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Gang
A gang is a group of three or more people who, through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage, share a common identity. In current usage it typically denotes a criminal organization or else a criminal affiliation. In early usage, the word gang referred to a group of workmen...
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18th Street gang
18th Street is considered the largest gang in Los Angeles, California, and is a largely a Mexican-American 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...
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Rocks Push
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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Dead Rabbits
The Dead Rabbits were a gang in New York City in the 1850s originally part of the Roach Guards. The name has a second meaning rooted in Irish American vernacular of NYC in 1857. The word "Rabbit" is the phonetic corruption of the Irish word ráibéad,...
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Ghetto Brothers
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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Hammerskins
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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40 Thieves
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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Latin Kings
The Latin Kings are said to be the largest and most organized Hispanic street gang in the United States of America , which has it's roots dating back to the 1940's in Chicago, Illinois . The Almighty Latin Kings first emerged in Chicago in the 1940s...
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Gangster Disciples
The Black Gangster Disciple Nation was formed on the South-side of Chicago in the late 1960s, by David Barksdale, leader of the Gonzanto Disciples, and Larry Hoover, leader of the Supreme Disciples. The two groups united to form the Black Gangster...
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Folk Nation
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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Young Lords
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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Mara Salvatrucha
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. The majority of the gang is ethnically composed of...
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The Tanglewood Boys
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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Supreme Team
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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The Ghost Shadows
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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Kerryonians
The Kerryonians were an early-19th-century New York street gang made up mostly of recent Irish immigrants from County Kerry, Ireland. One of the first gangs, along with the 40 Thieves, to occupy the Five Points area, the Kerryonians particularly...
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Roach Guards
The Roach Guards were an Irish street gang in New York City's Five Points neighborhood during the early 19th century. Originally formed to protect New York liquor merchants in Five Points, the gang soon began committing robbery and murder.
The Roach...
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Shirt Tails
The Shirt Tails were a mid-19th century street gang based in the Five Points slum in Manhattan, New York, USA, who wore their shirts on the outside of their pants as a form of insignia and as a sign of group affiliation. The Shirt Tails were as...
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Chichesters
The Chichesters were an early Five Points street gang during the mid 19th century in New York. The gang began stealing from stores and warehouses and selling the stolen goods to local fences in 1820s, later becoming involved in illegal gambling and...
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Combat 786
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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Honeymoon Gang
The Honeymoon Gang was a New York street gang of the mid 19th century. The gang was said to be so violent that they were denied protection often received by other street gangs from Tammany Hall politicians.
Operating out of New York's East Side 18th...
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Lenox Avenue Gang
The Lenox Avenue Gang was an early 20th century New York street gang led by Harry Horowitz (better known as Gyp the Blood), and was one of the most violent gangs of the pre-Prohibition era.
The Lenox Avenue Gang was started sometime during the early...
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19th Street 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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Slaughter House Gang
The Slaughter House Gang, known as the Slaughter Housers, were a prominent street gang in New York's Fourth Ward during the late 1840s to the mid 1860s.
The Slaughter Housers, known for their violent muggings and murder, were infamous for luring an...
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Hudson Dusters
The Hudson Dusters was a New York City street gang during the early twentieth century. Formed in the late 1890s by Circular Jack, Kid Yorke, and Goo Goo Knox the gang began operating from an apartment house on Hudson Street. Knox, a former member of...
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Vice Lords
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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Gopher Gang
The Gopher Gang was an early 20th century New York street gang known for its members including Goo Goo Knox, James "Biff" Ellison, and Owney Madden. Based out of the Irish neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, the Gopher Gang grew to control most of...
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Crazy Butch Gang
The Crazy Butch Gang was a teenage New York street gang which were known as the cities top pickpockets and sneak thieves during the late nineteenth century. An early member of this gang would later become known as a prominent New York gangster Jack...
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Charlton Street 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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Cherry Hill Gang
The Cherry Hill Gang was a New York street gang during the late nineteenth century.
Formed in the 1890s, the Cherry Hill Gang were known as the "dandies" of New York's underworld. Often wearing dress suits and armed with metal weighted walking...
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Daybreak Boys
The Daybreak Boys was a New York street gang during the mid nineteenth century.
Formed in the late 1840s, by 1852 the teenage Daybreak Boys were suspected by police to have been responsible for 20 to 40 murders between 1850 and 1852 as well as...
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Grady Gang
The Grady Gang was a New York sneak thief gang during the 1860s. Organized by fence John D. "Traveling Mike" Grady following the American Civil War, the Grady Gang operated in Broadway's "Thieves Exchange" where Grady would regularly purchase around...
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Molasses Gang
The Molasses Gang was a New York street gang during the 1870s.
Formed in 1871 by Jimmy Dunnigan, the Molasses Gang were primarily made up of sneak thieves and minor criminals who were highly publicized in the New York press for the comedic methods...
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Swamp Angels
The Swamp Angels were a New York waterfront street gang during the mid nineteenth century.
One of the most successful waterfront gangs of the period, the Swamp Angels dominated the dockyards of New York Harbor from the 1850s into the post-Civil War...
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Black P. Stones
The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation (often abbreviated BPSN or BPS) is a Chicago-based street gang estimated to have more than 42,000 members. The gang was originally formed in the late 1950s as a civil rights organization called the "Blackstone...
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Clanton 14
Clanton 14 St., also known as C14, is a Chicano street gang in Los Angeles.
The gang was involved in fights against other gangs; in 1942, member Frank Torres was shot by a member of the First Street Gang at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. A...
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Boodle 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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Tub of Blood Bunch
The Tub of Blood Bunch was an early New York waterfront street gang of the late 1860s.
A collection of criminals made up of gang members from the various New York street gangs following the "cleanup" of the ForTH Ward by police shortly after the...
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Latin Eagles
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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Chicago Gaylords
The Chicago Gaylords, also known as the Almighty Gaylords, is one of the oldest Chicago street gangs. It originated in the neighborhood of Grand and Noble. The original president of the Gaylords selected the name after reading about the Gaylords of...
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Jamaican Posse
Jamaican Posses, often referred to simply as Posses, are 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...
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Black Spades
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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Varrio Nuevo Estrada
Varrio Nuevo Estrada, also known as "VNE" is a Chicano gang founded in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California in the Estrada Courts housing projects. Through time, VNE has expanded to occupy other local cities such as East Los Angeles, Montebello,...
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Mala del Brenta
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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Almighty Saints
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 Saints was borrowed from the TV series of the same name as you can see by the similarities of the stickman...
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Indian Posse
Aboriginal Based Organized Crime (ABOC) is a term used to refer to Canadian criminal organizations with a high, statistically significant percentage of Aboriginal members. These organizations are primarily found in the prairie provinces -...
