USA EXPORTS CRIPS AND BLOODS GANGLAND CULTURE TO BELIZE CITY, the port.

GANGS IN BELIZE, BROUGHT AS PRODUCT OF USA.

Was watching an interesting movie on television last night, entitled the GANGS OF BELIZE, in Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles.
It explained how the early Belize members joined either the CRIPS or the BLOODS and learned how to totally control the robbery, and crack cocaine sales, through violence, murder and terror. Streets and even blocks were controlled by the CRIPS and the BLOODS in the USA. The teaching and enrollment of youngsters in primary school and high school in the gangs was where they got their growing membership from, nearby housing projects.
These gang members quickly learned that murder, or zero tolerance to anybody different on their controlled streets was the way to mastery of their market share in crack cocaine sales. Anybody with any sort of addictive tendencies, either alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, etc., were soon seduced into trying crack cocaine. When they did, they became addicted in just a couple of days. Whereas heroin takes about a week. Once addicted the cost escalated and they became victims, exploited by the gangs.
Apparently in the mid- 1995´s or so, a lot of the street dealer types, the younger ones got sent to jail in the USA, and had for their own protection in the greater prison population, had to join a gang, or be beaten, raped, injured or murdered even in jail. When they finished, their sentence with time off for good behavior, ( half the sentence roughly ) they were deported back to BELIZE. They brought their gangland, prison college education back to Belize with them. That is where we are now in Belize. Mostly in Belize City the port. There are constant attempts to create new street gangs in rural communities and towns in Belize. Seems to be an infectious virus of culture? The population however is still too small for this to happen effectively. Sporadically the police lock up those who try.
The police GSU unit, is probably a unit with a good mission statement. It seems to be flawed as to intelligence gathering? Where it goes awry, is when they hit homes of innocent ordinary people. Offending the sensibilities of the ordinary citizen and voter. There is much discussion what the GSU should do about GANG members involved with crack cocaine. Extra judicial killings of senior gang members has been apparently tried and suggested. Another would be to deprive such people of their citizenship and get them to sign an agreement to be deported. Deportation could be to someplace like the CONGO, or SOMALIA. Anything seems better than locking them up in our local prison system, where they infect other prisoners with their culture and modus operendi. Having a Hattieville Prison College for training and teaching other youths, gangland culture, who just made a simple mistake and landed in jail is certainly not a solution.