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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]

Fresno County[edit]

  • The Fresnecks

Southern California[edit]

Nazi Low Rider affiliated peckerwood gangs
Founding locationSouthern California[3]
EthnicityWhite, as well as white and/or mixed-race latino
Criminal activitiesDrug trafficking, murder, theft, burglary, hate crimes
AlliesSubservient 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]
RivalsBlack 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]

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]

San Gabriel Valley Area of Los Angeles County[edit]

Long Beach Area of Los Angeles County[edit]

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]

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]

New York[edit]

Oregon[edit]

Texas[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 "Gangs in the United States". Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  3. "Hate On Display: Peckerwood". ADL. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  4. David Holthouse (November 20, 2005). "Hate Crimes in Prison". Alternet.
  5. Glenna Jarvis (July 16, 2004). "Gang a 'lifelong commitment'". The Madera Tribune.
  6. Charles Montaldo (2014). "The Aryan Brotherhood: Profile of One of the Most Notorious Prison Gangs". About.com.
  7. 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. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 "JAI GANG CODE LIST". Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  9. 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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