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When crack was king, they brought the wild cowboys to heel and turned the tide by richard weir with the citys murder rate lower than it. May 30, 2006 at the time, robert jackall, a sociology professor at williams college, was working on a book about the wild cowboys, another dominican street gang in washington heights. Despite a few years of research and the promise of his own marauderlike name, jackall has written an unremittingly wooden tale of drugrelated mayhem. I will pick out for you an original page gha 24 hour comic art the first ever gha, a page of pencils form the very first selfpublished issue of gha, a process drawing from the early days, and then a page from the most recent. Washington heights is a neighborhood in the northern portion of the new york city borough of manhattan. Dec, 2011 in the mid1980s the country was hit with a crack cocaine epidemica drug that was easier to produce and more profitable for drugdealers, but devastating to new york city. The wild cowboys were the most notorious drug dealing gang in the history of new york city, as far as sheer numbers of crack they dealt.