NAPLES has seen a rash of gangland killings in recent weeks.
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This eventually resulted in a gangland gunman knocking on the door.
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Al Capone wasn't always a mythic antihero of American gangland folklore.
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THE picturesque wine country of Hawkes Bay is hardly a classic gangland.
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Bradley biggest film success came playing a gangland boss in the "Trainspotting" sequel.
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Now, the authorities say they have found the culprits behind the gangland-style killings.
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Police, speaking under condition of anonymity, suspect that the incident pertained to feuding gangland factions.
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For many young people, especially those without qualifications, gangland offers a tempting path to riches.
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But after two days, gunmen killed one man and injured five at a gangland funeral.
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He was convicted in 473 of a sweeping array of gangland crimes, including 247 murders.
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He was shot in a gangland-style killing in Istanbul, the biggest city in Turkey.
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Did selling acid ever put you at risk of getting caught up in any gangland stuff?
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Divorced from any larger meaning, it can be chalked up as a tribute to gangland ruthlessness.
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They even shot their parents in the kneecaps to make the killings look like gangland hits.
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His uncle, Nathan "Bodie" Barksdale, was a big shot in the more hierarchical Baltimore gangland he recalls.
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As Riverdale continues to spin into gangland, drugged-out confusion, it's a good point to bring up.
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The school is fraught with romance, rivalry and gangland violence — a bit like "Degrassi," with more dancing.
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In July, his criminal lawyer was gunned down in Belgrade in a gangland-style hit that remains unsolved.
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Caffeine buzz percolating, I made my way towards the vista where Foster first encounters some local gangland toughs.
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Photograph courtesy Holleeder Family In December, 2014, Wim was arrested and charged with the murder of gangland associates.
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This is not the first time British-Irish boxer Macklin has been caught up in a gangland shooting.
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The latest weapons find comes after several gangland slayings in Serbia and at a time of tension in the region.
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The fight became known as the second Valentine's Day Massacre, an allusion to the storied 1929 gangland killings in Chicago.
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With the sheriff (Henderson Wade) murdered "gangland" style, marshall law reigns over Riverdale — and Hiram Lodge is judge, jury, and executioner.
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Shah said the "shocking" number of recent attacks appear to be a result of the weapon spreading beyond traditional gangland culture.
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A year later, Jamie's uncle Paul was also killed in a gangland shooting in broad daylight in the streets of Dublin.
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Nowhere in Mexico is the gangland violence starker than Acapulco, known as a playground of Hollywood stars for much of last century.
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Western Baja California Sur state, popular with international tourists and ex-pats, has seen growing gangland violence over the last several months.
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Mr. Eppolito and his partner, Stephen Caracappa, were convicted of taking part in eight gangland murders in New York's "Mafia Cop" scandal.
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While Crips and Bloods have provided great gangland fodder for Hollywood and other storytellers, Nipsey bucked the conventional trappings of gang life.
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Veronica's plight and her response to it unfold against the backdrop of a political campaign that is also a gangland power struggle.
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Police in Malaysia initially attributed a small grenade explosion on June 28th at a pub near the capital, Kuala Lumpur, to gangland motives.
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Set against the backdrop of the second Sino-Japanese War, "The Wasted Times" has the outward appearance of being a sweeping gangland epic.
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The management of Dublin's gangland and maintaining public safety are topics that require action, not posturing, before a civilian is caught in the crossfire.
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And while it's surely not the director's final movie, it's hard to imagine him paying a more impressive visit to gangland in the future.
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Brass knuckles and marijuana frame the downtown skyline and classic gangland block lettering on a wall covered by the crew Out for Action, a.k.a.
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Instead, we got Gangland back in June, a huge step-up for the 21-year-old that exceeded the high expectations we already had.
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Organised crime had become so entrenched in Serbian football that 11 club chairmen were murdered in Sopranos-esque gangland assassinations between 1995 and 103.
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It's possible you haven't heard of "The Society" because Melbourne's other gangland circle, the one headed by Carl Williams, dominated media bandwidth throughout the 2000s.
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Not a random attack The recent feuding between gangs is reminiscent of Melbourne's infamous "Gangland War," which resulted in 27 deaths from 1998 to 2006.
