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Only a few of the black street gang members who are involved in drug trafficking end up making a substantial amount of money. These gang members often buy respectable businesses, and some of them get out of drug trafficking altogether. Law enforcement officers are aware that these black street gang members now own several big businesses and live in some of the best neighborhoods in California. They also associate with.“people of money ,and influence, who are often white upper-class citizens. They move out of their old neighborhoods, but they still maintain ties with the neighborhood. They use homes-in the old neighborhood as stash pads for money and drugs.+76 Law enforcement officers are starting to see whites and Hispanics in Crips gangs, as well as Asian gangs that claim 177 These officers believe that the Crips affiliation. recruitment of whites and Hispanics into their street gangs is an attempt by the Crips to expand drug markets into _ Suburban areas and to enable them to transport drugs more easily across the country. For example, law enforcement officers recently discovered that children of white families in Corona who lived in $500,000 homes had joined black street gangs. These white youth go outside of their wealthy city surroundings to affiliate with black street gang members. They told law enforcement officers that their reason for 176 yershall, see n. 5. 1M G.; Quarry, see n. 9. 59