Street and Youth Gangs
Youth Gangs have flourished throughout many of the large cities of Australia, especially Melbourne and Sydney. There are many suburban gangs throughout Melbourne involving clashes between North-West and South-East as well as ongoing battles in Melbourne's Western Suburbs. There are many other gangs evolving throughout the outer suburbs of Brisbane as well. Australian youth gangs grow in accordance to general population growth.
During the early 1990s, Melbourne youth gangs included: 3174, based around Noble Park and Springvale; Keyzy/Burra boys, based in Keysborough; LSC, based in St. Albans through to Taylors Lakes; 14K, based in Footscray; BST, based in Sunshine, Deerpark & Werribee; MC3, based in Dandenong South; Oakleigh Wogs, based in Oakleigh; Springy Nips, based in Springvale; RT Criminals, based in Camberwell and Ashburton; WTP, based in Glen Iris and East Malvern; HTL, based in Kew, Hawthorn and Shepparton;
Current gangs in Melbourne include the Richmond based Yellow Klique, city based Central Crew, the western suburbs Brothers 4 Life and Young St Albans and Kings Park, and the Springvale based Young Springy Boys. Members from Yellow Klique and Central Crew had formed alliances and are currently at war with Brothers 4 Life. This gang war has seen an increase in knife attacks amongst young Asian men as well as a rise in bottle and glass related assaults. These three gangs have shown to be extremely violent even in front of police and security. Their activity has gone from assaulting one another in the streets to fire bombing of rival's houses. In 2010, a Victoria Police task force headed by Acting Detective Inspector Dave de Francesco, named Task Force Echo, was formed to counter warring gangs. A report in the Herald Sun found Pacific Island gangs have become the most violent in Melbourne's West, Most of these Islanders families migrate from Notorious South Auckland, New Zealand where the gang culture is much worse than here in Melbourne. Gangs such as Bloods and Crips, F.B.I - Full Blooded Islanders, Crazy Coconuts and the 48Boys. The 48 Boys are made up with mostly Samoan youth who have bonded a brotherhood, which is believed to have 48 members. http://www.newnation.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=140850 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sudanese-migrants-fighting-islanders/story-e6frg6of-1111114521801http://tvnz.co.nz/content/621825/423466/article.html
Read more about this topic: Organised Crime In Australia, Models of Organised Crime
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