Gangs

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Gangs

• 1700s to 1997

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Overview

• Definition
• A group of people working together for a social
  reason
• A company of criminals
• A organization or association of individuals
  numbering three or more with continuity of
  purpose, seeking a group identity and is engaged
  in criminal activity

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Overview

• Gang Member Identification
• Admission / Family
• Associates with known gang members
• Tattoos / brands / paraphernalia / hairstyle
• Gang moniker / witness / photos
• Prior arrests / informants
• Clothes (handout p. 7)

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Social Pressures

• Why do people join gangs?
• Need to belong
• Power or juice associated with gang membership
• Protection
• Desire for material goods

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Strata

• Levels of gangs
• Entry level / apprenticeship
• not well organized
• often seasonal
• third string pool of recruits
• commit petty crimes for juice and recognition

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Strata

• Levels of gangs
• Secondary level
• gangs who control outlying areas of major cities
• often affiliated with major city gangs
• have a more structured organization

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Strata

• Levels of gangs
• Third level
• Main gang
• Often a nation wide affiliation of one of the
  four main gangs
• Crips
• Bloods
• Folk Nation
• People Nation

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Three Rs

• Reputation
• Respect
• Retaliation

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Gang development

• 1700s to late 1800s - very turf oriented and
  developed by area immigrants
• 1890s to 1940s Italians
• Police Irish
• Store owners Jewish
• 1950s to 1980s Blacks
• 1980s to today PR /Cubans

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Current Gang Status

• Gangs Organize
• People hats to the left, earrings on the left,
  left shoe
• Folks reverse of People
• Gangs in the military
• Gangs and politics
• White supremacist Chicagos black gangster
  disciple Jesse Jackson

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Crips and Bloods

• Crips (cripple) blue high school color
• Blood (family / African American) red high school
  color
• No one gang
• Profile black, 22, gold, BK or troop shoes,
  pagers, GMC, Pager services, auto lease, real
  estate, beauty salon, answering service, clubs,
  car wash

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Asian

• SEA gangs
• Americanized
• Profile False IDs, auto theft, burglary, home
  invasion, scars
• Family

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White

• Motorcycle now organized crime
• Two kinds
• emulate black gangs
• white power not skinheads
• Skinheads good shape, steel toed boots, white
  t-shirts/black pants, screwdriver t-shirts, short
  skirts, tattoos, swastikas

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White Supremacist

• KKK
• Aryan Nation
• Church of the Creator
• Institute for Historical Review
• NAAWP
• White Aryan Resistance

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Others

• Taggers
• Gray panthers
• Female groups
• High School gangs

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Music

• Communication
• 2PAC D.J. Quick DR Easy-E Ice Cube NWA OCU
  Public Enemy Snoop Doggy Dog AMW ATL Vanilla
  Ice Ice-T Getto Boys Guns and Roses New Glory.

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Future of Gangs

• More members
• Characteristics will not change
• More violent
• More predatory crimes
• Drug trade
• More female
• Outnumber law enforcement