31. Residents have complained for years of poor police protection in the area, which is known for crime gangs. 32. Some carry heroin to pay off their smuggling debts, while women may be forced into prostitution by Asian crime gangs. 33. South African cops try to attack crime gangs at the top. 34. The group was also accused of attempting in February to sell part of the drug to Japanese crime gangs. 35. The social price is absentee fathers and children who make easy apprentices for crime gangs. 36. U.N. police blame crime gangs, possibly working with Bosnian Croat soldiers. 37. Fourteen people have been killed already in Macau this year, according to government figures, amid a turf war between local organised crime gangs, or triads. 38. Giuseppe Salvatore Riina is accused of heading a local organised crime gang. 39. Hong Kong deputies to a consultative body in Guangdong early this year called for measures to stop crime gangs from Hong Kong and Macau expanding to the mainland. 40. In many instances, the police are perceived as being the protectors of crime gangs. |