Normalized Crime

In this episode we take some clips from the series Berto did on the Milwaukee Mafia podcast and revisit them. Berto touches on some of the topics a bit deeper, and details aspects of the physical violations that take place in the gang.

You will also see the complete series dropped in the feed on Tuesdays for the next month.

In this episode Berto discusses someone he knew who had very similar past as his own, and how this person was sentenced to a life sentence + 50 years. We discuss how our criminal system can impose disproportionate sentences to different people with like crimes, whether this is fair, and if anything can be done about it.

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We are joined this week by a special guest JC from https://wrongtostrong.com/ we discuss JC early life as a gang member, then his eventual change from Gangs to working with the drug cartel. We discuss how he overcame the struggles and started a movement that is helping others to do the same thing as he was able to do.

Berto shares of a couple stories of when he fell on hard times and explains why sometimes Gang Members turn to crime in order to survive the streets.

In this episode Berto tells the story of how a couple members of a Milwaukee gang see the opportunity to spread the Latin Kings to an Indian reservation near Eau Claire, Wisconsin. We discuss how easily gangs can spread to other communities and take over

In this episode Berto tells some stories of how Gang members will drop everything and rush to the aid of other people in the Gang, We discuss the good and bad sides of that and see how sometimes gang members can take advantage of that "Blind Loyalty"

Berto tackles how people from the outside of a gang can pulled into the gang just by being around gang members as he shares a story of an army guy who gets sucked into teaching them how to handle guns.

In this episode Berto dives in to getting out of prison and talks about some of the things that could have existed in the prison system to make him and any other prisoner getting out of prison transition easier.

In this episode Berto talks about the different jobs he did to earn income while in prison and some of the many jobs that people will do in the underground economy of the prison.we discuss prison currency and how a prisoner converts that currency to real money