Under conventional strategy, the police function as a higher-order gang, moving in on someone else's territory and enforcing their will with violence, just as the lower-order street gangs do.
Working with Kennedy, probation and parole officers ordered gang members to attend face-to-face meetings with the police.
The police said that in January 2010, Mr. Acosta ordered gang members to open fire on a party, and 15 people died, most of them teenagers with no evident connection to the drug trade.
Mr. Christie said that Tommy Terrell Thompson, 32, was the leader, or "five-star general" of the Sex, Money, Murder crew and admitted to ordering gang members to commit assault and murder, including the killing of a Jersey City man believed to be cooperating with law enforcement.
Whatever their motives, the anti-public ordering gang's reasoning doesn't stand up well under scrutiny.
Just think of "Indian Village Orders Gang Rape of Two Sisters" and where that led (this widely sensationalized "news" turned out to be baseless).
I was told one jail kingpin has even boasted of ordering gang members on the outside to burgle legal high shops to keep his supply lines; he's believed to have amassed over £50,000 [$74,000] in less than three months.
I was told one jail kingpin has even boasted of ordering gang members on the outside to burgle legal high shops to keep his supply lines; he's believed to have amassed over £50,000 in less than three months.
(Playboy was also said to have ordered gang members to steal 200 motorbikes from a state facility before demanding they be returned, apparently just to flex his muscle on the street).
Castellanos ordered gang members to stop rampant infighting; to tax drug dealers in their neighborhoods, as well as prostitutes, fruit vendors and vendors of phony ID cards in nearby Huntington Park; and to funnel the proceeds to him and other mafia members.
Hernández's government recently accused Zelaya and Nasralla of ordering "gangs" to block streets and commit violent acts amid the protests, during which barricades have been burned and clashes taken place between rock-throwing demonstrators and police, with soldiers responding with teargas.
