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Don’t mess with the mob; a look into organized crime networks and mafia families, the real-life gangsters that inspired The Godfather.
L.A: Where True Crime Thrives
The Zooter Riots of 1943: Some of you reading this may be thinking, what is a zoot? Well the term, 'zoot suits' refers to baggy suits that were often worn by minorities in the early 1940's, specifically Latinos. The Latino youths of California, often referred to as "pachucos," wore these flashy suits and hats were often viewed as thugs and gangsters by the wealthy white members of society. Given the war that was going on at the time, servicemen often viewed these suits as a sign of disrespect due to the shortage of materials across the nation. The wartime restrictions of clothing materials also led to bootleg tailors who viewed as conmen and unpatriotic and the form 'zoot suit' was born. Associated with all of this was a large amount of racisim towards the Latino community as a whole and led to assaults in neighborhoods before the riots finally began.
By Matthew Easter5 years ago in Criminal
The Puzzle Box
Sandy turned the key, leaned into the door, and almost fell flat on her face as the door flew inward. She quickly glanced around to be sure no one was watching, then made her way to the kitchen to start the coffee for the morning rush. She had barely turned the tap when she heard the door chime jingle. The store was not officially open for another half hour, so she peaked out to see who had come in.
By Amy Cooney5 years ago in Criminal
Tony Little Bottles
My name is Tony Viles, they call me Little Bottles. My job usually consists of hanging out with the boys drinking beer and messing with the ladies. Now imagine my surprise when I get a message that the boss wants to see me. I haven’t done anything wrong that I know of. So, I’m a bit anxious to meet him. My time in the mob has been truly uneventful seeing as how I’ve only been involved a year. I just turned 19 but I look 25.
By Kevin Miller5 years ago in Criminal
Unraveling The Bond Of A Friendship
Their names are Michael and Jason, two friends who grew up in the same neighbourhood, when they were younger they got along by having mutual things in common like, football, playing video games, swimming, ice hockey, ice skating.
By Raphael Olowoyo5 years ago in Criminal
A walk through hate
To take a walk through the mind of a White supremacist is to take a path through hell. I spent over one decade inside the Confederate Hammerskins. I hold many tales, but none involve hatred of another race. Do I hate? In a sense, yes. But, I hate the normal things in life, Asparagus, liver and onions, the gas prices, and stubbing my toe. I have never hated another race, let alone have seen any white supremacist commit a crime against another race. Yes, it happens, sadly. But times have changed and so has the gang world. In prison, and on the street, the only constant is idiocy. I have been in some pretty rough prisons. And it was never different.
By Steven Mawyer5 years ago in Criminal
This Is Not a Love Story
She said that she was going somewhere cold and green and never coming back. None of us believed it. They all said things like that, and they all came home eventually, some in taxis and some in caskets. Not her, though. Lana came back with her head held high, and you could just see the skin sucked to the bones of her cheeks, the withering look in her eyes. She was still too proud to give into our defeated arms (we had been waiting weeks for her return, afraid she’d run the rented Ford off the road, into the river just as Ryan had).
By Rachel Elsey6 years ago in Criminal
The day my life turned upside down
when I was a kid all I wanted to do was build. I would take devices apart, put them back together. You could say that it was my thing. In a few years I started helping my dad build. Then as I hit 18 I started working as a subcontractor. Things got tough though in time, I ended up jobless, homeless and I had no money to my name. That’s when I met Jerrico. He told me he would look after me, yea what a load of crap.
By Colin Watkins6 years ago in Criminal
The Time I Briefly Saw a Real Yakuza
As hard as it is to explain to anybody on the outside who has no idea who I am, what I do, or anything I'm involved in, it's almost an understatement to say that "yakuza" became something of an on-brand identity for me this past year. For starters (and this is going to sound absolutely ludicrous), I was pretty deeply involved in a very public conversation about an American anime voice actor who had allegedly been involved in numerous sexual harassment and assault allegations over the last few decades. When a Japanese friend of mine saw my Twitter feed and was beginning to grow concerned about some of the horrendous things she was seeing not only about the actor but about his vitriolic and vengeful fan base that she didn't necessarily understand, I made the mistake of responding to her tweets to me in Japanese briefly explaining the situation I was going through. From there, that fan base began spinning the narrative to say that I was slandering the actor's name to Japan, and that--even more absurdly--surely by me speaking such ills of this actor in another language, I have incited the rage of the Japanese crime syndicate, the yakuza.
By Kaylyn Saucedo6 years ago in Criminal
The Hell's Kitchen Adventures of Toni Cipriani and the NYPD
"Toni Cipriani was an Italian mobster who had spent some time in Hell's Kitchen, New York. Toni had been quietly keeping tabs on the likes of Niko Belic and the metro booming Rasta, Little Jacob, as he strategized his way to supremacy. Toni Cipriani's knowledge of the two underworld bosses would allow Toni to erase the history of the Rastafarian and the Siberian. According to reports, the Colombian Cartel led by Mr. Montana has been relatively quiet in recent events."
By LUiS Wrote THiS UNiVERSE7 years ago in Criminal
