THE Sydney underworld's war without end, the ongoing battle for temporary supremacy, has in recent years featured the most visible members, bikies. The clearest evidence that the jungle rule book of old has been torn up comes from the prisons.

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Bikies no longer leave the colours at the gate and suspend hostilities for the period of incarceration. They have instead taken their war inside, creating a more than usually difficult management problem. Since its journey began over half a century ago, the outlaw motorcycle movement has carried in its saddlebags something of a split personality. An enduring question for law enforcement is which is the more dominant character, the club or the gang? The gangs' own actions in the past 12 months have forced a decision upon police about which road to take. Escalating tensions culminated in a more than usually stupid public bashing death at Sydney airport in March last year. The episode forced police and bikies into a state of war, a war that many on either side would prefer not to fight. Historically, as criminals go, bikies were considered atypically considerate in the way they branded themselves outlaws and dressed the part.

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