For my own part I expect the media, the Cops and politicians like to build up names like MS - 13 for their own ends.
I ain't denying that we have serius problems, and that criminals here in America can have ties clear to Central America, Russia or even Sicily for that matter. Neither am I denying that MS 13 is such a gang.
We had a couple of shaved headed guys with 13's on their necks in my neighborhood, they even spray painted a "13" in the street at one point.
In truth though, near as I could tell there weren't much to tell 'em apart from the other drug-dealing criminals around here.
If there's money to be made (and there's apparently lots), SOMEBODY's gonna do it.
Birdwatcher
