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Also @Karri ,
To be fair since at least the 1840s ethnic based gangs are just an integral part of US culture. The original street gangs in NYC in the Antebellum eta were Anglo-Saxon or English such has the Native Guards. During the 1840s there were waves of Irish immigrants due to the potato famine who formed gaga such has the Dead Rabbits and the Whyos. Latter in the Nineteenth Century or early 20th Century there was a large Italian street gang the Five Points and a Jewish gang the Osterman Monk gang. By the 1920s during Prohibition former Jewish and Italian street gang members most famously Salvatore Lucina ( Lucky Luciano) and Myer Lansky among others formed the American Mafia which some Mafia families smuggled drugs into the US in the immediate post WWII year's. Street gang culture had nothing to do with prison culture . Prison gangs ate more about each ethnic or racial group in prison branding together against rival ethnic or racial groups.
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While this famous scene from the Godfather is fictional it does truthfully reflect the feelings and future actions of different Mafia families regarding the distribution and sale of illegal drugs. Some families such has the Genovese Family in which the head Capo was convicted in 1957 of federal narcotics violations did participate in the drug trade while arguably the Lucheese Family did not.
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