Thugs Have A Code Of Life???????

It is obvious that the majority of gangs are not affiliated with the Big Daddy Organization of street gangs so they are not bound by "The Codes of Thug Life" and even those that signed off on the code aren't abiding by the Code. Who do they think they are? Politicians!

Gangs ignore thug life 'codes'

By RACHEL SA

Not even the code of thuggery can protect innocent children.

It didn't protect 11-year-old Ephraim Brown, killed last weekend when he was caught in gang crossfire. A bullet ripped through his neck as he sat outside at a family birthday party.

And yet, such a code of gang "ethics" does exist.

"The thug code of the street was created in the days of Tupac (Shakur)," says Michael Chettleburgh, an expert on youth gangs and author of the new book Young Thugs: Inside the Dangerous World of Canadian Street Gangs.

During the '80s and early '90s when black-on-black violence in Los Angeles was growing out of control, rapper Tupac penned "The Codes of Thug Life," to create some order in the chaos. The Codes were officially signed off on by warring leaders of the Bloods and Crips gangs at a peace treaty in California in 1992, explains Chettleburgh.

High up on the list of rules in the code is: "Harm to children will not be forgiven."

But, apparently, it will be forgiven. It has been again and again in Toronto. Chettleburgh doubts that Brown's killers felt any regret for breaking that tenet.