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"What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?"
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gangsters
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When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnificent home.
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gangsters
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Dennis Lehane |
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I could understand why some fella's take drugs just before their crimes: because they need something to help them quiet their minds. However, I don't do drugs nor do I drink alcohol, but the thing that gets me high like a kite is a crime well done. Then there's the scent of freshly fired gunpowder, or the sounds of the empty bullet casings hitting the ground as they are ejected each time I pull the trigger. These two things never fail to get me high; the truth is I'm seriously addicted to violence.
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bullet-casings
drive-by
gangbanging
hardcore-gangsters
high-like-a-kite
thug-life
arm-robbery
senseless-violence
gangsters
gang-life
harden-criminals
violence-addiction
street-life
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When I first went to prison, I made the best out of it. From the streets, I was hearing reports of Rebellions going to prison and getting do in [beat up]. Our fellas had no say, couldn't even open up their mouths. When I went up there for the first time, I turned that prison into a place that everyone could say that the Rebellions were running it after that. I wouldn't say I did it alone, but I help set the groundwork to give the Rebellions a say in prison. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members
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influence
street-fame
gangsters
gang-life
rebellion-raiders
jail
prison
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One day I was through Strachan's Corner just hanging out, and they must have picked up Scrooge earlier for a pep talk, so they were now dropping him back home in one of their police vehicle. Supt. Strachan was in the back seat talking with him, while a male officer was driving. So I asked her, what were some of the things you used to say to Scrooge? I used to tell him it is not worth it, You are hurting people. You are only going to end up in jail for the rest of your life, or you are going to end up in the grave. I knew that he was listening to me. I would talk to him and encourage him. My other colleagues used to say I was soft on crime because of what I was doing, but I could be tuff. I am a mother of two sons; just ask my sons how tuff I can be. If I feel that I have done the best that I can, and cannot do no more than that is it. This was what I was telling those kids down there. I told them if you do not change, you are going to die. Sad to say, that is what happened to some of them eventually. The best came out of you and others in another way. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
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going-to-die
not-worth-it
the-grave
gangsters
caring-cops
good-cops
police-outreach
reaching-gang-members
woman-police
crime-prevention
gang-intervention
gang-members
rebellion-raiders
community-policing
turn-around
toughness
law-enforcement
encouragement
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The majority of us were from single parent family homes. You could have counted the fellas on your fingers that had a mummy and a daddy at home. Anthony 'Ada' Allen, one of the former leaders and founders of the Rebellion Raiders
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gangsters
social-ills
youth-outreach
gang-prevention
at-risk-communities
at-risk-youth
gang-intervention
gang-members
rebellion-raiders
single-parents
dead-beat-dads
fatherless-homes
single-mothers
youth-programs
law-enforcement
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