[pwaai]

I wonder if having all of your members be independently mobile on their motorcycles allowed them to thrive in North America. It's so much easier to commit crime when you just hop on and off a bike, access paths unavailable to cars

Recently I've been reading about Vancouver's gang wars and it strikes me just how persistent Hells Angels seem to be compared to other groups that have all but disappeared off the radar or become friendly to Hells Angels.

Perhaps decentralization is the new organized crime paradigm...we won't be seeing supercartels like Cali anymore

[germinalphrase]

"Leaderless Resistance" has a long history within groups that seek to remain covert (for both legal or illegal reasons).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaderless_resistance

[kridsdale]

Motorcycles are hyper powered horses. The war tactics of the preindustrialized world still apply.