I take it you have actually lived in one of these neighborhoods and not that you're summizing this from something you've read our watched on TV. Fear is quite d

I take it you have actually lived in one of these neighborhoods and not that you're summizing this from something you've read our watched on TV. Fear is quite different from admiration. There are a few who aspire to the lifestyle and the 'respect' it brings but most ordinary law abiding people despise the gangsters/mobsters/gangbangers who make their lives so miserable. It's like living under a dictatorship or in Soviet Russia. Fear and silence doesn't mean admiration or willing complicity.