CRIME EXPOSED

KIWI COPS VS CRIMS

Reality cop show from TV3 in New Zealand. Same old formula but decent one as they go. Plenty of gangs, drugs and random badness. Not a sheep in sight ...well er, maybe one or two.

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INSIDE THE GANGSTER CODE

Ex-Gambino hood fronts TV prison gang doc

A must watch new TV series on Discovery. Lou Ferrante is inside the gangster code. Former Gambino crime family member Lou Ferrante served his time, read some books, became a born again Jew, and has now wised-up that the real money is in being a media mobster, writing books, advising on movie scripts etc. If he's making less that he was on the streets at least the only people trying to take it away from him are the IRS. He stars in a new documentary series investigating prison gangs around the world. This, of course, is the bollocks. First episode and he's hanging with some heavily inked bad muthafuckers who run their own jail in El Salvador where life comes cheap. Ever the stand up guy at one point Lou gets really outraged when they film a snitch who is getting let off 23 murders. Ultimately he seems to get their respect (everyone likes a Gambino) and comes across as a real dude and not some fake-ass actor like Danny Dyer. Watch it now, watch it here and here.

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WHO KILLED PETER TOSH?

Badman dem!

Another in the series of murders in the music industry. The 1987 murder of Peter Tosh is straight out of a JA gangster B-movie. Reggae superstar gunned down in his luxury mansion by professional hitman in a crime that has never properly been solved. Tosh was the real deal and his death was a big loss. Here is an article from the Jamaica Observer from last year re-examining the case. Here convicted gunman Dennis Lobban gives his side of the story in 2003. Some discussions from Roots Archives Forums

This article came from High Times in 1993

STEPPING RAZOR RED X 1993 documentary

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THE SCUTTLERS

Before the Gooch there were the Bengal Tigers

Historian Andrew Davies reveals that its always been grim up north ... only grimmer. In the 19th century the Scuttlers were just as formidable bangers as the Hudson Dusters, the Whyos or the Dead Rabbits. Surely there's a movie in this? Gangs of New York didn't quite hit the spot.

Read here some history of scuttlers from the BBC including an interview with Andrew Davies who is clearly the man in the know as far as scuttling is concerned since he pops up in the Guardian here