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NATIVE GANGS
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Aboriginal Gangs in Prairie Provinces in 'Crisis Proportions'
The First Nations Drum, Cover/Crime, Tuesday, January 13, 2004
"Crisis proportions in… Criminal Intelligence Canada (CISC)… on August 22nd, aboriginal gangs are involved in street-level trafficking of marijuana, crack cocaine, and crystal meth… prostitution, break and enters, robberies, assaults, intimidation, tobacco fraud, home invasions, vehicle thefts, weapons offences, illegal gaming, and debt collection… and enforcement as trench troops for other organized crime groups like the Hells Angels… Indian Posse, Redd Alert, Warriors and Native Syndicate… Manitoba Warriors, and the Indian Posse… As it is widely known, many of the aboriginal children of the 1950s and 1960s suffered extreme physical and sexual abuse… 'spontaneous youth social movement'… For an undereducated aboriginal youth disenfranchised from society, there are few options for survival… Sheer survival is a strong motivational factor that leads many youth to gangs… aboriginal youth had a better chance of going to jail than graduating from Grade 12… aboriginal youth comprise at least 75 to 90 percent of youth in open and closed custody facilities… gang phenomena… inmates who return from jail and bring a 'prison mentality' back onto reserves that make them 'open air prisons'."
5 charged in Pas fight
Winnipeg Sun, Thursday, May 19, 2005
"… Indian Posse gang members, were charged in relation to a fight in The Pas that left a US Marine corporal with a punctured kidney and lung."
Armed posses spreading violence across
Globe and Mail, Friday, May 9, 2008, p. A16
"In the past five years, aboriginal gangs… have surpassed outlaw motorcycle gangs and Italian organized crime syndicates as the largest single group held in federal prisons…"
Residential Schools Story not that Simple
FCPP.org, June, 2008
"While not forgetting that Indian residential schools were based on coercion and allowed abuse, it should be remembered that not everyone suffered abuse and that they opened u educational opportunities to many."
Fit To Be Tied Over Native Crimes
FCPP.org, Friday, August 15, 2008
"Why do so many of our native youth flock to native gangs and crime in general?"
Culture of violence
National Post, Saturday, September 26, 2009, p A3
"… Winnipeg is considered the aboriginal street gang capital of the country, and believed to have the most aboriginal gangs and the highest number of aboriginals involved in gangs like the Manitoba Warriors, the Indian Posse, and the Native Syndicate. … Youths make for particularly attractive gang members because their crimes will land them less time in jail under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. … Said Mr. Sutherland: 'The gangs feel like they own the neighbourhoods because there’s no real consequence for their actions. They go to the ranges… get a slap on the wrist, and then they’re back at it.' … 'Gangs are basically a subculture that allows them to meet their basic needs and more,' he said."