Gangs and gang members also use graffiti to brag about crimes which they commit. It is not unusual to to find graffiti at the scene of a shooting, stabbing or murder. Through graffiti gang members target rivals for retaliation. Although they might hate the entire rival gang, some one particular individual may have done something which requires extra attention. Black gang graffiti is generally used in the same manner as the Hispanic gang graffiti but somewhat more crudely drawn.
Black gangs are usually heavily involved in making money , or as they refer to it, Clocking Dollars.
At times gang activities take a back seat to making money and is quite often the reason behind the numerous drive-by shootings. Not all graffiti is gang related. Allot of graffiti is appearing throughout our communities that is nothing more than a fashion statement or a fad by teens. Anti- social behavior by high school aged teens is reflecting in graffiti that has no gang significance and means no more than it's literal definition or what ever is on the mind of the writer. This type of graffiti is usually hard to read because of it's scribbled form.