Behind the door of gang central | Adelaide Now: "walls are covered with street gang tags including the West Coast Boyz, West Coast Warriors and West Coast Siders.
The reception at the home was in stark contrast to that which confronted The Advertiser investigations team two months ago.
Then, we were spat at, abused and threatened without even asking a question, by a woman, the current occupant says was the female house leader and crime boss when the house was linked to the so-called Gang of 49 crime wave.
'She always had the boys coming around here, hanging out here. They did all this (the tags),' the resident, who did not wish to be named, said.
'And if she wanted something, she would get them to get it. If she saw a television in a house, she would say `go steal that TV' and they would.'
Last week, South Australia Police spokeswoman Shelaye Boothey said 'there is no evidence of the existence of any organised indigenous criminal gang structures'.
She added that police were not aware of street gangs including Black Scorpions, West Side Bloods and Crazy After Dark which are named in a paper by James Cook University's Laura Swanson presented at the Australia New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference at Monash University in December.
Ms Swanson spent four weeks with 10 known so-called Gang of 49 offenders who told her about their links to the smaller street-fighting gangs."
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