 The police cracked down on gang activity in the early 1980s and gang wars came to a screeching halt as many of the leaders were jailed.Many other notorious 'headmen' fled to neighbouring countries or were killed in gang attacks.In the 1990s, some teenagers in "pseudo-street gangs" claimed affiliation to Salakau to be "cool" but did not engage in activities as violent as those engaged in by the real gang; in 1993, there were at least nine separate teenage gangs calling themselves 'Salakau'.