2011

National Gang Threat Assessment

Emerging Trends

National Gang Intelligence Center
Special thanks to the National Drug Intelligence Center

for their contributions and support.
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The gang estimates presented in the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment (NGTA) represents 

the collection of data provided by the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) – through the 

National Drug Threat Survey, Bureau of Prisons, State Correctional Facilities, and National Gang 

Intelligence Center (NGIC) law enforcement partners. An overview of how these numbers were 

collected is described within the Scope and Methodology Section of the NGTA. The estimates 

were provided on a voluntary basis and may include estimates of gang members as well as gang 

associates. Likewise, these estimates may not capture gang membership in jurisdictions that may 

have underreported or who declined to report. Based on these estimates, geospatial maps were 

prepared to visually display the reporting jurisdictions. 

The data used to calculate street gangs and Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs estimates nationwide in the 

report are derived primarily from NDIC’s National Drug Threat Survey. These estimates do not affect 

the qualitative findings of the 2011 NGTA and were used primarily to create the map’s highlighting 

gang activity nationally. After further review of these estimates, the maps originally provided in 2011 

NGTA were revised to show state-level representation of gang activity per capita and by law enforcement officers. This maintains consistency with the 2009 NGTA report’s maps on gang activity. 

During the years the NGTA is published, many entities—news media, tourism agencies, and other 

groups with an interest in crime in our nation; use reported figures to compile rankings of cities 

and counties. These rankings, however, do not provide insight into the many variables that mold 

the crime in a particular town, city, county, state, region or other jurisdiction. Consequently these 

rankings lead to simplistic and or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions 

adversely affecting cities and counties, along with residents. 

The FBI and the NGIC do not recommend that jurisdictions use the estimated gang membership 

totals as exact counts for the numbers of gang members. These numbers are not used by the FBI

or NGIC to rank jurisdictions on gang activity. The FBI and NGIC recommend contacting state and 

local law enforcement agencies for more information related to specific gang activity. 

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2011 National Gang Threat Assessment – Emerging Trends

Table of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Scope and Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

About the NGIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Gang Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 

Regional Breakdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Key Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Current Gang-Related Trends and Crime . . . . . .11

Gang Membership and Expansion . . . . . . . .11

Gang-Related Violent Crime . . . . . . . . . . .15

Gang-Related Drug Distribution

and Trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Juvenile Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Gang Alliances and Collaboration . . . . . . . .18

Gang Sophistication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Expansion of Ethnic-Based and Non-Traditional 

Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Asian Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

East African Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Somali Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Sudanese Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Caribbean Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Dominican Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Haitian Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Jamaican Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Non-Traditional Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Hybrid Gangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Juggalos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Gangs and Alien Smuggling, Human Trafficking,

& Prostitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Alien Smuggling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Human Trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Prostitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Gangs and Criminal Organizations . . . . . . . . .26

Gangs and Drug Trafficking Organizations . . . .26

Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations . . .26

Gangs and Organized Criminal Groups . . . . .28

Gangs and Corrections Issues . . . . . . . . . . .30

Prison/Street Gang Connections . . . . . . . . 30

Prison/Family Connection . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Contraband Cell Phones . . . . . . . . . . .31

Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Prison Radicalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Gang Infiltration of Corrections, 

Law Enforcement & Government . . . . . . . . . .33

Gangs and Indian Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Gangs and the Military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Gangs and the US Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

The Southwest Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

The Northern Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Gangs, Technology, and Communication . . . . . .41

Gangs and Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Gangs and White Collar Crime . . . . . . . . . . .44

Law Enforcement Actions and Resources . . . . .45

Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Maps – Gang Presence in the United States . . . .47

Appendix A. Gangs by State . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Appendix B. MDTOs Alliances and Rivals . . . . .80

Appendix C. Federal Gang Task Forces . . . . . . 82

Appendix D. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . .88

Endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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Preface

The National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) prepared 

the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment (NGTA) to 

examine emerging gang trends and threats posed by 

criminal gangs to communities throughout the United 

States. The 2011 NGTA enhances and builds on the 

gang-related trends and criminal threats identified in 

the 2009 assessment. It supports US Department of 

Justice strategic objectives 2.2 (to reduce the threat, 

incidence, and prevalence of violent crime) and 2.4 (to 

reduce the threat, trafficking, use, and related violence 

of illegal drugs). The assessment is based on federal, 

state, local, and tribal law enforcement and corrections agency intelligence, including information and 

data provided by the National Drug Intelligence Center 

(NDIC) and the National Gang Center. Additionally, this 

assessment is supplemented by information retrieved 

from open source documents and data collected 

through April 2011.

Scope and Methodology

In 2009, the NGIC released its second threat assessment on gang activity in the United States. The NGIC 

and its law enforcement partners documented increases 

in gang proliferation and migration nationwide and 

emerging threats. This report attempts to expand on 

these findings. Reporting and intelligence collected 

over the past two years have demonstrated increases 

in the number of gangs and gang members as law 

enforcement authorities nationwide continue to identify 

gang members and share information regarding these 

groups. Better reporting and collection has contributed 

greatly to the increased documentation and reporting of 

gang members and gang trends.  

Information in the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment-Emerging Trends was derived from law enforcement intelligence, open source information, and data 

collected from the NDIC, including the 2010 NDIC 

National Drug Threat Survey (NDTS). NGIC law enforcement partners provided information and guidance 

regarding new trends and intelligence through an online 

request for information via the NGIC Law Enforcement 

Online (LEO) Special Interest Group (SIG), which is now 

NGIC Online. Law enforcement agencies nationwide 

continuously report new and emerging gang trends to 

the NGIC, as the NGIC continues to operate as a repository and dissemination hub for gang intelligence. This 

information provided by our law enforcement partners 

was used to identify many of the trends and issues 

included in this report.  

Reporting used to quantify the number of street and 

outlaw motorcycle gangs and gang members was primarily derived from the 2010 NDIC NDTS data and some 

supplemental NGIC reporting from our law enforcement 

partners. NDIC annually conducts the NDTS to collect 

data on the threat posed by various illicit drugs in the 

United States. A stratified random sample of nearly 3,500 

state and local law enforcement agencies was surveyed 

to generate national, regional, and state estimates of 

various aspects of drug trafficking activities including the 

threat posed by various drugs, the availability and production of illicit drugs, as well as the role of street gangs 

and outlaw motorcycle gangs in drug trafficking activity. 

Weighted national, regional, and state-level statistical 

estimates derived from NDTS 2010 data was based on 

responses received from 2,963 law enforcement agencies 

out of a sample of 3,465 agencies. 

In previous iterations of the NDTS, survey responses were validated through targeted outreach to 
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jurisdictions. In the 2010 NDTS, the key assumption was 

that individual respondents provided estimates on gang 

members for their jurisdictions only and not included 

other jurisdictions. However, NGIC acknowledges that 

there may be some duplication or underreporting of 

gang members because of variations in each jurisdiction’s process to estimate gang activity. 

In calculating the number of street and outlaw motorcycle gang members, respondents in each region were 

asked to select from a series of ranges of numbers. 

The median numbers of each range were aggregated 

to generate an estimate for the total number of gang 

members. In calculating the number of street and 

outlaw motorcycle gangs, the low end of each range 

was aggregated to generate an estimate for the total 

number of gangs and gang members. Prison gang 

member estimates were derived directly from the US

Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and state correctional 

institutions across the country.

About the NGIC

The NGIC was established by Congress in 2005 to support law enforcement agencies through timely and accurate information sharing and strategic/tactical analysis 

of federal, state, and local law enforcement information 

focusing on the growth, migration, criminal activity, and 

association of gangs that pose a significant threat to 

communities throughout the United States. The NGIC is 

comprised of representatives from the Federal Bureau of 

Investigation (FBI), US Drug Enforcement Administration 

(DEA), US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 

Explosives (ATF), US Bureau of Prisons (BOP), United 

States Marshals Service (USMS), US Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement (ICE), US Department of Defense 

(DOD), National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), and 

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This multiagency fusion center integrates gang intelligence assets 

to serve as a central intelligence resource for gang 

information and analytical support.

To assist in the sharing of gang intelligence with law 

enforcement, the NGIC has established NGIC Online, 

an information system comprised of a set of webbased tools designed for researching gang-related 

intelligence and sharing of information with federal, 

state, local and tribal law enforcement partners. The 

system’s Request for Information (RFI) portal encourages users to contribute new data as well as conduct 

gang research through custom threat assessments 

and/or liaison with NGIC’s network of national subject 

matter experts. NGIC Online functions include RFI

submissions and responses; Gang Encyclopedia WIKI; 

General Intelligence Library; and a Signs, Symbols, and 

Tattoos (SST) database with user submissions.
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Gang Definitions

Gang Definition

Street Street gangs are criminal organizations formed on the street operating throughout the 

United States. 

Prison Prison gangs are criminal organizations that originated within the penal system and 

operate within correctional facilities throughout the United States, although released 

members may be operating on the street. Prison gangs are also self-perpetuating 

criminal entities that can continue their criminal operations outside the confines of the 

penal system. 

Outlaw Motorcycle 

(OMGs)

OMGs are organizations whose members use their motorcycle clubs as conduits 

for criminal enterprises. Although some law enforcement agencies regard only One 

Percenters as OMGs, the NGIC, for the purpose of this assessment, covers all OMG 

criminal organizations, including OMG support and puppet clubs. 

One Percenter

OMGs

ATF defines One Percenters as any group of motorcyclists who have voluntarily made 

a commitment to band together to abide by their organization’s rules enforced by 

violence and who engage in activities that bring them and their club into repeated and 

serious conflict with society and the law. The group must be an ongoing organization, 

association of three (3) or more persons which have a common interest and/or activity 

characterized by the commission of or involvement in a pattern of criminal or delinquent conduct. ATF estimates there are approximately 300 One Percenter OMGs in the 

United States.

Neighborhood/Local Neighborhood or Local street gangs are confined to specific neighborhoods and jurisdictions and often imitate larger, more powerful national gangs. The primary purpose 

for many neighborhood gangs is drug distribution and sales. 
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Regional Breakdown

Data in this assessment is presented according to the FBI’s Safe Streets Gang Task Force regions. 

REGION STATES

North Central Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, 

Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin

Northeast Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, 

Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia

South Central Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas

Southeast Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, 

Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Virginia

West Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,

New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
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Executive Summary

Gangs continue to commit criminal activity, recruit new 

members in urban, suburban, and rural regions across 

the United States, and develop criminal associations that 

expand their influence over criminal enterprises, particularly street-level drug sales. The most notable trends for 

2011 have been the overall increase in gang membership, 

and the expansion of criminal street gangs’ control of 

street-level drug sales and collaboration with rival gangs 

and other criminal organizations.a

Key Findings

Gangs are expanding, evolving and posing an increasing threat to US communities nationwide. Many gangs 

are sophisticated criminal networks with members who 

are violent, distribute wholesale quantities of drugs, and 

develop and maintain close working relationships with 

members and associates of transnational criminal/drug 

trafficking organizations. Gangs are becoming more violent while engaging in less typical and lower-risk crime, 

such as prostitution and white-collar crime. Gangs are 

more adaptable, organized, sophisticated, and opportunistic, exploiting new and advanced technology as a 

means to recruit, communicate discretely, target their 

rivals, and perpetuate their criminal activity. Based on 

state, local, and federal law enforcement reporting, the 

NGIC concludes that:

a Title 18 U.S.C. Section 521(a)(A) defines criminal street gangs 

as ongoing groups, clubs, organizations, or associations of five 

or more individuals that have as one of their primary purposes 

the commission of one or more criminal offenses. Title 18 U.S.C. 

Section 521(c) further defines such criminal offenses as (1) a federal felony involving a controlled substance; (2) a federal felony 

crime of violence that has as an element the use or attempted 

use of physical force against the person of another and (3) a conspiracy to commit an offense described in paragraph (1) or (2). 

•	 There are approximately 1.4 million active street, 

prison, and OMG gang members comprising 

more than 33,000 gangs in the United States. 

Gang membership increased most significantly 

in the Northeast and Southeast regions, although 

the West and Great Lakes regions boast the 

highest number of gang members. Neighborhood-based gangs, hybrid gang members, and 

national-level gangs such as the Sureños are 

rapidly expanding in many jurisdictions. Many 

communities are also experiencing an increase 

in ethnic-based gangs such as African, Asian, 

Caribbean, and Eurasian gangs.

•	 Gangs are responsible for an average of 48 

percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions and 

up to 90 percent in several others, according to 

NGIC analysis. Major cities and suburban areas 

experience the most gang-related violence. Local 

neighborhood-based gangs and drug crews continue to pose the most significant criminal threat 

in most communities. Aggressive recruitment of 

juveniles and immigrants, alliances and conflict 

between gangs, the release of incarcerated gang 

members from prison, advancements in technology and communication, and Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization (MDTO) involvement in drug 

distribution have resulted in gang expansion and 

violence in a number of jurisdictions.

•	 Gangs are increasingly engaging in non-traditional gang-related crime, such as alien smuggling, human trafficking, and prostitution. Gangs 

are also engaging in white collar crime such as 

counterfeiting, identity theft, and mortgage fraud, 

primarily due to the high profitability and much 

lower visibility and risk of detection and punishment than drug and weapons trafficking. 
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•	 US-based gangs have established strong working relationships with Central American and 

MDTOs to perpetrate illicit cross-border activity, 

as well as with some organized crime groups in 

some regions of the United States. US-based 

gangs and MDTOs are establishing wide-reaching drug networks; assisting in the smuggling of 

drugs, weapons, and illegal immigrants along the 

Southwest Border; and serving as enforcers for 

MDTO interests on the US side of the border.

•	 Many gang members continue to engage in gang 

activity while incarcerated. Family members 

play pivotal roles in assisting or facilitating gang 

activities and recruitment during a gang members’ incarceration. Gang members in some correctional facilities are adopting radical religious 

views while incarcerated. 

•	 Gangs encourage members, associates, and 

relatives to obtain law enforcement, judiciary, or 

legal employment in order to gather information 

on rival gangs and law enforcement operations. 

Gang infiltration of the military continues to pose 

a significant criminal threat, as members of at 

least 53 gangs have been identified on both 

domestic and international military installations. 

Gang members who learn advanced weaponry 

and combat techniques in the military are at risk 

of employing these skills on the street when they 

return to their communities.

•	 Gang members are acquiring high-powered, 

military-style weapons and equipment which 

poses a significant threat because of the potential to engage in lethal encounters with law 

enforcement officers and civilians. Typically 

firearms are acquired through illegal purchases; 

straw purchases via surrogates or middle-men, 

and thefts from individuals, vehicles, residences 

and commercial establishments. Gang members 

also target military and law enforcement officials, 

facilities, and vehicles to obtain weapons, ammunition, body armor, police gear, badges, uniforms, 

and official identification. 

•	 Gangs on Indian Reservations often emulate 

national-level gangs and adopt names and identifiers from nationally recognized urban gangs. 

Gang members on some Indian Reservations are 

associating with gang members in the community to commit crime.

•	 Gangs are becoming increasingly adaptable and 

sophisticated, employing new and advanced 

technology to facilitate criminal activity discreetly, enhance their criminal operations, and 

connect with other gang members, criminal 

organizations, and potential recruits nationwide 

and even worldwide.
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Current Gang-Related Trends 

and Crime

Gang membership continues to expand throughout 

communities nationwide, as gangs evolve, adapt to 

new threats, and form new associations. Consequently, 

gang-related crime and violence is increasing as gangs 

employ violence and intimidation to control their territory and illicit operations. Many gangs have advanced 

beyond their traditional role as local retail drug distributors in large cities to become more organized, adaptable, and influential in large-scale drug trafficking. Gang 

members are migrating from urban areas to suburban 

and rural communities to recruit new members, expand 

their drug distribution territories, form new alliances, and 

collaborate with rival gangs and criminal organizations 

for profit and influence. Local neighborhood, hybrid 

and female gang membership is on the rise in many 

communities. Prison gang members, who exert control 

over many street gang members, often engage in crime 

and violence upon their return to the community. Gang 

members returning to the community from prison have 

an adverse and lasting impact on neighborhoods, which 

may experience notable increases in crime, violence, 

and drug trafficking. 

Gang Membership and Expansionb

Approximately 1.4 million active street, OMG, and prison 

gang members, comprising more than 33,000 gangs, 

are criminally active within all 50 US states, the District 

of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (see Appendix A). This 

represents a 40 percent increase from an estimated 

1 million gang members in 2009. The NGIC attributes 

this increase in gang membership primarily to improved 

reporting, more aggressive recruitment efforts by gangs, 

the formation of new gangs, new opportunities for drug 

trafficking, and collaboration with rival gangs and drug 

trafficking organizations (DTOs). Law enforcement in 

several jurisdictions also attribute the increase in gang 

membership in their region to the gangster rap culture, the facilitation of communication and recruitment 

through the Internet and social media, the proliferation of generational gang members, and a shortage of 

resources to combat gangs.

More than half of NGIC law enforcement partners 

report an increase in gang-related criminal activity in their jurisdictions over the past two years.

Neighborhood-based gangs continue to pose the 

greatest threat in most jurisdictions nationwide.

•	 NGIC and NDIC data indicates that, since 2009, 

gang membership increased most significantly in 

b The gang membership presented in this section represents 

the collection of data provided by the National Drug Intelligence 

Center (NDIC) – through the National Drug Threat Survey, Bureau 

of Prisons, State Correctional Facilities, and National Gang 

Intelligence Center (NGIC) law enforcement partners. The data 

is based on estimates provided on a voluntary basis and may 

include gang members and gang associates. Likewise, these 

estimates may not capture gang membership in jurisdictions 

that may have underreported or who declined to report. As these 

numbers are based on estimates, they only provide a general approximation of the gang activity nationally. If you have additional 

questions on gang activity within specific jurisdictions the FBI

and NGIC recommend contacting state and local law enforcement agencies for more information.
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the Northeast and Southeast regions, although 

the West and North Central regions—particularly 

Arizona, California, and Illinois—boast the highest 

number of gang members.

•	 Sureño gangs, including Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), 18th Street, and Florencia 13, are expanding 

faster than other national-level gangs, both in 

membership and geographically. Twenty states 

and the District of Columbia report an increase of 

Sureño migration into their region over the past 

three years. California has experienced a substantial migration of Sureño gangs into northern California and neighboring states, such as 

Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon. 

•	 Law enforcement reporting indicates a significant 

increase in OMGs in a number of jurisdictions, 

with approximately 44,000 members nationwide 

comprising approximately 3,000 gangs.c

 Jurisdictions in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Missouri, 

Montana, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, 

Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia are experiencing 

the most significant increase in OMGs, increasing 

the potential for gang-related turf wars with other 

local OMGs. The Wheels of Soul (WOS), Mongols, Outlaws, Pagans and Vagos have expanded 

in several states.

c For the purpose of this assessment, OMGs include One Percenter gangs as well as support and puppet clubs.

Table 1. Recent Expansion of Major OMGs:

GANG REGION

Mongols

Arizona, Arkansas, California, 

Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, 

Montana, Nevada, New York, 

Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington

Outlaws Arkansas, Montana, Maryland, North 

Carolina, New York

Pagans Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio

Vagos

California, Florida, Georgia, 

Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, 

New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, 

Rhode Island, South Dakota

Wheels of Soul

Alabama, Arkansas, California, 

Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, 

New York

Source: ATF
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Figure 1. Estimated Nationwide Gang Presence per Capita per State

Source: NGIC and NDIC 2010 National Drug Survey Data and 

U.S. Census Population estimates 2010.

Number of Gang Members 

per 1,000 People

6+

4-6

2-4

0-2
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Chart 1. Threat Posed by Gangs, According to Law Enforcement.

The NGIC collected intelligence from law enforcement officials nationwide in an attempt to capture the threat posed 

by national-level street, prison, outlaw motorcycle, and neighborhood-based gangs in their communities.

Source: 2011 NGIC National data

0.0%

5.0%

10.0%

15.0%

20.0%

25.0%

30.0%

35.0%

40.0%

45.0%

50.0%

22.9%

27.8%

13.4%

2.7%

15.8%

25.8%

32.9%

20.4%

5.1%

8.7%

34.5%

41.5%

13.0%

2.4%

45.3%

34.0%

13.6%

5.2%

1.9%

33.1%

Significant Threat Moderate Threat Low Threat Not Present Unknown

National-Level Street

Gangs

Prison Gangs Outlaw Motorcycle

Gangs

Neighborhood-Based

Gangs

Nationwide Threat of Gangs
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Gang-Related Violent Crime

Gang-related crime and violence continues to rise. NGIC 

analysis indicates that gang members are responsible 

for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most 

jurisdictions and much higher in others. Some jurisdictions in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Texas report that gangs are 

responsible for at least 90 percent of crime. A comparison of FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) 2009 violent 

crime data and 2010 NGIC gang data illustrates that 

regions experiencing the most violent crime—including southern California, Texas, and Florida—also have 

a substantial gang presence (see Figure 1 and Map 1). 

Street gangs are involved in a host of violent criminal 

activities, including assault, drug trafficking, extortion, 

firearms offenses, home invasion robberies, homicide, 

intimidation, shootings, and weapons trafficking. NDIC 

reporting indicates that gang control over drug distribution and disputes over drug territory has increased, 

which may be responsible for the increase in violence 

in many areas. Conflict between gangs, gang migration 

into rival gang territory, and the release of incarcerated 

gang members back into the community has also resulted in an increase in gang-related crime and violence 

in many jurisdictions, according to NGIC reporting.

Table 2. Percentage of Violent Crime Committed 

by Gangs as reported by NGIC Law Enforcement 

Partners

% of violent crime 

committed by gangs

% of LE

Officials

1-25% 34.0%

26-50% 28.4%

51-75% 22.7%

76-100% 14.9%
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Chart 2. Threat Posed by Gangs, as Reported by Law Enforcement.

The NGIC collected intelligence from its law enforcement partners nationwide in an effort to capture the criminal 

threat posed by national-level street, prison, outlaw motorcycle, and neighborhood-based gangs in their communities. 

The following chart represents the percentage of gang involvement in crime.

Source: 2011 NGIC data

High Moderate Low None

0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0% 30.0% 35.0% 40.0%

Vandalism

Threats/Intimidation

Extortion

Larceny/Theft

Motor Vehicle Theft

Burglary

Robbery

Aggravated Assault

Homicide

30.2%

31.0%

14.6%

3.5%

30.2%

29.0%

16.3%

5.1%

8.4%

15.0%

28.8%

13.1%

17.1%

36.6%

19.6%

3.6%

14.2%

27.8%

27.1%

8.4%

19.6%

31.2%

22.6%

6.2%

25.3%

36.2%

14.9%

6.6%

31.8%

34.3%

13.8%

5.2%

17.1%

20.6%

23.3%

15.2%

Nationwide Gang Involvement in Major Crime

*Responses of unknown rates of gang involvement are not visually represented in this chart
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According to National Youth Gang Survey reporting, 

larger cities and suburban counties accounted for the 

majority of gang-related violence and more than 96 percent of all gang homicides in 2009.1 As previous studies 

have indicated, neighborhood-based gangs and drug 

crews continue to pose the most significant criminal 

threat in these regions.

•	 Law enforcement officials in the Washington, 

DC metropolitan region are concerned about a 

spate of gang-related violence in their area. In 

February 2011, ICE officials indicted 11 MS-13 

members for a two-year spree of murders, stabbings, assaults, robberies, and drug distribution. 

Likewise, gangs such as MS-13 and Bloods in 

Prince George’s County, Maryland, are suspected to be involved in up to 16 homicides since 

January 2011.2

•	 USMS reported 5,705 gang-affiliated felony 

fugitives in 2010, a 14 percent increase from the 

number of gang fugitives in 2009. California and 

Texas report the highest number of gang fugitives, with 1,284 and 542 respectively.

Gang-Related Drug Distribution and

Trafficking

Gang involvement and control of the retail drug trade 

poses a serious threat to public safety and stability in 

most major cities and in many mid-size cities because 

such distribution activities are routinely associated with 

lethal violence. Violent disputes over control of drug 

territory and enforcement of drug debts frequently occur 

among gangs in both urban and suburban areas, as 

gangs expand their control of drug distribution in many 

jurisdictions, according to NDIC and NGIC reporting. In 

2010, law enforcement agencies in 51 major US cities 

reported moderate to significant levels of gang-related 

drug activity.

NDIC survey data indicates that 69 percent of US 

law enforcement agencies report gang involvement in drug distribution.

•	 In June 2010, a joint federal-state law enforcement operation led to the arrest of eight people 

linked to a San Gabriel Valley street gang 

involved in violent crimes and methamphetamine 

trafficking in support of the California Mexican 

Mafia (La Eme).3

NDIC reporting suggests that gangs are advancing beyond their traditional role as local retail drug distributors 

in large cities and becoming more influential in largescale drug trafficking, resulting in an increase in violent 

crime in several regions of the country.4

•	 Law enforcement reporting indicates that gangrelated drug distribution and trafficking has 

resulted in an increase of kidnappings, assaults, 

robberies and homicides along the US Southwest border region.

Gang involvement in drug trafficking has also resulted 

in the expansion and migration of some gangs into new 

US communities, according to NDIC reporting.

