![]() "This investigation is the first of several to follow in the coming months."Īmong those indicted is alleged Michigan gang leader Kevin "Spaghetti" Fordham of Detroit, who authorities said has no prior felony convictions. "We are committed to supplying resources to this city so that people don’t have to worry about a stray bullet hitting them," said Deir, warning more arrests are in the pipeline. "This group of individuals - they’re no strangers to law enforcement. Collectively, they have been involved in 365 separate felony arrests," Deir said of the 40 alleged gang members.Īccording to Deir, nonfatal shootings are up 87% in Detroit over the last two years homicides are up 47% from 2019 when violent crime had reached record lows. ![]() That is why we are here today," said Deir, who cited the gang member arrests as proof that federal law enforcement is crucial in Detroit. "Homicides and are up 47.7% - that is significant. with defunding the police," Deir said, stressing that violent crime is alarmingly high in Detroit again, and that the city needs the feds and local police working together. "This group is notoriously violent," Detroit's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) chief James Deir said at a Thursday news conference, which he used to address a touchy subject for law enforcement: the defund-the-police movement. As rival African-American clubs sprung up, symbols of wealth became more central to the sharp-dressed crew: top hat (shelter), cane (strength), glove (purity)-and the Playboy bunny, which according to Gangs: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition, “symbolizes the quickness and alertness of gang members.” Though the date of the earliest uses of the bow-tied bunny are unclear, UIC prof John Hagedorn-author of the gang studies People & Folks: Gangs, Crime, and the Underclass in a Rustbelt City and A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture-speculates the symbol has been employed by the Vice Lords since the early 1960s, “probably after the first Playboy Club opened.Saying Detroit's violent crime is out of control again, the federal government on Thursday announced the indictment of 40 alleged gang members wanted for everything from robbery and ordering hits on prisoners to unlawful gun possession and murder.Īccording to the 120-page indictment, the defendants belong to the Almighty Vice Lord Nation gang, which authorities say has been funneling drugs across the country for decades while instilling fear in anyone who tries to stop them. Back then, the Vice Lords was a neighborhood social and service club, which maintained an office and opened a restaurant and ice-cream parlor called Teen Town. Like Playboy, the street gang traces its roots back to Chicago, starting up in the Lawndale neighborhood in the early 1950s-right around the time Hef was launching his men’s mag. The tuxedo-clad bunny symbol that has been on the cover of every issue of Playboy (more than 670) is also one accepted symbol of the Almighty Vice Lords Nation. ![]() Is the Playboy rabbit also a gang sign? I’ve seen graffiti near my neighborhood that looks a lot like the magazine logo.- J., Bridgeport ![]()
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