Rest assured, this is merely a ploy to somehow make more money. Remember when the "noble" La eMe declared a ban on drive nys? That was also all BS just to help their extortion hustle.
All a game to these gangs.
True, but the gangs on the ground level were all for it. Guys on the street wanted peace and were up for a truce. The truce happened in many areas that were plagued with rivalries beforehand. Drive byes did decrease drastically well into the late 1990s. The truce happened. It was just being manipulated by la Eme. It's like I was telling SoCal in the thread about the truce meetings. The fact that these guys were all wiling to show up to these meetings and keep their cool shows that there was a genuine motive for it. This is LA. These were not just wannabes out there showing up for the party. Guys that had previously tried to kill each other were out there. Guys who had their friends or relatives killed by people in their presence were keeping their cool. That alone is remarkable, regardless of the overall exploitation of it by the top level prison guys.
