Charlotte

In the city of Charlotte you have may different gangs. Bloods: The United Blood Nation, simply called the Bloods (not to be confused with the West Coast Street Gang), formed in 1993 within the New York City jail system on Rikers Island's GMDC (George Mochen Detention Center). GMDC was used to segregate problem inmates from the rest of the detention center. Prior to this time period, the Latin Kings were the most prevalent and organized gang in the NYC jail system. This United Blood Nation, which was actually a prison gang, was emulating the Bloods street gangs in Los Angeles, California. Though they closely resemble the Bloods found on the West Coast, the United Blood Nation is unaffiliated with the West Coast Street Gang, and therefore didn’t originally share their rivalries or their allies. Several of the leaders of this recently created prison gang formed eight original Blood sets to recruit in their neighborhoods across New York City. These original sets were: Mad Stone Villains (MSV), Valentine Bloods (VB), Nine Trey Gangsters (NTG), Gangster Killer Bloods (GKB, now known as G-Shine), One Eight Trey (183) Bloods, Hit Squad Brims (HSB), Blood Stone Villains (BSV) and Sex, Money and Murder (SMM). Blood graffiti may contain words with the letter “C” crossed out or the letters CK (Crip Killer) as a showing of disrespect to the Crips. The letter “S” may be crossed out because it represents Slobs (an offensive expression for Bloods). Blood identifiers may also include the word “DAMU” (Swahili for Blood). Individual Blood sets may be represented through graffiti. As it pertains to graffiti, words may be intentionally misspelled. According to the Federal Gang Task Force in Long Island, New York, East Coast Blood identifiers may include graffiti such as “031” (I am a Blood) and “000” (Bloods). Tattoos may include the acronym M.O.B. (Member of Bloods), a dog paw mark (represented by three dots), a bulldog, and/or the letter B (Blood).They may also use a 5 point star on letters home when in prison. Piru: Once, Piru Street was alongside with the Crips. Once they were also known as Piru Street Crips. Before the inicial Bloods gang there were also sets like Bounty Hunters, Swan, Athens Park that were down with Piru. During the summer of 1972, the Crips from Compton, and the Pirus had a conflict, and an all out rumble ensued. The Pirus were badly outnumbered, and the Crips prevailed. So the next day they formed a meeting between different sets like Bounty Hunters, Swans, Valentine's, Bishops, Pueblos, Lueders Park Hustlers, Athens Park Boys and the Denver Lanes. The Crips had murdered an L.A. Brim member earlier that year, so the Pirus asked the Brims to attend the meeting too. And so they formed the Piru set (there was no Blood set yet). Because the crips wore Blue to identify themselves, the Pirus came out with the color red to identify themselves too. And because they wore Red, people started calling them Bloods. The word Damu, comes from the Swahili word for Blood. Bloods often call other Bloods by names like Dawgs. The reason for this is: Piru is also a bulldog type (dog's pedigree). That's why they also say thing like Bull (Bloods Usually Live Longer). Crips: The Crips are a primarily, but not exclusively, African-American gang founded in Los Angeles, California in 1969 mainly by 16-year-old Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams . What was once a single gang is now a loosely connected network of individual sets, often engaged in open warfare with one another. Through the years the gang has grown to be one of the largest and most powerful gangs in the United States, currently with over 30,000 gang members. The gang is known to be involved in murders, robberies, drug dealing, among many other criminal pursuits. The gang is notorious for its gang members' flamboyant use of the color blue in their clothing. However, this practice has waned due to contentious police crackdowns on gang members. The Crips are known to have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Bloods as well as with all Hispanic street gangs. They are also locked in an ongoing struggle over the drug trade with the Vice Lords in Memphis, Tennessee.[1] Folk-BGD: The B.G.D. set (Black Gangster Desciples) were the first ones to come out with the idea to create one central gang, aka the Folks Nation. They use the number 6 which comes from the six-pointed star (star of David) which was the nickname of the founder of the Folks Nation. Other identifiers for the Folks Nation are: The pitchforks, tattoos with a devil's tail, and any clothing that has the number 6 on it. Most of these gang members have gold fronts on there teeth both men and lady's. the men are kings and the lady's are queens. People Nation: People Nation is an alliance of street gangs generally associated with the Chicago area.[1] They are rivals to the Folk Nation. The People Nation were formed much in the same way as the Folk Nation. In 1978, the El Rukns (now Black P. Stones), Vice Lords formed an alliance of their own, and titled it the "People."[citation needed]. Jeff Fort of El Rukns, Bobby Gore of the Vice Lords, and Gustavo Colon of the Latin Kings were very instrumental in the forming of this alliance[citation needed]. Among initial members to the People were the Mickey Cobras (then named the Cobra Stones), Latin Counts, Bishops, Insane Unknowns, and Spanish Lords. Many of the African American gangs adopted an Islamic religious doctrine, while many Latin gangs in the People alliance adopted a Catholic one[citation needed].