by Wiseguy » Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:14 pm
If you want an in depth rundown on MS-13, read the report below -
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... UkduVmw63X
From the report -
The MS13 is a difuse organization of sub-parts, with no single leader or leadership structure that directs the entire gang. The MS13 has two poles of power: in Los Angeles, where it was founded, and in El Salvador, its spiritual birthplace where many of its historic leaders reside. But the gang has no single leader or leadership council. Instead it is a federation with layers of leaders who interact, obey and react to each other at diferent moments depending on circumstances. In general terms, most decisions are made by the individual cell, or what is known as the “clica,” the Spanish term for clique. The highest-ranking members in some geographic areas make up a leadership council, but not all areas have a leadership council. In Los Angeles, the MS13 is subservient to the prison gang known as the Mexican Mafa. In El Salvador, the gang is also run from prison by its own leadership council. Along the East Coast of the United States, the gang has no council, although it is takes much of its directives from Salvadoran-based gang leaders. Because these leaders are mostly in jail, it is exceedingly difficult for them to impose total control over the rank-and-file.
If you look at gang indictments, from a criminal enterprise standpoint, MS-13 is one of the
least impressive gangs. With many other gangs, including the Bloods and Crips, while they do have their share of petty violence, much of it is at least to facilitate their drug dealing, i.e protect their turf or eliminate rivals. Many MS-13 cases involve nothing but violence. Violence simply for the sake of violence.
The report above states -
The use of violence has enhanced the MS13’s brand name, allowing it to expand in size and geographic reach, but it has undermined its ability to enter more sophisticated, money-making criminal economies. Potential partners see the gang as an unreliable, highly visible target, and the gang’s violent spasms only reinforce this notion.
The indictments bear this out.
Pages 39-47 go further into the criminal business of the gang and, when you read it, you get the impression these guys would barely be a blip on the radar if not for the extreme violence.
If you want an in depth rundown on MS-13, read the report below -
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1043576/download&ved=2ahUKEwjtyL2PyvPpAhVFOs0KHQ34BS0QFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw3RkA1jZANPuiUkduVmw63X
From the report -
[i]The MS13 is a difuse organization of sub-parts, with no single leader or leadership structure that directs the entire gang. The MS13 has two poles of power: in Los Angeles, where it was founded, and in El Salvador, its spiritual birthplace where many of its historic leaders reside. But the gang has no single leader or leadership council. Instead it is a federation with layers of leaders who interact, obey and react to each other at diferent moments depending on circumstances. In general terms, most decisions are made by the individual cell, or what is known as the “clica,” the Spanish term for clique. The highest-ranking members in some geographic areas make up a leadership council, but not all areas have a leadership council. In Los Angeles, the MS13 is subservient to the prison gang known as the Mexican Mafa. In El Salvador, the gang is also run from prison by its own leadership council. Along the East Coast of the United States, the gang has no council, although it is takes much of its directives from Salvadoran-based gang leaders. Because these leaders are mostly in jail, it is exceedingly difficult for them to impose total control over the rank-and-file.
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If you look at gang indictments, from a criminal enterprise standpoint, MS-13 is one of the [i]least[/i] impressive gangs. With many other gangs, including the Bloods and Crips, while they do have their share of petty violence, much of it is at least to facilitate their drug dealing, i.e protect their turf or eliminate rivals. Many MS-13 cases involve nothing but violence. Violence simply for the sake of violence.
The report above states -
[i]The use of violence has enhanced the MS13’s brand name, allowing it to expand in size and geographic reach, but it has undermined its ability to enter more sophisticated, money-making criminal economies. Potential partners see the gang as an unreliable, highly visible target, and the gang’s violent spasms only reinforce this notion.[/i]
The indictments bear this out.
Pages 39-47 go further into the criminal business of the gang and, when you read it, you get the impression these guys would barely be a blip on the radar if not for the extreme violence.