“On the date of the incident only the Bandidos were designated by DPS as a criminal gang. And that is still true, is it not?”
I don’t really get the point of this argument either. It isn’t as if DPS creates criminal gangs. They must exist (and grow to some size and level of activity) before DPS gathers enough intel to designate them. So just because a group isn’t listed yet does nothing to prove they aren’t a criminal operation.
In the case of the Cossacks, I go by the “looks like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a duck” rule. They dress like outlaw bikers, they associate with outlaw bikers, and they get in gang wars with outlaw bikers. If someone can explain to me a sensible reason why a club that wasn’t criminal would do that, I’d love to hear it.
And so they are not a designated criminal gang. Thank you.
It’s very similar to the way an innocent officer might have joined a department like in Tulia and not have realised it was essentially a criminal gang.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/08/22/tulia.pardons/index.html
Or in the same way an innocent officer might have joined a department like in Broklyn Illinois and not have realised it was essentially a criminal gang.
Or in the same way an innocent officer might have joined a department like in Tenaha and not have realised it was essentially a criminal gang.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-texas-profiling_wittmar10-story.html