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Scorsese, working from Steve Zaillian's adaptation of a book by Charles Brandt (called "I Heard You Paint Houses"), assembles a kind of gangland greatest hits.
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His gangland mentor (Joe Pesci) makes as much clear when he gives a ring to Frank, who then slips it on his own wedding finger.
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Photo: Greater Manchester PoliceThis week, hitman and hobbyist runner Mark "Iceman" Fellows was convicted of the murders of English gangland figures Paul Massey and John Kinsella.
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The same program that targeted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., murdered Chairman Fred Hampton and his comrade in cold blood, gangland style in a Chicago apartment.
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No one has filled the vacant position since Hiram had the last sheriff brutally murdered "gangland style," as his daughter Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes) put it.
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The South Korean thriller "Asura: The City of Madness," directed by Kim Sung-soo, is a tale of gangland loyalty distinguished mainly by its unrelenting cynicism.
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This arose following the gangland killing of Gary Hutch—a member of the Kinahan mob—who was allegedly gunned down by other associates of the gang.
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"Soul Snatcher Possession" portrays a ritual gangland killing: three lifesize male figures sculpted from cloth move to embrace their victim before they complete their homicidal mission.
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I couldn't help but think: Did it really take a damning article for a gangland debt collector to notice he wasn't leading a particularly ethical life?
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Its pavements were slick with blood from daily gangland killings, plus the "encounters" in which the police became adept: extra-judicial executions, cynically presented as shoot-outs.
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In HBO's dark period drama, "Boardwalk Empire," Enoch "Nucky" Thompson navigates the political morass and gangland clarity in Atlantic City, New Jersey during America's experimentation with Prohibition.
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Last October, another migrants caravan left Honduras made up of men, women and children, mostly claiming that they were fleeing entrenched poverty and gangland violence back home.
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After all, if you don't listen to rap to hear dudes rap fractals out of a song called "Gangland," what are you even doing with your life?
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A journalist (Annabelle Stephenson) raised in the state's Central Valley goes home and learns that the lack of precipitation has turned the farms into a violent gangland.
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Suspiciously, FK Železnik, who were promoted as runners up, were led by one of Arkan's associates who would be murdered in a gangland execution the following year.
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Biden's proposal would regulate possession of assault-style rifles under the National Firearms Act, which was enacted in 1934, a time of rampant gangland shootings using machine guns.
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But Jim Roddy, a community leader in the Northern Irish border city of Londonderry, says low-level paramilitary and gangland activity "has increased significantly" over the past year.
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Problems with security were under the spotlight this week when two Israeli men were gunned down inside an upmarket Mexico City shopping mall in an apparent gangland hit.
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Those connections were apparent in Gakirah Barnes's tweets, even as she was becoming notorious enough to be dubbed the "Teenage Queen of Chicago's Gangland" by the Daily Mail.
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He said he wanted to tell his story to highlight that his Chicago home is not the stereotypical gangland we are used to seeing splashed across television screens.
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Adapted by Steven Zaillian from "I Heard You Paint Houses", Charles Brandt's biography of Sheeran, the film is a gloriously funny, fascinating, tragicomic anthology of colourful gangland anecdotes.
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Amid the wild gangland atmosphere of the 1990s, the blurred lines between police, business, organised crime and ex-communist security services cast a pall over the 1993 murders.
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Filming in CinemaScope and Technicolor, Fuller offers a virtual travelogue of Tokyo street life that teems with gangland insiders ready to jump at orders from their American boss.
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When reporters asked him about a claim years ago by Mr. Trump's first wife that Mr. Trump had tried to rape her, he warned them off, gangland style.
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He also wrote two novels, "Two, Three, Many More" (1969), on the campus disruptions of the 1960s, and "Organized Crimes" (20103), about gangland Chicago in the Great Depression.
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Don Winslow's 2015 drug wars thriller, "The Cartel," drew much of its vitality from Eddie Ruiz, a Texas high school football player who tumbles into the gangland trade.
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Their face-off, teased throughout the film, reads a bit like a gag because it feels like something more suited to a samurai epic than a gangland picture.
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A man claiming to be a member of dissident group the Continuity IRA (CIRA) said the organization had carried out the attack and would be targeting more gangland figures.
