Macatee street gang

Many Cleveland fans have seen martin scorsese's 2002 film "The New York Gangster", which tells the story that during the American Civil War, new york's notorious Five Points district was full of evil street gangs. But few Cleveland people know that from 1888 to the beginning of the 20th century, Cleveland was the hometown of a street gang, which was as notorious and vicious as the street gang in new york in the 9th century. /kloc-everyone who lived in Cleveland at the end of 0/9 knew about McCarter's street gangs. In the 1990s, as a young doctor practicing medicine in the west side of Cleveland, even Dr. George Claire (later one of the founders of Cleveland Clinic) knew that he had to be careful of these people when he went out to be a priest for patients at night.

This gang is named after McCat Street and is now called West 69th Street. This narrow West Street was developed by Irish immigrant John McCarter and soon became the home of many Irish-American families. Mccarty street gangs themselves are made up of first and second generation Irish-American boys and young people. Patrick Gorman, Michael fox Gorman and Michael Gilly Gallagher are the most famous members of the Maikat Street gang. They all lived in Maikat Street for some time in the 65438+1990s.

The reign of terror caused by the Maikat Street gang (also known as "the gang from Cheyenne", or sometimes simply referred to as "the big gang" for historical reasons) mainly occurred in the area west of the intersection of West 65th Street and Detroit Avenue. In the 1990s, 19 was the northeast quadrant of West Cleveland Village, and 187 1- 1894 existed as an independent suburb of Cleveland. In the last few years as a suburb, West Cleveland failed to assemble enough security forces to effectively deal with the crime wave initiated by the McCarter Street gang in its community.

People in the West Side will read many sensational and daring gang crimes in the local newspapers, which usually occur on the main streets in broad daylight. However, things began to change at 1894, and West Cleveland was merged into Cleveland. First, build a new police station in Qiancun, equipped with a group of specialized police. One of the earliest police officers in Cleveland to deal with this gang was officer Thomas Confort, who was seriously injured when he went to McCarter Street to arrest a brother of Fox Gorman in August. 1894. For ten years,

It was Union Street, which was composed of law enforcement officers, local businesses and McCarter residents, that ended their reign of terror. Local enterprises spontaneously organized themselves in 1895, demanding that the city strengthen law enforcement. In the same year, residents of McCarter Street thought their street name was disgraced by rampant gang crimes, and they successfully asked Cleveland City Council to change the street name to Hillside Avenue. Finally, in the last few years of the 1990s, from 65438 to 2009, the Cleveland police intensified their crackdown, actively prosecuted and sentenced the main members of the gang to jail, effectively and permanently ending the power and influence of the gang in neighboring areas.