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The Jamaican Posses Take Over America: Kings of the Crack Era

2023/1/31
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Danny Gold和Sean Williams：本集讲述了牙买加帮派，特别是臭名昭著的Shower Posse和Spangler Posse，在20世纪80年代如何从牙买加来到美国，并迅速成为美国毒品交易中的主要力量。他们利用在牙买加街头战争中磨练出的暴力和残酷手段，在美国各地建立据点，贩卖裂缝可卡因，并与其他帮派展开激烈的争斗，导致大量人员伤亡。帮派与牙买加政客之间的联系也使得情况更加复杂。Shower Posse的头目Lester Coke在狱中被烧死，死因至今成谜，这进一步突显了这个帮派的暴力和神秘性。本集还讲述了其他一些牙买加帮派的故事，以及美国执法部门如何对这些帮派展开大规模打击行动。 Danny Gold和Sean Williams：本集深入探讨了牙买加帮派在美国崛起的原因，包括牙买加国内的政治动荡、大麻禁令导致的经济衰退以及可卡因交易的暴利。帮派成员在美国更容易获得枪支，并且他们冷酷无情，毫不留情地使用暴力来控制地盘和毒品交易。美国执法部门起初对这些帮派的情况缺乏了解，导致反应迟缓。随着时间的推移，美国执法部门开始对这些帮派展开大规模打击行动，但这些帮派造成的破坏已经难以弥补。本集还讲述了几个关键人物的故事，包括Lester Coke和Vivian Blake，以及他们如何领导Shower Posse帮派，以及Christopher Coke如何接管Tivoli Gardens社区，并建立了自己的权力体系。

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The episode introduces the Jamaican posses and their impact on America's drug scene, highlighting their origins and early activities in the U.S.

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The Wall Street of Patrick Bateman was just ramping up, and rap had taken over the Bronx and Brooklyn as Jamaican-American deejays like Kool Herc were inventing and spreading the new genre. But there was another group of Jamaicans that had come to America with a different plan. As the Cold War played out in 1970’s Jamaica, the two main political parties competing for the country each had a street gang they used to get the vote out in certain neighborhoods and keep the vote from getting out in others. The street gangs grew powerful and skilled in violence, but soon turned their attention from politics to getting paid. And that meant cocaine, and getting cocaine onto American streets. Rival crews like the infamous Shower Posse and the** Spangler Posse** set up shop all over the East Coast and then the heartland during the heydey of the crack era and soon turned their guns on each other, driving the murder rate to unprecedented heights and fighting bloody battles all over the east coast. 

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