. He goes on to state that greed and the lure of money eventually produced what we see today as Somali piracy.[14]

On April 15, 2009 K'naan publicly criticised the approach to the problem of Somali piracy after the kidnapping of Richard Phillips of the United States flagged MV Maersk Alabama container ship 240 nautical miles (440 km; 280 mi) southeast of the Somalian port city of Eyl.[15]

“ It has no basis, no roots, and I'm not talking about, when I say basis - it's not the same as justifications [...] but how there came to be pirates, I think that is probably the most undiscussed thing in major media today - it's as if they just sprung from nowhere. But Somalis have long known about the issues

Prior to the release of Troubadour, K'naan performed with a small acoustic band, consisting of Rayzak (back-up vocals), Kiercey (acoustic guitar) and Mad Dog (djembe).[24] This style was an essential element of what set K'naan apart from most hip-hop acts. More than that, it reflected K'naan's value of meaningful lyrics over shallow theatrics.

Since Troubadour, K'naan has toured exclusively with a larger electric ensemble - consisting of drums, bass, electric guitar, and keyboards [25] - and his performances now also feature elaborate lighting. This change in showmanship, along with his collaborations with such high profile artists as Adam Levine and Mos Def, has helped to shift K'naan more into the mainstream flow of the music industry and has helped him gain exposure to a wider audience.



[edit] Discography


This statement was made to explain his position on the world of difference which exists between where he grew up, and the ghettos of the first world.[19]. Nonetheless, K'naan denies that he is overtly political, instead explaining that he "[shows] the state of the world [and] if you call it like it is you're being political."[20]. His own opinion of his music is that it's a "mix of tradition and [a] kind of articulation of my own life and [..] my past experiences."[20]

K'naan has said that he is influenced by Somali music and the traditional instruments of Somalia.[21] His most recent album, Troubadour, also draws heavily from Ethiopian sources, particularly Ethio-Jazz by Alemayehu Eshete and Tilahun Gessesse

Yhdysvaltojen järjestäytyneeseen rikollisuuteen.


Ensimmäiset amerikkalaiset rikollisjengit syntyivät Yhdysvaltojen nopeasti kasvaneiden suurkaupunkien slummeissa, työläis- ja siirtolaiskortteleissa 1800-luvun alkupuoliskolla. Osa jengeistä aloitti toimintansa laillisina eri kansallisuuksia edustavina siirtolaisjärjestöinä, jotka ajoivat niitä perustaneiden siirtolaisten etuja uudessa maassa. Irlantilaisilla, italialaisilla, sisilialaisilla, itä-eurooppalaisilla, kiinalaisilla, mustilla ja muilla ryhmillä oli omat järjestönsä, joillakin useampia. Järjestöt auttoivat työn saamisessa ja asunnon hankkimisessa, ne järjestivät kerhotiloja ja lakiapua. Varojen kertyessä järjestöt alkoivat hyvin pian kiinnostaa myös vanhalta mantereelta saapuneita rikollisia. Osa niistä pystyi pysymään enemmän tai vähemmän laillisina, kun osa oli mukana muodostamassa amerikkalaista järjestäytynyttä rikollisuutta. Myös erilaisiin tehtäviin tarkoitetut ryhmät, kuten vapaapalokuntalaiset tai vartijaryhmät muuttuivat joskus rikollisjengeiksi. Jengien jäseniä ruvettiin nimittämään gangstereiksi.

Erityisesti New Yorkissa syntyi oma värikäs alamaailmansa. Siirtolaisalueet ja slummit, kuten Hell's Kitchen, Brooklyn ja varsinkin Manhattanilla Boweryn ja Broadwayn välissä sijainnut Five Points toimivat rikollisjengien syntypaikkoina. New Yorkin ensimmäinen järjestäytynyt jengi oli 1820-luvulla perustettu irlantilaissiirtolaisista muodostunut Forty Thieves. Niin ikään irlantilainen oli alueen viinakauppiaiden varastoja vartioimaan perustettu Roach Guard, josta tulikin murhiin ja ryöstöihin erikoistunut rikollisjengi. Roach Guardin sekalaisesta sakista järjestyi sittemmin kurinalainen Dead Rabbits, jonka kovin vastustaja oli kansallismielinen ja katolilaisvastainen amerikkalaissyntyisistä kasattu Bowery Boys, jota vastaan irlantilaisjengit usein liittoutuivat. Muita jengejä olivat mm. Shirt Tails, jonka jäsenet piilottelivat aseita housujen yli roikkuvien paitojen alla, Baltimoresta New Yorkiin sisarjengin muodostanut Plug Uglies ja juutalaisten muodostama Eastman Gang.

