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| x 18th Street gang |
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18th Street is considered the largest gang in Los Angeles, California and based, largely Hispanic street gang. It is estimated that there are between 8,000 and 20,000 members of 18th Street gang in Los Angeles County alone. There are approximately...
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| x Young Lords | Gang |
The Young Lords, later Young Lords Organization and in New York (notably Spanish Harlem), Young Lords Party, was a Puerto Rican nationalist group in several United States cities, notably New York City and Chicago.
The Young Lords began as a Chicago...
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| x Black Spades | Gang |
The Black Spades were a violent black street gang in New York City during the 1970s.
The Black Spades arose out of the Savage Seven because of the increasing number of members.
In the 1970s the various gangs had their own music. They walked ("bopped...
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| x Garfield Boys | Gang |
The Garfield Boys was a New York street gang based in Brooklyn's Red Hook district which roamed the streets of South Brooklyn from the early 20th century up until the 1970s. During the 1950s, the gang was headed by future Colombo crime family boss...
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| x Bronx gangs | Gang |
In the 1950s and 60s the youth gangs in the Bronx, New York, emerged with a particular notoriety.
Gangs of the Bronx included
There were two other Bronx gangs in the early fifties (holdover gangs that were active in 1949) The first of these two were...
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| x The Last Hour (Dlasthr) Assyrian Gang |
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Dlasthr (The Last Hour) is an Assyrian criminal gang active in the south western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Members wear a distinctive clenched fist tattoo across their backs together with the letters AK (standing for Assyrian Kings). The gang...
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| x South Brooklyn Boys | Gang |
South Brooklyn Boys (SBB) is a famous NYC street gang that was formed some time around the 1950's in Brooklyn, NY. The gang has a mostly Italian American membership.
At the time of its origin, SBB consisted of several smaller neighborhood gangs that...
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| x Mau Maus |
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Mau Maus was the name of a 1950s street gang in New York. The book and the adapted film The Cross and the Switchblade and biography Run Baby Run document the life of its most famous leader, Nicky Cruz. Their name was also featured in the 2000 Spike...
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| x United Nations Gang | Gang |
The United Nations Gang or Global United Nations Syndicate (GUNS) is a criminal gang active in the Vancouver, British Columbia area. The name alludes to the various ethnic origins of the members.
The UN gang was formed in Abbotsford in the late...
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| x Maniac Latin Disciples | Gang |
The Maniac Latin Disciples are believed to be the second largest Latino street gang in Chicago after the Latin Kings, and the largest Latino street gang in the Folk Nation. Originally known as the Latin Scorpions, the gang was founded by Albert ...
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| x Vice Lords | Gang |
The Almighty Vice Lord Nation (abbreviated AVLN, VLN or CVLN) is the second largest gang and one of the oldest gangs in Chicago. Their total membership is according to Washington research 60,000 to 65,000 . They are also one of the founding members...
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| x Gangster Disciples |
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The Gangster Disciples, originally Black Gangster Disciple Nation. is a street gang formed on the South-side of Chicago in the late 1960s by David Barksdale, leader of the Black Disciples, and Larry Hoover, leader of the Supreme Gangsters. The two...
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| x Independent Soldiers | Gang |
The Independent Soldiers, otherwise known as the IS, is one of the most well known gangs in Canada. The I.S consists of many nationalities with higher positions generally filled with Indo-Canadians of Punjabi descent.
Over the past few years the...
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| x Malibu Locals Only | Gang |
Malibu Locals Only (also known as "MLO") is a group of youths local to Malibu, California, who have been associated with several violent attacks along with other criminal activity in the city. Frequently involved with party, bar or beach area fights...
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| x Black Disciples | Gang |
The Black Disciples (often abbreviated as BDN or BDN III) is a large African American street gang based in Chicago, Illinois. The gang is considered extremely violent and is known to engage in drug trafficking and distribution, in addition to other...
