These are just names.
The large-scale sale of illegal drugs can only be carried out by a sophisticated and organised commercial operation. That's not because of the nature of the drugs but rather the nature of the trade -- the large-scale sale of shoes would require the same.
But selling shoes is legal and business relations are governed by law and, ultimately, law suits for breach of contract and tort.
That doesn't apply in the illegal drug trade and so contracts are enforced, if at all, with fear and, ultimately, violence. Hence the names of the gangs are mysterious and faintly threatening -- a street gang called "Payless" would not be taken seriously -- accordingly, the Crips and the Bloods.
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Pre-dawn raids in Toronto and Ottawa lead to arrests as police tie notorious Jamaican gang to drug trade in Toronto and as far north as Sault Ste. Marie
Globe and Mail
Toronto police say 71 people have been arrested in a crackdown on two street gangs, the Falstaff Crips and the Five Point Generalz.
At a news conference Tuesday afternoon police revealed that the investigation not only identified members of the Toronto-based gangs but members of the notorious Jamaican gang, the Shower Posse, as allegedly controlling these gangs in the city.
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It's just a step further to realize that the violence of the drug gangs is backed up with serious illegal firearms, preferably concealable handguns. The full automatic Mac-10 they found in the Fraser River is a perfect example of that. Not a sawed off, single shot, shotgun or bolt action rifle but something that has always been virtually illegal in Canada.
We need serious time for organized criminals, not average citizens caught up in a bureaucratic web.
Off topic, but WTF;
Here are the most recent fundraising numbers for the quarter ending March 2010, as detailed in the political financing database of Elections Canada:
Conservative Party: $4,023,923.14
Liberal Party: $1,589,953.81
Bloc Québécois: $123,069.64
NDP: $900,198.01
Green Party: $233,285.57
To put it in other words, the Conservative Party raised $1,177,416.11 more than all other political parties combined.
The Liberal Party is a disaster, no direction, no support.
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