•	 Gang members from the Midwest are migrating 

to southern states to expand their drug trafficking operations.
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Juvenile Gangs

Many jurisdictions are experiencing an increase in juvenile 

gangsd and violence, which is often attributed, in part, to 

the increased incarceration rates of older members and 

the aggressive recruitment of juveniles in schools. Gangs 

have traditionally targeted youths because of their vulnerability and susceptibility to recruitment tactics, as well as 

their likelihood of avoiding harsh criminal sentencing and 

willingness to engage in violence.

NGIC reporting indicates that juvenile gangs are 

responsible for a majority of crime in various 

jurisdictions in Arizona, California, Connecticut, 

Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, 

Missouri, North Carolina, New Hampshire, South 

Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.

•	 Juvenile gang members in some communities 

are hosting parties and organizing special events 

which develop into opportunities for recruiting, 

drugs, sexual exploitation, and criminal activity.

•	 Gangster Rap gangs, often comprised of juveniles, are forming and are being used to launder 

drug money through seemingly legitimate businesses, according to NGIC reporting.

Gang Alliances and Collaboration

Collaboration between rival gangs and criminal organizations and increased improvement in communications, 

transportation, and technology have enabled nationallevel gangs to expand and secure their criminal networks 

throughout the United States and in other countries. 

d A juvenile refers to an individual under 18 years of age, 

although in some states, a juvenile refers to an individual under 

16 years of age. A juvenile gang refers to a gang that is primarily 

comprised of individuals under 18 years of age.

•	 According to NGIC reporting, gang members in 

California are collaborating with members of rival 

gangs to further criminal activities such as drug 

distribution, prostitution of minors, and money 

laundering.

•	 Gangs in the correctional system are committing 

crimes for other gangs in an effort to confuse and 

evade law enforcement. 

Gang Sophistication

Gang members are becoming more sophisticated in 

their structure and operations and are modifying their 

activity to minimize law enforcement scrutiny and 

circumvent gang enhancement laws. Gangs in several 

jurisdictions have modified or ceased traditional or 

stereotypical gang indicia and no longer display their 

colors, tattoos, or hand signs. Others are forming hybrid 

gangs to avoid police attention and make to it more difficult for law enforcement to identify and monitor them, 

according to NGIC reporting. Many gangs are engaging 

in more sophisticated criminal schemes, including white 

collar and cyber crime, targeting and infiltrating sensitive 

systems to gain access to sensitive areas or information, and targeting and monitoring law enforcement.

Figure 2. Major Cities Reporting Gang-Related 

Drug Activity in 2010

Source: NDIC 2010 National Drug Threat Survey
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Expansion of Ethnic-Based and 

Non-Traditional Gangs

Law enforcement officials in jurisdictions nationwide 

report an expansion of African, Asian, Eurasian, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern gangs, according to NGIC 

reporting. Many communities are also experiencing 

increases in hybrid and non-traditional gangs.

Asian Gangs

Asian gangs, historically limited to regions with large 

Asian populations, are expanding throughout communities nationwide. Although often considered street gangs, 

Asian gangs operate similar to Asian Criminal Enterprises with a more structured organization and hierarchy. 

They are not turf-oriented like most African-American 

and Hispanic street gangs and typically maintain a low 

profile to avoid law enforcement scrutiny. Asian gang 

members are known to prey on their own race and often 

develop a relationship with their victims before victimizing them.5 Law enforcement officials have limited knowledge of Asian gangs and often have difficulty penetrating these gangs because of language barriers and gang 

distrust of non-Asians.6

Law enforcement officials in California, Georgia, 

Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, 

Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Wisconsin report a significant increase in Asian gangs in 

their jurisdictions.

Asian gangs are involved in a host of criminal activities 

to include violent crime, drug and human trafficking, and 

white collar crime. 

•	 Asian gang members in New England and California maintain marijuana cultivation houses specifically for the manufacturing and distribution of high 

potency marijuana and pay members of the Asian 

community to reside in them, according to 2010 

NDIC and open source reporting.7

Some law enforcement agencies attribute the recent 

increase in Asian gang membership in their jurisdictions 

to the recruitment of non-Asian members into the gang 

in order to compete more effectively with other street 

gangs for territory and dominance of illicit markets. 

East African Gangs

Somali Gangs

Somali gang presence has increased in several cities throughout the United States. Somali gangs are 

most prevalent in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; 

San Diego, California; and Seattle, Washington areas, 

primarily as a result of proximity to the Mexican and 

Canadian borders, according to ICE, NGIC, and law enforcement reporting. Somali gang activity has also been 

reported in other cities throughout the United States 

such as Nashville, Tennessee; Clarkston, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; East Brunswick, New Jersey; and Tucson, 

Arizona. Unlike most traditional street gangs, Somali 

gangs tend to align and adopt gang names based on 

Figure 3. Somali Outlaws set in Minneapolis, MN

Source: Minneapolis Police Department
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clan or tribe, although a few have joined national gangs 

such as the Crips and Bloods. 

NGIC reporting indicates that East African gangs 

are present in at least 30 jurisdictions, including those in California, Georgia, Minnesota, Ohio, 

Texas, Virginia, and Washington.

Somalian gangs are involved in drug and weapons trafficking, human trafficking, credit card fraud, prostitution, 

and violent crime. Homicides involving Somali victims are 

often the result of clan feuds between gang members. 

Sex trafficking of females across jurisdictional and state 

borders for the purpose of prostitution is also a growing 

trend among Somalian gangs. 

•	 In November 2010, 29 suspected Somalian gang 

members were indicted for a prostitution trafficking operation, according to open source reporting. 

Over a 10 year period, Somalian gang members 

transported underage females from Minnesota to 

Ohio and Tennessee for prostitution.8

•	 In February 2009, five Somali gang members were 

arrested for murdering drug dealers in Dexter and 

Athens, Ohio, during home invasion robberies, according to law enforcement reporting.9

Although some Somali gangs adopt Bloods or Crips 

gang monikers, they typically do not associate with 

other African-American gangs. Somali nationals—mostly 

refugees displaced by the war(s) in Somalia and surrounding countries—tend to migrate to specific lowincome communities, which are often heavily controlled 

by local Bloods and Crips street gangs. The Somali 

youth may emulate the local gangs, which frequently 

leads to friction with other gangs, such as Bloods and 

Crips, as well as with Ethiopian gangs.

Sudanese Gangs

Sudanese gangs in the United States have been expanding since 2003 and have been reported in Iowa, 

Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, 

and Tennessee. Some Sudanese gang members have 

weapons and tactical knowledge from their involvement 

in conflicts in their native country. 

•	 The African Pride (AP) gang is one of the most 

aggressive and dangerous of the Sudanese 

street gangs in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and 

North and South Dakota. 

Caribbean Gangs

Although largely confined to the East Coast, Caribbean gangs, such as Dominican, Haitian, and Jamaican gangs, are expanding in a number of communities 

throughout the United States. 

Dominican Gangs

The Trinitarios, the most rapidly-expanding Caribbean 

gang and the largest Dominican gang, are a violent 

prison gang with members operating on the street. The 

Trinitarios are involved in homicide, violent assaults, 

robbery, theft, home invasions, and street-level drug 

distribution. Although predominate in New York and 

New Jersey, the Trinitarios have expanded to communities throughout the eastern United States, including 

Georgia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Rhode 

Island. Dominicans Don’t Play (DDP), the second largest 

Dominican gang based in Bronx, New York, are known 

for their violent machete attacks and drug trafficking 

activities in Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, 

and Pennsylvania. 

An increase in the Dominican population in several eastern US jurisdictions has resulted in the expansion and 
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migration of Dominican gangs such as the Trinitarios. 

This has led to an increase in drug trafficking, robberies, 

violent assaults in the Tri-state area. 

Haitian Gangs

Haitian gangs, such as the Florida-based Zoe Pound, 

have proliferated in many states primarily along the 

East Coast in recent years according to NGIC reporting. 

According to NGIC reporting, Haitian gangs are present in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, 

Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, 

South Carolina, and Texas. 

•	 The Zoe Pound gang, a street gang founded in 

Miami, Florida by Haitian immigrants in the United 

States, is involved in drug trafficking, robbery, and 

related violent crime. In February 2010, 22 suspected Zoe Pound members in Chicago, Illinois, 

were charged with possession of and conspiracy 

to traffic powder and crack cocaine from Illinois to 

Florida, according to FBI reporting.10

•	 The Haitian Boys Posse and Custer Street Gang 

are involved in a myriad of criminal activities including drug and weapons trafficking, robberies, 

shootings and homicides along the East Coast.

Jamaican Gangs

Traditional Jamaican gangs operating in the United States 

are generally unsophisticated and lack a significant hierarchical structure, unlike gangs in Jamaica. Many active 

Jamaican gangs operating in the United States maintain 

ties to larger criminal organizations and gangs in Jamaica, such as the Shower Posse or the Spangler Posse. 

Jamaican gang members in the United States engage in 

drug and weapons trafficking. 

NGIC reporting indicates that Jamaican gangs are 

most active in California, Maryland, Missouri, and 

New Jersey.

Figure 4. Trinitarios Insignia

Source: ATF

Trinitario members arrested for drug and 

firearms violations

In August 2010, the FBI arrested three Rhode 

Island Trinitario members for conspiracy to distribute MDMA and firearms violations. Seventeen 

other Trinitario members also allegedly collected 

money to buy weapons, hire lawyers, and aid 

members (brothers) in prison.

Source: DOJ: District of Rhode Island, August 26, 2010
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Non-Traditional Gangs

Hybrid Gangs

The expansion of hybrid gangs—non-traditional gangs 

with multiple affiliations—is a continued phenomenon in 

many jurisdictions nationwide. Because of their multiple 

affiliations, ethnicities, migratory nature, and nebulous 

structure, hybrid gangs are difficult to track, identify, and 

target as they are transient and continuously evolving. 

Furthermore, these multi-ethnic, mixed-gender gangs 

pose a unique challenge to law enforcement because 

they are adopting national symbols and gang members 

often crossover from gang to gang. Hybrid gangs are of 

particular concern to law enforcement because members often escalate their criminal activity in order to gain 

attention and respect. 

Hybrid gangs, which are present in at least 25 states, 

are fluid in size and structure, yet tend to adopt similar 

characteristics of larger urban gangs, including their 

own identifiers, rules, and recruiting methods.11 Like 

most street gangs, hybrid gang members commit a 

multitude of street and violent crime.12 Law enforcement reporting suggests that hybrid gangs have evolved 

from neighborhood crews that formed to expand drug 

trafficking, or from an absence of loyalty to nationally 

recognized gangs in their region.

•	 Law enforcement officials in many jurisdictions 

nationwide report an increase in juvenile gang 

membership and violent crime among hybrid and 

local gangs, according to 2010 NGIC reporting.

•	 NGIC reporting indicates that hybrid gangs are 

dominating nationally recognized gangs in some 

jurisdictions and merging with other gangs to 

expand their membership. 

Juggalos

The Juggalos, a loosely-organized hybrid gang, are 

rapidly expanding into many US communities. Although 

recognized as a gang in only four states, many Juggalos subsets exhibit gang-like behavior and engage in 

criminal activity and violence. Law enforcement officials 

in at least 21 states have identified criminal Juggalo 

sub-sets, according to NGIC reporting.e

•	 NGIC reporting indicates that Juggalo gangs are 

expanding in New Mexico primarily because they 

are attracted to the tribal and cultural traditions 

of the Native Americans residing nearby.

Most crimes committed by Juggalos are sporadic, 

disorganized, individualistic, and often involve simple 

assault, personal drug use and possession, petty 

theft, and vandalism. However, open source reporting 

e Juggalos are traditionally fans of the musical group the Insane 

Clown Posse. Arizona, California, Pennsylvania, and Utah are the 

only US states that recognize Juggalos as a gang. 

Hybrid and Almighty Latin King 

Nation (ALKN) Gang Members Arrested 

on Drug Charges

In November 2010, hybrid gang members in 

Pontiac, Michigan, known the “New World Order,” 

were charged along with members of the ALKN 

for numerous drug offenses. Several guns, drugs, 

dozens of cell phones and $10,000 in cash were 

seized by FBI, DEA and local police departments. 

Many of the gang members arrested were juveniles and young adults.

Source: Online article “7 Members of 2 Gangs in 

Pontiac Face Drug charges” MyFoxdetroit.com; November 14, 2010
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suggests that a small number of Juggalos are forming 

more organized subsets and engaging in more gang-like 

criminal activity, such as felony assaults, thefts, robberies, and drug sales.Social networking websites are a 

popular conveyance for Juggalo sub-culture to communicate and expand.

•	 In January 2011, a suspected Juggalo member 

shot and wounded a couple in King County, 

Washington, according to open source reporting.13

Juggalos’ disorganization and lack of structure within 

their groups, coupled with their transient nature, makes 

it difficult to classify them and identify their members 

and migration patterns. Many criminal Juggalo subsets are comprised of transient or homeless individuals, 

according to law enforcement reporting. Most Juggalo 

criminal groups are not motivated to migrate based 

upon traditional needs of a gang. However, law enforcement reporting suggests that Juggalo criminal activity has increased over the past several years and has 

expanded to several other states. Transient, criminal 

Juggalo groups pose a threat to communities due to the 

potential for violence, drug use/sales, and their general 

destructive and violent nature. 

•	 In January 2010, two suspected Juggalo associates were charged with beating and robbing an 

elderly homeless man.14

Juggalos

Although law enforcement officials in Arizona, 

California, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Washington 

report the most Juggalo gang-related criminal 

activity, Juggalos are present in Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, New Hampshire, 

North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, according to 

NGIC reporting. 

Figure 5. Juggalo member

Source: ATF
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Gangs and Alien Smuggling, 

Human Trafficking, and 

Prostitution

Gang involvement in alien smuggling, human trafficking, and prostitution is increasing primarily due to their 

higher profitability and lower risks of detection and punishment than that of drug and weapons trafficking. Over 

the past year, federal, state, and local law enforcement 

officials in at least 35 states and US territories have 

reported that gangs in their jurisdictions are involved in 

alien smuggling, human trafficking, or prostitution.f

Alien Smuggling

Many street gangs are becoming involved in alien 

smuggling as a source of revenue. According to US law 

enforcement officials, tremendous incentive exists for 

gangs to diversify their criminal enterprises to include 

alien smuggling, which can be more lucrative and less 

risky than the illicit drug trade. Over the past two years 

numerous federal, state, and local law enforcement 

agencies nationwide have reported gang involvement in 

incidents of alien smuggling. In some instances, gang 

members were among those being smuggled across the 

border into the United States following deportation. In 

other cases, gang members facilitated the movement of 

migrants across the US-Mexico border.g

f Alien smuggling involves facilitating the illegal entry of aliens 

for financial or other tangible benefits. It can involve an individual 

or a criminal organization. Business relationships typically cease 

once the individual has reached their destination. Human trafficking involves recruitment, transportation, and harboring of 

persons through force, fraud, or coercion for labor or services 

that result in slavery, involuntary servitude, or debt bondage. The 

business relationship does not end and often becomes exploitative and violent.

g According to the United Nations, over 90 percent of Mexican migrants illegally entering the United States are assisted 

by professional smugglers. Although most of the migrants are 

smuggled in trucks, many have been smuggled by rail, on foot, 

and tunnels.

Figure 6. An immigrant is 

smuggled in a vehicle

Source: FBI

Increasing Coordination between Mexican 

Drug Cartels, Alien Smuggling Networks, and 

US Based Gangs

Federal, state, and local law enforcement officials 

are observing a growing nexus between the Mexican drug cartels, illegal alien smuggling rings, and 

US-based gangs. The alien smuggling networks 

that operate along the Southwest border are unable to move human cargo through drug cartel 

controlled corridors without paying a fee. The 

typical Mexican illegal alien now pays approximately $1,200 to $2,500 for entry into the United 

States. The fee is considerably higher for aliens 

smuggled from countries other than Mexico, 

which may even be more alluring for the cartels. It 

is estimated that criminals earn billions of dollars 

each year by smuggling aliens through Mexico 

into the United States.

Source: House Committee on Homeland Security, 

US Congress
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The Barrio Azteca, Mexican Mafia, MS-13, 18th Street 

Gang, and Somali gangs have all reportedly been 

involved in alien smuggling, according to NGIC and law 

enforcement reporting.

•	 In October 2009, ICE agents in Los Angeles, 

California, arrested suspects linked to a drug 

trafficking and alien smuggling ring with close 

ties to the Drew Street clique of the Avenues 

(Sureño) street gang in Los Angeles. The ring allegedly smuggled more than 200 illegal aliens per 

year into the United States from Mexico, concealing them in trucks and hidden compartments 

of vehicles and then hiding them in a store house 

in Los Angeles (See Figure 7).15

Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is another source of revenue for some 

gangs. Victims—typically women and children— are 

often forced, coerced, or led with fraudulent pretense 

into prostitution and forced labor.16 The Bloods, MS13, Sureños, and Somali gangs have been reportedly 

involved in human trafficking, according to multiple law 

enforcement and NGIC reporting.

•	 Some gangs in the New England area are combining human trafficking and drug trafficking 

operations, where females are used to courier 

drugs and participate in prostitution.

•	 In November 2010, federal law enforcement officials indicted 29 members of a Somalian gang in 

Minneapolis for operating an interstate sex trafficking ring that sold and transported underage 

African-American and Somalian females from 

Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Columbus, Ohio, and 

Nashville, Tennessee, for prostitution, according 

to FBI and ICE reporting.17

Prostitution

Prostitution is also a major source of income for many 

gangs. Gang members often operate as pimps, luring 

or forcing at-risk, young females into prostitution and 

controlling them through violence and psychological 

abuse.h Asian gangs, Bloods, Crips, Gangster Disciples, 

MS-13, Sureños, Vice Lords, and members of OMGs 

are involved in prostitution operations, according to FBI, 

NGIC, and multiple law enforcement reporting.

NGIC law enforcement partners report that gangs 

in their jurisdiction are involved in prostitution, 

some of which involves child prostitution.

h For years, gang members used Internet websites to advertise 

the sale of their victims. However, recently several Internet sites 

including Craigslist have eliminated their erotic services personal 

advertisement sections.

Human Trafficking Global Statistics

•	 18,000 to 20,000 individuals are trafficked 

into the United States each year.

•	 12.3 million worldwide victims of forced 

labor, bonded labor, and prostitution.

•	 1.2 million worldwide victims are children; 

1.4 million are victims of commercial 

sexual exploitation, of which 98% are 

women and girls.

•	 32% of the victims are used for forced 

economic exploitation, of which 56% are 

women and girls

Sources: US Dept. of State TIP Report 2010; UN GIFT 

Global Report on TIP Feb. 2010
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•	 Prostitution is reportedly the second largest 

source of income for San Diego, California, 

gangs. According to November 2010 open 

source reporting, African-American street gangs 

in San Diego are pimping young females to 

solicit males.18

Gangs and Criminal Organizations

Gangs & Drug Trafficking

Organizations

Many US-based gangs have established strong working 

relationships with Central America and Mexico-based 

DTOs to perpetuate the smuggling of drugs across the 

US-Mexico and US-Canada borders. MDTOs control 

most of the cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and 

marijuana trafficked into the United States from Mexico 

and regularly employ lethal force to protect their drug 

shipments in Mexico and while crossing the US-Mexico 

border, according to NGIC and NDIC reporting.i

Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations

MDTOs are among the most prominent DTOs largely because of their control over the production of most drugs 

consumed in the United States. They are known to regularly collaborate with US-based street and prison gang 

members and occasionally work with select OMG and 

White Supremacist groups, purely for financial gain (see 

Appendix B). The prospect of financial gain is resulting 

in the suspension of traditional racial and ideological 

division among US prison gangs, providing MDTOs the 

means to further expand their influence over drug trafficking in the United States.19 NDIC reporting indicates 

that Hispanic and African American street gangs are 

i

 MDTOs control up to 80 percent of wholesale cocaine distribution in the United States.

expanding their influence over drug distribution in rural 

and suburban areas and acquire drugs directly from 

MDTOs in Mexico or along the Southwest border.20

NGIC law enforcement partners report that gangs 

in their jurisdiction have ties to Mexican criminal 

organizations, such as MDTOs.

•	 Well-established US prison gangs such as the 

Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos (HPL), La Eme, 

the Texas Syndicate, Barrio Azteca and the 

Tango Blast are reportedly aligned with or connected to MDTOs. 

•	 NDIC reporting indicates that street gangs such 

as the Latin Kings, MS-13, Sureños, and Norteños maintain working relationships with MDTOs.21 Sureños in California and South Carolina 

maintain an association with the Los Zetas Cartel 

in Mexico, according to 2010 NGIC reporting.

•	 According to 2010 California Department of 

Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and open 

source reporting, some Aryan Brotherhood and 

La Eme prison gang members—bitter rivals 

inside prison—work together with MDTOs to 

smuggle drugs into California and prisons, steal 

vehicles, smuggle illegal weapons into Mexico, 

and intimidate rivals of the Mexican cartels.22

Many Los Angeles-based Sinaloa cartel members 

use local gang members to assist in or commit 

kidnappings, acquire or sell drugs, and collect 

drug proceeds. 

Source: DHS September 2010; DEA November 2010
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MDTOs contract with street and prison gangs along 

the Southwest border to enforce and secure smuggling 

operations in Mexico and the United States, particularly 

in California and Texas border communities.23 Gang 

members who are US citizens are valuable to MDTOs, 

as they can generally cross the US-Mexico border with 

less law enforcement scrutiny and are therefore less 

likely to have illicit drug loads interdicted.24 MDTOs use 

street and prison gang members in Mexico, Texas, and 

California to protect smuggling routes, collect debts, 

transport illicit goods, including drugs and weapons, 

and execute rival traffickers.25 Many of these crimes are 

committed in exchange for money and drugs, and as a 

result, street and prison gangs in the United States have 

gained greater control over drug distribution in rural 

and suburban areas. Gang members, including Barrio Azteca, MS-13 and Sureños have been intercepted 

driving with weapons and currency toward Mexico from 

such states as California, Colorado, Georgia, and Texas 

according to open source reporting. 

Gangs’ increased collaboration with MDTOs has altered 

the dynamics of the drug trade at the wholesale level. 

US gangs, which traditionally served as the primary 

organized retail or mid-level distributor of drugs in most 

major US cities, are now purchasing drugs directly from 

the cartels, thereby eliminating the mid-level wholesale 

dealer. Furthermore, advanced technology, such as 

wireless Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) 

capabilities, has made the recruitment, collaboration, 

and coordination of criminal activity more efficient and 

lucrative, and allows direct contact between the gangs 

and DTOs.26 To increase their control over drug trafficking in smaller markets, street gangs have acquired large 

wholesale quantities of drugs at lower prices directly 

from DTOs in Mexico and along the US Southwest 

border.27

Figure 7. Mexican Drug Cartels

Source: Stratfor Global Intelligence

Arizona New Mexican 

Mafia

Aryan Brotherhood

Avenues

Bandidos

Barrio Azteca

Barrio Westside

Black Guerilla Family

Bloods

California Mexican 

Mafia (Eme)

Crips

Hardtimes 13

Happytown Pomona

Hells Angels

Hermanos de 

Pistoleros Latinos 

(HPL)

La Nuestra Familia

Latin Kings

Lennox 13

Mara Salvatrucha 

(MS-13)

Mexican Mafia

Mongols

Norteños

Satins Disciples

Sureños 

Tango Blast

Texas Mexican Mafia 

(Mexikanemi)

Texas Syndicate

Tri-City Bombers

Vagos

Vatos Locos

Westside Nogalitas

Wetback Power

Wonder Boys

18th Street Gang

US-based Gangs with Ties to MDTOs
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•	 Recent intelligence indicates that the MDTO La 

Familia Michoacana has established US-based 

command-and-control groups which report to 

leaders in Mexico who manage street-level distribution in US cities.28

Gangs and Organized Criminal Groups

January 2010 FBI reporting indicates that some OMGs 

and street gangs are closely collaborating with African, 

Asian, Eurasian, and Italian organized criminal groups to 

facilitate street-level crimes such as extortion, enforcement, debt collection, and money laundering. 

•	 In May 2010, New Jersey authorities indicted 

34 members of the Lucchese crime family on 

racketeering, weapons offenses, bribery, money 

laundering, and conspiracy charges. The investigation revealed that members of the Lucchese 

family in New Jersey were working with the Nine 

Trey Gangster Bloods to smuggle drugs and cell 

phones into the East Jersey State Prison for fellow 

inmates, according to open source reporting.29

NGIC reporting indicates that some gangs are suspected 

of associating with African, Asian, and Eurasian criminal 

groups in California and Washington.j

j

 Eurasian criminal groups include Albanian, Armenian, Eastern 

European, and Russian criminal enterprises.

Major Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations

Arellano Felix

Beltran Leyva

Vicente CarrilloFuentes

Gulf Cartel

Los Zetas

Sinaloa

La Familia Michoacana

•	 Law enforcement officials in Washington suspect 

that some Asian gangs, including the Oriental 

Boyz and the Tiny Rascal Gangsters, are involved with Asian organized crime and marijuana 

cultivating groups.

