afaik

and racketeering in their areas of influence

oh geez

fucking Bandidos

Used to have so many biker gangs fighting over this corner of my country not too long ago

I've had friends go to jail for fucking up drug smuggling runs for Hells Angels

Bandidos, Finks, Hell's Angels, Black Uhlans etc

they've lost most of their influence these days, though

Comancheros..

There was one other one

where are you from @Reaps?

US based

trying to remember wtf there name was

Oz

oh, right

the fucking Mongols

okay, I guess the biggest gangs are big enough to be multi-national

Finks actually merged with the Hell's Angels in order to combat them

Got so bad a conservative(ish) government got elected to crack down on it all

Arguably went overboard, although it certainly appears to have worked

And after that they got voted out again

they probably kind of have to be in order to get drugs smuggled in, since I doubt they produce them here

Well, the irony with biker gangs is their lack of subtlety

Most crime orgs try to actually be inconspicuous

To an extent, biker gangs are too

But it reached a point here where they were just way too brazen

yeah, at least the ones I've seen around

here, they usually just have these places called "rockerborge", which means biker-fortress (or rocker fortress, rocker being the danish term for a criminal biker)

that's not really irony, is it

which is a building that everyone knows is owned by criminals

as a biker your are camouflaged against the herd, like zebras

Whoops, Finks merged with Mongols to combat the Comancheros

the cops can't arrest you all, there's always someone there to pick up the ball

But it was a Finks member patching over into the Hell's Angels that was the spark for most of the fireball that followed

glad I don't have to navigate their politics, or world in general

fucked up people

so in order to avoid an everlasting cops-and-robbers, society accepts a certain level of crime as long as the bikers keep it contained

they're not fucked up at all

lol

it's much easier to get along with a biker gang than the government

yeah nah, last thing you should want to do is attract attention, which these guys did. Regardless of this 'herd' approach you're talking about, the cops will just zero in on the higher-ups, in which case even the higher-ups want their underlings to settle the fuck down

yeah, until you owe them money