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Mexico is racked by gangland violence in states where the shale lies, and it also lacks infrastructure from pipelines to weight-bearing roads sufficient to handle intensive shale projects.
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Today's gangland has its origins in Los Angeles, where the Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 403 formed and from which they were deported by Bill Clinton's administration in the 1990s.
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Soon, however, Hamas and Fatah (which runs the Palestinian Authority) waged a gangland-style civil war, and they remained at odds for a decade, until the recent "unity" deal.
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VICE talked to three Mafia experts, Scott M. Deitche, the author of Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey; Christian Cipollini, author of Murder Inc.
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To the families of those he executed gangland-style and to a neighborhood held in thrall long after he vanished in 1994, Mr. Bulger's arrest in Santa Monica, Calif.
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November's gangland attack on a remote stretch of road in northern Sonora state killed three mothers and six children when their vehicles came under heavy gunfire then were torched.
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Indian police have frequently been accused of extra-judicial killings, called "encounters", especially in gangland wars in Mumbai and insurrections in the state of Punjab and in disputed Kashmir.
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And while the biker front has been quiet for some time, he, like other Canadian organized crime experts contacted for this article, believes that change is coming to gangland.
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"This was clearly important enough that both countries thought it affected the broader picture, not just [the one] in southern Italy," said Christian Cipollini, who runs the website Gangland Legends.
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Naturally, things don't go entirely to plan—Huang is attacked, the sword lost, and before you can say Hot Coffee the gangland families of Liberty are at each other's throats.
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"Cali was the wise-guy antithesis of the Gotti type," Christian Cipollini, who has written numerous books on the mob and runs the website Gangland Legends, wrote me on Thursday.
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The series balances gangland action with a detailed portrait of African-American politics and pop culture in 24s, showing how Johnson's mission overlapped with the rise of the Black Power movement.
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Parks may not seem particularly urgent compared with the latest gangland murder epidemic; but the effort in Chicago to improve and expand them has, neighborhood by neighborhood, delivered long-term rewards.
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The revelations are contained in a stack of court documents that were made public after members of a Montreal crime syndicate pleaded guilty to their role in a 2011 gangland murder.
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It's not gangland standoffs that lend Better Call Saul dramatic tension or emotional heft; rather, it's an attention to detail, turning the minutiae of everyday life into moments that feel practically titanic.
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"If you want to talk donations, maybe Brian Fitzpatrick can explain why he's taken thousands of dollars directly from Adam Kidan, a convicted felon connected to a gangland-style murder," she continued.
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In January 1503 Melbourne's gangland war kicked off with the shooting of Alphonse Gangitano, ushering in a decade of infighting between the city's top crime families, and one too many Underbelly sequels.
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"Mob underbosses don't get killed very often, but the media hype artists went into overdrive last week," Jerry Capeci, who publishes a weekly column on Gangland News, wrote me in an email.
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"This case, as I suspected, is getting more bizarre by the hour," Christian Cipollini, who has written numerous books on the mob and runs the website Gangland Legends, wrote me this week.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - A prominent Belgrade lawyer who in the past helped to defend late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was shot dead, gangland-style, in front of his home on Saturday, police said.
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The boxing-mad gangland bosses brought the old champion to their birthday parties and charity evenings, and they even used him as a decoy when springing a fellow criminal from Dartmoor prison.
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When Mr. Khan pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in 2012, government and defense lawyers imported a practice used in federal court gangland cases and agreed to postpone sentencing while he turned informant.
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Silencer controls were enacted as a public safety precaution in the gangland rat-a-tat of the 1930s, when law enforcement officials wanted to make it harder for killers to escape detection.
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It was the highest monthly tally since 423, sowing fears of a return to the gangland mayhem that once earned this city the title of the most violent place in the world.
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He argues that you'd only see something like this in Gangland (a History Channel documentary series about dangerous gangs), concluding that it's one of the craziest videos they've ever seen on YouTube.
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With the show's emphasis on interiority rather than obvious outward signifiers, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Nacho Varga (Michael Mando) has emerged as the best part of Better Call Saul's gangland half.
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The helter-skelter set pieces in which Joe and his buddies rattle around the city's cobbled streets, tommy-guns blazing, are as exhilarating as anything in Mr Affleck's other Boston gangland caper, "The Town".
