A Nation Of Lords
A Nation of Lords
The Autobiography of the Vice Lords
David Dawley
Dave Sobotka
Crim 455 Gangs and Gangs Control
Mr. Danny Madrid
As you have read much of these books required for these book reports, I will do my best to give you what my thoughts about this book is about. So by starting off this book has opened my eyes and perspective about how the gang in the early years and now to the present times of gangs has changed for everyone including the Vice Lords as a gang. In the beginning of this book I had a whole different outlook on the startup of the Vice Lords and how it had such a rough time getting started. One would think starting up a gang would be easy but throughout the book it was not so easy. In the early years of the Vice Lords there was not so much violence with guns and the police but more so with other gangs in the Chicago area, however as the years went on so did time and how violence changed within the gangs and how the police interaction with the crime of the gang throughout the years.
Throughout book David Dawley was a influenced by the Vice Lords as a way for them to let him into the life of a Vice Lord, and let him see what troubles they had encounter though out the changing years. On page 10 the Vice Lords were started in the 1958 in the St Charles reformatory where seven fellas decided to form a new club, the founder of the club was by a guy named Peppilow (Pep) he was a big guy that you didn’t want to mess around with. Even though no one had a gun but he always had one or two, but never used them unless you tried to run from him.
The whole book jumped around in years ,and it was hard to follow at times ,but I did talk about how corrupt the judges were when a Vice Lord was caught breaking the law ,the judges would sent them to a correctional facility for youths ,and if you were older than 17 you could get sent to a regular jail. And this is where the Vise Lords would recruit new members to join them so they could be the largest gang in
The Autobiography of the Vice Lords
David Dawley
Dave Sobotka
Crim 455 Gangs and Gangs Control
Mr. Danny Madrid
As you have read much of these books required for these book reports, I will do my best to give you what my thoughts about this book is about. So by starting off this book has opened my eyes and perspective about how the gang in the early years and now to the present times of gangs has changed for everyone including the Vice Lords as a gang. In the beginning of this book I had a whole different outlook on the startup of the Vice Lords and how it had such a rough time getting started. One would think starting up a gang would be easy but throughout the book it was not so easy. In the early years of the Vice Lords there was not so much violence with guns and the police but more so with other gangs in the Chicago area, however as the years went on so did time and how violence changed within the gangs and how the police interaction with the crime of the gang throughout the years.
Throughout book David Dawley was a influenced by the Vice Lords as a way for them to let him into the life of a Vice Lord, and let him see what troubles they had encounter though out the changing years. On page 10 the Vice Lords were started in the 1958 in the St Charles reformatory where seven fellas decided to form a new club, the founder of the club was by a guy named Peppilow (Pep) he was a big guy that you didn’t want to mess around with. Even though no one had a gun but he always had one or two, but never used them unless you tried to run from him.
The whole book jumped around in years ,and it was hard to follow at times ,but I did talk about how corrupt the judges were when a Vice Lord was caught breaking the law ,the judges would sent them to a correctional facility for youths ,and if you were older than 17 you could get sent to a regular jail. And this is where the Vise Lords would recruit new members to join them so they could be the largest gang in