It's the numbers game for l.a black gangs too. Think about this: East Coast Crips have about 2,600 members in L.A city then who knows how many in SoCal jails/pens, so if a ECC member goes to the pen than why answer to another group when yours have numbers?
Crazy you mention the east coasts, I was locked up in Santa Clara county jail, and there was some east coasts there, locked up from la, for bank robbery, hundreds of miles from home, but what your saying still doesnt make sense, look at 18th street, or ms13, they got WAY bigger numbers, but they still fall in under LA EME, when they hit the cdc.
