Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most worrisome new development is the so-called takeover robbery, in which an armed gang holds tellers and customers hostage. On Feb. 28, a commando-style assault on a Bank of America branch led to a firefight on the streets of North Hollywood, California, in which two robbers died and dozens of police and bystanders were wounded. In Orange County, California, 17 such takeover robberies occurred last year, up 140% from...
...unscientific but tantalizing theory is that Hollywood movies are serving as how-to manuals. Authorities point to the 1996 De Niro-Pacino vehicle Heat, which one of the robbers in the North Hollywood shoot-out had repeatedly watched. In Set It Off, starring Queen Latifah, a gang of women successfully robs several banks. Police in Durham noted that the language used in one local robbery was similar to that in the film. "These things are media induced," contends Dallas FBI agent John Skillestad. "Hollywood is portraying bank robberies and glamourizing them...
...started as a form of verbal jousting--good-natured wordplay. Gangsta rap, with its themes of low riding and thuggery, raised the stakes. Now, a record-label president says, "a lot of the people who are the new players are coming from the drug trade or gang-related backgrounds. I myself have had death threats...
Although there are officially no suspects in Shakur's murder, police say they have identified a member of the Crips gang who they believe is responsible. Because Death Row has links to the Bloods street gang--bitter rivals of the Crips--and because Bad Boy rappers had hired Crips as bodyguards during their West Coast visits, some observers speculate that the Wallace murder involved revenge by the Bloods on behalf of Shakur. But sources tell TIME that the L.A.P.D. is focusing its investigation on the same group of Crips that Bad Boy used as bodyguards...
Other topics to be addressed in the series include immigration, gang violence, AIDS and sexuality...