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| - The Westies are an Irish-dominated gang who play a prominent role in two episodes, "Sucker Punch" and "Headhunters", although they're first mentioned in "Home Is Where the Heart Stops". In that last episode, Evan Mitchell talks of his Westie pals when asked for an alibi. In "Sucker Punch" we meet their leader, Finn Rourke, a man with barely veiled contempt for law enforcement, but who does have rules of his own. One of those is "no drugs on my streets", and to that end he sent his chief leg-breaker, Jackie Coonan, to "have a word" with dealers looking to muscle in on his turf. Jackie's corpse kicked off the episode, and led Beckett much closer to solving her own mother's murder. Later, it is revealed that Rourke knew who really killed Jackie, but since he considered the killer to be untouchable, he blamed a rival gang instead. "Headhunters" revolved around Castle's new muse, gang Detective Ethan Slaughter, a loose cannon firing off shots in the direction of the murder of "Glitch", the useless son of top Westies' enforcer Brian Reilly. Glitch was found next to the heads of three Jamaican gang members in a bag, leading Slaughter to conclude he was trying to prove to his father that he wasn't a screw-up after all. Slaughter and Castle detain Brian and another Westie; with Castle having to man-handle the second gang man on his own, and earning a bloody nose for his efforts. It turned out that a Mexican drug gang was attempting to break into New York. They needed to beat down their competitors, and had manipulated Glitch into triggering a gang war between the Jamaican gang and the Westies. Realizing what had happened, and that Glitch had made a mess of things yet again, Brian had, in his view, no choice but to eliminate his son himself.
- The Westies is a vicious, ruthless, Lethal, and efficient, Irish-American organized crime group, and a hit-squad and an enforcement arm for the Gambino Crime Family. The Westies operate from the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan's West Side in New York City. According to crime author T. J. English, "The Westies only had fewer than 100 members — depending on who was in or out of jail at any given time — the Westies became synonymous with the last generation of Irish in the birthplace of the Irish Mob...." According to the NYPD Organized Crime Task Force and the FBI, the Westies were responsible for 400-750 murders between 1968 and 1988. In the late 1970s, The Westies started working for the Gambino Crime Family, and were a hit-squad and an enforcement squad for the Gambino Crime Family for nearly a decade. The Westies was very loyal to the Gambino crime family, and they were willing to do whatever the Gambino crime family orders them to do, and will carry out any order for the Gambino crime family, such as murder, assassination, bombing, terrorism, torture, battery, assault, arson, witness intimidation, jury intimidation, and killing Cops, Judges, Jurors, Lawyers, U.S. Attorneys, District Attorneys, Government Informants, Informants, Rivals, Politicians, and anyone who crosses them or the Gambino crime family. Paul Castellano even went as far as ordering The Westies to murder an FBI Agent who insulted and threatened Castellano. Castellano sent the boss of The Westies, Jimmy Coonan along with 14 other members of The Westies to murder the FBI Agent by machine-gunning him down at his house, when Jimmy Coonan and his 14 fellow members arrived to the FBI Agent's house, they all broke in his house, but nobody was there, so Jimmy Coonan and his 14 men waited for 5 hours, and the FBI Agent never showed, so they left, and when they went to go see Castellano to tell him about what happened, Castellano decided to call off the hit, because he believed it would bring down to much heat on him and the Gambino crime family. According to the FBI and the NYPD Organized Crime Task Force, The Westies killed as many as 400-500 people for Paul Castellano, and the Gambino Crime Family. Many sources including the most famous Journalist in America, Selwyn Raab and former NYPD Organized Crime Task Force Detective Joseph Coffey has stated in documentary interviews about the Westies and the Gambino crime family "The Gambino Crime Family Boss Paul Castellano ordered The Westies to kill an estimated 700 people, many of those people were primarily people who crossed the Gambino crime family, such as Judges, Lawyers, Jurors, Prosecutors, rivals, FBI Informants, Government Informants, biker gang members that refused to pay street tax to the Gambino crime family, street gang members, some dirty Cops, and many other people who crossed the Gambino crime family or threatened their livelihood.
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