The Folks Nation is a street gang alliance which based out of the Chicago area which has since branched throughout the United States. Within the Folks Nation alliance, there are individual gangs or nations called ‘Mobs’ that all have their own unique colors, hand-signs, and organization. Most of these gangs have signed a charter to join the Folks alliance, many have not.
The Folks Nation was formed on November 11, 1978 in the Illinois Department of Corrections. The leadership of Black Gangster Disciples, Larry Hoover was the first bringing the Folks Nation concept about. The Black Gangster Disciples organized a meeting of several Black, White, and Latino street gangs. Amongst the gangs were the Black Disciples, Spanish Cobras, Imperial Gangsters, Simon City Royals, Latin Eagles, Satan Disciples, and the Latin Disciples.
The term ‘Folks’ was said to be chosen as a moniker because of the word being an acronym, ‘Follow the Orders and Laws the King Sets’.
The ‘King’, Larry Hoover, who apparently had a vision to unite and then control all of the gangs in Chicago. Folks identify to the right side that they wear hats with brim broke to the right, right pant leg rolled up, etc.
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
The Crips Alliance
Crips is an alliance of individual street organizations known as sets.
The Crips alliance was well established in Los Angeles, California by late 1971. In this same year the Avalon Garden Crips and the Inglewood Crips had joined forces with other Crip sets and began to engage in violent warfare with non-Crip sets. They began to expand to non-Crip set territories controlled by other independent (gangs not in an alliance) gangs.
Each Crip set their own individual gang and are known to have sub-clicks or line-ups that are like smaller individual sets within the set. Gang members in gangs under the Crip alliance are known as Locs and all Crips call each other ‘cuz’ (short for cousin) to signify that they see each other as family.
The gangs under the Crip Alliance are mainly identified by the color blue which is worn proudly by all Crip members as a primary color. Each Crip set has significant differences such as hand signs, use of secondary colors, and customs. The Crip alliance has significantly branched out of California and has spread throughout the majority of the United States.
The Crips alliance was well established in Los Angeles, California by late 1971. In this same year the Avalon Garden Crips and the Inglewood Crips had joined forces with other Crip sets and began to engage in violent warfare with non-Crip sets. They began to expand to non-Crip set territories controlled by other independent (gangs not in an alliance) gangs.
Each Crip set their own individual gang and are known to have sub-clicks or line-ups that are like smaller individual sets within the set. Gang members in gangs under the Crip alliance are known as Locs and all Crips call each other ‘cuz’ (short for cousin) to signify that they see each other as family.
The gangs under the Crip Alliance are mainly identified by the color blue which is worn proudly by all Crip members as a primary color. Each Crip set has significant differences such as hand signs, use of secondary colors, and customs. The Crip alliance has significantly branched out of California and has spread throughout the majority of the United States.
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