•	 In February 2011, authorities in southern California charged 99 Armenian Power gang members 

with kidnapping, extortion, bank fraud, and drug 

trafficking. Armenian Power members reportedly 

have ties to high-level crime figures in Armenia, 

Russia, and Georgia.30
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Chart 3. Gang Associations with Criminal Organizations.

The NGIC collected intelligence from law enforcement officials nationwide in an effort to 

identify associations between gangs and criminal organizations. The following figures represent the percentage of law enforcement who report that gangs in their jurisdiction have ties 

to various criminal organizations.

0.00%

5.00%

10.00%

15.00%

20.00%

25.00%

30.00%

35.00%

40.00%

Mexican

Asian

Colombian

Russian

Other Organized Crime

Dominican

East African

La Cosa Nostra

Jamaican

Haitian

Domestic Terrorists

Foreign Terrorists

36.39%

9.65%

8.23%

7.28% 7.28%

6.33%

5.38%

4.27%

3.48% 2.85% 2.69%

1.74%

Gang Associations with Criminal Organizations

*Percentages are based on NGIC data
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Gangs and Corrections Issues

Prison gang-related crime and violence in the nation’s 

corrections system poses a significant threat to facility 

employees and a growing threat in many communities. 

Once incarcerated, most street gang members join an 

established prison gang to ensure their protection. Based 

on data provided by federal and state correctional agencies, the NGIC estimates that there are approximately 

230,000 gang members incarcerated in federal and state 

prisons nationwide. Their large numbers and dominant 

presence allows prison gangs to employ bribery, intimidation, and violence to exert influence and control over 

many correctional facilities. Violent disputes over control 

of drug territory and enforcement of drug debts frequently 

occur among incarcerated gang members.

Prison/Street Gang Connections

Many incarcerated gang members continue to engage in 

gang activities following incarceration and use their connections inside prison to commit crime in the community. Prison gang members influence and control gang 

activity on the street, and exploit street gangs for money 

and other resources. 

Law enforcement officials report associations 

between street gang members and incarcerated 

gang members in their area.

Figure 8. A US prison yard Figure 9. Incarcerated MS-13 Members

•	 MS-13 members send funds not only to gang 

members on the street and in prison, but also to 

gang members in El Salvador, according to NGIC 

reporting.

Prison/Family Connection

A gang member’s incarceration often prompts his or her 

family to move closer to the correctional facility where 

the gang member is being housed. In some cases, family members assist or facilitate gang criminal activity and 

recruiting. 

Family members of gangs operate as outside facilitators, serving as messengers, drug couriers, or in any 

capacity benefiting the gang. Outside facilitators are 

provided instructions by the incarcerated gang member, 

often during a social or legal visit, and in turn pass this 

information to gang members on the streets. Family 

members have also been used to assist prison escapes 

and smuggle contraband into correctional facilities, 

allowing incarcerated gang members to continue their 

operations inside prison.
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Communication

Incarcerated gang members often rely on family, friends, 

corrupt lawyers and corrections personnel to transmit 

their messages to gang members on the street. Incarcerated gang members exploit attorney-client privileges, 

which include unmonitored visiting and legal mail, to pass 

coded or concealed communications.k

Contraband Cell Phones

Smuggled cell phones are a continuing problem for 

prison administrators in correctional facilities throughout 

the country. Smuggled cell phones and Smart Phones 

afford incarcerated gang members more influence and 

control over street gangs through unrestricted access 

and unmonitored conversations via voice calling, Internet access, text messaging, email, and social networking websites. Instances of violence directed by inmates 

using mobile devices are also a growing concern for 

corrections officials. Incarcerated gang members communicate covertly with illegal cell phones to plan or direct criminal activities such as drug distribution, assault, 

and murder. 

Cell phones smuggled into correctional facilities 

pose the greatest threat to institution safety, according to NGIC and BOP reporting.

•	 In 2010 a New Jersey inmate was prosecuted 

for using a contraband cell phone to order the 

murder of his former girlfriend in retaliation for 

her cooperation with police regarding an investigation involving the inmate.31

k

 Legal mail refers to any correspondence sent to or received 

from a legal professional. Gang members may disguise their 

correspondence to resemble legal mail so that it is exempt from 

inspection.

Gangs in contact with incarcerated 

gang members

18th Street

415 Kumi

Arizona New Mexican 

Mafia 

Aryan Brotherhood

Aryan Brotherhood of 

Texas

Aryan Circle

Bandidos

Barrio Azteca

Black Guerilla Family

Black Gangster 

Disciples

Black P-Stone Nation

Bloods

California Mexican 

Mafia

Colorado Aryan 

Brotherhood

Crips 

Dead Man Inc. 

Dirty White Boys

Gangster Disciples 

(GD)

Grupo 25 (G-25)

Grupo 27 (G-27)

Hells Angels (MC)

Hermanos de 

Pistoleros Latinos 

(HPL)

La Nuestra Familia

Latin Kings

Los Carnales

MS-13 

Nazi Low Riders

Ñetas

Norteños

Northern Riders

Northern Structure

Outlaws

Paisas

Raza Unida

Simon City Royals

Skinheads

Sureños 

Syndicato De Nuevo 

Mexico

Texas Chicano 

Brotherhood

Texas Mexican Mafia 

(Mexikanemi-EMI)

Texas Syndicate

United Blood Nation

Valluco Tango Blast

Vice Lords

West Texas Tangos
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Illegal Cell Phones in California Prisons

The majority of illegal cell phones in California 

prisons are smuggled in by visitors or correctional 

staff. Many cell phones have also been discovered 

in legal mail and quarterly packages. In 2010, more 

than 10,000 illegal cell phones were confiscated 

from prisoners in California. 

Historically, correctional staff who have been 

caught smuggling phones have been successfully 

prosecuted only when the phone was connected 

to a more serious charge such as drug distribution, and district attorney offices rarely prosecute unless a more serious offense is involved. 

In March 2011, legislation was approved in the 

California State Senate to criminalize the use of 

cell phones in prison, including penalties for both 

smugglers and inmates.

Sources: US Bureau of Prisons and CDCR; California 

State Senate Press Release, 22 March 2011

•	 In March 2010, an off-duty captain in the South 

Carolina Department of Corrections was shot 

in his home by an armed intruder. Although the 

captain survived, the assault had been ordered 

by a South Carolina inmate using a smuggled cell 

phone.32

Leadership

Gang members who have been incarcerated are often 

more respected on the streets by younger gang members, which makes it easier to establish or re-establish 

themselves in leadership positions and order younger 

gang members to commit crimes.l These gang leaders 

also use connections made in prison to establish contacts and criminal networks in the community, which allows them to more successfully control gang operations. 

Also, in the wake of leadership disorganization at the 

street level due to indictments and arrests, a released 

gang member may find it easy to use his influence and 

status as an ‘original gangster’ (OG) or Veterano to assume control of the gang. 

Law enforcement officials report that released 

prison gang members in some jurisdictions are 

establishing or re-establishing leadership roles or 

active roles in local gangs.

Prison Radicalization 

Gang members’ vulnerability to radicalization and 

recruitment for involvement in international or domestic terrorism organizations is a growing concern to law 

enforcement. Gang members’ perceptions of disenfranchisement from or rejection of mainstream society 

and resentment towards authority makes them more 

l Gang members leave prison with the knowledge and connections that allow them to identify with a national gang which will 

garner them greater respect and “street credibility” within their 

community. 
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susceptible to joining such groups and can be attractive 

and easy targets for radicalization by extremist groups. 

NGIC reporting indicates that incarcerated gang 

members in some jurisdictions are adopting radical religious views in prison.

Prison gangs that tend to be dedicated to political or 

social issues are often more susceptible to influence by 

extremist ideologies. In some instances, prison gang 

members may even emulate various terrorist movements 

by embracing their symbolism and ideology to enhance 

the gang’s own militant image within the prison setting. 

Prison and street gang members are also susceptible on 

an individual basis to radicalization. Various correctional 

agencies have reported individual members of the Black 

Peace Stones, Crips, Latin Kings, and Insane Latin Disciples embracing radical ideologies. 

Gang Infiltration of Corrections, 

Law Enforcement, and 

Government

Gang infiltration of law enforcement, government, and 

correctional agencies poses a significant security threat 

due to the access criminals have to sensitive information pertaining to investigations or protected persons. 

Gang members serving in law enforcement agencies 

and correctional facilities may compromise security and 

criminal investigations and operations, while acquiring 

knowledge and training in police tactics and weapons. 

Corrupt law enforcement officers and correctional staff 

have assisted gang members in committing crimes and 

have impeded investigations. 

NGIC reporting indicates that gang members 

in at least 57 jurisdictions, including California, 

Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia, have applied for 

or gained employment within judicial, police, or 

correctional agencies.

•	 A Crip gang member applied for a law enforcement position in Oklahoma.

•	 OMGs engage in routine and systematic exploitation and infiltration of law enforcement and government infrastructures to protect and perpetrate 

their criminal activities. OMGs regularly solicit 

information of intelligence value from government 

or law enforcement employees. 

NGIC reporting indicates that gang members in at 

least 72 jurisdictions have compromised or corrupted judicial, law enforcement, or correctional 

staff within the past three years.

•	 In November 2010, a parole worker in New York 

was suspended for relaying confidential information to a Bloods gang member in Albany, according to open source reporting.33

•	 In July 2010, a Riverside County, California 

detention center sheriff deputy was convicted 

of assisting her incarcerated Eme boyfriend 

with murdering two witnesses in her boyfriend’s 

case.34

•	 In April 2010, a former Berwyn, Illinois police 

officer pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to 

commit racketeering and to obstruct justice for 

his part in assisting an OMG member in targeting 

and burglarizing rival businesses.35
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Gangs and Indian Country

Native American gang presence has increased on Indian 

Reservations and in federal and state prison systems 

throughout the United States over the past few years, 

according to Bureau of Justice Statistics reporting.36m

Native American gang members, operating on numerous 

reservations throughout the United States, are emulating 

Hispanic gangs such as the Barrio Aztecas, Norteños, 

and Sureños; African American gangs such as the Bloods 

and Crips; and predominately Caucasian gangs such as 

the Juggalos. Some gangs, such as the Native Mob and 

Native Pride—which primarily operates in North Dakota, 

Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin—formed in the 

prison system and then expanded to reservations, according to NGIC reporting. Although most gangs in Indian 

Country are disorganized, lack significant structure and 

ties to national-level gangs, and are incapable of attaining 

control over large geographic areas or populations, some 

are involved in serious crimes and violent activities and 

utilize Indian Reservations to facilitate and expand their 

drug operations. 

The growth of gangs on Indian Reservations is heavily 

influenced by the urban gang culture and media attention. Gang members on Indian Reservations often 

emulate national-level gangs and adopt names and 

identifiers from nationally recognized urban gangs. 

However, emulation is most often limited to identifiers—

colors, signs, symbols, names—and leadership structure is often loosely organized or absent. NGIC reporting 

indicates that national-level gangs such as the Barrio 

Azteca, Bloods, Crips, Mexican Mafia, and Norteños 

are operating on a number of Indian Reservations. Native American gang members on reservations are also 

m According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the number of 

Native Americans incarcerated in jails and prisons nationwide 

increased by approximately 2.5 percent from 2007 to 2008. 

involved in gang-related activity with gang members in 

communities outside of reservations.

NGIC reporting indicates that urban gangs such 

as the Norteños and Sureños associate and/

or influence the gang culture on several Indian 

Reservations.

In some jurisdictions, Native American gang members 

are associated with or involved in gang-related criminal 

activity with gang members off the reservation, including 

drug distribution, money laundering, assaults, and intimidation. Partnerships are often established for financial 

gain, drug distribution, and to evade law enforcement. 

Indian Country and the US Border

The shared international border and geography 

of some Indian Reservations make it conducive 

to cross-border drug trafficking activity while 

also inhibiting interdiction efforts. Increased 

security at US/Mexican borders has resulted 

in the discovery of illicit marijuana farms from 

California to South Dakota, primarily operated by 

Mexican gangs. Tighter border security makes it 

difficult for MDTOs to smuggle marijuana north 

thus raising the price of marijuana in the United 

States higher than in Mexico. Marijuana (stems 

and leaves) grown in Mexico costs $500 to $700 

per pound, whereas a pound of marijuana grown 

in Washington State can cost $2,500 to $6,000 

when sold on the East Coast.

Online News Article; The Wall Street Journal; “Mexican 

Pot Gangs Infiltrate Indian Reservations in US;” 5 November 2009; available at http://online.wsj.com/article/

SB125736987377028727.html.
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•	 The Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon 

is becoming an ideal location for illicit marijuana 

farms because of its fertile grounds and isolated 

location. Within the past few years authorities 

have seized at least 12,000 harvested adult 

marijuana plants with an estimated street value of 

$10 million.37

Geography, as well as the extent of law enforcement 

monitoring of the reservations, make some Indian Reservations conducive to cross-border drug trafficking. 

•	 As much as 20 percent of all high-potency marijuana produced in Canada each year is smuggled 

through the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation in 

New York, according to NDIC reporting.

•	 Marijuana produced in Mexico is transported by 

MDTOs through the Tohono O’odham Reservation in Arizona largely due to the 75 miles of 

lightly patrolled border with Mexico, according to 

NDIC reporting.

Gangs and the Military

Gang recruitment of active duty military personnel constitutes a significant criminal threat to the US military. 

Members of nearly every major street gang, as well as 

some prison gangs and OMGs, have been reported on 

both domestic and international military installations, 

according to NGIC analysis and multiple law enforcement reporting. Through transfers and deployments, 

military-affiliated gang members expand their culture 

and operations to new regions nationwide and worldwide, undermining security and law enforcement efforts 

to combat crime. Gang members with military training 

pose a unique threat to law enforcement personnel 

because of their distinctive weapons and combat training skills and their ability to transfer these skills to fellow 

gang members.

NGIC reporting indicates that law enforcement officials in at least 100 jurisdictions have come into 

contact with, detained, or arrested an active duty 

or former military gang member within the past 

three years.

•	 Gang members have been reported in every 

branch of the US militaryn

, although a large proportion of these gang members and dependent 

gang members of military personnel are affiliated 

with the US Army, Army Reserves, and National 

Guard branches.

Many street gang members join the military to escape 

the gang lifestyle or as an alternative to incarceration, 

but often revert back to their gang associations once 

they encounter other gang members in the military. 

Other gangs target the US military and defense systems 

n US military branches include Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, 

Marines, Navy, Army Reserves, and National Guard.

Figure 10. Graffiti on Ft. Apache-San Carlos 

Indian Reservation

Source: FBI
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to expand their territory, facilitate criminal activity such 

as weapons and drug trafficking, or to receive weapons 

and combat training that they may transfer back to their 

gang. Incidents of weapons theft and trafficking may 

have a negative impact on public safety or pose a threat 

to law enforcement officials.

As of April 2011, the NGIC has identified members of at 

least 53 gangs whose members have served in or are 

affiliated with US military. Among the identified gangs 

with military-trained members are street gangs such as 

the Asian Boyz, Bloods, Crips, Gangster Disciples, Latin 

Kings, MS-13, Sureños, Tiny Rascal Gangsters, and the 

Juggalos; the Aryan Brotherhood, Barrio Azteca, and 

Texas Syndicate prison gangs; and OMGs including the 

Bandidos, Hells Angels, Mongols, Outlaws, and Vagos. 

Some gangs, particularly OMGs, actively recruit members 

with military training or advise members without criminal 

records to join the military for necessary weapons and 

combat training. 

•	 Younger gang members without criminal records 

are attempting to join the military, as well as 

concealing tattoos and gang affiliation during the 

recruitment process, according to NGIC reporting.

Deployments have resulted in integrating gang members with service members and/or dependents on or 

near overseas military installations, including those in 

Afghanistan, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Japan, and South 

Korea. US military officials have reported a rise in gang 

graffiti both on and off post in Afghanistan and Iraq 

(see Figure 12).

Figure 11. ‘Support your local Hells Angels’ graffiti 

on military vehicle in Iraq

Source: FBI

Figure 12. A soldier in a combat zone 

throwing gang signs

Source: FBI
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Table 3. Gangs with Members Who have Served in the US Military 

Gang Name Type Military Branch(s)

18th Street Gang Street Army, Marines, Navy

Aryan Brotherhood Prison Army, Marines, Navy

Asian Boyz Street Army

Asian Crips Street Army

Avenues Gang Street Marines

Bandidos OMG Army, Marines

Barrio Azteca Prison Marines

Black Disciples Street Army, Marines, Navy

Black Guerilla Family* Prison Army

Bloods Street Army, Army Reserves, Coast Guard, Marines, Navy

Brotherhood OMG Marines

Crips Street Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy

Devils Disciples OMG Unknown

East Side Longos Street Army, Special Forces

Florencia 13 Street Army, Marines

Fresno Bulldogs Street National Guard, Marines

Gangster Disciples Street Army, Marines, Navy, National Guard

Georgia Boys (Folk Nation) Street Army

Haitian Mob Street Army

Hells Angels OMG All branches

Iron Horsemen OMG Army

Juggalos/ICP Street Army, Air Force

Korean Dragon Family Street Marines

Latin Kings Street Army, Army Reserves, Marines, Navy

Legion of Doom OMG Air Force

Life is War Street Army

Los Zetas Street Army
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Gang Name Type Military Branch(s)

Maniac Latin Disciples Street Marines

Mexican Posse 13 Street Army

Military Misfits OMG Marines, Navy

Molochs OMG Marines

Mongols OMG Marines, Navy

Moorish Nation Separatist Army

MS-13 Street Army, Marines, Navy

Norteños Street Army, Marines, National Guard, Navy

Outlaws OMG All branches

Peckerwoods Street Marines, Navy, National Guard, Reserves

Red Devils OMG Army/ Coast Guard

Simon City Royals Street Navy

Sons of Hell OMG Marines

Sons of Samoa Street Army

Southside Locos Street Army

Sureños Street Army, Marines, Navy

Tango Blast Prison Army*

Texas Syndicate Prison Army, Marines

Tiny Rascal Gangsters Street Army

United Blood Nation Street Army

Vagos OMG Army, Marines, Navy

Vatos Locos Street Army

Vice Lords Street Army

Wah Ching Gang Street Army

Warlocks OMG Air Force, Marines

* Only gang graffiti was identified
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Gangs and the US Border

The Southwest Border

The US Southwest Border regiono represents a continuing criminal threat to the United States. The rugged, 

rural, and porous area along the nearly 2,000 miles of 

contiguous US-Mexican territory invites widespread 

criminal activity, including drug and arms trafficking, 

alien smuggling, human trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, and public corruption. US-based gangs, MDTOs, 

and other criminal enterprises in both the United States 

and Mexico are readily exploiting this fluid region and incur enormous profit by establishing wide-reaching drug 

networks; assisting in the smuggling drugs, arms, and 

illegal immigrants; and serving as enforcers for MDTO

interests on the US side of the border. 

o The US Southwest Border includes the southern borders of 

California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

Violence in Mexico—particularly in its northern border 

states—has escalated with over 34,000 murders committed in Mexico over the past four years.38 While intensified scrutiny from Mexican law enforcement has forced 

significant disruptions in several dangerous MDTOs, 

such disruptions have also served to disrupt the balance 

of power among these organizations. This has prompted 

drug cartel rivalries to employ more aggressive tactics 

as they attempt to assert control over the Southwest 

border region and its highly lucrative drug trafficking 

corridors.39 Although the majority of the violence from 

feuding drug cartels occurs in Mexico,p Mexican drug 

cartel activity has fueled crime in the porous US Southwest Border region, where easy access to weapons, 

a high demand for drugs, ample opportunity for law 

enforcement corruption, and a large Hispanic population 

ripe for recruitment and exploitation exists.40

Hispanic prison gangs along the Southwest border 

region are strengthening their ties with MDTOs to acquire wholesale quantities of drugs, according to NDIC 

reporting.41 In exchange for a consistent drug supply, 

US-based gangs smuggle and distribute drugs, collect 

drug proceeds, launder money, smuggle weapons, commit kidnappings, and serve as lookouts and enforcers 

on behalf of the MDTOs. MDTOs subsequently profit 

from increased drug circulation in the United States, 

while US-based gangs have access to a consistent drug 

supply which expands their influence, power, and ability 

to recruit.42

p Although some US and local law enforcement officials maintain 

that violent crime in Southwest Border states has decreased in 

the past few years, the effects of such violence, including drug 

trafficking activity and migration patterns of Mexican citizens 

fleeing the violence in Northern Mexico, are most acutely 

reflected in the US Southwest Border Region. Furthermore, as 

the point of entry for the vast majority of illicit drugs that are 

smuggled into the United States, the Southwest Border Region is 

most susceptible to any spillover violence. 

Figure 13. The Southwest Border Region

Source: America.gov
40 National Gang Intelligence Center

According to NDIC reporting, more than 45 percent of law enforcement agencies in the Southwestern United States report that gangs in their 

jurisdiction are moderately to highly involved in 

drug activity, while 30 percent indicate that street 

gang involvement in drug activity increased within 

the past year.

Gang-related activity and violence has increased along 

the Southwest border region, as US-based gangs seek 

to prove their worth to the drug cartels, compete with 

other gangs for favor, and act as US-based enforcers for 

cartels which involves home invasions, robbery, kidnapping, and murder.

•	 In July 2010, Mexican authorities arrested two 

members of the Barrio Azteca for the murders 

of a US Consulate employee and her husband 

in Juarez, Mexico. The gang, who allegedly 

committed the murders on behalf of the Juarez 

Cartel, has also made several threats against law 

enforcement officials.43q

Arrangements between gangs operating along the 

Southwest border and MDTOs are the result of physical proximity and strong familial ties that many USbased Hispanic gang members retain with family and 

friends in Mexico. 

Northern Border

Gangs pose a growing problem for law enforcement 

along the US-Canada border, particularly the border 

areas in the New England and Pacific Regions. Gangs 

smuggle drugs, cigarettes, firearms, and immigrants 

across the US-Canada borders, according to NDIC reporting.44 Members of several regional- and national-level 

q The Barrio Azteca works for the Juarez Cartel on both the US

and Mexican sides of the border.

gangs, including Asian Boyz, Hells Angels, and Outlaws, 

smuggle large quantities of illicit drugs across the USCanada border in New England, often conducting their 

smuggling operations in association with members of 

transnational criminal and drug trafficking organizations. 

According to law enforcement officials in the Pacific 

Region, members of several gangs, including the Hells 

Angels and Asian gangs, engage in cross-border criminal 

activity in their jurisdictions. 

•	 Hells Angels members have reportedly smuggled 

MDMA (Ecstasy) from British Columbia, Canada 

into Bellingham, Washington, according to 2010 

open source reporting.

Figure 14. Los Zetas Commando Medallion

Source: ATF

Los Zetas Drug Trafficking Organization

Los Zetas organization was established in the late 

1990s as the enforcement arm of the Gulf Cartel 

drug trafficking organization to protect and expand 

the Gulf Cartel’s operations. Consisting of highly 

trained soldiers who defected from the Mexican 

Special Air Mobile Force Group (GAFE), the Zetas 

have evolved from a wing of the Gulf Cartel into 

their own drug trafficking organization.
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versatile, and allow tens of thousands of gang members 

to easily communicate, recruit, and form new gang alliances nationwide and worldwide.r

NGIC reporting indicates that a majority of gang 

members use the Internet for recruitment, gang 

promotion, and cyber-bullying or intimidation.

Many also use the Internet for identity theft, computer hacking, and phishing schemes.

r

 These estimates were derived from the large number of gang 

members populating social networking Web sites such as the 

Hoodup.com, Facebook, and MySpace. 

•	 Asian DTOs smuggle large quantities of MDMA

through and between ports of entry along the 

US–Canada border, according to 2010 NDIC 

reporting.45

Canadian DTOs smuggle significant amounts of cash 

generated from the US distribution of Canada-produced 

drugs into Canada, according to NDIC reporting. The 

Akwesasne Territory, which straddles the US–Canada 

border, is one of the most prominent smuggling corridors for Canada-bound bulk cash. The topography of 

the US-Canada border is conducive to bulk cash smuggling because currency interdiction by law enforcement 

officials is often hampered by the border’s length and 

rugged terrain.46

Gangs, Technology, and 

Communication

Gangs are becoming increasingly savvy and are embracing new and advanced technology to facilitate 

criminal activity and enhance their criminal operations. 

Prepaid cell phones, social networking and microblogging websites, VoIP systems, virtual worlds, and gaming 

systems enable gang members to communicate globally 

and discreetly. Gangs are also increasingly employing 

advanced countermeasures to monitor and target law 

enforcement while engaging in a host of criminal activity.

Gang members routinely utilize the Internet to communicate with one another, recruit, promote their gang, 

intimidate rivals and police, conduct gang business, 

showcase illegal exploits, and facilitate criminal activity 

such as drug trafficking, extortion, identity theft, money 

laundering, and prostitution. Social networking, microblogging, and video-sharing websites—such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter—are now more accessible, 

Internet Use for Propaganda, Intimidation, and 

Recruitment

According to open sources and law enforcement reporting, since 2005, MDTOs have exploited blogs and popular websites like YouTube 

and MySpace for propaganda and intimidation. 

