List of gangs associated with the peckerwood subculture
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The peckerwood subculture which originally derived from the white power skinhead subculture, became an evident part of California street gang culture. The form of gang coalesced into a nationwide peckerwood subculture inside and outside of prisons. These gangs are most common in California as well as Arizona.
Alabama[edit]
- Prison
- The Aryan Brotherhood of Alabama, a medium sized prison gang. The gang is said to not have ties to the original Aryan Brotherhood in California.[1]
Arizona[edit]
- Prison
- The Arizona Aryan Brotherhood, a medium sized prison gang. Unrelated to the Aryan Brotherhood of California.[1]
California[edit]
Northern California[edit]
Contra Costa County of the San Francisco Bay Area[edit]
- The Contra Costa County Boys otherwise known as the CoCo County Boys
Marin County of the San Francisco Bay Area[edit]
- Inside the San Quentin State Prison
- The Aryan Brotherhood, which generally is considered the precursor to the modern peckerwood subculture
- Street-level
- The Family Affiliated Irish Mafia (FAIM), an organized crime group used for Aryan Brotherhood's street-operating activity
Santa Clara County of the San Francisco Bay Area[edit]
- San Jose, California
- The East Side San Jose Peckerwoods (ESSJ)[2]
Fresno County[edit]
- The Fresnecks
Southern California[edit]
Founding location | Southern California[3] |
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Ethnicity | White, as well as white and/or mixed-race latino |
Criminal activities | Drug trafficking, murder, theft, burglary, hate crimes |
Allies | Subservient to the Nazi Low Riders , the Surenos due to an alliance with the NLR. Under the NLR as the armed wing of the Aryan Brotherhood, they are also associated with the Mexican Mafia;[4][5][6] Hells Angels (AB/NLR recruiter)[7] |
Rivals | Black Guerilla Family (AB rivalry), Nuestra Familia (MM/AB rivalry), Bloods and Crips (NLR rivalry), Norteños (Sureños/NLR rivalry) MS-13 (Sureños/NLR rivalry) |
Santa Clarita Valley Area of Los Angeles County[edit]
- Canyon Country, Santa Clarita, California
- The White Power gang[8]
- The Peckerwoods in Canyon Country, California[8]
San Fernando Valley Area of Los Angeles County[edit]
- The Fight for Freedom (FFF) punk gang[8]
- The San Fernando Valley Peckerwoods (SVP, sometimes SFPW)[2]
- The White Power (WP) gang[8]
South Bay Area of Los Angeles County[edit]
- The Venice Hoodlums[8]
Gateway Cities Area of Los Angeles County[edit]
- The La Mirada Punks, a Sureños and peckerwood punk gang[8]
San Gabriel Valley Area of Los Angeles County[edit]
- The Connelly Boys of West Covina, California[8]
Long Beach Area of Los Angeles County[edit]
- The Nazi Low Riders
- The Public Enemy No. 1 gang. Notable former affiliates include ska punk band Sublime.
Orange County[edit]
- The Southern California Skinhead Alliance (SoCal Skins), the alliance of Nazi Low Riders and other peckerwood gangs such as Public Enemy No. 1[9]
- The Nazi Low Riders
- The Public Enemy No. 1 gang
- The Friends Stand United (FSU or Fuck Shit Ups) crew, a peckerwood version of the straight edge gang of the same name.[9]
- The Independent Skins[9]
- The Insane White Boys[9]
- The Orange County Skins[9]
- The Vicious Circle, punk gang in Placentia, California.[9] Notable members include the Kottonmouth Kings
Inland Empire Area of San Bernardino County[edit]
- The Inland Empire Peckerwoods (IEPW)
San Diego County[edit]
- The Nazi Low Riders (NLR) of San Diego
- The Stoners Reeking Havoc (SRH), a surf and skate punk gang. The gang later became the foundation of lifestyle clothing brand Supporting Radical Habits (SRH).
Colorado[edit]
- The European Kindred
New York[edit]
- The Doc Marten Skinheads (DMS, DMS Crew), a hardcore skinhead, East Coast hardcore punk, and peckerwood gang from Queens, New York. Notable members include the bands Sick of it All, Madball, and Agnostic Front.
- The Terrible Fearless Skinheads (TFS)
Oregon[edit]
- The Aryan Circle
Texas[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "White Supremacist Prison Gangs in the United States: A Preliminary Inventory" (PDF). Anti Defamation League. 2016.
Connecticut: Branded Peckerwood Family (Size: Small); Minnesota: Inland Empire Peckerwoods ... Formed in 1995; Missouri: Peckerwood Midwest; Nebraska; New Mexico; Nevada; Oregon & Washington: International Peckerwood Syndicate
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Gangs in the United States". Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ↑ "Hate On Display: Peckerwood". ADL. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ↑ David Holthouse (November 20, 2005). "Hate Crimes in Prison". Alternet.
- ↑ Glenna Jarvis (July 16, 2004). "Gang a 'lifelong commitment'". The Madera Tribune.
- ↑ Charles Montaldo (2014). "The Aryan Brotherhood: Profile of One of the Most Notorious Prison Gangs". About.com.
- ↑ Droban, Kerrie (2008). Running with the Devil: The True Story of the ATF's Infiltration of the Hells Angels. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 121. ISBN 0762798181. Search this book on
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 "JAI GANG CODE LIST". Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 "Nazi Low Riders: A Prison Gang Emerges in California". 2013.
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