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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Yeah, that's something I was wondering too. The news media, at least in Europe, seems to concentrate on Los Angeles as though gang activity doesn't exist in any other part of the country. That plus bands like NWA, Compton's Most Wanted and films like Colors all focusing on LA.
Someone, I think it was Floating, mentioned the Gotti gang in New Orleans but I'd never heard of them until then. I'm sure it must be in all parts of the country but it's never reported like that.
The nearest we have in England is the football 'firms' but they're pretty small now and besides, never had that much power in the first place. Like the LA Gang culture though, football hooliganism has inspired tonnes of books and films that clearly wallow in the whole thing, while pretending to condemn it.
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I think there's somthing similar with these teenage gangs in the UK nowadays. It seems to be mainly London. Of course it's a much on a smaller scale and they only really seem to be using knives but when you hear about them in the news they have proper names and territories and although they might not be proper organisations selling drugs or doing whatever it does seem like it could develop into a more significant problem.