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It was also used as a tool of fear in gangland Britain, appearing in Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock, in the form of a small bottle carried by the book's antihero gangster, Pinkie Brown.
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Spike Lee's latest film, set in gangland Chicago, was inspired by "Lysistrata," the fifth-century B.C. comedy by Aristophanes in which women try to prevent men from waging war by staging a sex strike.
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In what had the look of a gangland-style coup de grace, the barrel of a gun had been thrust into his mouth, and the explosion had blown off the back of his head.
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In cautious legal language, Sir Robert's report examined, and skewered, alternative theories—including that Mr Litvinenko poisoned himself, that he was bumped off by British intelligence, or that he fell foul of gangland associates.
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The owner turns out to be a moody gangland type, Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), holed up in a blazingly white palazzo along with an abundance of Baroque statues and a sinister sidekick (Peter Lorre).
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It briefly looks as though Nacho is about to witness the gangland slaying of his padre, when Gus shows up and twists the thumb screws a bit more: Win Lalo's trust, he tells Nacho.
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Gill's story is fascinating — his massage parlors were a front for brothels, and, like Al Capone, he was eventually stung for tax evasion rather than his gangland activities — and deserves to be told properly.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a prison bus near Colombo on Monday, killing five prisoners and two warders on their way to court in what was believed to be a gangland dispute, officials said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Two Israeli men were shot dead in an apparent gangland hit at a luxury Mexico City shopping mall, authorities said on Thursday, in the latest flare-up of violence convulsing the capital.
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After initial fears of a terrorist attack, local police believe this to be a gangland killing as various members of the infamous Kinahan gang were present at the weigh-ins for tomorrow night's boxing event.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch crime boss Willem Holleeder was convicted by an Amsterdam court on Thursday for his involvement in five gangland killings, including of his own brother-in-law, and sentenced to life in prison.
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The split provoked several years of bloody gangland warfare in the state, which cost hundreds of lives and left all four Beltrán Leyva brothers dead or in prison, and many more old resentments to fester.
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The visit comes as civic and business leaders are so anxious to shed old stereotypes of guts, gore, and gangland slayings that the mayor threatened to sue the producers of the drug war-inspired thriller Sicario.
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Five police officers were murdered in two separate gangland-style shootings in Jalisco in the past week, while a local mayor survived an assassination attempt on Tuesday for the second time in the last six months.
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He and a fellow detective, Stephen Caracappa, were convicted in 29.9 of moonlighting as mob assassins, involved in eight gangland slayings while on the payroll of Anthony Casso, a Luchese crime family underboss known as Gaspipe.
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Involving yet trivializing, the movie unfolds as a would-be "Breaking Bad" of the prison genre, following an inadvertent criminal who is hardened by a gangland behind bars and eventually becomes one of its cleverest members.
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DUBLIN — The police are investigating the gangland-style killing of a former senior figure in an Irish Republican Army splinter group who was ambushed from behind by two masked gunmen in the southwest city of Cork.
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The circus didn't end there though: Ceca, Arkan's aforementioned surgically-enhanced spouse, was swept up in a crackdown on organised crime after some of their gangland associates assassinated Serbia's reformist prime minister, Zoran Djindjić, in 2003.
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For three generations, members of the gangland dynasty have been imprisoned for crimes that have included shaking down construction sites, murdering a mob boss at a steakhouse and trying to extort the action-movie hero Steven Seagal.
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A curious side note: a few window seats overlook the brick alley known as Deadman's Lane, so named for the bodies that ended up here — either drunk or dead — during Fitzroy's gangland days in the early 2157s.
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El Salvador is one of a trio of countries in Central America, along with Guatemala and Honduras, that has seen thousands of desperate migrants flee raging gangland violence and bleak economic prospects over the past couple years.
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"While all murders tear at the fabric of our communities, when the alleged perpetrator of a gangland-style, quadruple homicide is a former police officer, that strikes at the heart of civilized society," Bharara said in the statement.
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"This is exactly the kind of story that, for better or worse, makes great material for books, documentaries, and of course Hollywood films," Christian Cipollini, the author of Lucky Luciano: Mysterious Tales of a Gangland Legend, told us.
