I seen these cats coming out front, they was arguing, they was like 5 on one side and 6 on the other side. Although the majority of these businesses in African American neighborhoods were operated by African Americans, it is often unclear the extent to which these operations were run independently of the larger criminal organizations of the time.

The "Black Mafia" was formed to coordinate and consolidate historic inner-city crime in numbers, prostitution, and extortion of legitimate businesses, while combining with the rising drug demand in Philadelphia.While staying in New York, he had murdered a woman and a child and had wounded the man he was supposed to murder. The book is incredible…The documentation is so thorough, it’s unbelievable…We know about corruption, but this is beyond corruption. Many members were transported to and from meetings while blindfolded by more powerful members to avoid compromising the secrecy of the location. If we can track where money is coming from and where it’s going, we can disrupt the financial structures that support criminal networks. A boriqua out of the Badlands tells about when Aaron Jones tried to push up on his homie Million Dollar Dave.

You know we get our info from the source, so here is an exclusive, straight from the penitentiary from a Muslim brother in the know. The JBM was conceived in 1986 and "born" in 1987 as an organization dedicated to exploiting the seemingly limitless profit potential created by the crack epidemic. Analysis of Blacks in Chicago support evidence that the lack of information is connected to the segregation of the time.The war opened up numerous jobs, causing 50,000 Blacks to move into Chicago from 1916 to 1920, with 90% of the population being on Chicago's South Side.

Previously dependent partially on the political and police protection of New York's Five Families, Black American gangsters were able to negotiate with outside criminal organizations and establish a stronger independent hold over certain territories, and the Mafia's ability to control or impose a "street tax" on criminal operations in Black American neighborhoods began to wane.

Clair; the Harlem rackets later began to receive more protection from police interference following their eventual (partial) takeover by mobster Dutch Schultz and the largely Italian and Jewish " National Crime Syndicate" in the late 1930s. But by the late 1960s, new street gangs emerged as Black consciousness fell away with political leadership.