MDTOs have posted hundreds of videos depicting interrogations or executions of rival MDTO

members. Other postings include video montages 

of luxury vehicles, weapons, and money set to 

the music of songs with lyrics that glorify the drug 

lifestyle. While some of these postings may offer 

specific recruitment information, they serve more 

as tools for propaganda and intimidation.
42 National Gang Intelligence Center

•	 According to NGIC reporting, gang recruitment 

and intimidation is heavily facilitated through the 

Internet. Gangs use social networking sites such 

as Facebook to promote their gang, post photos 

of their gang lifestyle, and display their bravado, 

which ultimately influences other youth to join 

gangs.

•	 NGIC law enforcement partners report that 

gangs in their jurisdiction are frequently using the 

Internet to recruit and communicate with gang 

members throughout the region, nationwide, and 

in Central and South America. Law enforcement 

officials in Texas report that incarcerated gang 

members use Facebook and MySpace to recruit.

•	 Police in Missouri report a rise in “promotion 

teams”—often consisting of gang members—using Internet chat rooms to promote clubs and 

parties for a fee, according to NGIC reporting.

The proliferation of social networking websites has 

made gang activity more prevalent and lethal – moving 

gangs from the streets into cyber space. Gang members, criminals, and drug traffickers are using the Internet not only to recruit and build their social networks, 

but to expand and operate their criminal networks 

without the proximity once needed for communication. 

Likewise, youth in other regions and countries are influenced by what they see online and may be encouraged 

to connect with or emulate a gang, facilitating the global 

spread of gang culture.

•	 Gang members in Missouri and Nebraska are 

increasingly using social media to recruit and 

communicate with other gang members, according to NGIC reporting.

According to information obtained from multiple state 

and federal law enforcement sources, incarcerated 

gang members are accessing micro-blogging and social 

networking web sites such as MocoSpace and Twitter 

with smuggled prepaid cellular telephones and using the 

messaging features to coordinate criminal activity.

Street gang members are also involved in cyber attacks, 

computer hacking, and phishing operations, often to 

commit identity theft and fraud. 

Second Life Virtual World

Second Life is a computer-based virtual world 

with a simulated environment where users 

inhabit and interact via avatars, or graphical representations. The virtual world may depict a real 

world or a fantasy world. Users communicate 

through text-chat and real-time voice-based 

chat. Second Life provides versatility and anonymity and allows for covert communications. 

Because of its anonymity and versatility, gang 

members could potentially use Second Life 

to recruit, spread propaganda, commit other 

crimes such as drug trafficking, and receive 

training for real-world criminal operations.

Source: Information available at 

www.secondlife.com
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Gangs and Weapons 

Gang members are acquiring high-powered, militarystyle weapons and equipment, resulting in potentially 

lethal encounters with law enforcement officers, rival 

gang members, and innocent bystanders. Law enforcement officials in several regions nationwide report gang 

members in their jurisdiction are armed with militarystyle weapons, such as high-caliber semiautomatic 

rifles, semiautomatic variants of AK-47 assault rifles, 

grenades, and body armor.

Law enforcement officials in 34 jurisdictions report 

that the majority of gang-related crime is committed with firearms.

Gang members acquire firearms through a variety of 

means, including illegal purchases; straw purchases 

through surrogates or middle-men; thefts from individuals, vehicles, residences and commercial establishments; theft from law enforcement and military officials, from gang members with connections to military 

sources of supply, and from other gangs, according to 

multiple law enforcement and NGIC reporting. 

Gang members are becoming more sophisticated and 

methodical in their methods of acquiring and purchasing firearms. Gang members often acquire their firearms 

through theft or through a middleman, often making a 

weapons trace more difficult.

Enlisted military personnel are also being utilized by 

gang members as a ready source for weapons. 

•	 In November 2010, three former US Marines 

were arrested in Los Angeles, California, for selling illegal assault weapons to Florencia 13 gang 

members, according to open souce reporting.47

•	 In November 2010, a US Navy Seal from San 

Diego and two others were arrested in Colorado 

for smuggling at least 18 military issued machine guns and 14 other firearms from Iraq and 

Figure 15. Weapons recovered from Barrio Azteca 

Members in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Source: ATF

Figure 16. Zip gun attached to the fence of a Gang 

Task Force in Hemet, CA

Source: ATF
44 National Gang Intelligence Center

Afghanistan into the United States for sale and 

shipment to Mexico, according to open source 

reporting.48

Gang members are employing countermeasures to 

monitor, intercept, and target law enforcement, sometimes with elaborate weapons and devices. 

•	 In February 2010, a Riverside County gang task 

force officer in California was nearly killed when 

suspected members of a White Supremacist 

gang rigged a zip gun on a gang task force 

security fence to discharge if anyone entered 

their property (see Figure 20). In December 2009, 

the same group staged a natural gas explosion 

at their property intended for law enforcement 

entering the premises.49

Gangs and White Collar Crime

NGIC reporting indicates that gangs are becoming more 

involved in white collar crime, including identity theft, 

bank fraud, credit card fraud, money laundering, fencing 

stolen goods, counterfeiting, and mortgage fraud, and 

are recruiting members who possess those skill sets. 

Law enforcement officials nationwide indicate that many 

gangs in their jurisdiction are involved in some type of 

white collar crime.

•	 NGIC reporting indicates that the Bloods, Crips, 

Gangster Disciples, Vice Lords, Latin Kings, Mexican Mafia, Sureños, Norteños, La Nuestra Familia, Texas Syndicate, Aryan Brotherhood, various 

OMG and Asian gangs, and neighborhood-based 

gangs are engaging in white collar crime.

Many gang members are engaging in counterfeiting 

because of its low risks and high financial rewards. 

•	 In July 2010, a Florencia 13 gang member in Los 

Angeles was arrested for operating a lab from his 

home that manufactured pirated video games.50

•	 In April 2010, a member of the East Coast Crips 

was arrested in Los Angeles, California, for the 

sale of counterfeit goods and drug trafficking 

at a clothing store he co-owned. Police confiscated 824 counterfeit items from the store worth 

$43,762.51

Gang members are laundering profits from criminal activities such as drug trafficking and prostitution, through 

front companies such music businesses, beauty shops, 

auto repair shops, law firms, and medical offices. 

•	 Members of the Black Guerilla Family in Maryland used pre-paid retail debit cards as virtual 

Gang Members Targeting Law Enforcement 

Vehicles for Weapons

In 2009, suspected gang members in Broward 

County and West Palm Beach, Florida burglarized nearly a dozen marked and unmarked law 

enforcement vehicles stealing firearms, ballistic 

vests, and police identification.

Source: FBI-NGIC, “Gangs Targeting Law Enforcement 

for Weapons and Equipment Theft; Intelligence Bulletin; 

21 December 2009
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currency inside Maryland prisons to purchase 

drugs and further the gangs’ interests, according 

to August 2010 open source reporting.52

Some gangs, such as the Bloods and Gangster Disciples, are committing sophisticated mortgage fraud 

schemes by purchasing properties with the intent to 

receive seller assistance loans and, ultimately retain 

the proceeds from the loans, or to comingle illicit funds 

through mortgage payments. Gang members are also 

exploiting vulnerabilities in the banking and mortgage 

industries for profit. 

•	 According to open source reporting, in April 

2009, members of the Bloods in San Diego, 

California were charged with racketeering and 

mortgage fraud.53

Law Enforcement Actions and 

Resources

Gang units and task forces are a vital component in 

targeting gangs and have played a substantial role in 

mitigating gang activity in a number of US communities. 

The majority of NGIC law enforcement partners report 

that their agency has or participates in a gang task 

force, and most utilize a gang database to track and 

monitor gang members in their jurisdictions. There are 

168 FBI Violent Gang Task Forces in the United States, 

Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. In addition, ATF 

operates 31 Violent Crime Impact Teams (VCIT) and ICE

operates eight Operation Community Shield (OCS) Initiatives nationwide (see Appendix C). The collaboration 

and coordination of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies has resulted in a number of successes 

involving gang suppression efforts.

NGIC law enforcement partners in at least 107 jurisdictions report that law enforcement action has 

resulted in a decrease of gangs or gang activity in 

their region.

•	 In March 2011, officials from DHS, CBP, ICE, ATF, 

and local San Diego police were involved in the 

arrest of over 67 gang members and associates 

for drugs and cross-border crimes in the San Diego, California area. Operation Allied Shield III, a 

part of a San Diego County initiative to focus on 

prevention, detection, and suppression of crimes 

in areas impacted by border-related crime, aimed 

to seize drugs and weapons and to identify and 

observe gang members in a proactive way.54

•	 In March 2011, 35 leaders, members, and associates of the Barrio Azteca gang in Texas were 

charged in a federal indictment for various counts 

of racketeering, murder, drug offenses, money 

laundering, and obstruction of justice. Ten subjects were charged with the March 2010 murders 

of a US Consulate employee, her husband, and 

the husband of another consulate employee, in 

Juarez, Mexico.55

•	 In February 2011, FBI, ATF, ICE, and DHS, and 

numerous state and local officials charged 41 

gang members and associates from several different gangs in five districts with multiple offenses, including racketeering conspiracy, murder, 

drug and gun trafficking. The indictment involved 

members from the Click Clack gang in Kansas 

City, Missouri; the Colonias Chiques gang in Los 

Angeles; the Sureno 13 and San Chucos gangs 

in Las Vegas; MS-13 in Washington; and 13 

Tri-City Bomber members and associates in the 

McAllen, Texas area.56
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Outlook

Street, prison, and motorcycle gang membership and 

criminal activity continues to flourish in US communities 

where gangs identify opportunities to control street level 

drug sales, and other profitable crimes. Gangs will not 

only continue to defend their territory from rival gangs, 

but will also increasingly seek to diversify both their 

membership and their criminal activities in recognition 

of potential financial gain. New alliances between rival 

gangs will likely form as gangs suspend their former 

racial ideologies in pursuit of mutual profit. Gangs will 

continue to evolve and adapt to current conditions and 

law enforcement tactics, diversify their criminal activity, 

and employ new strategies and technology to enhance 

their criminal operations, while facilitating lower-risk and 

more profitable schemes, such as white collar crime.

The expansion of communication networks, especially in 

wireless communications and the Internet, will allow gang 

members to form associations and alliances with other 

gangs and criminal organizations—both domestically 

and internationally—and enable gang members to better 

facilitate criminal activity and enhance their criminal operations discreetly without the physical interfacing once 

necessary to conduct these activities. 

Changes in immigrant populations, which are susceptible to victimization and recruitment by gangs, may have 

the most profound effect on street gang membership. 

Continued drug trafficking-related violence along the US

Southwest border could trigger increased migration of 

Mexicans and Central Americans into the United States 

and, as such, provide a greater pool of victims, recruits, 

and criminal opportunities for street gangs as they seek 

to profit from the illegal drug trade, alien smuggling, and 

weapons trafficking. Likewise, increased gang recruitment of youths among the immigrant population may 

result in an increase in gang membership and gangrelated violence in a number of regions. 

Street gang activity and violence may also increase as 

more dangerous gang members are released early from 

prison and re-establish their roles armed with new knowledge and improved techniques. Prison gang members, 

already an ideal target audience for radicalization, may 

expand their associations with foreign gang members or 

radical criminal organizations, both inside correctional 

institutions and in the community upon their release. 

Gang members armed with high-powered weapons and 

knowledge and expertise acquired from employment in 

law enforcement, corrections, or the military may pose 

an increasing nationwide threat, as they employ these 

tactics and weapons against law enforcement officials, 

rival gang members, and civilians. 

Globalization, socio-political change, technological 

advances, and immigration will result either in greater 

gang expansion and gang-related crime or displace 

gang members as they search for criminal opportunities 

elsewhere. Stagnant or poor economic conditions in the 

United States, including budget cuts in law enforcement, 

may undercut gang dismantlement efforts and encourage 

gang expansion as police agencies redirect their resources and disband gang units and taskforces, as reported by 

a large number of law enforcement agencies.
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Maps. Gang Presence in the United States

Map 1. Estimated gang presence per capita by state

Number of Gang Members 

per 1,000 People

6+

4-6

2-4

0-2

Source: NGIC and NDIC 2010 National Drug Survey Data and 

U.S. Census Population estimates 2010.
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Map 2. estimated gang presence per law enforcement officer by state

Number of Gang Members 

per Law Enforcement Officer

6+

4-6

2-4

0-2

Source: NGIC and NDIC 2010 National Drug Survey Data and 

Bureau of Justice Statistics census of state and local law enforcement 2008.
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APPENDIX A. Gangs by State 

Juggalos 

La Familia 

La Quemada 

Latin Kings 

Latino Bloods Crips 

Little Trouble Makers 

Los Bolinos 

Los Zetas

Lovemans Village Posse 

Lynch Mob 

Malditos 13 

Melos 13 

Northside Bloods 

Northsiders 62 Po Boys 

On Fire Boys 

On Fire Girls 

Outcast MC 

Pistoleros MC 

Outlaws MC 

Pratt Boys 

Riley Boys 

Seven Deadly Sins 

Sherman Heights Posse 

Sin City Disciples MC 

Six Deuce Brims 

Smithfield Posse

Southern Brotherhood 

Southside Cyclones 

Southside Locos 

Southside Youngsters 

Sur-13

T Dub 

Tango Blast 

Technical Knockout 

Titusville Posse 

Toney Project Boys 

Trap Boys 

Trap Girls 

Tribe MC 

United Together Forever 

Vatos Locos 

Vice Hill Posse 

Vice Lords 

View Mob 

Westside Crips 

Wheels of Soul MC

Wylam Boys 

ALASKA

50150 Crips

88 Street Crips

Almighty Latin King Nation 

Almighty Vice Lord Nation 

Altadena Crip Gangster

American Front 

Aryan Brotherhood

Baby Hamo Tribe 

Black Gangster Disciples

Blackwood Mafia 

Chaos Drama Family 

Combat Crips

Compton Swamp Crips

Deuce 

Faceside Bloods 

Fam Bam 

Franklin Family Piru 

Fresno Bulldogs 

Full Time Criminals 

Gangster Disciples 

Goonies For Life

ALABAMA

31st Street Mob

33rd Street Posse 

400 Block 

4th Ward Bloods 

Alberta City Boys 

Alpha Tau Omega 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Avenue Piru Gangsters Bandaleros 

Bandidos MC 

Bay Boys 

Black Cherry 8 Balls 

Black Gangster Disciples 

Black Mafia Family 

Black Pistons MC 

Bloods Boom Squad 

Brown Pride 

Central Park Bloods 

Central Park Boys 

Collegeville Posse 

Corner Boys Crips 

Devils Disciples MC 

Eastside Bloods 

Ensley Town Killers 

Evergreen Bottom Boys 

Gad Town Klowns 

Gangsta G’s 

Gangster Disciples 

Ghettie Boyz 

Give No Fucks 

Green Acres Crips 

Hazel Green Boys 

Hells Lovers MC 

Imperial Gangster Disciples

Insane Gangster Disciples
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Hamo Tribe 

Hells Angels MC

Hmong Nation Society 

Hollow Tip Crew 

Iceberg Clique 

Juvenile Delinquents

Korrupt(ed) Crew 

Laos Oriental Soldiers 

Laotian Blood Killers 

Laotian Thugz 

Locc Down Crips 

Loco Latin Crips 

Los Malditos 

MS-13

Member of Blood 

Menace of Destruction 

Mongolian Boys Society 

Mountain View Crips 

Murder Mob 

Northside Damu 

Outlawz 

Peckerwoods 

Real ‘Bout It Individuals 

Royal Samoan Posse 

Samoan Dynasty 

Sons of Samoa 

Soulja Crew 

Southside Mesa 

Sureños 

The Family 

The Low Lifes 

Tiny Rascals Gang 

Tongang Crip Gang 

Top Notch Ballers 

Uso 4 Life 

Uso Squad 

Westside City Crips 

Westside Inland Empire Projects

Yellow Oriental Troop 

Young Gangsta Niggas

ARIZONA

“A” Mountain Crips 

10th Ave JP Crips 

12th Ave Crips 

29th Street Bloods 

36th Street Vista Bloods 

36th Street Vista Chicanos 

4th Ave Crips 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Barrio Anita 

Barrio Centro 

Barrio Chicano Southside 

Barrio Hollywood 

Barrio Libre 

Barrio Loco 

Barrio Nuevo Locos 

Barrio Savaco 

Bilby Street Crips 

Black Rags 

Duce Nine Crips 

Eastside Bloods

Eastside Crips 

Eastside Maria Crips 

Eastside Torrance 

Folk Nation 

Gangster Disciples 

Grandale 

Hells Angels MC 

Hollywood Soma 

Juggalos 

Jollyville Crips 

La Tusa 

La Victoria Locos 

Little Town 

Little Town Crips 

Locos Bloodline 

Manzanita Lynch Mob Crips 

Maryvale Gangsta Crips 

Mau Mau 

Mexican Mafia 

Midvale Park Bloods 

Mission Manor Park Bloods 

Mongols

New Mexican Mafia 

Northside Chicanos 

Northside White Pride 

Okie Town 

Old Mexican Mafia 

Old Pascua 

Peckerwoods 

Skinheads 

Sons of Hell

South Palo Verde Bloods 

South Park Family Gangsters

Southeast Hustler Bloods 

Southside Boyz

Southside Brown Pride 

Southside Harbor City 

Southside Posse Bloods 

Sureños 

Trekell Park Crips 

Varrio Loco

V-12 Bloods 

Vagos MC 

Vindlanders 

West Mesa

West Ross Street Piru 

Western Hills Posse Bloods 

Westside Brown Pride 

Wet Back Power 
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Warrior Society 

Western Hills Bloods 

ARKANSAS 

Bandidos MC

Blood 

Crips 

Folk Nation 

Outlaws MC

People Nation 

Sons of Silence MC

Wheels of Soul MC

CALIFORNIA

18th St 

159th Avenue 

17th St 

38th Avenue Locos 

38th Street 

415 Kumi

49 St hustler Crips 

5/9 Brims 

51st Avenue locos 

51st St locos 

A Street 

AC Acorn 

Acre Boys 

Al Capone 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Asian Boyz 

Asian Crips 

Asian Insane Boys 

Asian Street Walkers 

Asian Warriors 

Atascadero 13 

AVE 39 

AVE 51 

AVE 53

Aztec Tribe Cholos

Azusa 13 

B Street 

Bahala Na’ Barkada

Bakersfield Bastards MC 

Barrio San Juan 13 

Barrio Cathedral City 

Barrio Eastside 

Barrio Pobre 

Barrio San Juan 

Barrio Small Town 

Brown Brotherhood

Brown Crowd Locos 

Barrio Central Vallejo 

Black Guerilla Family 

Block Boys 

Blue Team 

Blvd Crips 

Bolen

Border Brothers 

Bratz 

Brick Block Crips 

Broderick Boys 

Brown Brotherhood 

Brown Life Familia 

Brown Pride Soldiers 

Brown Pride Soldiers 13 

Brown Pride Sureño 

Browns Town 

Bulldogs 

Burger Team 

Calle Ocho (8th street) 

Campbell Village Gangsters

Campos Ramos Locos 

Canta Ranas 13 

Carmelas 13 

Carps 

Central Vallejo Clicka 

Chankla Bulldogs 

Chino Sinners 

City Heights Trece Juniors 

Clairemont Locos 

Coachella Tiny Locos 

CoCo County Boys 

Cold Nigga Mafia 

Colonia Bakers 

Compton Varrio Tortilla Flats

Corona Varrio Locos 

Country Boy Crips 

COVINA 13 

Crazy Brothers Clan

Crazy Brown Norteños

Crazy Fucking Mexicans 

Crazy Krooks 

Crazy Royal Kings 

Crow Village 

Cudahy 13 

Cut Throat Mob 

Davis Street Locos

Dead End Street 

Death Crowd 13 

Del Sol 

Delhi Alley Boys 

Desperados MC 

Dirty Thirties 

Dog Soldiers 

Dreamhomes 

Droppin Niggas Instantly 

Down To Scrap Krew

East Coast Crips 

Eastbound Loco

Eastside Familia 

Eastside Longos
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Eastside Rivas 

Eastside SD El Cajon Locos 

El Hoyo Palmas 

EL Monte Flores 

Elm St Watts 

Eastside Montalvo 

Exotic Foreign City Crips 

Family Affiliated Irish Mafia Fain 

Familia Hispana 

Farmerside Bulldogs

Florencia 13 

Four Corner Block Crips

Fresnecks Ftroop 

Fuck My Enemies 

Fuck the World 

Gardenview Locos 

Gas Team 

Gateway Posse Crips 

Ghetto Assassins 

Ghostown 

Goleta 13

H Street 

Hard Side Clique 

Hard Times 

Hawaiian Gardens 13 

Hells Angels MC 

Highly Insane Criminals

Hispanic Kings 

Homicidal Family 

Hoodlum Family 

Hop Sing Boyz 

Humboldt 

Humboldt County Gangsters 

Imperials 

Indian Pride

Inglewood Family Gangster 

Inglewood Trece 

Insane Crips 

Insane Viet Thugz 

Jackson Terrace 

Jamaican Mafia Family 

Juggalos 

Kansas Street 

Kings Of Cali MC 

Krazy Ass Samoans 

Krazy Assassins 

Kumi 

La Nuestra Familia 

LB Suicidal Punks 

Lennox

Lincoln Park Piru 

Lincoln Town Sureños 

Linda Vista 13 

Lo Mob 

Logan 30ta 

Logan Heights 

Logan Red Steps 

Loma Bakers 

Lomita Village 70’s 

Long Beach Locos 

Lorenzo Team 

Los Marijuanas Smokers 

Los Nietos 13 

Los Padrinos 

Low Profile Kings 

Lo Boys 

Lunatics On Crack 

Lynwood Dukes 

Mac Mafia 

Manor Dro Boyz 

Manor Park Gangsters

Marijuana Locos 

Mayfair Santa Rosa Criminals 

Mexican Klan Locos 

Mexican Mafia

Mexican Pride 13 

Midcity Stoners

Midtown Proyectos 

Mission Bay Locos 

Mitchel Street Norteños 

Mob Squad 

Mob To Kill 

Molochs 

Mongols MC 

Mountain View Sureños 

MS-13 

National City Locos 

Nazi Low Riders 

Neighborhood Crips 

Nip Killer Squad 

Nipomo 13 Norte

North Town Stoners 

Northern Riders 

Northern Structure 

Northside Hayward 

Northside Indio 

Northside Longos 

Nuestra Raza 

Nutty Side Paramount 

Oaktown Crips 

Oceano 13 

O-hood Crips 

Okie Bakers 

Old Town National City 

Olivo Bulldogs 

Oriental Boy Soldiers 

Oriental Boys 

Oriental Killer Boys 

Oriental Lazy Boys 

Orphans 
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Otay 

Palm City 

Paradise Hills Locos 

Paso Robles 13 

Peckerwoods 

Public Enemy Number One (PENI)

Pierpont Rats 

Pierpont-Ventura 

Playa Larga 

Pomona 12th Street

Power of Vietnamese 

Puente 13 

Pure Mexican Raza 

Puro Raza Loco 

Puro Varrio Campo 

Quiet Assassins 

Quiet Village 13 

Quince Southside Locos 

Red Team 

Res Boys 

Ridezilla 

Rockcreek 

Rollin 20 Crips 

S. Central Locos

Sacramaniacs 

San Dimas Rifa 

San Jose Crazy Crips 

San Jose Grande 

San St Paramount 

Santa Monica Gang 

Santa Nita 

Saticoy- Ventura Eastside

Screamin Demons MC 

Shandon Park Locos 13 Shelltown 

Shelltown Gamma 

Sherman Lomas Market Street 

Sidro 

Skinheads 

Skyline Piru 

So Gate Tokers 

Sobrante Park 

Solano Side 

Sons of Samoa 

Sotel 13 

South Gate Smokers

South Vietnam 

Southeast Locos 

Southern Locos Gangsters 13

Southside Bakers

Southside Criminals 

Southside Huntington Beach 

Southside Indio 

Southside Playboys 

Southside Players 

Southside Whittier 13 

Spring Valley Locos 

Squeeze Team 

Sucidals Sunny Block Crips 

Sunnyvale Sur Trece

Sur Santos Pride

Sur Town Locos 

Sureño Unidos Trece 

Sureños Por Vida 

Tangas 

Tehachapi 13 

Tiny Rascal Gang 

Tongan For Life 

Top Hatters 

Underworld Zilla 

Untouchables 

USO Squad 

Ventura Avenue Gangsters 

Vagos MC 

Valinda Flats 

Varrio Concord Norte 

Varrio Northside 

Varrio Nueva Estrada 

Varrio Simi Valley 

Varrio Bakers 

Varrio Chula Vista 

Varrio Coachella Rifa 

Varrio Coachella Rifa 52 

Varrio Coachella Rifa 53 

Varrio Encanto Locos 

Varrio Grinfas 

Varrio Horseshoe

Varrio Locos 

Varrio Meadow Fair 

Varrio Mecca Rifa 

Varrio Mountain View 

Varrio Norwalk 13 

Varrio Nuevo Coachella 

Varrio Oasis Rifa 

Varrio Palmas Gang 

Varrio Penn West 

Varrio South Garden 

Varrio Sur Rifa

Varrio Tamilee Gangsters 

Varrio Thermal Rifa 

Varrio Xechos Locos 

Vatos Locos 

Venice 13 

Venice Shoreline Crips 

Viet Outlaws 

Vietnam

Wah Ching 

Walnut Creek 13 

Warlord Bloods 

West Coast Crips 

West Covina 13 

West Covina Crips 
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West Covina MOB 

West Drive Locos 

West Myrtle Townsend Street 

Westside Hustlers 

Westside Islanders

Westside Locos 

Westside Longos 

Westside MOB 

Westside Stoners

Wheels of Soul MC

White Power 

Whittier 

Wicked Minded Sureños 

Wicked Minded Sureños 13

Willow Street 

Young Crazy Thugs 

Young Cutties 

Zetas

COLORADO

18th Street 

211 Crew

81st Street Crips

American Nazi Party 

Bandidos MC 

Brown Pride Sureños 

Carver Park Crips 

Eastside Dukes

Folks 

Gallant Knights 

Gangster Disciples 

GKI 211 Crew Bloods 

Hells Angels

Insane Norteños 

Juaritos 

Kraziest Thugs Around 

Los Primer Padres 

Mexican Mafia 

MS-13 

Mongols MC

Murder All Cliques 

Norteños 

Northside Criminals 

Northside Mafia 

Oldies 13 

Outlaws MC 

Paisas 

Parkside Varrio 

Peckerwoods 

Playboys 

Sons of Silence MC 

Southside Locos

Sureño Desert Empire 

Sureños 

Two Eleven

CONNECTICUT

Battalion 14

Blake Street Goonies 

Bloods 

Carmel Street Goons 

Charter Oak Crips 

Cruel 36 Family 

Diablos MC 

Eastern Circle Projects 3x 

Fairside 2x 

G-25 

G-27 

G-Side Projects 

Hells Angels MC 

Hill Most Wanted 

Hillside 4x 

La Familia 

Latin Kings and Queens 

Manor 5x 

MS-13 

Netas 

Outlaws MC

Solidos 

The Ave 

Tiny Mami Squad

Tiny Papi Squad 

Tre 3x 

Tribe 3x 

Trinitarios 

Ville 2x

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

18th Street

Bloods

Crips

Latin Kings 

MS-13 

DELAWARE 

135 Bloods

9 Trey 

9 Triggaz 

924 Bloods 

Anybody Gets It 

Bounty Hunter Bloods 

Bush Babies 

Cash Hoe Murda 

Certified Ballina Killers 

Crips 

Dawg City Piru 

East Coast Bloods 

Gangster Disciples 

Latin Kings 

Netas 

Ochos 
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Pagans

South Los 

Sur-13

Street Piru Bloods

FLORIDA

1000 Block

103rd St Buck Wild CA Latin Lingo

10th St Gang 

110th St Bloods 

1200 Block 

12th Court Cowboys 

13th Avenue Hotboys 

13th Street Gang 

170 Boyz 

181 

187

1887

18th Street 

20 Deep 

21 Gunz 

211 Crips 

2150 EAP 

22nd Street 

23rd Street Trail Blazers 

24th Street Gang 

25 Mafia 

27’s Puerto Rico PG 

2nd Line Goons 

300 Block 

311 Westside KTP 

312 Crips 

7414 Gangster Disciples 

34th Folk Boys 

39th Street Boys 

3KN 

4 Way Boys 

45th St FAM

46 Ave Boyz 

5 Deuce Hoover Crips 

5 Trey Bloods 

5% 386 

5020 Peckerwood 

5150 Piru Bloods 

52 Hoover Crips 

551 Crips 

58th Ave. 

