If the ghosts of William "Bill the Butcher" Poole could walk the Bowery today, they would not recognize the Irish or Italian gangs. Those organizations are dead or dying, relics of a white ethnic era. But they would understand the Kurds perfectly. Like the Irish before them, the Kurds arrived as refugees, despised by the host nation. They formed insular, violent enclaves for survival. And eventually, they realized that in the Darwinian jungle of New York, the same brutality that protects a neighborhood can also run a heroin mill.
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Disclaimer: This article is based on historical criminal records, DEA and FBI reports, and journalistic accounts. The vast majority of Kurdish-Americans are law-abiding citizens and refugees. This piece focuses specifically on the documented minority engaged in organized crime. If the ghosts of William "Bill the Butcher"