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The exposure of racial prejudice is among Fuller's lifelong themes; so is the depiction of violence with a luridly lyrical flair, as in a scene of a gangland execution that leaves a wooden bathtub riddled with leaking holes.
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A retired police officer has been charged with four counts of murder in what the authorities called the "gangland-style" killings in April of four men in a Hudson Valley bar in connection with a cocaine-distribution conspiracy.
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The Irish borderlands have a history of murder and intimidation, and Ireland's deputy prime minister, Simon Coveney, likened the attack to the "gangland, paramilitary-style, punishment beatings" that were a feature of Northern Ireland's 30 years of Troubles.
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The island has seen a number of small bomb attacks in recent years tied to gangland criminals, but the explosives used were relatively rudimentary and did not have the same power as the device that targeted Caruana Galizia.
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The catalyst for the police officers protest movement was an attack earlier this month in which a gang of 10 unidentified assailants petrol-bombed a police patrol car stationed at a crossroads south of Paris notorious for gangland crime.
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"Using words like 'flip' or 'rat,' it's a defensive move from somebody who generally has guilt to bear," Christian Cipollini, who has written numerous books on the mob and runs the website Gangland Legends, told me over the phone.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Members of a U.S.-Mexican religious community who lost relatives in a gangland massacre this month have come under fire from supporters of Mexico's government for pressing the United States to declare drugs cartels terrorist groups.
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But the grisly discovery on May 183 was just the latest in a string of gangland slayings in the city, where the Italian mafia has struggled to fill a power vacuum caused by years of internal struggle and police busts.
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But the grisly discovery on May 218 was just the latest in a string of gangland slayings in the city, where the Italian mafia has struggled to fill a power vacuum caused by years of internal struggle and police busts.
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After the police arrived, they didn't even check the sobbing brothers for gunpowder residue; they initially characterized the gory murders as a "gangland-style killing" and looked into the business dealings of the boys' father, José, to find any motives.
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Bosland said Victoria's use of suppression orders was high compared to other Australian states, possibly because of trials related to Melbourne's long-running 'gangland war', which has seen multiple, inter-related trials drawing on the same evidence or other connections.
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Several sources told me that the dispute was eventually settled by a leader from one of China's infamous triad gangs — and that, improbably, the episode later became the inspiration for a series of Hong Kong gangland movies about stock-market geniuses.
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So many of these deaths were reported as consequences of gang-related disputes, which—at a glance—might have you picturing the kind of involved tit-for-tat clashes you'd see in Narcos or a Ross Kemp documentary about gangland murders in Honduras.
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The ex-leader cited the violence-racked southern state of Guerrero, arguing that drug legalization would curtail cartel profits and boost safety, including at the iconic beach resort of Acapulco, which has been ravaged with gangland violence over the past few years.
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SERBIA-CRIME Former Milosevic defense lawyer killed in Belgrade JULY 28, 00 - A prominent Belgrade lawyer who in the past helped to defend late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was shot dead, gangland-style, in front of his home on Saturday, police said.
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Hannah Dreier of ProPublica received the prize for feature writing for three articles she wrote for the publication's "Trapped in Gangland" series about how the Trump administration's crackdown on the MS-13 gang has harmed an immigrant community on Long Island, New York.
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It is the bloody conclusion to months' worth of gangland-style assaults against both Mr. Zottola, 71, and his son, Salvatore, who through the 1990s and early 2000s supplied and serviced Joker Poker machines to mob-controlled gambling hubs, according to court documents.
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The title character of LOLA (Crown, $26), by Melissa Scrivner Love, is also in a race to preserve her life, but in a location as different from the cold, unyielding woods of Michigan as possible: gangland Los Angeles at the height of summer.
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During the past year, Mexicans have seen cartel gunmen temporarily take over a major city, incidents in which soldiers have come under attack from heavily-armed bandits, as well as the gangland ambush in November of nine members of a family that included U.S. citizens.
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"Credit...Philip Montgomery for The New York Times Martin Scorsese is the most alive he's been in his work in a long time, brimming with renewed passion for filmmaking and invigorated by the reception that has greeted his latest gangland magnum opus, "The Irishman.
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The brazen slaying of Mr. Woodard, 22, drew national attention, as detectives on two coasts scrambled to find out why a law school student and club promoter from Los Angeles would be gunned down gangland-style on West 58th Street at 2 in the afternoon.
