answer:No young people gangs here, but it is overun by Hell’s Angels haha. I guess biker gangs are the modern equivalent to pirates, only on land and not at sea. In Winnipeg there were plenty of gangs though, I remember some of the names. Deuce, the most ’‘powerful’’ one, ToL (The Overlords.) IP (Indian Posse) The Crypts, The Manitoba Warriors, The River Sisters. All young people, and since Winnipeg is filled with poverty and life often includes abusive and neglecting parents, I guess maybe these gangs form so that some of these kids can find a place to belong, and end up causing trouble and fighting one another as a subconscious way to vent their fears and frustrations. But maybe that’s not it, a lot of the members join from pressure, others have siblings in the gang and so naturally want to join, others are just messed up? I’m sure some of these gangsters have wonderful parents too, so it could be a lot of things. A natural affinity for rebellion? The need to stand out, be recognized, glamourize a fantasy or an idea, who knows. But I’m pretty sure these gangs are created due to some severe form of social deficiency; education, community centers, poverty, drugs, things like that. I’m not a socialist I can’t say, but I get very sad when some people target gang members as the epitome of evil, and believe that these kids are worthless. I was always afraid of gangsters when I was younger and got beat up by these two girls from a gang once, but I still don’t think that finding ways to eradicate gangs based on the ideas that there’s no root to the problem other than the belief that these people are naturally ill intentioned is ever gonna work. We have to look further, I think. I think the purpose they might serve is to remind us that there are other people in society, and that our actions shape things just as much as anyone else’s. Some of these kids need help. I’ve seen organizations that tackle this problem, through trying to undo gangs by interacting with the members one on one, and trying to offer them alternatives; jobs, going back to school, stuff like that. I’m not saying don’t arrest them; if you commit a crime, do the damn time, but I just don’t think that this alone will ever get rid of gangs, most especially when a lot of gang philosophies see arrest as something to be proud of.