Tupac Shakur Quotes

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.

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

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.

Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes.

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.

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

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.

Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

Drug traffickers have more and more haystacks in which to hide their contraband needles.

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

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.

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

The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.

Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.

Harold Koopowitz a son-of-a-gun! He's a drug peddler, in my opinion.

It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught.

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

In Central America somebody is almost certainly standing around with a large pile of guns, [and] the killers tend to win.

Hell's Angels

A handbook for gangsters.

Once the state becomes the ultimate beneficiary of crime proceeds, how different is it, really, from being simply the most powerful gang in a battlefield of gangs?

Drug money, such as booze money during Prohibition, has corrupted countless police, Drug Enforcement Administration agents, border patrol agents, prosecutors and judges... Because illegal drugs are unregulated, their purity is unknowable -- accounting for thousands of overdose deaths and injuries... Let's stipulate that some unknown number of Americans will become addicts after legalization, who otherwise would not have. We must ask whether the terrible price we are now paying -- in police costs, international drug control efforts, border security, foregone tax revenue, overdose deaths, corruption and violence -- is worth it.