59 Hoover Crips 

7 Trey Crips 

700 Block 

74 Gangster Disciples 

7414 Gangster Disciples 

8 Tre Crips 

8 Trey Gangster Crips 

800 Bound 

813 Black Gangster Disciples

819 Boys

9 Trey Gangsters 

9 Trey Murk Squad Blood 

9-Tech Bloods 

A&E Bird Gang 

Ace Boon Goons 

All City Certified Gangstas

Almighty Latin King and Queen 

Nation

American Nazi Party Anarchist 

Anarchist 

Any Body Killas 

APK Boys 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Aryan Nation 

Barrio Boys 

Batchelors 

Behind the Plaza Boys 

Beruit Snakes 

Big Money Posse 

Bithlo Bike Crew 

Black Angels 

Black Flag Mafia 

Black Gangster Disciple 

Black Mafia

Black MOB 

Black P Stone Nation 

Black Pines 

Black Pistons MC 

Black Spade Squad 

Black T Mafia 

Blue Angel

Blue Devil Gangster Crips 

Booker Heights Posse 

Border Brothers 

Brookhill Hillboys Most Wanted 

Brown Pride 

Bruise Brothers MC

Buck Block 

Camphor Way Boys 

Cartel Southside Gansta Crips 

Carver Shore Boys 

Cash Feenz 

CFL Most Wanted 

Chicago Bloods 

Chico Cracker Klique 

Chico’s In Action 

Click Tight 

Clown Boiz Crips 

Cold Side Posse 

College Park Thugs 

Confederate Hammerskins

Corner Boy Mafia 

Crazy Brown Boys 

Crazy Gangster Disciple 
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Crazy Insane Disciples 

Crazy Killer Zoes 

Criminal Gangsters 

Cut Throat Crew/Committee 

D-BOYZ

Dirty White Boys 

Down 4 Whatever 

Dark Angels 

Darkside Boyz 

Deaths Last Clique 

Deland Regulators 

DeLeon Springs 

Deuce Crips 

Deuce Deuce 

Dirty Game 

Dirty South Mafia 

Dirty White Boys 

Disciples of Discipline 

Doo Doo Creek 

Doom Squad 

Dover Locos 

Down For Life 

Down South Florida Boys 

Down South Gangster

Downtown Crips 

DRAK BOYS

Draks 

Dred Mafia 

East Orlando Warriors

Eastside 9 Trey Gangster Bloods

Eastside Bloods

Eastside Crips 

Eastside Jack Boyz 

Eastside Piru 

Eastside Rolling 60’s Crips 

Elm Street Piru Bloods 

Eternal Gangster 

Eureka Garden Goons 

Every Niggas Nightmare 

Family of Hustlers 

Flag Street 

Flip Star Crips 

Florencia 13 

Folk 

Folk Disciples 

Folk Nation 

For The Warriors 

Front Street Boyz 

G Shine Bloods 

G Stone Crip 

G25 

Gangster Killer Bloods 

Gangsta Piru 

Gangstas For Life 

Gangster Disciples 

Gangster Imperial Gangsters 

Gangster Prophet 

Gangsters 4 Life 

Get Up Kids 

Ghostrider Crips 

Golden Gate Goons 

Goyams 

Grand Park Grape Street Crips 

Guardians 

Guk-Get Up Kids 

Gun Clap N Crips 

Hammerskins 

Hill Top Boys 

Hoover Crip 

Hoover Deuce Crips 

Hope Circle Bois 

Hot Boys

Hustle Harder 

Imperial Gangster Disciples

Imperial Gangsters 

Imperial Kings Inland Empire

Insane Dragons 

Insane Gangster Crips

Insane Gangster Disciple

Insane MOB Boys 

Insane Spanish Lords 

International Folk Posse

International Posse 

International Posse 13th 

Island Boys Clique 

Jack Boys 

Jensen Beach Clique 

Juggalos 

Knock Out Squad 

King Con Sureños 

Keep On Spraying 

Ken Knight 

Krazy Getdown Boys 

Kruption Boys 

Kuntry Boyz 

La Raza 

Lady Knock Out Squad

Lakawanna Boys Latin Crew

Latin Disciples 

Latin Eagles 

Latin Kings 

Latin Life 

Latin Lingo Legacy Mafia 

Latin Syndicates 

Legion of Doom 

Little Altamonte Goons 

Little Haiti Bloods 

Livingston Dawgs 

Lockhart Boyz 

Loco Trece 

Los 27 
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Los Chicanos 

Los Salidos 

Lost Boys 

Lusoanderson Boys 

M.A.C. Crip 

Mafia Kings 

Mafia Street Gangsta Crips 

Main Street Posse 

Maniac Campbell Disc Ñeta 

Maniac Gangster Disciples 

Maniac Latin Disciples 

Mascotte City Gangster Folk Nation

Mayan Pride 

Melbourne Town Soldiers 

Mexican Diplomats

Mexican Mafia 

Midway Goons 

Milla Southside 

Miller Gangsta Blood 

Miller Set 

MOB Folks 

Mohawk Boys 

Moncrief “MCT” 

Money Mafia 

Morgan Boys 

Most Hated Brothers 

Mother Fuckin Goons 

Money Power Respect

MS-13

Murda Grove Boys 

Murder Set Bloods 

Murk 

Myrtle Avenue 

Nazi Juggalo 

Ñeta 

New Smyrna Beach Boyz 

New York Outlaws

Nuestra Familia 

Nine Trey Blood 

Nine Trey Gangsters 

Nines Techs & Grenades Norte 14

Northlake Boys 

Not Fair Ones 

Nuccio Boys 

Oak Ridge Jungle Boys

Oaktown Niggaz 

Oceanway Mafia 

OLD Gang 

One Love Nation 

Orange City Boys 

Orange County Gangs 1400 Block

Orange Flag Boys 

Out East Outlaws

Out of Control Gangster

Outlaw Crips Outlawz

Outlaw Gangster Crips 

Outlaws MC 

O.V. BOYS

Oviedo Soldiers 

P.O. Boys 

Payback Crips 

Pagans MC 

Paisa Palm River Boys 

Palm City Locals

Palmdale

Parramore Snakes

Paxon Boys 

Pearl World 

People Nation 

Phantom MC 

Picketville Hustle House 

Pine Hills Pimp Boyz 

Pine Manor Piru Bloods

Piru Bloods 

Platoon 187 

Playboy Crew 

Polk Street Goons 

Port Orange Boys 

Power Progress

Project Boys

Projects of Vietnam 

P-Town 

PYC Raw Dawgz 

Renegades MC 

Ridge Manor Boys 

Rollin 20s Crips 

Rollin 30’s 

Rolling 60 Crips 

Rough Riders 

Royal Family Ace Clique 

Salerno Boyz 

Satan Disciples 

Satan Gangster Disciples

Satanist 

Savage Squad 

Sex Money Murder Bloods 

Sherwood 

Shores Boys 

Sin City Boyz 

Six Point Crips 

Skinheads 

Smooth Fellas 

So Bout It Boiz 

Solo G 

Sons of Silence MC

Southern Pitbulls 

Southside 

Southside Bloods 

Southside Crips 

Spanish Lords 
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St. Lucie Bloods Chicos in Action

Stand and Deliver 

Str8drop Gang 

Straight Drop 

Street Runners 

Supreme White Power

Sur-13 

Sureños 

Swamp Boyz 

Tangos 

TC Boys 

The Fresh Kings 

Third World Family 

Thunder Cats 

Tri-State 

Top Shottas 

Tre 4 

Troop 31 Slum Boys Aryan Nations 

Tru Soldiers 

Unforgiven 

Unforgiven International Posse 

United Crip Nation 

United King 

Unknown Soldiers 

Up Top Mafia 

Valentine Bloods 

Vandalize The Hood 

Vagos

Vato Locos 

Vice Lord 

Victory Boyz 

Villa Boyz 

Villa Killas 

Village Boys 

V-Side Gangsters 

Warlocks MC

Washington Oaks Goons 

Watauga Boys 

Watts City Crips

Westside 

Westside Chico Boys 

Westside Crips 

Westside Rolling 60’s Crips

Westside Rolling 90’s Crips 

White Aryan Resistance 

White Power

White Pride 

Wildside Young Boon Goons 

Winter Garden 

Wolfpack MC 

Woodlands Crew 

Woods Boyz 

Wynwood 

Y-B Zoe Pound 

Y-Lo-C 

Young Godz 

Young Guz 

Young Latin Organization 

Young Outlaw Gangster Crips 

Zellwood Boys 

Zoe Mafia

Zoe Mafia Family 

Zoe Pound

Zone 1 

Zulus MC

GEORGIA

30 Deep

4WB Fourth Ward Boys

All About Cash

All About Finesse

All About Money

Atlanta Blood Gang Squad

ATL Riders

Bang Bang Anywhere Gang

Bank First Play Later

Bethel Towers Crew

Black Pistons MC

BMB Blood Money Boys

Bloods

Campbelton Road Gangsters

Certified Street Niggas

Certified Paper Chasers

Check Gang

Crips

Cross the Track Boys 

Da Fam

Dem Franchise Boys

Deadly Killer Click

DTS Dogwood Trap Starts

Fuck Being Broke

Gangsta Azz Nicca

Gangster Disciples 

GD 74 

Gett Money Play Later Click

Guapaholic Hard Times 13

Gwalla Boys

Hard Times 

Hot Boy Click

Insane Gangster Disciples

Irwin Street Gorillas

James Gang MC 

Merk Squad

Most Dangerous Click

Niggas Bout Action

Niggas for Life

No Mercy/ Trained to Go

Oakland City Posse

Outcast MC 

Outlaws MC 

Partners of the Struggle
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Pittsburgh Jack Boys

RACK Crew

Raised on Cleveland

Rollin 20’s Bloods 

Rollin 60’s Crips

Runts 

Simpson Road Gangsters

Stealing Everything (SIMPSET)

Sureños 

Sur-13 

Southside 13 

Sur King Locos

Ten Little Niggas

Trained to Go 

Vagos

Vatos Locos

Vice Lords 

White Boi Gang

Young Block Boys

Young Choppa Fam

Young Committed Partnas

Young Cushman Boys

Young Get Money Gangsters

Young Gunna Click

Young Money Makers

Young Niggas Get Money

Young Paper Chasers

Young Crew

YSet/ Y3/ Sak Takerz

HAWAII

Vagos MC

IDAHO

Bandidos MC

Brothers Speed MC

Mexican Mafia

Northside Big Tyme

Nuestra Familia 

Russian Gangs 

Vagos MC

Westside 18th Street 

Westside Loma Locos 

ILLINOIS

12th St Players 

Almighty Popes 

Ambrose 

Black Disciples 

Black Gangster Disciples

Black P Stones 

Black Pistons MC 

Folks Nation 

Gangster Disciples 

Hells Angels

Hobo’s Imperial Gangsters

Insane Dragons 

Jivers Jousters 

Krazy Get Down Boys 

La Raza 

Latin Counts 

Latin Kings 

Latin Saints 

Latin Souls 

Leafland Street Boys 

Latins Out of Control 

Maniac Latin Disciples 

Mickey Cobra’s 

Outlaws MC 

Party People 

People Nation 

Popes 

Satan Disciples

Satin Disciples 

Simon City Rollers 

Sons of Silence

Spanish Cobras 

Sur-13 

Two Six 

Vice Lords

Wheels of Soul MC

INDIANA

13’s Sureños

14’s Norteños 

18th Street 

American Mexican Gangster

Aryan Brotherhood 

Back Pistons MC 

Black Angels 

Black Gangster Disciples 

Black P Stones 

Bloods 

BPS 13 

Brown Pride Gang 

Buffalo Soldiers 

Click Clack 

Cloven Hoofs MC 

Code Red 

Code Red 

Rollin’s 20’s Crips 

Cossacks 

D-Boyz 

Devil Disciples 

Diablos MC 

Dirty White Boys 

Gangster Disciples 

Goons Squad 

Grim Reapers MC 

Haughville Syndicate 

Hells Angels MC 
60 National Gang Intelligence Center

Insane Gangster Disciples

Jimtown Boys 

Kentuckiana Gunslingers 

Latin Kings 

Latino Riders 

Locos 18 

Luchiana Boyz 

Mad Dog MC

Mexican Mafia 

Midnight Riders MC 

Milwaukee Iron 

Mistic Dragons 

Money Over Bitches 

Mongols MC 

MS-13 

Murda Squad 

Naptown Riders 

Norteño 

Northside Vatos Locos 

Outlaws MC 

Peace Stones 

Pop It Off Boys 

Pussy and Cash 

Ratchet Boyz 

Rebel Cause 

Righteous Riders 

Savages and White Boys 

Saxon Knights 

Sons of Silence MC 

Stone Drifters 

Straight Edge 

Sur-13 

The Cool Kids 

Vice Lords 

Westside Crew 

Wheels of Soul MC 

Zoe Pound 

IOWA 

18th Street 

319 Crew 

7 Deuces 

Ambrose 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Aryan Nation 

Aztec Kings 

Black Cross 

Black Disciples 

Black Gangster Disciples 

Black Gangsters 

Black Mafia 

Black P Stones 

Black Panthers 

Black P-Stone Nation 

Black Soul Block Burners 

Blackstone Rangers 

Bloods 

Bogus Boys 

Branded Breed MC 

Carney Pride 

Chosen Few MC 

Church of the Creator 

Church of the New Song 

Code Red 

Custom Riders MC 

Crips 

Dirty White Boys 

Down South Boys 

Eagle Riders 

Eastside Locos 

Eastsiders 

El Foresteros MC 

El Rukens 

Familia Stones 

Fathers of Anarchy 

Florencia 13 

Four Corner Hustlers 

Gangster Disciples 

Grim Reapers MC 

Hang Out Boys 

Hells Angels MC 

Imperial Gangsters 

Insane Deuces 

Insane Gangsters 

Insane Majestics 

Insane Popes 

Insane Spanish Cobras 

Insane Vikings 

Iron Horse MC 

Juggalos 

La Familia 

La Raza 

Lao Crip 

Lao Family Blood 

Latin Counts 

Latin King 

Latin Pachucos 

Lomas13 

Lomax XIII

Los Chicos 

Los Pelones 

Lower Riders 

Maniac Latin Disciples

Maple Street Goons 

MS-13 

Matadors MC 

Mexican Mafia 

Mickey Cobras 

Midnight Riders MC

Ñetas 

New Breed 

Norteños 
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Northfront Occult 

Outlaws MC 

P13 Punte 

Paisa 

Peckerwoods 

Players Club Posse 

Posse Comitatus 

Really Cocky Asshole Killers

Rebel Knights MC 

Saints 

San Fernando Mexicans 

Satan Disciples 

Satin Disciples 

SHARP 

Sioux City Boys 

Skinheads 

Sons of Freedom MC 

Sons of Liberty 

Sons of Silence MC 

Southside 21 

Spanish Cobras 

Spanish Disciples Sureño 

The Cool Kids

The Fellows 

Two Six Nation 

United Metro Front 

Vagos MC 

Vice Lords 

Viet Solo Boys 

Westside Knights 

Westside Locos 

Westside Mafia

Westside Mobsters

Westside Villains 

Westsiders 

White Aryan Resistance 

White Boys Only 

White Pride X-Club 

Young and Wasted 

Young Bloods

KANSAS 

13 Folks-GDS

357 Crips 

4 Corner Hustlers 

Bandidos

Bloods 

Eastside Locos Sureños

Eastside Vato Locos 

El Foresteros MC 

Folks 

Hoover Crips 

Juggalos 

Latin Kings 

Lawrence Mob 

Northsiders 

School Yard Crips 

Somos Pocos Para Locos 

Sons of Silence MC 

Sur-13 

Traveling Vice Lords 

Tru Valley Crips 

Vice Lords 

Westside Riders

KENTUCKY

Bloods 

Crips 

Gangster Disciples 

Hells Angels MC 

Iron Horsemen MC 

Latin Kings 

MS-13 

Outlaws MC 

Pagans

Sons of Silence MC 

Vice Lords

Wheels of Soul

LOUISIANA

1100 Block Gang 

31 Flava’s 

3-Unit Black-Out Boys 

5 Nine Bloods 

5-Deuce Crips 

5/2 Rock Boys 

6th Street Boys 

700 Block Gang 

7th Ward Hard Heads 

800 Block Gang 

8th Ward Animals 

900 Block Gang 

Algiers 1.5 

Baby Goonies 

Bandidos MC 

Bienville Boyz 

Blackhawks 

Byrd Gang 

D-BlockHandy Family 

Foucha Gang 

Frenchman Money Boys

Gangster Disciples 

Garden District Crips 

Gray Ghosts 

Harvey Hustlers 

Jerome Group 

Josephine Dog Pound 

Lower Third Crips 

Maffioso 

MS-13 

Northside Levin Crips 
62 National Gang Intelligence Center

Northside Posse 

Old Mill Quarters Crips 

Orange Boy’s 

Pack of Bastards MC 

Prieur & Columbus Boyz 

Skull Squad Mafia 

Smoke One Click 

Sonia Quarter Crips 

Sons of Silence MC 

Sureños 

Tango Blast 

Young Cut Boys 

Young Gunners 

Young Magnolia Melph

MAINE 

All Jumpers 

Aryan Nation 

Crips 

Disciples 

Exiles 

Folk Nation 

Fuck Shit Up Gang 

Hells Angels MC 

Iron Horsemen MC 

Latin Kings 

L-Town 

MS-13 

Ñetas 

Outlaws MC 

P Town Soldiers 

Peckerwoods 

Saracens 

Skinheads 

True Somali Bloods 

Vice Lords

MARYLAND

18th Street 

25 Crew 

51 Sandbox 

Aryan Brother Hood 

Black Guerilla Family 

Blitzkrieg MC 

Bloods 

Crips 

Dead Man Incorporated 

Folk 

Gangster Disciples 

Get Money Goons 

Go Go Crews 

Hells Angels MC 

Iron Horsemen MC 

Latin Kings 

Mara Locos 

Mexican Locos 

MS-13 

Murder Incorporated 

Murder Mafia Bloods 

New Blood MC 

Outlaws MC 

Pagan MC 

Phantoms MC 

Pop Off Mafia 

Savage Boys 

Street Thug Criminals 

Sur-13 

Sureños 

Thunderguards MC 

Trinitarios 

Vatos Locos 

Warlocks MC 

Wheels of Soul MC 

Wild Boyz 

MASSACHUSETTS

1850 Washington 

18th Street 

1937 Dorchester Avenue 

20 Love 

214 Harvard 

700 Block 

Academy 

Academy Homes 

Annunciation 

Archdale 

Aryan Nation Brotherhood 

Asian Boyz 

Bailey 

Barrio Aztecas 

Beechland 

Bergin Circle Posse 

Bicknell 

Big Head Boys 

Black Gangster Disciples 

Black P Stone Nation 

Bloods 

Bonanno Crime Family 

Boylston 

Boylston Street 

Boyos 

Bristol Street Posse 

Brunswick / Fayston 

Cameron 

Carew Block 

Castle Square 

Castlegate 

Cathedral 

Cedar Street 

Charlame 1 

Charlame 2 

Cholos 
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Codman Square 

Colombo Crime Family

Colorado / Favre 

Columbia Point 

Columbia Rd 

Crown Path 

Crystal Park Fellaz 

Cape Verdean Outlaws 

Dark Side Niggaz 

Dangerous Little Bloods 

DC Crew 

Dominicans Don’t Play 

Deuce Boys 

Diablos 

Dogg Town Crips

Draper 

Dudley Street Posse 

Eastern Ave Posse 

Eastern Avenue Boys 

El Combo que no de deja

Fairmount Family Plan Farve St. 

