CJ 3074 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Omen, Anna Willard
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Green grocery stores had back rooms, similar to speak easy s with liquor that was cheaper than bars. Most of these people were employed (bouncers, working on docks, other violent/ laboring jobs. The rst u. s. gang with an identity and de ned leader came in 1846, in a green grocery - owned by anna pierce . Kerryonians - county they lived in before coming to u. s. Dead rabbits - stormy meeting and someone threw a dead rabbit into the middle of the room, Irish bowery boys - over 1,000 members (along with dead rabbits and most con icts someone took it as an omen and left the con ict. between these two gangs) Several politicians bought green grocery stores in hot beads of gang activity. They would promise gang members protection and nancial incentives in return for loyalty (intimidating voters, stuf ng ballot boxes, etc. )
