Crime question.

[jonesthecurl]

I'm writing one of my murder games, and it involves an international conspiracy of crime bosses.
It will help me be authentic if people would tell me what the criminal organizations are called in their part of the world.
F'rinstance, does Canada have the Mafia, or something else?
I know Australia has a mafia-type thing, but I've forgotten what it's called.

[rdsrds2120]

Shoot, I don't even know what to call them in America anymore.

-rd

[aad0906]

I'm writing one of my murder games, and it involves an international conspiracy of crime bosses.
It will help me be authentic if people would tell me what the criminal organizations are called in their part of the world.
F'rinstance, does Canada have the Mafia, or something else?
I know Australia has a mafia-type thing, but I've forgotten what it's called.

Amsterdam: penose

[Phatscotty]

Tea Party Dominance Squads

[IcePack]

I'm writing one of my murder games, and it involves an international conspiracy of crime bosses.
It will help me be authentic if people would tell me what the criminal organizations are called in their part of the world.
F'rinstance, does Canada have the Mafia, or something else?
I know Australia has a mafia-type thing, but I've forgotten what it's called.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ ... #section_2

[Army of GOD]

They're called the Montreal Canadians. Bunch of low-life criminals.

[ender516]

The Canadian Encyclopedia article on organized crime mentions the Mafia but also talks about other groups:

Motorcycle gangs such as the Hell's Angels, the Outlaws, Satan's Choice, and the Grim Reapers have become significantly involved in organized crime. Their initiation rites have made it difficult for law enforcement officers to penetrate the groups, which have become major suppliers of illegal drugs. They have also been involved in prostitution and contract killing. It is now not unusual to find them working with other organized crime groups. Today, the Hell's Angels are the most influential and powerful outlaw motorcycle gang in Canada.

Various Chinese and Vietnamese organized-crime groups have become more prominent over the past 20 years in Vancouver and Toronto, following a wave of immigration from Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s. Chinese youth gangs in Toronto and Vancouver are involved in protection rackets and extortion, but the more sophisticated groups are organized by senior "Triad" members from Hong Kong to import heroin from Southeast Asia through Vancouver. The Triads are ancient Chinese organizations that have evolved into organized-crime groupings.

The organized-crime structure changes quickly in Canada, and usually exists for some years before it is detected in cities or locations; therefore, there are undoubtedly other groups that have not yet been identified. Columbian cartels are active in Toronto and Montréal. As well, Russian and eastern European organized crime groups are quite active in major Canadian cities such as Toronto, Vancouver and, to some extent, Montréal.

Bikers were the groups that came to my mind first, but of course there is always the actions of <<insert governing party of your choice here>>.

[oVo]

Jack Ruby was a card carrying member of the Cowboy Mafia.

[Borderdawg]

In the RGV, we have the Mexican Mafia and the Texas Syndicate, both prison gangs that have ties to the Mexican cartels. The Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas are the main cartels at work in this area, with occasional incursions from the Sinaloa Cartel. Drug running, human trafficking, kidnapping and murder for hire, we got it all! Want to see gun battles in the street? Spend a weekend in Matamoros! Gunfire guaranteed!!!

[jonesthecurl]

Alll good stuff (especially the "not yet identified" in Canada, which fits right in with my scenario). How about Switzerland? Any Swiss in here?

[BigBallinStalin]

The Union of Evil Bankers (UEB) is a popular one in Switzerland.

[AAFitz]

You can never know the names of the good ones....for long.

[BigBallinStalin]

Oh, here's a good one: the CIA.

[jonesthecurl]

What have the Culinary Institute of America got to do woth it?

Also, on a similar topic, the crooks in my plot have code-names which are famous criminals of the past from their area. Suggestions, especially famale ones, would be gratefully received. Especiallly anyone from Egypt not alive, and not in the pyramid era. Googling on Egypt tends to get me stuff on the pharoahs, and the arab spring, and little inbetween.

[AAFitz]

Oh, here's a good one: the CIA.

Nice.

Also, Goodbye.