Gang activity

[Chalacachaca]

No, they're not a big issue, they are part of the issue. The biggest issues we face here are Poverty, Corruption and Crime.
Imagine you're living in the world of Grand Theft Auto or Saint's Row, only that instead of being Niko or his Saint's Row counterpart, you're the helpless pedestrian being run over, shot, stabbed, or all of the above. And they do it for fun too.

 

[The Funslinger]

I live in Essex in England, where I live its not really official gangs but more like groups of people who always hang around with each other. There's a fair bit of violence but not enough for any of it to go noticed or end up on the news.

This, pretty much. We just have the usual group of people sitting on a wall by the local grocery shop and heckling passersby. Then come nightfall, they smoke weed behind various buildings, being too young to own property...

 

[The Funslinger]

In Herefordshire where I live...
We have the SAS base >.>

There aren't any "Gangs" but there are a few families. Family Businesses if you catch my drift.
However there has never open warfare and rarely any hostilities between the families on anything other than "He called my Mrs a Slag" type incidents but its pretty hard to avoid that shit (unless you went to the college...... you know had an education).

It's mostly stealing from the Council, which then the council get back on their insurance. Occasionally they hide the odd body but only if the fella had it coming (like a rapist vanishing one night).

I'm technically related to one of the families and my Dad is owed a "favor" and has yet to use it... frankly he doesn't need their services but kinda odd knowing.

There are a few small groups involved in drugs supply who think they are owners of their "hood" but when one insulted a family they (about 20) walked into the guys street, said nothing, did nothing... he cried... they went away...

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If you don't think there is crime in your area... there is bloody likely to be. You just aren't privy to its existance.

I suppose every area has its influential families. Round here, mine's actually one of them, being absolutely ancient. My uncles conveniently own a lot of moorland, and we're one of the few who own guns (barring air rifles). Beyond that, we're quite at odds with the local Freemasons.

 

[Ariyura]

I grew up in the projects of Roxbury, MA. Gang violence was rampant then and it still is today. Lost a 12 year old family member because they shot him because they believed he was in a rival gang because of the colors he was wearing. They approached him, argued with him, shot him, then walked away like it was nothing,

I've been witness to drive by shootings, to people pointing guns at each other, watched a woman bleed to death on the street. I always thought for the longest time that it was a pretty sad sad world. Then I moved away to the quiet recesses of Vermont, and mostly here there are wannabees that pretend to be gang members that stand at the bus stop and swear at you and I think if you only knew the atrocities that real gang members can commit they'd stop pretending.

 

[DannyJBeckett]

Living in Leeds, England, there isn't really that much in the way of gang activity. We did have a postcode gang crop up once though calling themselves the LS BadBois. They sprayed their name onto an old fish & chip shop, which was about to get knocked down anyway, and were never heard from again.