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Originally Posted by ShaolinFlame
There have been gangs as long as there have been cities. They aren't there to fight about "cred", it is usually about drugs (and the associated territories), money laundering, and debt.
And I'm sure Flin Flon has some sort of gang connection, whether in town, or in the people who supply the drugs to those who sell them in town.
If you can get something illegal and not know its exact origin, chances are a gang made a profit somewhere along said items path.
I am just a very firm believer that Organized Crime will always exist, so it is better to have a professional organization (like HA or even the Italian Mob) than a bunch of clowns from some lawless SE Asian country who think it ok to shoot up restaurants and crowded streets. When the HA take care of business, nobody outside the HA and maybe some elite Gang Police units know what happened.
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I know gangs aren't fighting for street cred, they're fighting for control of drug territory, etc. and through that comes the street cred. That's fairly obvious. But if one gang doesn't respond to the other's actions, they lose credibility within their own little world. It's all about showmanship with these guys, trust me. They have a mantra to respond until the business is somehow finished. It's what you're seeing right now in the news.
The Flin Flon example was just about the silliness of the JAPANESE Yakuza being in an obscure town, nothing more.
Oh and to everybody, btw... what's the HA? I'm having a hard time figuring out who these guys are here, I'm at a loss.