It may be tasteless to point this out, but a lot of the motorcycle clubs of this type are made up primarily of minorities, mostly black, and have been a problem in many places, not just New York.
Once upon a time, candidates were not able to get on the force if they had felonies or serious misdemeanors on their records or had known gang associates, but unfortunately the courts have overturned these things. In Jacksonville, we had a small ring of corrupt black cops extorting immigrant merchants (they finally killed one, which is what brought the ring down), and the same thing happened in New Orleans.
I would suspect that some of these cops were just hanging out with their buds, and unfortunately, in a case of divided loyalties, they decided not to go with the cop part.
The same was true, btw, of some earlier Irish and Italian cops, both from ethnic groups with serious gang activities in NYC. And that’s why laws were passed to prevent people with known gang associates from joining the force. It didn’t stop it entirely, but it did help.
And all of these laws are being overturned by our courts, so police departments now often find themselves ordered to take in people who once would have had no chance at get on the force.
>>It may be tasteless to point this out, but a lot of the motorcycle clubs of this type are made up primarily of minorities, mostly black, and have been a problem in many places, not just New York.<<
It’s not tasteless if it’s the truth. Don’t let the hateful “anti-racists” (e.g., Tim Wise) of the world silence and intimidate you.