Five Percenters 

Forest Hills Pistons 

Flatbush 

Flatbush Posse 

Folks 

Forest Park Gangsters 

Franklin Field 

Franklin Hill 

Franklin Street Posse 

Gangster Disciples 

Gangsters 

G-Block 

Genovese Crime Family 

G-Mob 

Greenfield 

Greenwood 

Greenwood Ave 

Greenwood Street 

Grey Rag 

Grupo 25 

Grupo 27 

Gunn Square Posse 

H-Block 

Heath St 

Hells Angels MC 

Hendry 

Highland 

Hi-Point 

Hit-Fam 

Hizbollah 

Holworthy 

Homes Ave 

Hooligans 

Humboldt & Harrishof 

Indian Orchard Posse 

Insane Blood Gang 

James Gang MC

Jr Kaos 

Juggalos 

Kilby Junior 

Kilby Minor 

Kilby Original 

Kilby Young 

Knox St Posse 

La Familia 

La Lowell 

Latin Kings 

Latin Queens 

Lenox 

Lenox St 

Little Tiger 

Long Riders MC

Los Solidos 

Lowell St Posse 

Lucerne St 

Mafilia 

Mafilia Mass Mobb

Main Street Goons

Maniac Latin Disciples 

Mass Ave 

Massassoit Street Posse 

Mexikanemi 

Mission Hill 

Magnolia 

Minoritys Up 

Mongols MC 

Morse / Norfolk 

Morse St 

Mozart 

MS-13 

Morton St Bricks 

Mulato Mafia 

Ñetas 

New Born Tigers 

Norfolk 

Olney / Norton 

Orchard Park 

Orchard St Boyz 

Orchard Street Bouriquas

Outlaws MC 

Outlawz

Paisa 

Phantom Lords MC 

Road Demons MC 

Rosewood / Thetford 

Ruff Side 

Russian Gangs 

Russian Mob 

Ruthless For Life MC 

S.W.A.T. 
64 National Gang Intelligence Center

Satans Disciples 

Skinheads

Southern Ave 

Southside 

Southside Posse 

Speedwell 

Spencer 

St James 

St Joseph’s 

Stockton 

Sycamore St 

Sycamore Street Posse 

The Crazy Boys 

Tiny Rascal Gangsters 

Torrey Street 

Vice Lords 

Vietnam Vets MC 

Villa Victoria 

Vine & Forest / Mt Pleasant

Wainwright 

Walk Hill 

Walnut Pk 

Warren Gardens 

Wendover 

Westville 

Wheatland 

Wilcock 

Wolf Pac 

Wood Ave 

Woodledge 

Woodward 

Woolson 

Worthington Street Posse 

Young Chavos

MICHIGAN 

300 Block 

Aguitas 16 

Avengers MC 

Bemis Wealthy Street Boys

Black Gangster Disciple 

Black Pistons MC 

Brave Heart Ruff Riders 

BUG Gang

Campau Cream Team 

Cash Ave 

Crips 

Dallas Neland Alexander 

D-Block 

Devils Brigade 

Devils Disciples MC 

Dynasty Gorillas 

East Ave 

Eastern Worden 

Eastside Boys 

European Latin Kings 

Folks 

Forbidden Wheels MC

Gangster Disciples 

Good Squad/Full Time Grinders 

Grandville Gangsters 

Highland’s Finest 

Highwaymen 

Holland Zeeland 

Hustle Boys 

Insane Unknowns 

Ionia Boys 

Jefferson Street Gangsters

Jokers MC 

Juggalos

Kalamazoo Boys 

Kartel of the Streets 

La Kilcka 

La Raza 

Latin Counts 

Latin Kings 

Leak Boy Mafia 

Madison Ave 

Maniac Latin Disciples

Mason Street 

Mexican Gangster Soldiers

Mexican Mafia 

Mexican Mob 

New Age Crip 

Ñetas 

Newman Lane Posse 

Nishnob Mob 

North North 

New World Order 

Oakdale Eastern 

Outlaws MC 

Pine Street 

Polo Boyz 

Prospect Paper Chasers 

Purple Guns 

Quimby Boys 

Rebels MC 

Rikochet Road Knights 

Nation Royal Trinity Soldiers

Sheldon Logan 

Spanish Cobras 

Suicide Locos 

Sur-13’s 

Sureños 

Taliban Team 

Thug Life 

Tres Manos Gangsters

Wanted Thug Brotherhood Nation 

Vatos Locos 

Vice Lords 

Wood street 
2011 National Gang Threat Assessment

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MINNESOTA

Almighty Vice Lords 

Black P Stones 

Black Panthers 

Brown Pride for Life 

Cash Money Boys 

Gangster Disciples 

Hells Angels MC 

Latin Kings 

Los Quientes Locas 

Mexican Mafia 

Native Mob 

Native Vice Lords 

Norteños 14 

Prison Motorcycle Brotherhood

P-Stones 

Rough Tough Somalis 

Royal Cambodian Bloods

Shotgun Crips 

Somali Gangs 

Sons of Silence MC 

Sureños 13 

Texas Syndicate 

Vatos Locos 

Vice Lords 

White Supremacists 

MISSISSIPPI 

211 Boys 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Asgards Pistoleros 

Bandidos MC 

Black Gangster Disciples Bloods 

Crips 

Gangster Disciples

Galloping Gooses 

Handsboro Veterans 

Hellified Drama Click 

Latin Kings 

Mexican Mafia 

Simon City Royals 

Sons of Silence

Vagos

Vice Lords 

Viet Boys

MISSOURI

13 Lennox Wino 

10 9 Folks 

10 Street Crips 

1019 Southside Folks 

107 Hoover Crip 

10-9 Gangster Disciples 

11th Street 

124th Athens Park Blood 

12th St - Five Ace Deuce 

12th Street 

12th Street Blood 

12th Street Crips 

12th Street Disciples 

12th Street Hoover Crips 

135th Street Piru 

13th Street Kcks 

16th Street Crew 

18th Street King Familia 

18th Street Modesto Clique

2 Hard Posse 

21st East Bottom Gangsters 

21 Hilltop 

21 Street Westside 

21st Posse Crips 

21st Street 

21st Street Blood 

22nd Street 

22nd Street Crips

22nd Street Trey 

23rd Street Blood 

23rd Street Crips 

23rd Street Hard Cores 

23rd Street Hustlers 

2400 Mob 

24th St - Five Ace Deuce 

24th Street 

24th Street Bloods 

24th Street Chelsea Bloods

24th Street Crips 

25th Street 

25th Street Bloods 

25th Street Crips 

25th Street Posse Gang 

25th Street Quincy Bloods 

26th Street Hoover Crips 

27 St Belleview Gangsters 

2700 Block 

2700 Eastside 

27th Street 

27th Street Bloods 

27th Street Crips 

27th Street Mob 

27th Street Pros 

29th Street 

29th Street Bloods 

29th Street Crips 

29th Street Hustlers 

29th Street Pros

30’s 

31st Boys 

31st Street 

31st Street Crips 

31st Street Posse 

32nd Street 
66 National Gang Intelligence Center

33rd St K.C. Soldiers 

33rd Street 

33rd Street Bloods 

33rd Street Crips 

3400 Woodland 

34th Street 

35th Street 

35th Street Bloods 

35th Street Crips 

36th Street 

36th Street Bloods 

36th Street Crips 

36th Street Kings 

37th Street 

38th Street 

38th Street Crips 

3900 Block 

39th Street Midwest Gangsters

39th Street 

39th Street Tre-Block 

39th Street Bloods 

39th Street Crips 

39th Street Dogs 

39th Street Holy Temple Crips 

39th Street Posse 

3rd Tre Dog Hustler 

3rd Wall Bloods 

3rd Wall Crips 

3rd World Syndicate 

3rd World Players 

4 Block 4 Trey 

43 Hoover Crips 

400 Block Player 

40th & Wabash Crips 

40th Street 

40th Street Crips 

41st Street Ghost 

42nd Street Crips 

4300 Block Insane Gangster

4300 Blood 

4300 Brim Side Bloods 

4300 Gangsters In Black 

43rd 4 Trey Crips 

43rd Insane Gangster Crips

43rd St Brooklyn Park Mafia

43rd St 

43rd Street Thugs 

43rd Street/The Dirty Eastside 

44th Street 

4500 Bloods 

45th 

45th Street 

45th Street Crips 

49th Street 

49th Street Bloods 

49th Street Dawgs 

49th Street Gangster Crips 

4th Street Crips 

4th Street Guinotte Manor Crip 

5 Deuce Brims Bloods 

5.2 Eu Crips 

50’s 

50th Crips 

5100 Gangsters 

51st Bloods 

51st Street / 5-Block 

51st Street Crips 

51st Street Hustlers 

5-2 Eastside 

52 Pueblo Bloods 

52nd Street Gangster Crips

53rd Avalon Gangster Crips

53rd Street 

53rd Street Crips 

54th Street Blood 

54th Street Crips 

55th Street Bloods 

56th Street Bloods 

56th Street Boys 

56th Street Crips 

56th Street Villains 

57 Road Dog Villains 

5700 Wc Block Mob 

57th Street 

57th Street / 5-Block 

57th Street Bloods 

57th Street Hustler 

57th Street Road Dogs 

57th Street Rogue Dogs 

58th Street / 5-Block 

58th Street Hill Dogs 

59th Street 

59th Street Bloods 

59th Street Gangsters 

59th Street Hoover Crips 

5-Duece Crips 

6 Deuce Brims Bloods 

60th Blood Hound 

60th Street 

61st Street 

62nd Street 

6300 Street 

63rd Street Crips 

66th Street Blood 

67th Street 

67th Street Blood 

67th Street Crips 

68 Mob 

6800 Swap Side 

68th Street 

68th Street Blood 
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68th Street Crips 

68th Street Hustlers 

69th Street Bloods 

69th Street Crips 

69th Street Dawgs 

69th Street Niggas 

6th Street Crips 

7 Duce Crips 

7 Miles Blood 

7 Oaks Crips 

72nd Street Hustlers 

73rd Street Crips 

74 Folk Crips 

74th St Santana Block Crip 

74th Street Hoover Crip 

75th Street Crips 

7th Street Folks 

8 Balls 

9 Deuce Crips 

9-Deuce Bloods 

9th Street Dawgs 

9th Street Dogs 

9th Street Hoover Crips 

Ace Block 

Aryan Nation 

Ashland Park Crips 

Asian Boyz 

Asian Crips 

Asian For Life 

Asian Girlz 

Athens Park Bloods 

Bandits 

Banger Squad 

Barrio Pobre 

Black Gangster Disciples 

Black Guerilla Family 

Black Mafia Gangster Blood

Blood Game

Blood Lennox 

Blood Stone Villains 

Bounce Out Boys 

Bonner Springs 

Blood Border Brothers

Borderland Gang 

Bounty Hunter Bloods 

Boys From Chihuahua

Broadway Gangsters

Broadway Park Blood 

Brown Image Gangsters 

Brown Pride Family 

Brown Side Locos 

Buk 

Lao Killers 

C-13 Cambridge Crips 

Cash Money Boyz 

Chain Gang Parolees 

Chelsea Bronx 

Chelsea Crips 

Chestnut Mafia 

Circle City Crips 

Click Clack Gang 

Compton Crips 

Corrington Crew 

Crazy Ass White Boys

Crimeboyz 

Crip Loc Da Gutta Sqaud 

Dark Side Posse 

Dead Everlasting Gangster

Dead-end Gang 

Denver Lane Bloods 

Desert Flat Sex Terks 

Deuce Blocc 

Deuces 

Dime Block 

Dlb Capone 

Double Deuces 

Dragon Family 

Du Roc Crips 

Deuce 4 Gangsters 

Deuce 9 Folks 

Deuce Deuce Blood 

Deuce Deuce Crips 

Deuce Lime Brim Bloods

Deuced-Deuce Posse 

East Coast Crips 

Eastside 15 

Eastside Blood 

Eastside Click 

Eastside Crips 

Eastside Folks 

Eastside Gangster 

Eastside Hathorn Piru Gangster 

Eastside Hilltop 

Eastside Insane 

Eastside Latin Counts

Eastside Locos 

Eastside Mexican Locos

Eastside Oceanside Crips

Eastside Posse 

Eastside Rollin 20’s Crips

Eastside Wet Back Power 

Eight Ball Crips 

El Foresteros MC 

Englewood Family Bloods

Five Ace Deuce 

Florencia 13 

Fambino’s 

Familia Chueca 

Family Locos 

Five Trey Crips 

Fog 5100 Original Gangsters 
68 National Gang Intelligence Center

Folks 

Freaks 

Fremont Hustlers 

Frostwood Mob 

Galloping Goose MC

Gangster Crips 

Gangster Disciples 

Gangsters Gear 

Gangster Crips 

Gracemore Boys 

Grape Street Watts Crips

Greenfield Village Posse

Guardian Angels 

Guardian Disciples 

Hardkore Gangsters 

Hells Lovers MC 

Hillside Crips 

Hillside Hustler 

Hillside Mafia 

Hilltop 

Hilltop Blood 

Hoodbound 6700 

Hoodsquad 

Hoover Crip Gang 

107 Hoover Gangster Crips 

I’ll Rock You Crew 

Imperial Gangster Crips

Imperial Valley 

Imperial Village 

Indian Posse 

Indoes Willis Avenue 

Inland Empire 

Insane Disciples 

Insane Family Gangster Blood 

Insane Gangster Crips 

Insane Gangster Folks 

Insane Vato Gangsters 

Insane Village Crips

International Gangster Family 

Invaders 

Jamaican 

Jeffrey Manor Gangster Crip

Joplin Honky 

Juniper Garden Crips

Knockafella Flame Gang

Kalizion Kansas City Villains 

Kingsman Crips 

Knocc Out Boyz 

Krazy Boyz 

La Soul Mafia 

La Familia 

Langdon Laos Bloods 

Laos Boys 

Latin Counts 

Latin Kings 

Latin People 

Little Tiny Bitches 

Lokitos Gang 

Lonely Vets 

Lords Of Chaos 

Los Madanado 

Lynch Mob 

Lynwood Mob Bloods 

Macken Gangster Crips Malditos 

Mexican Disciples 

Mexican Boyz 

Mexican Kings 

Mexican Loco’s 

Mexican Mafia 

Midwest Drifters MC 

Money Over Bitches 

Money Over Broke Bitches

Moorish Science Temple 

MS-13 

Mulvthina Loca 

Natoma Boyz 

Ne Side Blood 

700 Block Neighborhood Crips 

Neo Nazi 

Nes Niggers On Woodland

Nine Nine Mafia Crip 

Norteños 

North KC Hustlers Crips 

North Oak Posse 

North Pole Crips 

Northeast Side Bloods 

Northeast Side Gangsters 

Northside Gorilla 

Northside Posse 

Northwest Evans Park 

Norton Block Gangsters Notorious 

Nutty Block Crip 

O.G.Crips 

Original Agnes Gangster 

Outlaw Mafia 

Pachucos 

Parkwood Bloods 

Parvin Crew 

People 5 

People Nation 

Pura Familia Loka 

Piru Bloods 

Playboy Gangsters 

Players Club 

Pleasure Time 

Playboy 

Pueblo Bishop 

Puma Boys Crips 

Quincy Bloods 

Quintos In Mexico 

Rebels 13 
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National Gang Intelligence Center 69

Raymond Street Hustlers

Rearview Players Crips 

Red Mob Gangsters 

Riverside Posse Crips 

Rogue Dog Villains 

Rollin 20’s Crips 

Rollin 30’s Crips 

Rollin 40’s Crips 

Rollin 60’s Blood 

Rollin 60’s Crips 

Rollin 80’s Bloods 

Ready To Kill 

Ruskin Way Boys 

Saddle Tramps 

Saint Disciples

Saint Margaret 

Samoan Satans 

Spanish Disciples 

Scarface School Yard Crips 

Six Eight Gang 

Southeast Pachucos 

Seven Deuce Lime Street Bloods 

Shotgun Crips 

Six Deep Crips 

Six Duce Crips 

Six Deuce Brim 

Six Tra 

Six-Deuce Bloods 

Sk7 Skaters 

Skinheads 

Somali Gangs 

Sons Of Samoa 

Southside 13 

Southside 60’s 

Southside Crips 

Southside Family Bloods

Southside Posse 

Southside Villains 

Spanish Disciple 

Spanish Gangsters 

Sur Por Vida

Sur-13 

Sureños 

Swampside Taggers 

Tas-Dog Crips 

Taliban Gang 

Terrace Lake Crips 

Tra Dog Crips 

Tra Side Gangster 

Tra-9 

Tra-Side 

Traside Mobb 

Tre Wall Tre-Tre 

Tre Block 33 

Tre-9 

Tre-Deuce Gangster Crips 

Tree Top Piru 

Tre Side Gangsters 

Tra-Side Gorillas

Twampside/1/4 Block

Underground Crips 

Uptown Players 

Vagos Trece 

Vagos MC 

Vatos Loco 

V-Boys 

Varrio Delinquentes 

Viet For Life 

Vice Lords 

Vietnamese Crips 

Village Boyz Bloods 

Waldo Crip 

Westbluff Blood 

Western Bloods 

Westside 111 Crips 

Westside 18 Malandros

Westside 23 Holly Block Gang 

Westside 41st Crip

Westside Bloods 

Westside Chronicles Blood

Westside El Centro 

Westside Hoover Crips 

Westside Latin Counts 

Westside Locos 

Westside Pride Family Loco 

Westside Player 

Westside Rollin 40’s 

Westside Rolling 60’s 

Westside Traviesos 

Wheels Of Soul MC 

Wiggers 

Woodland Crips 

Young Oriental Gangsters

MONTANA

406 Dedicated Family 

Aryan Circle of Texas 

Bandidos MC 

Bandits 

Bloods 

Cossacs 

Crips 

Dirty White Boys 

Galloping Goose MC

Gangster City Family 

Gangster Disciples 

Hombres 

Insane Vice Lords 

Juggalo 

Latin Kings 

Modern 
70 National Gang Intelligence Center

Modern Outlaws 

Mongols MC

National Socialist Skinheads

Norteños 

Outlaws MC 

Peckerwoods 

Pride Member Bandidos 

Soldier of Seven 

Suicide Mafia 

Supreme White Power 

Sureños 

Texas Dirty White Boys 

White Supremacist

NEBRASKA

18th Street 

AM Vets 

Bandidos MC 

Crips 

Eastside Loco 13 

Eastside Locos 

Gangster Disciples 

Goon Squad 

Hells Angels

Latin Kings 

Lomas 

MS-13

MSR137 

Must Be Criminal 

Norteños 

Rebels 13 

South Family Bloods 

Southside 13 

Southside Winos 

Sureños 

Under Age Kriminal

NEVADA

28th Street 

Bandidos

Barrio Naked City 

Lil Lokes 

Mongols

Nevada Trece 

Norteños 

San Chucos 

Sureños 

Skinheads

Vagos

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Bay State Skinheads 

Bloods 

Brothers of the White Warriors

Chinese Mafia 

Combatants 

Crips 

Diamond Kings 

Dominions 

Folk 

Gangster Disciples 

Hells Angels MC 

Iron Eagles MC

Juggalos 

Kaotic Kings of Destruction

Latin Gangster Disciples 

Latin Kings 

Milford & Company 

Mountain Men MC 

MS-13 

Outlaws MC 

Pagans MC 

Red Villain Gangstas 

Rough Riders 

Sureños 

Trinitarios

NEW JERSEY

135 Piru 

464Piru

793 Bloods 

Brick City Brims 

Haitian Outlaws 

Hoover Crips

Grape Street Crips

G-Shine Bloods 

Hells Angels MC 

Latin Kings

MS-13 

Ñetas 

Pagans

Trinitarios

Sex Money Murder

NEW MEXICO

Bandidos

Eastside 

Juggalos 

Los Padillas Gang 

MS-13 

San Jose Gang 

Southside Loco 

Sureños 

Thugs Causing Kaos 

Vagos

Westside 

Westside Locos

NEW YORK

18th Street 

Aryan Brotherhood 
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Bishops 

Black Gangster Disciple 

Black Panther 

Bloods 

Crips 

El Grupo 27 

Haitian Mafia 

Hells Angels MC 

Juggalos 

Latin Kings 

Mexikanemi 

MS-13 

Ñetas

Outlaws

Pagans MC 

Paisa

Peoples Nation 

Raza Unida 

Skinheads 

Sureños 

Texas Syndicate 

Thug Out Players

Trinitarios

Vagos

Vatos Locos 

Warlocks MC

Wheels of Soul MC

NORTH CAROLINA

13 Meadow Wood Memphis Bloods

18th Street 

174 Valentine Bloods 

20’s Neighborhood Piru 

21st Crips 

318 Crips 

4-Trey Gangster Crips 

5 Deuce Hoover Crips 

5 Line Eastside Bounty Hunters 

8 Trey Crips 

9 Tek 

9 Trey 

9 Trey Gangsters 

910 MOB 

A Squad 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Aryan Nation 

Ashboro St Bloods 

Ashton Forrest Bloods 

Asian Boyz 

Avalon Gangster Crips 

B St Bloods 

Beaver Creek South 

BL-50 Bloods 

Black Gangster Disciples 

Black Guerilla Family 

Black P Stones 

Bonnie Doone Folk 

Bounty Hunter Assassins 

Bounty Hunter Bloods 

Bounty Hunter Villains 

Brown Pride 

Brown Pride Aztecs 

Bunce Road Bloods 

Cambridge Arms Bloods

Conservative Vice Lords 

D-Block Bloods 

DC Bounty Hunters 

Dead Man Incorporated

Desperados MC 

Deuce 13 

Eastside MOB Piru 

Eastside Murder Boyz 

Eight Trey Crips 

Fairlane Acres Crips 

Five Percenters 

Flame Squad 

Folk Nation 

Foxfire Bloods 

Fruit Town Brims 

Gangster Disciples 

Get Money Clique 

Ghost Gangster Disciples 

Gangster Killer Bloods 

Grape Street Crips 

Graveyard Crips 

Hells Angels MC 

Hoover 107 Crips 

HTO Bloods 

IGC 973

Insane Gangster Crips

Insane Gangster Disciples

Jbirds 

Juggalos 

Kings/Dons 

Latin Kings 

Loch Boys 

Major Grind 

Mafia Malditos 

Mexican Mafia 

Misplaced Souls MC 

Money Over Bitches Bloods

Money Money 

Hungry Soldiers 

Money Maker Squad 

MS-13 

Murch Mob 

Murder Bloods 

Nazi Low Riders 

Ñetas 

New Jersey Mafia 

Norte-14 
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Norteños 

NWA Bloods 

Outlaws MC

People Nation

P-NOX

Queensmore Bloods 

Real Street Niggas 

Red Devils MC 

Rollin 20’s Crips 

Rollin 30’s Crips 

Rollin 40’s Crips 

Rollin 60’s Crips 

Savoy Heights Posse

Seabrook Bloods

Sex Shaw Road Crips

South Central 81st Crips 

Sur-13

Tiny Rascals Gang 

Trap Squad 

United Blood Nation 

Valentine’s Day

Vatos Locos

Westside MOB Piru 

Westside Piru

NORTH DAKOTA

Folk Nation

Gangster Disciples

Native Mob Crips & Bloods

Sons of Silence

OHIO

1300 Area Rap Gang 

187 Boys

33rd Street 

4-Block

52/52 Niggas 

600 Block/Hill Top Gangsters

614 Boy Foundation 

22nd Piru Bloods 

9 Kings

A.C. 357 

Akron Larceny Boys 

Ak-Town / 330/ 440 / 216 

All About Money 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Aryan Nation 

Asian Crips 

Avengers MC 

Ayers Street Playas 

Baller Boy Mafia 

Banished Brothers MC 

Black Pistons MC 

Bloodline 

Bottom Hawks 

Brick Boys 

Brothers MC

Brother’s of the Hammer MC

Buckeye Folks 

Chest Block Gangsters

Chestola 

Da Kennel 

Dayton View Hustlers 

D-Block/21st Street Killers 

Dem Block Boys 

Derelects MC 

Diamond Cut 

Diamond Dogs MC

Dirt and Grime MC

Dirty South 

Down the Way 

Down Town Area Rap Gang

Eastside Bloods 

Eastside Connection 

Folks Gangster Afficial

Gangster Disciple Folks

Gangster Disciples 

Gangster Killer Bloods

Get Money Boys 

Get Money Goonies 

Goonies

Greenwich Village Crew 

G-Unit Crips 

Hammerskins 

Head Bustin Niggas

Heartless Felonies 

Heightz Boyz 

Hells Angels MC 

Hilltop 7714 Crips

Hough Heights Boys/Hough

Harlem Boys 

Hunnid Block Gang

Iceberg Bloods 

Johnston Block 

Kaika Klan Outlaws 

King Cobra Boys 

Kinsman County/Rollin 40 Crips

K-Town Gangsters 

Laffer Block 

Laird Block Gangsters 

Lake Boys 

Lakeshore Boys 

Laotian Crips 

Latin Kings 

Lovers Lane Crips 

Laclede Parkview Ave 

Madison Madhouse 

Middle Avenue Zone 

Money Go Gettas 

Money Over Bitches 
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MS-13 

New Northside Gangsters

Niggas From Laffer 

North Coast MC 

North Coast XII MC 

Northside Gangstas 

Original Killers 

Otterbien Blood Mafia 

Outlaws MC 

Quinn Street Crew 

Pagans MC

Rated R

Renegades MC 

Rollin 20 Crips 

S1W Southwest 

Satans MC 

Sherwood Ave 

Shorb Block 

Shorb Block Hustlers 

Sin City Disciples MC 

Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice 

Skinheads Skulls 

Soup City Boys

South Block Gangsters

Southwest Akron Thugs

Southwest Boyz 

Southwest Gangsters 

Southside Gangsters 

StarBoyz

Stay Focus Rap Gang 

Strays MC 

Suffocated Records 

Sureños 13 

The Breed MC 

The Brother’s MC 

The Circle 

The Notch Boys 

The Team /The Squad 

The Unit 

Tribe 

Up the Way 

Valley Boys 

Valley Niggas On Top 

Valley-Lo 

Vice Lords 

Wages 

Wheels of Soul MC

White Supremacists 

Young Blooded Thugs 

Young Kaika Boys 

Young Kaika Girls 

Young Kelly Boys 

Young Street Goonies 

Zone 3 Bloods 

Zone 7 

Zone 8 

Zulus MC

OKLAHOMA

Asian Gang 

Bandidos MC 

Bloods

Border Brothers

Crips 

Hoovers

Indian Brotherhood 

Juggalos 

Mongols MC 

MS-13

Native American Gang 

Nazi Low Riders

Norteño

Mexican Mafia 

Outlaws MC

Sur Trece 

Carnales 

Sureños

Unidos en Uno 

Universal Aryan Brotherhood

USO Family 

OREGON

18th Street 

Brother Speed

Brown Pride 

Columbia Villa Crips 

Gangster Disciples 

Hmong Pride 

Hoover Criminal 

Kerby Blocc Crips 

Lincoln Park Bloods 

Masters of Destruction 

MS-13 

Mongols MC

Norteños 

Rolling 60’s Crips 

Southside Trece 

Unthank Park Hustler 

Vagos MC

West Coast Mafia Crip 

Westside Mob Crips 

Woodlawn Park Bloods

PENNSYLVANIA

18th Street 

AC Skins 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Aryan Circle

Aryan Resistance Militia

Asian Boyz 

Barbarians MC 
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Barrios Aztecas

