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TWO PART ASSIGNMENT HISTORY FALL 2017

Gangs - legal and cultural problem

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PART ONE OF TWO

Do some research on ONE particular gang and/or criminal organization: Cosa Nostra, MS-13, Triad, the Irish and Native gangs depicted in the Gangs of New York, etc. Tell how and why that gang was born, and what society could and should do to eradicate it. In 5-7 paragraphs, on MS-13, Think of ways that law enforcement, social workers, communities and regular individuals could do to fight the gang's power and appeal.

PART TWO OF TWO – A ESSAY 3-5 pages outlining gangs featuring incidents of family feuds & anti-social law enforcement rebellion1. Hells Angels ( bikers) incident in 2000, tensions, as the anchorpersons say, escalated, both those that sprang from reality and those confected by delusion. In late July, when 350 Hells Angels roared into Missoula, Montana, to party hardy at their annual bash, the chief of police countered with 170 reinforcements. One sweltering night after the bikers withdrew from the bars downtown to the ski hill they'd rented, a phalanx of cops in body armor attacked a noisy crowd of civilians gathered in the smoky streets to let the good times roll and to protest all the cops, and blasted everyone in sight with pepper spray. South of the city a minister's son, a father of five, was charged with beating to death an older neighbor who had brandished a pistol to illustrate a point about the younger man's incessantly howling hounds.

2. MATEWAN INCIDENT -AMERICA'S MOST NOTORIOUS feud was played out in a forested floodplain not unlike that of the Clark Fork. Trouble on the remote Tug Fork River, the border between Kentucky and West Virginia, had been percolating long before Randolph McCoy accused Floyd Hatfield in the fall of 1878 of stealing his hog. But contrary to folklore, the families didn't take up arms to settle the dispute; they went to court. A jury ruled in Hatfield's favor, and McCoy abided by the verdict, although he did not accept his defeat gracefully. However, none of the preexisting bad blood (which compelled the judge to stock the jury with equal numbers of Hatfields and McCoys) was spilled until Johnse Hatfield knocked up Randolph's daughter, Rose Anna. Two years later, in 1882, three of the girl's brothers murdered Ellison Hatfield on election day. Then the Hatfield patriarch, "Devil Anse," avenged his brother by executing Randolph's three sons near what is now Matewan, West Virginia. This blood feud would roil Kentucky and West Virginia for another decade, bring the dispute over borderland jurisdiction to the U.S. Supreme Court, and cost eight more lives.