MS-13: America's Best Gang

Mara Salvatrucha 13 are the gang to belong to. You know you're bad ass when the arrest of one gang member merits a mention on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement web site.

PittsburghLIVE fills us in on some details:

Not only have the numbers of these "gangstas" exploded but so has their organizational ability.

Initially, a MS13 clique would not exceed 20 people -- a dozen younger hangers-on as messengers and a near-full complement of young women. A lot of work is done by these women: communications, computers, begging, soliciting and cooking.

That's right. Cooking. That shit is fucked up.

An interesting subtext here is the decline of urban crime. The cities are becoming nice places to live. All opera houses and poetry clubs. The suburbs? Crime-riddled hellholes. Obesity may save us, but only if it can outpace the burgeoning wave of amphetamine abuse that threatens to make a svelte killer of every suburban reject in the country.

And that is why now, more than ever, this internet needs good meth crime coverage. Stay tuned.

Also note the use of the term "gangstas". Their quotes, not mine.