Black Gangster Disciples 

Black Guerilla Family 

Black Jack MC 

Bloods 

Border Brothers

Breed Brick Yard Mafia 

DC Crews 

Dirty White Boys

G-27 

Gangster Disciples 

Green Dragons

Hells Angels

HPL Il Morte 

Insane Gangster Disciple

Insane Unknowns 

Juggalos 

Kensington 215 

Keystone United 

Latin Kings 

Low Crips 

Mavericks 

Mexican Mafia

Mexikanemi

MS-13 

Nazi Low Riders

Neo Nazi 

Ñetas 

New Mexico Syndicate

Norteños 

Nuestra Familia

Outlaws MC 

Pagans MC 

Paisa 

Raza Unida

Sin City Disciples MC 

Skinheads

Soldiers of Aryan Culture

Street Familia 

StrongArm Production

Mexican Mafia 

Sureño 13 

Sureños 

Tangos

Tango Blast 

Texas Chicano Brotherhood

Texas Family

Texas Syndicate 

Tribe MC 

Trinitarios 

Vagos

Vice Lords 

Wardogs MC 

Warlocks MC 

Warrior Society

Wheels of Soul MC 

PUERTO RICO

Borinquen Street Gang 

Brisas De Salinas 

Grupo 25 

Grupo 27 

La Marina 

La Montaña Public Housing

Latin Kings 

Los Ñetas 

Los 31 

Los 25 

Nuevo Grupo 25 

ONU Rompe 

San Andres Public Housing

RHODE ISLAND

18 Street 

Black Gangster Disciples 

Clown Town Crip 

Darkside Rascals 

Hanover Boyz

Hells Angels MC

Latin Kings 

Laos Pride 

MS-13 

Ñetas 

Oriental Rascals 

Original Bloods 

Original Crip Gang 

Providence Street Boyz 

South Street Boys 

Sur-13

Vagos MC 

Young Bloods

SOUTH CAROLINA

031 Piru

1212

10 Mile Boys 

18th Street 

3rd Pound 

3VL

4-4 

4 Mile Boys 

41 Boys 

48 Boys 

4G 

5 Percenters 

58Tres 

6 Mile Boys 

8 Trey Crips 

9 Tre Boys

9th Ward 

Adams Run Bottom Boyz 
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Band of Brothers MC 

Bedroc 

Black Gangster Disciples 

Black Mafia Black “P” Stone 

Bloods-031 

Bloods MC 

Boogie Woogie 

Bounty Hunters 

Church Hill Boyz 

Converse Street Gang 

County Boys 

Creekside Crips 

Cross Cut 

Cross The Track 

Dem Country Bois 

Devils Rejects 

Down the Island 

Duncan Park Gang 

East West Forest/Forest Boys

Eastside 

Eastside Crips 

Eastside Folk 

Farside/West Cash 

Ferry Ferry 

Folk Nation 

G Shine 

Gangster Killer Bloods 

Gangster Disciples 

Gatas Petersfield Jungle Boyz

Geddy’s Ville Boyz 

Greenview Thugs 

Hells Angels MC 

Hilltop-Crips 

Hoover Crips 

Insane Gangster Disciples

Johns Island Bloods 

Kampa Bois

Kampa Style Villa Posse 

Kings Court 

Laos Crips and Bloods 

Latin Kings

Lemon Tree Bois 

Misguided Brotherhood 

MS-13 

Natural Born Assassins 

New Black Panthers 

Neighborhood Bloods 

Norte 14 

Northside Bloods 

Northside Gang 

OB Orleans Garden Boys

Outlaws MC 

Paisas 

Park Hill Gang 

Parkers Pine Hurst Posse

Pineland Slap Boyz 

Red Devils MC 

Rivaside Goons 

Rollin 20’s 

Rollin 90 Crips 

Souf Santee

Sosik Clik 

Southside 

Southside 3rd Ward 

Straight Shooters MC 

Sur-13 

Sureños 

SWAMP 

Texas Community Gangsta 

The Doolie Hill Gang 

The Sand Hill Gang 

The Ville Thunderguards 

Tibwin Bois 

Trap Star Soldiers 

Tree Top Piru 

Town Gorillas 

Trey 9 Bloods 

Tville Bloods 

UpTop Soldiers 

Urban Warriors 

Vatos Locos 

Warhorse Brotherhood

Warlocks MC 

Westside 

Westside Bloods 

Wild Bunch

SOUTH DAKOTA

Bandidos

Conservative Vice Lords

Darkside Family 

East River Skins 

East River Souls 

Eastside Thugs 

Gangster Disciples 

Main Street Crips 

Native Latin Kings 

Nomadz 

Northside Gangster Disciples

Red Iron Players 

Sur-13 

The Boyz 

Thug Line 

Tre Tre Gangster Crips 

True Villain Bloodz

Vagos 

Warlords 

West Mafia Crip Family

Westside Piru Bloodz 
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TENNESSEE

103 Watts Varrio Grape Street Crips 

107 Hoover Crips 

Five Percenters 

52 Hoover Crips 

Aryan Brotherhood

Aryan Circle 

Aryan Nation 

Asian Pride 

Athens Park Bloods 

Boone Height Mafia Crips

Bounty Hunter Bloods

Brotherhood Forever 

Brown Pride 

Confederate Sons MC 

Crazy White Boys 

E87 Kitchen Crips 

Gangster Disciples 

Ghost Vice Lords 

Imperial Insane Vice Lords

Juggalos 

Kempo Drive Posse 

Kurdish Pride 

Latin Kings 

Memphis Mob 

Mexican Mafia 

MS-13 

Outlaws MC 

Prison Motorcycle Brotherhood

Renegades MC 

Rollin 60’s Crips 

Skyline Piru 

Sureños 

Sureños 13 

Tiny Rascal Gangsters 

Traveling Vice Lords 

TreeTop Piru 

Unknown Vice Lords 

Vice Lords 

White Aryan Resistance

Woodlawn Crips

TEXAS 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Aryan Brotherhood of Texas

Aryan Circle 

Asian Pride 

Bandidos MC 

Barrio Azteca 

Barrio Azteca Sureños 

Black Gangster Disciples

Bloods 

Brown Pride 

Cliques 

Combes Crazy Clique 

Crips 

Cuchillos 

Drop City Thugz 

Eastside Homeboys 

Eastside Locos 

Eastside Pharr 

Fair Park 

Ghetto Starz 

Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos

Highland Hills Posse 

Ironriders MC 

Kings Loco 8 Bandidos 

Krazy Jokers 

Las Palmas Indios 

Latin Kings 

Loco 13 

Los Compadres MC 

Los Homeboys 

Mexican Mafia 

Mexikanemi 

MS-13 

NOR 14 

Norteños 

North Dallas Vagos 

Northside Locos 

Notorious Thugs 

Orejons Partido Revolucionario 

Mexicanos 

Pharrolitos 

Pleasant Grove Vatos 

Po’Boys 

PRM Valluco 

Puro Tango Blast 

Raza Unida 

Southside Bandidos 

Southside Donna 

Southside EVW 

Southside Folk

Sur-13 

Sureño 13 

Tango Blast 

Texas Chicano Brotherhood

Texas Mafia 

Texas Mexican Mafia 

Texas Syndicate 

Tongo Westside

Tri-City-Bombers

Vagos MC 

Vallucos 

Varrio Northside 

Varrio Northside Vato Locos

West Texas Tangos 

Westside Aquas Harlingen 

Westside Bowie Town A’s 

Westside Filmore A’s 

Westside Los Vecinos

White Knights
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UTAH

Asian Boyz 

Baby Regulators

Bandidos MC 

Barons 

Black Mafia Gangsters

Brother Speed 

Crown Latin Kings 

Fourth Reich 

Iraqi Taliban 

Kerberos 

King Mafia Disciples 

Mongols MC 

MS-13 

Murder One Family 

Norteños 

Oriental Boy Soldiers 

Oriental Laotian Gangsters 

Samoans in Action 

Silent Aryan Warriors 

Soldiers of the Aryan Culture 

Sons of Samoa 

Sons of Silence MC

Sundowners 

Tiny Oriental Posse 

Tongan Crip Gangsters 

Vagos MC 

Sudanese Gangs 

Sureños 

Varrio Loco Town 

Vice Lords

VERMONT 

No reporting

VIRGINIA

18th Street Gang

36th Street Bang Squad 

43/Hollywood Church Boyz 

43 MOB

44 MOB 

52 Hoover Crips 

9 Trey Bloods 

9 Trey Gangsters 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Asian Dragon Family 

Bang Squad 

Black Gangster Disciples 

Black P Stone Nation 

Black Pistons MC 

Blackout Bloods 

Bloods

Bounty Hunter Bloods 

Brown Pride 

Camp Grove Killas 

Ching-A-Lings MC

Cross Roads Crew 

Culmore City 

Cypress Manor Posse Crips 

Cypress Manor Posse Bloods

Devils Grip 

Dragon Family 

Dump Squad 

Fifth Ward 

Five Percenters 

Florencia 13 

Folk Nation 

Freeney Boyz 

Gangster Killer Bloods 

Gangster Disciples 

Ghost Riders MC 

Hells Angels MC 

Hill Street 

Hoffler Boyz 

Holiday Death Chamber 

Holiday Death Crew 

Hot Boyz 

Illusions MC

Insane Gangster Disciples 

Iron Coffins MC

Kings of Richmond County 

La Primera 

La Privada Riderz

Lake Kennedy Posse Bloods

Latin Homies 

Latin Kings 

La Clique Original 

MS-13 

Marauders MC

Merciless Souls 

Mexican Mafia 

Mexican Pride 

Mongols MC

MS-13 

Murk Squad 

Nine Trey Gangsta 

Nomads MC

Norteños 14 

OO6 Blitz 

Outlaws MC 

Pagans MC 

People Nation 

Piru Pound Property

Renegades MC 

Road Dragons 

Rolling 90’s 

San Diego Eastside Piru

Scorpions MC

Shoot-em Up Boys 

South Suffolk Gangsters Crips

Southside/202 SQUAD 
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Southside Locos

Sureños

Stack Squad 

Sur-13 

The Good Ones 

Titans MC

Tradesmen MC 

Tiny Rascal Gangsters 

Tribe MC 

Tucker Hill 

Unknown Fools 

Valentines Bloods 

Vice Lords 

Virginia Raiders MC 

Warlocks MC 

Warlords

Zetas

WASHINGTON

18th Street 

74 Hoover Criminals 

74 Hoover Crips 

Aryan Brotherhood 

Aryan Family 

Bandidos MC 

Black Gangster Disciples 

Big Dog Norteños 

Black Guerilla Family 

Chinese Triads 

Deuce 8 Black Gangster Disciples 

Deuce 8 Gangster Disciples

Deuce-0’s 

Deuce-9’s 

Down With the Crew Gangster

Disciples 

Drama Boyz 

East African Gangs 

European Kindred 

Florencia 13 

Green Rags 

Hakenkreuz 

Hells Angels MC 

Hilltop 

Holly Park Crips 

Hoover Crips 

Juggalos 

Kitchen Crips 

La Fuma Bloods

Lakewood Hustler Crips 

Latin Kings 

Lil Valley Lokos 13 

Lil Valley Lokotes 13 

Low Profile Gangsters 

Little Valley Locotos 

Magic Wheels 

MS-13 

Mexican Mafia 

Mongols

Native Son Bloods 

Nine Street Crips 

Norteños 

Northwest Boot Boys 

Oriental Boyz 

Oriental Fantasy Boys 

Outlaws MC 

Paisas 

Peckerwoods 

Playboy Gangster 

Playboys 13 

Rancho San Pedro 3rd Street 

Skinheads 

Somali Gangs 

Sons of Samoa 

South Asian Gangs 

South Asian Gangsters 

Southside Tokers 

Street Mobb 

Sur-13 

Sureños 

Tiny Rascal Gangsters 

Union Street Black Gangster 

Disciples 

Varrio Campo Vida 

Varrio Locos 13 

Vatos Locos 

Yesler Terrace Bloods 

Young Oriental Troop 

Young Seattle Boys

WEST VIRGINIA

Black Guerilla Family 

Junk Yard Dogs 

Latin Kings 

Pagans MC 

Warlocks MC

WISCONSIN

10th St Gangster Disciples

12th St Gangster Disciples 

16 Gun Clique 

2-1’s 

25 Vice Lords 

26 Vice Lords 

29 Hard Heads 

6th St Gangster Disciples 

Big O Ones 

Black Cobras MC 

Black Gangster Disciples 

Black Mob 

Black P Stones 

Black Pistons MC 
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Block 25th 

Brothers Of The Struggle

Brown Pride 13 

Burleigh Zoo 

Chicago Gangster Disciples 

Chicago Vice Lords 

City Of Clybourne 

Clanton 13 

Conservative Vice Lords 

Dirty South Gangster Disciples 

Dukes 13 

Eastside Gangsters 

Eastside Mafiosos 

Everybody Knows 

El Rukins 

Four Corner Hustler 

Gangster Disciples 

Gangster Pimpin 

Getto Boys 

Hot Boys 

Imperial Gangsters 

Imperial Gangster Disciples

Insane Unknowns 

Insane VL

La Familia 

Latin Bloods 

Latin Kings 

Los Primos 

Los Veteranos 13 

Maniac Latin Disciples 

Maple Street 

Mexican Posse 13 

Mexican Sureños Locos Ochos 

Midtown Gangster Disciples 

Murda Mobb 

Nash Street Boys 

Native Mob 

Northside Gangster Disciples

Orchestra Alanis 

Outlaws MC 

Players 

Sons Of Loyalty 

Sovereign Nation Warriors

Spanish Cobras 

Spanish Gangster Disciples 

Sureños 13 

The 4’s 

The Loonies 

Tiny Locos 13 

Traveling Vice Lords 

Tre Eights 

Vice Lords 

Wild 100’s

WYOMING 

307 Southside

Bandidos 

Bloods

Brown Pride

Gangster Disciples

Juggalos

Kriniminals Sureños

Lincoln Park

Southside Locos

Sur-13 

Wreck Team
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APPENDIX B. MDTOs Alliances and Rivals

Cartel Aligned With Rivals

The Sinaloa Cartel (aka GuzmanLoera Organization or Pacific Cartel) Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos 

New Mexico Syndicate 

Los Carnales 

Latin Kings 

Mexican Mafia (California) 

Sureños 

MS-13 

Arizona Mexican Mafia (Old & New) 

Wet Back Power 

Sinaloa Cowboys 

West Texas Tangos 

Los Negros 

Valencia Cartel (Considered a branch of 

the Sinaloa Cartel) 

Sonora Cartel (Considered a branch of 

the Sinaloa Cartel) 

Colima Cartel (Considered a branch of 

the Sinaloa Cartel) 

Border Brothers (California) 

Border Brothers (Arizona) 

Los Zetas 

Cardenas-Guillen Cartel (Gulf) 

Tijuana Cartel 

Beltran-Leyva Cartel 

Juarez Cartel 

La Familia Michoacana Cartel 

(Formerly part of Los Zetas under 

the authority of the Gulf Cartel)

Sinaloa Cartel 

Cardenas-Guillen Cartel (Gulf) 

Surenos 

MS-13 

West Texas Tangos 

Los Zetas 

Cardenas-Guillen Cartel (Gulf 

Cartel) 

The Beltran-Leyva Cartel 

Vincente Carrillo-Fuentes Cartel 

(Juarez Cartel) 

Los Zetas Vincente Carrillo-Fuentes Cartel 

(Juarez) 

Beltran-Leyva Cartel 

Barrio Azteca 

Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos 

Mexikanemi 

Texas Syndicate 

MS-13 

Arellano-Felix Cartel (Tijuana) 

Cartel de la Sierra (Sierra Cartel) 

Sinaloa Cartel 

La Familia Michoacana Cartel 

Cardenas-Guillen Cartel (Gulf) 
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Cartel Aligned With Rivals

Cardenas-Guillen Cartel (Gulf Cartel) Sinaloa Cartel 

La Familia Michoacana Cartel 

Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos 

Partido Revolutionary Mexicano 

Raza Unida 

Texas Chicano Brotherhood 

Los Zetas 

La Familia Michoacana Cartel 

The Sinaloa Cartel 

Vincente Carrillo-Fuentes Cartel 

(Juarez Cartel) 

Los Zetas 

Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos 

Barrio Azteca 

New Mexico Syndicate 

Los Carnales 

The Sinaloa Cartel 

La Familia Michoacana Cartel 

The Beltran-Leyva Cartel (expected 

to soon be taken over by the Sierra 

Cartel)

Los Zetas Los Zetas 

La Familia Michoacana Cartel 

Arellano-Felix Cartel (Tijuana Cartel) Mexican Mafia (California) 

Sureños 

Arizona Mexican Mafia (Old & New) 

Border Brothers (California) 

Los Zetas 

The Sinaloa Cartel 
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APPENDIX C. Federal Gang Task 

Forces

FBI Safe Streets Gang Task Forces

Alabama

Mobile Violent Crime Joint Task Force

Northeast Alabama Safe Streets Task Force

Alaska

Anchorage Safe Street Task Force

Arizona

Northern Arizona Violent Gang Task Force

Southwest Arizona Safe Streets Task Force 

Violent Street Gang Task Force

Arkansas

Metro Gang-Joint Task Force

California

Central Coast Safe Streets Violent Gang Task Force

Central Valley Gang Impact Team Task Force

East County Regional Gang Task Force

Gang Impact Team (Riverside)

Imperial Valley Safe Streets Task Force

Kern County Violent Crime/Gang Task Force

Los Angeles Metro Task Force On Violent Gangs

North Bay Regional Gang Task Force

North Central Coast Gang Task Force

North County Regional Gang Task Force

Sacramento Valley Gang Suppression Team

Safe Streets East Bay Task Force

San Francisco Safe Streets Violent Crimes Task Force

San Gabriel Valley Safe Streets Violent Gang Task Force

Santa Ana Gang Task Force

Santa Clara County Violent Gang Task Force

Solano County Violent Gang Safe Streets Task Force

South LA County Violent Crimes Task Force

Stockton Violent Crime Task Force

Ventura County RIACT

Violent Crime Task Force-Gang Group

Colorado

Denver Metro Gang Safe Streets Task Force

Southern Colorado Violent Gang Safe Streets Task Force

Connecticut

Bridgeport Safe Streets Gang Violent Crimes Task Force

New Haven Safe Streets Task Force

Northern Connecticut Violent Crimes Gang Task Force

Delaware

Delaware Violent Crime Safe Streets Gang Task Force

Florida

Daytona Beach Safe Streets Task Force

Jacksonville Criminal Enterprise Investigative Task Force

Metro Orlando Safe Streets Gang Task Force

Palm Beach County Gang and Criminal Organization 

Task Force

South FL. Gang/Criminal Organization Task Force

Tampa Bay Safe Streets Task Force

Georgia

Atlanta Criminal Enterprise Task Force

Central Savannah River Area Safe Streets Gang Task 

Force

Conasauga Major Offenders Task Force

Hall County Major Offenders Task Force

Northwest Georgia Criminal Enterprise Task Force

Southwest Georgia Gang Task Force

Idaho

Treasure Valley Metro Gang Task Force

Illinois

Eastern Illinois Safe Streets Task Force

Joint Task Force on Gangs – Tactical
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Joint Task Force on Gangs - West 

Joint Task Force on Gangs II

Joint Task Force on Gangs-1

Metro East Safe Streets

North Suburban Gang Task Force

Peoria Area Safe Streets Task Force

Quad Cities Fed Gang Task Force

Will County Violent Crimes Task Force

Indiana

Eastern Central Indiana Safe Streets Task Force

Fort Wayne Safe Streets Gang Task Force

Gary Response Investigative Team 

Gang Response Investigative Team Tippecanoe

Indianapolis Metro Gang Safe Streets Task Force

Wabash Valley Safe Streets Task Force

Iowa

Cedar Rapids Safe Streets Task Force

Kentucky

Northern Kentucky Safe Streets Task Force

Louisiana

Calcasieu Parish Gang Task Force

Capital Area Gang Task Force

Central Louisiana Gang Task Force

New Orleans Gang Task Force

Northeast Louisiana Gang Task Force

Shreveport Task Force

South Central Louisiana Safe Streets Task Force

Maine

Southern Maine Gang Task Force

Maryland

Prince George’s County Safe Streets Task Force

Violent Crime Safe Streets Initiative

Massachusetts

North Shore Gang Task Force

Southeastern Massachusetts Gang Task Force

Western Massachusetts Gang Task Force

Michigan

Benton Harbor Violent Crime Task Force

Detroit Violent Gang Task Force

Genesee County Safe Streets Task Force

Mid-Michigan Safe Streets Task Force

Oakland County Safe Streets Task Force

Minnesota

Twin Cities Safe Streets Violent Gang Task Force

Mississippi

Jackson Safe Streets Task Force

Southeast Mississippi Safe Streets Task Force

Missouri

Kansas City Metropolitan Gang Task Force 

St. Louis Safe Streets Gang Task Force

Montana

Big Sky Safe Streets Task Force

Central Montana Gang Task Force

Nebraska

Central Nebraska Drug and Safe Streets Task Force

Greater Omaha Safe Streets Task Force

Nevada

Las Vegas Safe Streets Gang Task Force

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Safe Streets Task Force

New Jersey

Jersey Shore Gang and Criminal Organization Task Force

South Jersey Violent Incident/Gang Task Force

South Jersey Violent Offender and Gang Task Force
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Violent Crime Criminal Enterprise Task Force

Violent Crimes Incident Task Force

New Mexico

Albuquerque Safe Streets HIDTA Gang Task Force

Four Corners Safe Streets Task Force

Southern New Mexico Street Gang Task Force

New York

Buffalo Safe Streets Task Force

Capital District Gang Task Force

Hudson Valley Safe Streets Violent Gang Task Force

Long Island Gang Task Force

Westchester County Violent Crimes Task Force

North Carolina

Charlotte Safe Streets Task Force

Piedmont Triad Safe Streets Gang Task Force

Raleigh Durham Safe Streets Task Force

Wilmington Safe Streets Task Force

Ohio

Greater Akron Area Safe Streets Task Force

Mahoning Valley Violent Crime Task Force

Miami Valley Safe Streets Task Force

Stark County, Ohio Violent Crime/Fugitive Task Force

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City Metropolitan Gang Task Force

Oregon

Portland Metro Gang Task Force

Pennsylvania

Bucks County Violent Gang Task Force

Capital Cities Safe Streets Task Force

Delaware Valley Violent Crimes Task Force

Erie Area Gang Law Enforcement Task Force

Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force

Lehigh Valley Violent Crimes Task Force

Philadelphia Violent Gang Task Force

Safe Streets Violent Crimes Task Force

Safe Streets Violent Drug Gang Task Force

Steamtown Gang Task Force

SW Pennsylvania Safe Streets Task Force

Puerto Rico

Aguadilla Regional Enforcement Team

Fajardo Regional Enforcement Team

Ponce Safe Streets Task Force

Safe Streets Task Force

Rhode Island

Rhode Island Violent Crimes/Gang Task Force

South Carolina

Columbia Violent Gang Task Force

Pee Dee Violent Crime Task Force

Tennessee

Chattanooga Safe Streets Task Force

Knoxville Headquarters Safe Streets Violent Crimes 

Task Force

Nashville Violent Crimes Gang Task Force

Safe Streets Task Force HQ City

Texas

Austin Violent Crime Gang/Organized Crime Task Force

Corpus Christi Violent Crimes Task Force

East Texas Area Gang Initiative

El Paso Street and Prison Gang Task Force

Houston Coastal Safe Streets Task Force

Multi-Agency Gang Task Force

Rio Grand Valley Violent Crimes Task Force

San Antonio Safe Streets Violent Crimes Task Force

Southeast Texas Safe Streets Task Force

Tarrant County Safe Streets Task Force

Violent Crimes and Major Offenders and Gang Task Force

West Texas Anti-Gang Team

West Texas Area Major Offender Task Force
2011 National Gang Threat Assessment

National Gang Intelligence Center 85

Utah

Northern Utah Criminal Apprehension Team

Safe Streets Violent Crime Task Force

Virginia

Richmond Area Violent Enterprise Task Force

South Piedmont Virginia Gang Task Force

The Peninsula Safe Streets Task Force 

Tidewater Violent Crimes Task Force

Washington

Seattle Safe Streets and Gang Task Force

South Sound Gang Task Force 

Southwest Washington Safe Streets Task Force

Spokane Violent Crime Gang Enforcement Team 

Tri-Cities Violent Crime Gang Enforcement Team

Washington, D.C.