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The Hollywood remake of "Miss Bala" comes crashing into theaters Friday, bringing a slam-bang, action-movie aesthetic to the 2011 Mexican-American film about a teen girl who witnesses a gangland shooting in Tijuana and becomes an unwilling accomplice to very bad things.
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Usually these stories are set somewhere Out There, in landscapes alien to the typical liberal-ish prestige-TV viewer: In flyover country, in copland and gangland, in George R.R. Martin's Westeros, among Mormon polygamists, on Madison Avenue in the last days of the WASPs.
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This is true as ever in the director's latest undertaking, Ash Is Purest White, a sweeping and profoundly stirring romantic epic set in gangland China that chronicles a broken couple's circuitous evolution from the dawn of the new millennium up until the present-day.
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It was a way to portray Baghdad as safe and pleasant, even though it faces frequent attacks by the Islamic State and suffers at the hands of ascendant Shiite militias that are controlled by Iran and blamed for a rise in kidnappings and gangland-style killings.
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Other incidents of gangland violence played out earlier this month in the town of Tepochica in Guerrero, where 15 mostly civilian victims were gunned down, and western Michoacan state, where 13 police offers were ambushed and killed by suspected gunmen with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
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In Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey, out next month from Rowman & Littlefield, Mafia historian Scott M. Deitche—who we talked to about the bonds between cocktails and organized crime in 2015—provides a comprehensive survey of the mob in the state.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - On the morning of April 8, 12-year-old Eduarda Lopes watched as her mother, Valdilene da Silva, was shot by a stray bullet in Rio de Janeiro's Manguinhos slum, one of the countless innocent victims of rising gangland violence in the city.
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Related: Italian Mafia Initiation Ceremony Caught on Video by Police for the First Time "The story of cement shoes is, in my opinion, a twisted-over-time variation of something that did actually happen," said Christian Cipollini, author of Lucky Luciano: Mysterious Tales of a Gangland Legend.
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According to his lawyers, Mr. Llakatura, who was fired from the police force after he entered his guilty plea, "made a big mistake" by teaming up with Mr. Dervishaj, a gangland figure whose brother, Plaurent Dervishaj, is an international fugitive wanted by Interpol and by American authorities.
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As newcomers to this "city of reinvention," they must start at the bottom of the gangland pecking order and work their way up, eventually partnering together on a drug-running operation that proves lucrative enough to make both of them major players in Shanghai's criminal economy.
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It was discovered to the east of the city's financial district, occupying a sixth of a mile of sewer under Whitechapel Road, between one of London's largest mosques and a pub called the Blind Beggar, where walking tours are taken to reminisce about a notorious gangland murder.
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The gangland ambush by cartel gunmen in November on a dusty road in northern Mexico left three mothers and six children dead, their charred vehicles riddled with bullets, and a once-strong faith deeply shaken in the picturesque hamlets the families have called home for generations.
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In short: Matt becomes embroiled in the kind of hackneyed London gangland rivalry that Guy Ritchie would be embarrassed by, receives no help from a staggeringly incompetent Met, and a romantic interest is so painfully forced upon proceedings that it hurts to watch the relevant scenes.
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Biden instead this week proposed that owners of assault-style rifles be required to participate in an optional buy-back or register them with the government under the same law that strictly regulated machine guns in the wake of the gangland shootings of the early 1920s and '30s.
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Once a sleepy backwater, with its colonial-era hotels, waterside banyan trees, slightly sleazy night life and occasional gangland killings, Macau has tidied up and diversified its act since its return to China in 1999 with huge new resorts, music festivals and even an international fireworks display competition.
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Lopez Obrador, who has campaigned on ending corruption and bringing peace to a country scarred by record levels of gangland violence, had 45 percent of the vote, compared to 19 percent for his nearest rival, Ricardo Anaya, who slipped by one point, the survey by Mexican pollster Parametria showed.
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During the past year, Mexicans have watched as cartel gunmen temporarily took over a major city, incidents in which soldiers have been killed after coming under attack from heavily-armed bandits, as well as the gangland ambush in November of nine members of a family that included U.S. citizens.