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| x Westmob | Gang |
Westmob, a gang in San Francisco, California, has fought a brutal gang war since 1999 against Big Block and its various factions. Westmob is sometimes known to associate with Jackson St. and Norteno members. Its rivalry with Big Block was the...
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| x Comando Vermelho | Gang |
Comando Vermelho (Portuguese for Red Command) is a Brazilian criminal organization founded in 1979 in the prison Cândido Mendes, on the Ilha Grande island, Rio de Janeiro, as a collection of ordinary convicts and left-wing political prisoners who...
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| x 311 Boyz | Gang |
The 311 Boyz were a teen gang in Las Vegas, Nevada who committed or were suspected of a number of violent acts beginning in the summer of 2003. Estimated at 40 members in 2003, the gang consisted mostly of young males who attended Centennial High...
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| x Four Seas | Gang |
The Four Seas Gang (四海幫, or Si Hai Bang) is a triad society based in Taiwan. It includes mainland Chinese and their descendants who fled to Taiwan with the KMT. The Four Seas Gang has an estimated membership of over 5,000 in Taiwan. Its members have...
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| x 5T | Gang |
The 5T was a Vietnamese crime gang active in the Cabramatta and Bankstown area of Sydney, Australia, in the final two decades of the 20th century.
It was active in the distribution of heroin in the Cabramatta area as well as home invasions and...
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| x War Lords | Gang |
The War Lords were a Black militant youth organization in East St. Louis, Illinois from 1967-1969. Founded in March or April 1967 as The Royal Serpents, the organization's name changed to Imperial War Lords within its first month of existence. The...
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| x Combat 786 | Gang |
Combat 786 is a British gang with some Islamic theme operating in Bradford and Oldham. It views itself as an organisation to protect Muslims from attacks by neo-Nazis and skinheads and its name is a response to that of Combat 18, the gang it sees as...
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| x Indian Posse | Gang |
Indian Posse, also known as the IP, is an aboriginal street gang set in Western Canada based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is one of the largest street gangs in Canada.
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) has designated the IP as being a member...
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| x Dotbusters | Gang |
Dotbusters was a street gang in Jersey City, New Jersey that attacked and threatened South Asians in the fall of 1987. The name originated from the fact that traditional Hindu women and girls wear a bindi on their forehead. Most of the gang members...
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| x Bakassi Boys | Gang |
The Bakassi Boys are a group of youth known for their anti-crime vigilantism, and are usually armed with machetes, guns, and charms. They operate in the Igbo area of Nigeria, and are sometimes accused of illegal activities and human rights abuses,...
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| x Hammerskins |
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The Hammerskins, (also known as Hammerskin Nation) is a white supremacist group formed in 1988 in Dallas, Texas.
The Hammerskins' primary focus is the production and promotion of white power music (also known as Rock Against Communism) and many...
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| x Supreme Team |
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The Supreme Team was an African-American crack cocaine gang that operated throughout the 1980s in New York City. Their headquarters was in a South Jamaica, Queens housing project known as the Baisley Park Houses. However they controlled a huge chunk...
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| x Jamaican Posse | Gang |
The Jamaican Posse is a loose coalition of gangs, based predominantly in the New York City area and Toronto, Ontario, first being involved in drugs and gun-running in the early 1980s. It is widely claimed that the Jamaican Posses are affiliated with...
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| x Cherry boys | Gang |
The Cherry Boys are a gang based in Charlton, South London. The gang was formed on the Cherry Orchard Estate off Charlton Road, from which the gang derives its name.
Most gang members are of Afro-Caribbean origin, and reside in the Charlton area....
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| x European Kindred | Gang |
European Kindred or EK is a white supremacist prison and street gang that began in the Oregon prison system. They are affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood and the Ku Klux Klan. Their allies are Sureños and Volksfront. Their main rivals are the...
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| x Mala del Brenta | Gang |
The Mala del Brenta was a criminal organisation based in the Veneto, Italy.
