Jack Bowman Quotes

Gangs are a part of living in Los Angeles, but you can exist in Inglewood or Culver City or anywhere else, without joining one.

You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

The problems of gang crime you find in some parts of the north are little different to the problems you find on the streets of south London.

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.

A handbook for gangsters.

I know now that gang warfare is not the Middle East or Northern Ireland. There is violence in gang violence, but there is no conflict. It is not 'about something.' It is the language of the despondent and traumatized.

When you're in a gang, you go through life like any other individual. You have certain obligations, but you are not forced to do anything.

My father figures were all gang members.

My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

When Big Meech and everybody got indicted, hustling died. Keep it trill.

We will not rest until being a gang member is a miserable, undesirable life.