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Do you think gangs can only be gangs if they have drive-bys?? Not so! Kids, who are members of punk gangs, drug gangs etc., are not always into "drive-bys".. Think of gangs like any other group. They are not limited to one socioeconomic group AND not all participate in drive-bys.

This is a great website to do a quick learn about gang activities. This guy did an HBO special...twas very good.

http://www.gangwar.com/index.html
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Little Rock gangs have been highly noticeable since about 1988. Prior to that time, there were neighborhood gangs of various groups, both black and white, reported in and around Little Rock. These groups were mainly social in nature and did not crave the same things our current batch of gangsters appear to be wanting (MY WORDS: this is the status of some suburban gangs)

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Over the last several years in Arkansas, gangs have made an evolution from being turf and brotherhood oriented to now being involved in one way or another with criminal enterprises. Some sell drugs, some steal cars, some brutalize and rob, and some do all of the above. Local gang members have stated that out of town connections many times bring in guns and drugs from other communities for distribution.

I missed this part..
"A longtime friend of David Westerfield took the stand at his capital murder trial and tried to paint the accused killer's alibi — a meandering desert odyssey in a recreational vehicle — as a normal weekend outing. But under a grueling cross-examination, Dave Laspisa grudgingly acknowledged that some of Westerfield's account of the days after Danielle van Dam vanished was puzzling. Laspisa said he never knew Westerfield to spend just 12 hours in the desert, nor to arrive without his all-terrain vehicles as he had the weekend after 7-year-old Danielle was abducted. "

http://www.courttv.com/trials/westerfield/070802-pm_ctv.html