The state government is stepping into uncharted territory with it's plan to ban the Hell's Angels motorcycle club.
At best this will prevent them openly wearing their " colours " and at worst it will drive them underground. At the moment the police have a huge advantage in that they are easily recognised - and they congregate at their club - which can be kept under surveillance.
Clever crooks can easily keep one step ahead of the law by resigning from their club, dispensing with their colours - and adopting a new name. Each time they do that the law is forced to go to court to try and play catchup !
The government would be well advised to remember the days of the Mafia and the town of Griffith.
This was out of sight crime - yet Marijuana was grown openly on dozens of farms and the criminals wore expensive suits and consorted with the police.
It took a prominent murder to bring the attention of the media. Hiding crime is not the way to dispense justice !
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