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> "How are the Crips different from the LAPD? They both drive > around Los Angeles and carry guns ..." ... and they both enforce laws, and they both initiate

> "How are the Crips different from the LAPD? They both drive > around Los Angeles and carry guns ..." ... and they both enforce laws, and they both initiate the use of force against peaceful citizens, and they both take funding from unwilling people by the threat of violence. I'm not sure you're making the point you intended to make, unless you're an anarcho-capitalist like me ;-)

nodata 15y ago
Do the Crips have a taskforce that investigates corrupt gang members?
- __alexs 15y ago
  Corrupt as in actually police informants? Er, yeah I bet they do actually.
- einhverfr 15y ago
  I bet they do. I bet what they lack is a PR department. ;-)
GiraffeNecktie 15y ago
That's exactly my point. Between any two groups, you can cherry pick lots of things that they have in common. So yeah, the Crips and the LAPD both wear "uniforms" and money is a big driving force yada yada. But at the end of the day, one group has a mission that is sanctioned by the overwhelming majority of the community and the other group absolutely doesn't. And I'm sure there's lots to be said about how the gangs and the LAPD are co-dependent but that doesn't make them the same.