Katujengien jäsenillä oli yleensä jokin tapa erottua toisten jengien jäsenistä. Bowery Boysin jäsen tunnettiin korkeapyttyisestä silinterihatusta, punaisesta paidasta, mustista housuista, vasikannahkasaappaista, mustasta liivistä ja öljyllä kammatuista hiuksista. Vastustajan Dead Rabbitsin tunnisti punaraitaisesta paidasta ja jos heitä oli monta marssimassa kahakkaan tai mellakkaan, kantoivat he joukkonsa edellä kuollutta jänistä seipään nokassa.

Näillä katujengeillä oli eroavaisuuksia ulkoasun lisäksi myös toimintatavoissa. Usein jengit erikoistuivat tietyntyyppisiin rikoksiin, kuten Boodle Gang, joka siirtyi ruokavaunujen ryöstöistä ihmiskaappauksiin ja lunnasrahojen kiristämiseen. Charlton Street Gang puolestaan toimi merirosvojen lailla hyökäten Hudson-joen varrella oleviin koteihin varastetulla sluupilla 1860-luvun lopulla. Cherry Hill -jengin jäsenet taas pukeutuivat rikkaiden lailla, jotta saattoivat ryöstää näitä näiden omilla asuinalueillaan. 19th Street Gang ryösti helppoja kohteita, kuten naisia, lapsia ja vanhuksia. Teini-ikäisistä koostuneet Dutch Mob ja myöhemmin Crazy Butch Gang erikoistuivat taskuvarkauksiin Boweryn itäpuolella. Bowery Boys oli puolestaan laaja-alainen ja sillä oli poliittistakin painoarvoa varsinkin korruptoituneimpien New Yorkin poliitikkojen keskuudessa. Bowery Boys oli mukana kansallismielisessä ja ääriprotestanttisessa Know Nothing-liikkeessä, kuten baltimorelaiset Rips Raps ja Plug Uglies, jolla oli newyorkilainen alajaosto.

Keskinäisten välienselvittelyjen koko vaihteli. Oli satunnaisia salamurhia ja puukotuksia, yksittäisten gangstereiden nyrkkinujakoita, pieniä veitsi- ja tulitaisteluita sekä suuria satojen miesten välisiä joukkotappeluja. Lain kouraa välttääkseen jengit turvautuivat, kuten myöhemmät jälkeläisensä lahjontaan, kiristykseen, uhkailuun ja murhiin. Politiikassa vaikutusvaltaa omanneet jengit suosivat silmänsä ummistaneita poliitikkoja.

Sisällissota ja sen jälkivuodet toivat muutoksia New Yorkin ja monen muun kaupungin jengielämään. New Yorkin vuoden 1863 värväysmellakat saivat alkunsa, kun osa värvätyiksi määrätyistä kaupunkilaisista, gangsterit mukaan lukien, kieltäytyivät kutsusta sotapalvelukseen ja aloittivat erilaiset mielenilmaukset, jotka laajenivat suureksi mellakaksi. Know Nothing-liikkeen ansiosta mellakointi kääntyi kaupungin mustia vastaan. Riehuvat ihmisjoukot lynkkasivat ja pahoinpitelivät useita mustia, kunnes armeija vihdoin tukahdutti mellakan väkivaltaisesti. Rikollisuus haluttiin saada kuriin ja poliisi järjesti 1860-luvun lopulla useita kampanjoita ja operaatioita järjestäytyneitä jengejä vastaan. Toiminta hiljenikin hetkeksi, kun jengit hajosivat niiden keskusjäsenten jouduttua vankilaan, mutta uusia jengejä perustettiin. Chichesterseista, Dead Rabbitsista ja muista Five Pointsin irlantilaisjengeistä tuli Whyos. Whyos tarjosi erilaisia rikollisia palveluja maksua vastaan. Tämä varmistui, kun 1884 New Yorkin poliisi pidätti erään Whyosin jäsenistä, Piker Ryanin. Hänellä oli taskussaan lista, hinnasto, jossa luki:

Lyöminen $2
Mustat silmät $4
Leuan ja nenän murtaminen $10
Lyöminen taju kankaalle kumipampulla $15
Irti purtu korva $15
Murrettu käsi tai jalka $19
Luoti jalkaan $25
Puukotus $25
"Iso homma" alkaen $100