For context, please read this post after reading the previous post.

The crime scene (as opposed to the scene of the crime :)) in the black community in Detroit is an evolving one. In the 50s and 60s it was mostly petty crimes, number running prostitution and "pimping". In the segregated Detroit, there was a thriving and vibrant black section of Detroit on Hastings Street in the Black Bottom neighborhood and in Paradise Valley. There were restaurants, bars, and dance halls, these were the hub of nightlife in Detroit. Even for whites the best nightlife in Detroit was in this section of town. Prostitution, drugs flourished. Among the black men "pimping" was a money-making profession. Drugs were there but there were no gangs, there was not organized drug "big business", then.

Please watch this video to get a flavor of the black community in Black Bottom and Paradise Valley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19IpYKOBwL4&fbclid=IwAR3QQTbytV2dakFx2kKuqQcql1uxW40VzDm5vyYUEZFxbinpeuX-I9k

Please watch this biopic on Eddie Jackson. Very informative. https://www.amazon.com/Motown.../dp/B00STYRHDM/ref=sr_1_8...

Please read two previous posts for context.

The first drug gangs and organized crime started to appear in the early 70s in Detroit. The first God Father of the black Mafia was Eddie Jackson. He reigned over the Detroit heroin business until the 1980s. He was a "player", a genuine Boss, a figure larger than life. He lived large. You can read about him here and watch a biopic on him

Detroit: Gangs, Guns and Drugs: Please read 5 previous posts for context. This is a continuation of the previous posts.

Gangs proliferated in the US starting in about 1980 and grew especially rapidly through the 1990s.

In Detroit, the children of gang members are now gang members. It is the second generation of gang members who are on the streets. These gangs are more vicious and violent. 40% to 50% of gang members are juvenile (let this sink in, it was a shocker for me).

Two factors mark the major differentiation between earlier violent gangs and today’s violent gangs: the intensified commerce of drugs and the violence that surrounds the drug business, and the enormous increase in the availability of lethal automatic weapons that are used in gang murders.

Here is an inside look at organized crime inside Detroit's gangs https://www.wxyz.com/.../gangs-of-detroit-videos-bring...