This is just the normal transition every successful street gang makes to a more sophisticated organized crime like you see in big East Coast cities. "Gangs" li

This is just the normal transition every successful street gang makes to a more sophisticated organized crime like you see in big East Coast cities. "Gangs" like MS-13 are huge, with more than 100k members in the US and a half dozen other countries. The Crips and Bloods can't stand up to that kind of organization - they either get coopted or destroyed. When a handful of guys in Guadalajara have a piece of every drug transaction in Southern California it's all going to look pretty peaceful unless you cross them.