The criminal organisation's structure is believed to be based upon some elements of the Cosa Nostra and Camorra model. It is considered by the Italian government and...
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| x The Ghost Shadows | Gang |
The Ghost Shadows (鬼影幫) are a Chinese American gang that was prominent in New York City's Chinatown from the late 1980s through the early 1990s. Formed in 1971 by immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia, the gang is believed to be under...
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| x Chung Ching Yee | Gang |
Joe Boys (AKA Chung Ching Yee, Chinese: 忠精義; pinyin: Zhōngjīngyì; Cantonese: Jung1 jing1 yi6) was a Chinese youth gang founded in the 1960s in San Francisco's Chinatown. Joe Boys was originally known as "Joe Fong Boys", after its founder Joe Fong....
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| x Area Boys |
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Area boys (also known as Agberos) are loosely organized gangs of street children and teenagers, composed mostly of males (but with a few females), who roam the streets of Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria. They extort money from passers-by, sell illegal...
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| x Double II Set | Gang |
The Double II Set is a chapter of the Bloods street gang centered in East Orange, New Jersey. Chapters of the Bloods are called "sets."
In 1993, Bloods members from the Queen Street Bloods Gang ("QSBG") of Inglewood, California came to East Orange,...
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| x Rocks Push | Gang |
The Rocks Push was a notorious larrikin gang, which dominated the The Rocks area of Sydney from the 1870s to the end of the 1890s. In its day it was referred to as The Push, a title which has since come to be more widely used for cliques in general...
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| x Lynx Gang | Gang |
The Lynx Gang (sometimes known as The Lynx Crew) is a Birmingham-based gang that was founded in the 1970s, initially to protect the local Asian (most notably of Mirpuri Kashmiri and Pathaan origin) community from racist skinheads. Later the gang...
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| x Raskol gangs | Gang |
Raskol gangs are gangs in Papua New Guinea, primarily in the larger cities (including Port Moresby and Lae). "Raskol" is a Tok Pisin word deriving from English rascal, currently in use to refer to gang members or criminals in general.
Raskol gangs...
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| x Simon City Royals | Gang |
The Simon City Royals, or more formally the Almighty Simon City Royal Nation, are a street gang which began in the late 1950s in Chicago.
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| x Ghetto Brothers | Gang |
The Ghetto Brothers were a gang (or club) founded in New York City's South Bronx in the late 1960s. They eventually spread to much of the Northeastern United States. Like the Young Lords, they were involved in Puerto Rican nationalism, including, in...
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| x Latin Eagles | Gang |
The ALEN (Almighty Latin Eagles Nation) originated in the area of Halsted and Addison in Chicago in the 1960. Originally meant to be a Latino political organization, by the 1970s it had transformed into a criminal street gang.
Members of the Latin...
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| x Flying Dragons | Gang |
The Flying Dragons (Chinese: 飞龙帮) are a well known Chinese street gang affiliated with the Hip Sing Tong are active in New York City's Chinatown, and have a presence in Hong Kong, Canada and Australia. The gang moved heavily into heroin trafficking...
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| x Sharpies | Gang |
Sharpies (also known as Sharps) were members of suburban youth gangs in Australia mainly from the 1960s to 1980s, particularly in Melbourne, but also in Sydney and Perth to a lesser extent.
The term comes from their focus on looking sharp. The dress...
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| x Armenian Power |
![Armenian Pride member tattooed[citation needed]. Also known as Armenian Power.](http://img.freebase.com/api/trans/image_thumb/wikipedia/images/commons_id/2419252?pad=1&errorid=%2Ffreebase%2Fno_image_png&maxheight=64&mode=fillcropmid&maxwidth=64)
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Armenian Power, also known as AP, is an Armenian street gang located in Los Angeles County.
The collapse of the Soviet Union prompted a massive wave of Armenian immigration into Los Angeles County, California, primarily in the communities of East...