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Among his stops will be the crime-plagued Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec, where his visit will shine an uncomfortable spotlight on the government's failure to solve entrenched social ills that plague many parts of Mexico — inequality, rampant gangland killings, extortion, disappearances of women, crooked cops and failed city services.
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Duterte has lashed out at President Barack Obama, the State Department, EU and U.N. officials and human rights groups for raising concerns over the crackdown, which has left more than 4,000 suspected drug dealers and user dead, including many who are feared to have been gunned down in gangland-style killings.
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The classic Hollywood genres, from gangland movies to historical epics to literary adaptations to Westerns and war movies and musicals, were all calibrated for this zone, and when the calibration was successful, the Oscar nominators had a lot of material to work with that was at once popular and pretty-good.
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The public protector's office said in a report released Thursday that the police should investigate "the root causes" and "motivations" behind the gangland-style killings of the politicians from the governing African National Congress, who had denounced the project as a vehicle to funnel money to local officials and business allies.
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"While all murders tear at the fabric of our communities, when the alleged perpetrator of a gangland-style, quadruple homicide is a former police officer, that strikes at the heart of civilized society," Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.
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Yet his gangland approach to combating crime and drugs has largely endeared him to Filipinos who have suffered high rates of violent crime and who see him as a refreshing change from the sophisticated but out-of-touch elite who have ruled this country for most of the last three decades.
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If Fleet Foxes sounded like gorgeous, sun-kissed landscapes, though, listening to Helplessness Blues felt like being in the eye of a storm: The record was as portentous as it was inviting, with darker textures and increasingly personal lyrics sharing space with the gangland sing-alongs that listeners had come to expect from the band.
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Carmine J. Persico, who emerged from gangland Brooklyn to become the unpredictable boss of one of the nation's most powerful Mafia organizations in an era when the mob in New York was at the peak of its prosperity, died a prisoner on Thursday in North Carolina, where he was serving a 139-year sentence.
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In "Ash Is Purest White" (March 15), Jia Zhangke turns a gangland drama into a critical cross section of modern China; the story follows a young woman (Zhao Tao) from 2001 to the present day, as she starts a relationship with a gangster (Liao Fan), takes the rap for one of his crimes, and reënters a changed society.
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The most extraordinary — and extraordinarily brave — work of journalism I've read in recent weeks is Azam Ahmed's May 4 account in The Times of the weeks he and the photographer Tyler Hicks spent in a gangland neighborhood of San Pedro Sula, a city in Honduras where the homicide rate is approximately 13 times the global average.
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In fact, close to 2100 percent of those that kill four or more people unfold just as this one did in Ravenel on May 217—not gangland feuds or terrorist attacks but intimate executions carried out in quiet homes by ordinary men who murder the women and children closest to them over slights as insignificant as a new phone number or a custody hearing.
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However, it did reaffirm a lot of what we already knew: He's larger than life in a lot of ways, a true gangland character (wanting to talk more about the Eagles Super Bowl chances than his case with the media) in an era where they don't much exist, and a real riverboat gambler of a defendant (unwilling to cop a plea, and someone who plays well in front of a jury).
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In recent years, there have been appalling incidents recorded around Britain: the man disfigured in a case of mistaken identity in Cornwall; TV host Katie Piper, who had acid thrown at her on the orders of a man who had raped her; the man left with terrible scars after bleach was tossed in his face outside a cinema in Sussex; and the Sun's gangland investigator, attacked with acid at his home in Glasgow.
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After Hutch's murder, Dublin police informants said his friends were planning revenge against the leader of the Kinahan Mob, Christy Kinahan, and since Saturday's event event was being co-promoted by the Mob's "adopted" boxing gym, Costa del Sol's Macklin's Gym Marbella, police naturally assumed Friday's attack was a gangland hit, an act of retaliation for the murder of Gary Hutch and the inevitable and bloody result of living lives outside the law.
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By the time I reached the end of the book I didn't have any doubt: Apart from some subsequent gossip among his fellow intelligence officers in Europe about a gangland reputation that has earned him the "Little Caesar"-inspired nickname of Rico, "The Sandmeyer Reaction" was never referred to, directly or indirectly, or thought about, or even avoided as a topic, by any character, at any point in the novel, ever again.
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