WFO/MPD/Safe Streets Gang Task Force

West Virginia

Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands Safe Streets 

Task Force

Huntington Violent Crimes/Drug Task Force

Wisconsin

Gang-Rock County Task Force

Greater Racine Gang Task Force
86 National Gang Intelligence Center

ATF Violent Crime Impact Teams (VCIT) 

Source: ATF
2011 National Gang Threat Assessment

National Gang Intelligence Center 87

ICE Operation Community Shield (OCS) Initiative Targets

Source: ICE
88 National Gang Intelligence Center

APPENDIX D. 

Acknowledgements 

FEDERAL

US Department of Defense

Naval Criminal Investigative Service

US Army

Fort Dix Criminal Investigative 

Division

Directorate Emergency Services 

USAG-HI

US Department of Homeland 

Security

US Border Patrol

US Citizenship and Immigration 

Services

US Customs and Border Protection

US Homeland Security Investigations

US Department of the Interior

Bureau of Land Management

US Department of Justice

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 

Firearms and Explosives

Drug Enforcement Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement

National Drug Intelligence Center

National Gang Center

National Gang Intelligence Center

US Marshals Service

US Probation and Parole

US Department of State

LOCAL, STATE, AND 

REGIONAL

ALABAMA

Alabama Fusion Center

Bessemer Police Department

Birmingham Police Department

Etowah County Drug Task Force

Irondale Police Department

Madison County Sheriff’s Office

Pelham Police Department

ALASKA

Alaska Department of Corrections

Anchorage Police Department

ARIZONA

Arizona Adult Probation

Arizona Department of Corrections

Arizona Department of Juvenile 

Corrections

Arizona Department of Public Safety

Arizona DPS-State Gang Task Force 

(GIITEM) Central District

Arizona State Prison Kingman / MTC

Cottonwood Police Department

Lake Havasu City Police Department

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office

Phoenix Police Department

Rocky Mountain Information 

Network

Scottsdale Police Department

Tempe Police Department

Tucson Police Department

ARKANSAS

13th Judicial District Deputy 

Prosecutors Office

Scott County Sheriff’s Office

CALIFORNIA

Alameda County Sheriff’s Office

Bakersfield Police Department

Bear Valley Police Department

Berkeley Police Department

Baldwin Park School Police 

Department

California Department of Corrections 

and Rehabilitation

California Highway Patrol

Chula Vista Police Department

Coachella Valley Gang Task Force

Compton School Police Department

Concord Police Department

Corona Police Department

Delano Community Correctional 

Facility

Eureka Police Department

Exeter Police Department

Fresno County Sheriff’s Office

Garden Grove Police Department

Gilroy Police Department

Greenfield Police Department

Hollister Police Department

Huntington Beach Police 

Department

Inglewood Police Department

Kern County Sheriff’s Office

Los Angeles Police Department

Lincoln Police Department

Long Beach Police Department

Los Angeles County District Attorney

Los Angeles County Probation 

Department

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s 

Department

Marina Police Department

Merced Multi-Agency Gang Task 

Force
2011 National Gang Threat Assessment

National Gang Intelligence Center 89

Montebello Police Department

Monterey County Probation 

Department

Monterey Police Department

Morgan Hill Police Department

Mountain View Police Department

Napa County Probation Department

National City Police Department

Oakland Police Department

Office of the Fresno County District 

Attorney

Oxnard Police Department

Pacific Grove Police Department

Pittsburg Police Department

Placer County District Attorney’s 

Office

Riverside County District Attorney’s 

Office

Riverside Sheriff’s Department

Sacramento County Sheriff’s 

Department

Sacramento Police Department

San Benito County Probation 

Department

San Benito County Sheriff’s Office

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s 

Department

San Diego County Probation 

Department

San Diego Police Department 

San Leandro Police Department

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s 

Department

Sanger Police Department

Santa Ana Police Department

Santa Barbara County Sheriff

Santa Barbara Police Department

Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department

Santa Clara County Probation 

Department

Santa Monica Police Department

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s 

Department

San Diego Sheriff’s Department

Simi Valley Police Department

Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office

South Gate Police Department

Southern Alameda County Major 

Crime Task Force

Stockton Police Department

Tehachapi Police Department

Tuolumne County Sheriff

Ukiah Police Department

Vallejo Police Department

Ventura Police Department

West Covina Police Department

West Sacramento Police Department

Whittier Police Department

COLORADO

10th Judicial District Probation 

Department

Aurora Police Department

Colorado Department of Corrections

Garfield County Sheriff’s Office

Greeley Police Department

Mesa County Sheriff’s Office

Thornton Police Department

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut State Police

Danbury Police Department

Meriden Police Department

New Haven Police Department

South Windsor Police Department

West Hartford Police Department

DELAWARE

Delaware State Police

New Castle County Police

Wilmington Police Department

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

US Attorney’s Office

Washington DC Metropolitan Police 

Department

FLORIDA

Alachua County Sheriff’s Office

Central Florida Intelligence 

Exchange

Florida Department of Corrections

Florida Department of Law 

Enforcement

Fort Myers Police Department

Hernando County Sheriff’s Office

Highlands County Sheriff’s Office

Hillsborough County Sheriff

Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office

Lake County Sheriff’s Office

Lee County Sheriff’s Office

Maitland Police Department

Marion County Sheriff’s Office

Martin County Sheriff’s Office

Miami-Dade Corrections & 

Rehabilitations

Ocala Police Department

Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office

Orange County Corrections

Orange County Sheriff’s Office

Orlando Police Department

Oviedo Police Department

Polk County Sheriff’s Office

Sanford Police Department

Sarasota Sheriff’s Office

Seminole County Sheriff’s Office

Tallahassee Police Department

Seminole Police Department
90 National Gang Intelligence Center

Titusville Police Department

Volusia County Sheriff’s Office

GEORGIA

Cobb County Sheriff’s Office

Douglasville Police Department

Georgia Bureau of Investigation

Gwinnett County Police Department

LaGrange Police Department

Richmond County Board of 

Education Public Safety

Spalding County Sheriff’s Office

ILLINOIS

Bensenville Police Department

Bloomington Police Department

Chicago Police Department

Decatur Police Department

Dolton Police Department

DuPage County State’s Attorney’s 

Office

Hanover Park Police Department

Illinois Department of Corrections

Jo Daviess County Sheriff’s Office

Lake County Sheriff Department

Schaumburg Police Department

INDIANA

Anderson Police Department

Boone County Sheriff Department

Cumberland Police Department

Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office

Evansville Police Department

Indiana Department of Corrections

Parke County Sheriff’s Office

Pendleton Correctional Facility

Richmond Police Department

Southwest Indiana Violent Crime 

Task Force

IOWA

Dubuque Police Department

Iowa Department of Corrections

Jasper County Sheriff’s Office

Storm Lake Police Department

Warren County Sheriff’s Office

KANSAS

Kansas Bureau of Investigation

Lawrence Police Department

Topeka Police Department

Wichita Police Department

KENTUCKY

Henderson Police Department

Kentucky Department of Juvenile 

Justice

Louisville Metro Police Department

McCracken County Regional Jail

LOUISIANA

Alexandria Police Narcotics Division

Creola Police Department

Denham Springs Police Department

Grant Parish Constable

Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office

Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office

Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office

Louisiana Department of Corrections

Louisiana State Police

Metro Narcotics of Ouachita 

New Orleans Police Department

Office of Juvenile Justice

MAINE

Lewiston Police Department

MARYLAND

Anne Arundel County Police 

Department

Calvert County Sheriff’s Office

Charles County Sheriff’s Office

Greenbelt City Police Department

Hagerstown Department of Police

Harford County Sheriff’s Office

Maryland Coordination and Analysis 

Center

Maryland Department of Corrections

Montgomery County Police 

Prince George’s County Police 

Department

Wicomico County Department of 

Corrections

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston Police Department

Chicopee Police Department

Fitchburg Police Department

Hampden County Sheriff’s 

Department

Haverhill Police Department

Holyoke Police Department

Lowell Police Department

Massachusetts State Police

Springfield Police Department

Worcester Police Department

MICHIGAN

Benton Township Police Department

Berrien County Sheriff’s Department

Escanaba Public Safety Department

Grand Rapids Police Department

Holland Police Department

Muskegon Police Department

Oakland County Violent Gang Task 

Force

Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office

Unadilla Township Police 

Department

West Michigan Enforcement Team
2011 National Gang Threat Assessment

National Gang Intelligence Center 91

MINNESOTA

Dakota County Community 

Corrections

Minneapolis Police Department

Owatonna Police Department

Prairie Island Tribal Police

Saint Peter Police Department

Shakopee Police Department

MISSISSIPPI

Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task 

Force

Gulfport Police Department

Magee Police Department

Narcotics Task Force of Jackson 

County

US Attorney’s Office, Southern 

District of Mississippi

MISSOURI

Berkeley Police Department

Joplin Police Department

Kansas City Missouri Police 

Department

Missouri Department of Corrections

Monett Police Department

Saint Louis County Police 

Department

St. Charles Police Department

St. Joseph Missouri Police 

Department

St. Louis County Police Department

St. Louis Metropolitan Police 

Department

MONTANA

Crossroads Correctional Center

Laurel Police Department

Missoula Police Department

Montana Department of Corrections

NEBRASKA

Bellevue Police Department

City of Gering Police Department

Columbus Police Department

Crete Police Department

Grand Island Police Department

Kearney Police Department

Omaha Police Department

NEVADA

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police 

Department

Washoe County Sheriff’s Office

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Belknap County Sheriff’s Department

Concord Police Department

Keene Police Department

Manchester Police Department

Manchester Weed and Seed 

Program

Merrimack County Department of 

Corrections

Nashua Police Department

Somersworth Police Department

NEW JERSEY

Bound Brook Police Department

Essex County Prosecutor’s Office

Kenilworth Police Department

Linden Police Department

Passaic County Sheriff’s Department

NEW MEXICO

Albuquerque Police Department

Catron County Sheriff’s Department

Eddy County Sheriff’s Office

Pueblo of Acoma Police Department

NEW YORK

Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office

Glens Falls Police Department

Nassau County Police Department

NORTH CAROLINA

Duplin County Sheriff’s Office

Durham Police Department

Fayetteville Police Department

Gastonia Police Department

New Hanover County Sheriff

North Carolina Department of 

Corrections

Shelby Police Department

Wake Forest Police Department

NORTH DAKOTA

Heart of America Correctional and 

Treatment Center

North Dakota Department of 

Corrections

OHIO

Akron Police Department 

Canton Police Department

Columbus, Ohio Division of Police

Dayton Police Department

Lake Metroparks Ranger Department

Montpelier Police Department

Springfield Ohio Division of Police

OKLAHOMA

Davis Correctional Facility

Eastern Shawnee Tribal Police

North Fork Correctional facility

Oklahoma City Police Department

Oklahoma Department of 

Corrections

Owasso Police Department
92 National Gang Intelligence Center

OREGON

Crook County Sheriff’s Office

Portland Police Bureau

PENNSYLVANIA

California University of Pennsylvania 

Police Department

Cumberland County Prison

Ephrata Police Department

Lackawanna County District 

Attorney

Lackawanna County Prison

Lancaster County District Attorney

Manheim Borough Police 

Department

Mifflin County Regional Police 

Department

Montgomery County Adult Probation 

& Parole Department

Pennsylvania Capitol Police

Pennsylvania State Police

Philadelphia-Camden HIDTA

Slippery Rock University Police

PUERTO RICO

Metropolitan Detention Center, 

Guaynabo

Police of Puerto Rico

RHODE ISLAND

Providence Police Department

Rhode Island Department of 

Corrections

SOUTH CAROLINA

Anderson County Gang Task Force

Bamberg Police Department

Charleston County Sheriff Office

Chester City Police Department

Colleton County Sheriff’s Office

Columbia Police Department

Darlington County Sheriff’s Office

Darlington Police Department

Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office

Florence County Sheriff’s Office

Florence Police Department

Fountain Inn Police Department

Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office

Greenwood Police Department

Greer Police Department

Hampton County Sheriff Office

Hartsville Police Department

Lancaster City Police Department

Lancaster Police Department

Latta Police Department

Lexington Medical Health Services – 

Public Safety

Palmetto Protection Agency, Inc.

Prosperity Police Department

Rock Hill Police Department

South Carolina Department of 

Corrections

Spartanburg Public Safety 

Department

Summerville Police Department

Timmonsville Police Department

West Columbia Police Department

SOUTH DAKOTA

Rapid City Police Department

Tripp County Sheriff’s Office

TENNESSEE

Bradley County Juvenile Detention

Chattanooga Police Department

Coffee County Sheriff’s Department

Columbia Police Department

Cookeville Police Department

Covington Police Department

Fayette County Sheriff’s Department

Franklin Police Department

Hardeman County Correctional 

Facility

Juvenile Court of Jefferson County

Knoxville Police Department

Metro Nashville Police Department

Oak Ridge Police Department

Rutherford County Sheriff’s 

Department

Sumner County Sheriff’s Office

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation

Tennessee Department of Correction

TEXAS

Amarillo Police Department

Andrews Department of Public 

Safety

Austin Police Department

Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office

Baytown Police Department

Bexar County Fire Marshal’s Office

Bosque County Sheriff’s Office

Collin County District Attorney’s 

Office

Dallas ISD Police & Security

Dallas Police Department Gang Unit

Donna ISD Police Department

El Paso County Sheriff’s Office

Harlingen Police Department

Hays County Juvenile Probation

Hidalgo County Constable – Pct 3

Hidalgo County District Attorney’s 

Office

Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office

Hutchinson County Sheriff’s Office

Kenedy County Sheriff Office

Luling Police Department

Maverick County Detention Center

Nacogdoches Police Department
2011 National Gang Threat Assessment

National Gang Intelligence Center 93

New Caney ISD Police Department

Reagan County Sheriff’s Office

San Antonio Police Department

San Marcos Police Department

Schertz Police Department

Texas Alcoholic Beverage 

Commission

Texas Department of Criminal 

Justice

Travis County Sheriff’s Office

Texas Department of Public Safety

University of Texas Health Science 

Center Police

UTAH

West Valley City Police Department

VERMONT

No reporting

VIRGINIA

Abingdon Police Department

Alexandria Police Department

Alexandria Sheriff’s Office

Arlington County Police Department

Bland Correctional Center

Chesapeake Police Department

Chesterfield County Police 

Department

Chincoteague Police Department

City of Chesapeake Police 

Department

City of Harrisonburg Police 

Department

City of Manassas Police Department

Department of Conservation and 

Recreation

Department of Juvenile Justice

Fairfax County Police Department

Hampton Police Division

Newport News Police Department

Norfolk Police Division

Prince William County Police 

Department

Richmond Police Department

Staunton Police Department

Suffolk Police Department

Town of Herndon Police Department

Town of Vienna Police Department

Virginia Department of Corrections

Virginia Correctional Center for 

Women

Virginia Port Authority Police 

Department

Virginia State Police

Warsaw Probation and Parole Office

WASHINGTON

Everson Police Department

King County Jail

King County Sheriff’s Office

Lynnwood Police Department

Nisqually Indian Tribe

Northwest High Intensity Drug 

Trafficking Area

Seattle Police Department

Washington State Department of 

Corrections

WEST VIRGINIA

Eastern Panhandle Potomac 

Highlands SSTF

Martinsburg Police Department

Philippi Police Department

WISCONSON

Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Police

Milwaukee Police Department

Wisconsin Department of 

Corrections

WYOMING

Wyoming Highway Patrol
94 National Gang Intelligence Center

Endnotes

1 US Department of Justice (USDOJ); “Highlights of the 2009 

National Youth Gang Survey;” Office of Juvenile Justice and 

Delinquency Prevention; National Gang Center; May 2011.

2 Open Source News Release; “11 Alleged MS-13 Members 

Indicted on Racketeering and Other Charges in a Series of 

Violent Crimes; ICE; 4 May 2011. Open Source Article; “Officials 

Concerned About Gang Violence in Prince George’s County;” 

Washington Examiner; available at www.washingtonexaminer.

com. 

3 USDOJ; “Federal Racketeering Indictment Leads to Arrest of 

8 Members, Associates of San Gabriel Valley Street Gang;” Press 

Release; 8 June 2010; available at www.justice.gov/usao/cac/

pressroom/pr/2010/091.html. 

4

 USDOJ; “National Drug Threat Assessment 2010;” National 

Drug Intelligence Center; February 2010.

5

 NAGIA Quick Guide to Gangs, National Alliance of Gang 

Investigators Association; April 2010.

6 Open Source News Article; “Tips for dealing with Asian 

Gangs;” Police One; 21 May 2009; available at www.Policeone.

com.

7

 USDOJ; National Drug Threat Assessment 2010; NDIC; 

February 2010. Open Source News Article, “Pot houses linked to 

gangs, marijuana dispensaries;” Whittier Daily News; 6 September 2010; available at www.Whittierdailynews.com. Open 

Source News Article, “Asian Pot Ring Busted, Noted Restaurateur Suspect;” CBS4 Denver; 7 March 2010; available at www.

CBS4denver.com.

8 Open Source News Article; “Somali Gangs Ran Sex Ring 

in 3 US States, Authorities Say;” Fox News; 8 November 2010; 

available at www.foxnews.com. 

9 Online news article; “Judge sets $2 million bond in alleged 

murder, robbery;” Ohio Post; 15 April 2009.

10 FBI Indianapolis Division; “Twenty-Two Charged Federally 

in Evansville Drug Trafficking Case;” Press Release; 4 February 

2010; available at http://indianapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ip020410.htm.

11 NAGIA Quick Guide to Gangs; National Alliance of Gang 

Investigators Association; April 2010.

12 Open Source News Article; “Hybrid Gangs responsible for 

rise in North Las Vegas Crime,” 13 Action News Las Vegas; 25 

July 2010; available at http://www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp;13. 

13 Open Source News Article; “Man charged with shooting 

couple on Maple Valley Trail”; The Seattle Times; 3January 2011; 

available at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2013837934_man_charged_with_xx_in_connect.html. 

14 Open Source News Article; “Teen gets probation in 

attacks on homeless;” Gazette-Times; 22 January 2010; 

available at http://www.gazettetime.com/news/local/

article_3b43539a-07ab-11df-b6ae-001cc4c03286.html. 

15 US Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE); “8 Arrested as 

ICE Dismantles Alien Smuggling Ring Linked to Notorious Local 

Street Gang;” News Release; 14 October 2009; available at www.

ice.gov/news/releases/0910/091014losangeles.htm. 

16 Open Source Website; Human Smuggling and Trafficking 

Center (HSTC) Charter and Amendments; available at www.state.

gov/m/ds/hstcenter/41444.htm.

17 DHS; “29 Charged with Sex Trafficking Juveniles;” ICE; 

News Release; 8 November 2010; available at www.ice.gov/

news/releases/1011/101108nashville.htm. 

18 Open News Source Article; “Report Links Street Gangs to 

Child Prostitution;” KPBS News; 23 November 2010; available 

at www.kpbs.org/news/2010/nov/09/report-links-street-gangschild-prostitution. 

 19 Open Source News Article; Kevin Johnson; USA Today; 

“Drug Cartels Unite Rival Gangs to Work for Common Bad;” USA 

Today; 16 March 2010.

20 USDOJ; “National Drug Threat Assessment 2010;” National 

Drug Intelligence Center; February 2010.

21 USDOJ; “National Drug Threat Assessment 2010;” National 

Drug Intelligence Center; February 2010.

22 Open Source News Article; “Drug Cartels Uniting Rival 

Gangs;” USA Today; 3 March 2010; available at www.usatoday.

com. 

23 USDOJ; “National Drug Threat Assessment 2010;” National 

Drug Intelligence Center; February 2010.

24 Open Source News Article; “US Mexico Drug Gangs Form 

Alliances;” Washington Times; 26 March 2010; available at www.

washingtimes.com. 

25 Open Source News Article; Kevin Johnson; “Drug Cartels 

Unite Rival Gangs to Work for Common Bad;” USA Today; 16 

March 2010; available at www.usatoday.com.

26 Open Source News Article; “US Mexico Drug Gangs Form 

Alliances;” Washington Times; 26 March 2010; available at www.

washingtontimes.com. 

27 USDOJ; “National Drug Threat Assessment 2010;” National 

Drug Intelligence Center; February 2010. Open Source News 

Article; “US Mexico Drug Gangs Form Alliances;” Washington 

Times; 26 March 2010; available at www.washingtontimes.com.

28 Open Source News Article; “La Familia’ North of the Border;” STRATFOR Global Intelligence; 3 December 2009; available 

at http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20091203_la_familia_north_

border.

29 Open Source News Article; “New Jersey Authorities Indict 

34 Lucchese Crime Family Bust from ‘Operation Heat’;” New Jersey.com; 14 May 2010. 

30 Open Source News Article; “Authorities crack down on 

transnational Armenian Power crime group;” CNN; 17 February 

2011; available at www.cnn.com. 
2011 National Gang Threat Assessment

National Gang Intelligence Center 95

31 Open Source News Article; “N.J. Inmate’s Ordered Killing 

Shows Danger of Cell Phones in Prison,” http://www.nj.com/

news/index.ssf/2010/06/nj_state_prison_inmate_is_char.html; 

June 11, 2010; Online News Article; “Prosecutor: Trenton 

prison inmate Anthony Kidd used cell phone to order murder 

of girlfriend Kendra Degrasse,” http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2010/06/11/news/doc4c11432d64621687151693.txt; June 

12, 2010

32 Open Source News Article; “Prisoner Ordered Hit Outside of 

Prison With Smuggle Cell Phone;” 13 September 2010; available at http://newsone.com/nation/associatedpress4/prisonerordered-hit-outside-of-prison-with-smuggled-cell-phone/.

33 Open Source News Article; “Parole Worker Leaked Information to Gang Member;” Fox News New York; 1 November 2010; 

available at www.myfoxny.com. 

34 Open Source News Article; “Former Deputy Headed for 

Prison;” PE.com; 30 July 2010; available at www.pe.com. 

35 Open Source News Article; “Ex-Cop, James Formato, 

Pleads Guilty in Mob Case;” CBS News Chicago; 25 April 2010; 

available at www.thechicagosyndicate.com/2010/04/ex-copjames-formato-pleads-guilty-in.html.

36 Online publication; Bureau of Justice Statistics; Jails in 

Indian Country, 2008; December 2009; available at http://bjs.ojp.

usdoj/index.cfm?ty=pbdetails&iid=1748.

37 Open Source News Article; “Mexican Pot Gangs Infiltrate Indian Reservations in U.S;” The Wall Street Journal; 5 

November 2009; available at http://online.wsj.com/article/

SB125736987377028727.html.

38 Open Source News Article; “Crunching Numbers in 

Mexico’s Drug Conflict;” BBC News; 14 January 2011; available 

at www.bbc.com. 

39 Stratfor Global Intelligence Center; “Mexican Drug Wars: 

Bloodiest Year to Date;” 20 December 2010.

40 Open Source News Article; “Napolitano: Border security 

better than ever;” CBS News; 25 March 2011; http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20047102-503544.html.

41 USDOJ; “National Drug Threat Assessment 2010;” National 

Drug Intelligence Center; February 2010.

42 USDOJ; “National Drug Threat Assessment 2010;” National 

Drug Intelligence Center; February 2010.

43 Open Source News Article; “Barrio Azteca threat targets 

law officers;” El Paso Times; 25 March 2010; available at www.

elpasotimes.com/ci_14753458. 

44 USDOJ; “National Drug Threat Assessment 2010;” National 

Drug Intelligence Center; February 2010.

45 USDOJ; “National Drug Threat Assessment 2010;” National 

Drug Intelligence Center; February 2010.

46 USDOJ; “National Drug Threat Assessment 2010;” National 

Drug Intelligence Center; February 2010.

47 Press Release; “Former Marines Arrested on Weapons 

Charges;” USDOJ; ATF; 8 November 2010.

48 Press Release; “Three men, US Navy Seal, Arrested for Unlawfully Trafficking in Machine Guns;” US DOJ; ATF; 4 November 

2010.

49 Open Source News Article; MSNBC.com, “California Gang 

Officers Again Targeted by Booby-Trap,”1 March 2010; available 

at www.msnbc.com. 

50 Investigative Consultants; email correspondence; 29 November 2010.

51 Investigative Consultants; email correspondence; 29 November 2010. Superior Court of the State of California, County 

of Los Angeles, Central District; First Amended Complaint for 

Injunction and Civil Penalties; 15 March 2010.

52 Open Source News Article; “Seeing Green;” Baltimore City 

Paper; 11 August 2010; available at www.citypaper.com. 

53 Open Source News Article; “Two Dozen Charged in Alleged 

Gang-led Mortgage Fraud;” Reuters News; 7 April 2009; available 

at www.reuters.com. 

54 Open Source News Article; “Border Crime Sweep Nets 

Drugs, 246 Arrests;” Sign On San Diego; 28 March 2011; available at www.signonsandiego.com. 

55 FBI; “Violent Border Gang Indicted; Members Charged in 

Consulate Murders;” News Release; 9 March 2011; available at 

www.fbi.gov. 

56 FBI; “Forty-One Gang Members and Associates in Five Districts Charged with Crimes Including Racketeering, Murder, Drug 

Trafficking, and Firearms Trafficking;” News Release; 9 February 

2011; available at www.fbi.gov. 


National Gang Intelligence Center

935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

NGIC-VA #405

Washington, DC 20535

ngic@leo.gov

1-800-366-9501