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| x The Tanglewood Boys | Gang |
The Tanglewood Boys are an Italian-American gang from Yonkers, New York, USA named after an area known as Tanglewood in Yonkers. They are named after the shopping mall that they frequent, located on a busy shopping strip, Central Avenue, in Yonkers....
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| x Peckham boys | Gang |
The Peckham Boys are a gang based on the North Peckham Estate and Bells Garden Estate in Peckham, South London. Its members are primarily Black British.
The gang is composed of several affiliated sets, according to age group. The sets, more...
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| x Mara Salvatrucha |
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Mara Salvatrucha (commonly abbreviated as MS, Mara, and MS-13) is a criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles and has spread to Central America, other parts of the United States, and Canada. MS-13 is one of the most dangerous gangs in the United...
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| x Sex Money Murder | Gang |
Sex Money Murder (S.M.M. or $.M.M.) is a street gang operating on the East Coast of the United States.
Sex, Money, Murder is a neighborhood-based street organization that originated in the Soundview section of the Bronx, New York. The gang was...
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| x Almighty Saints | Gang |
The Almighty Saints is a street gang founded in the early 1960s by Polish juveniles of the Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago.
The name Saits was borrowed from the TV series of the same name as you can see by the similarities of the stickman...
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| x Dominicans Don't Play |
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Dominicans Don't Play (DDP) is a Dominican American gang which started in Manhattan, New York in the early 1990s. New York City, particularly in Brooklyn and The Bronx, but have expanded to Miami as well as Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,...
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| x Jheri Curls | Gang |
The Jheri Curls were a Dominican gang which was active in the Washington Heights, Manhattan neighborhood of New York City in the early 1990s. Taking their moniker, and coiffures, from the Jheri curl hairstyle that was of waning popularity in the...
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| x Folk Nation | Gang |
The Folk Nation is an alliance of street gangs, based in the Chicago area, which has since spread throughout the United States and into Canada, specifically in the Midwest and the South. They are rivals to the People Nation.
Within the Folk Nation...
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| x Nazi Lowriders | Gang |
The Nazi Lowriders or NLR or "The Ride" are a white supremacist criminal organization primarily based in southern California, although it is believed to have spread to other states. They are affiliated with the larger and more notorious gang, the...
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| x Ghetto Boys | Gang |
Not To be Confused With the hip hop group Geto Boys
The Ghetto Boys are a street gang based in New Cross and Deptford, South London. The gang was formed on the Woodpecker Estate and its members are primarily of Black British origin. Most of the...
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| x Latin Kings |
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The Latin Kings are said to be the largest and most organized Hispanic street gang in the United States of America , which has its roots dating back to the 1940s in Chicago, Illinois . Latin King documents reveal that Gino Gustavo Colon (a.k.a. ...
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| x 19th Street Gang | Gang |
The 19th Street Gang was a New York predominantly Irish street gang during the 1870s known as a particularly violent anti-Protestant gang.
The 19th Street Gang, made up mostly of young pickpockets, muggers, and sneak thieves, was led by a young man...
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| x 40 Thieves | Gang |
The 40 Thieves — likely named after Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves — was the first organized street gang in New York's history. Primarily consisting of Irish immigrants, they terrorized the Five Points intersection in New York City, New York....
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| x Batavia Street Gang | Gang |
Batavia Street Gang was a New York independent street gang based in the Fourth Ward during the 1890s. Affiliated with the Eastman Gang during the turn of the century, they were rivals of the Cherry Hill Gang throughout the previous decade. During...
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| x Boodle Gang | Gang |
The Boodle Gang was an American street gang active in New York City during the mid-to- late 19th century. The gang were notorious "butcher cart thieves" during the 1850s and their hijacking methods would later be used by criminals of the early...
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| x Charlton Street Gang | Gang |
The Charlton Street Gang was a New York street gang and river pirates during the mid nineteenth century.
The Charlton Street Gang was one of the earliest river pirates raiding small cargo ships in the North River of New York Harbor during post-Civil...
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