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"Gang members who end up serving time in jail as adults often graduate to the toughest gang of all--the Mexican Mafia, or "La Eme," a prison-based gang that controls drug sales in San Antonio.
Former Mexican Mafia members have complained that La Eme is set up in a manner that only the top leaders collect all the profits from the illegal activities of others. ... gang experts
I empathized with writer Jimmy Breslin who on the slaying of a young man by gang members in New York City claimed:
About 25 members of the Newburgh-based Mexican Mafia gang locally known as "La Eme," used lead pipes, baseball bats and pool cues ... Three of the men also were stabbed. The attack happened at 4 a.m.
Police say they're gang members but declined to say which gang. They think the fight was part of an ongoing battle between the Benkard Barrio Kings and La Eme, sometimes called Mexican Mafia.
Whether it is through converting an entire gang, ... Prior to the mid 1960’s, the entire incarcerated Mexican population belonged to La Eme. The members from the south would abuse those form the north.
;; LA Times columnist Steve Lopez has been apologizing a lot in the last 48 hours. ... I for one am not a big fan of having “reformed” gang members as mentors for any kid. There is still
….In its most radical shift, the LAPD is putting aside decades of suspicion and turning for help to gang intervention workers, many of whom were gang members. ... This is particularly true for LA.
According to the latest indictment, in one case F-13 leaders ordered attacks on African Americans in retribution for black gang members supposedly shooting at Latino children in the neighborhood.
When a new convict is admitted he is viewed as fresh meat among the prison gang members and victimized to no end.