Support club
Larger outlaw motorcycle clubs will often establish localized smaller clubs that are subservient to the gang. These clubs are referred to as support clubs, satellite clubs or puppet clubs. They act as auxiliary groups, providing support to the larger club by propelling their influence further, acting as sources of recruitment and various other ways in return for protection and to bolster their reputations.[1] Support clubs can also be used to help the principle club facilitate criminal activities.[2]
Background on outlaw motorcycle clubs[edit]
The term "outlaw motorcycle club" was initially used to refer to clubs that were unrecognized by the American Motorcyclist Association, but has since been used as a label to distinguish motorcycle groups that are known to rebel against society's norms and laws from the social motorcycling clubs that follow them.[3][4] The existence of outlaw motorcycle clubs can be traced back to as early as the late 1930s in Michigan, Southern California, and along the East Coast of the United States.[5]
The title, synonymous with "biker gang", is frequently utilized by law enforcement to describe motorcycle clubs that are criminal organizations. It has its own subculture, consisting of members which typically ride cruiser motorcycles and wear kuttes. Many outlaw motorcycle groups participate in crimes ranging from drug trafficking to murder and are heavily involved in organized crime.[6][7]
Outlaw motorcycle clubs are comprised of localized groups known as chapters. In contrast, biker gangs also have what is known as a "mother chapter", the very first chapter established for that particular motorcycle club which acts as a "home base" of operations.
Overview[edit]
Support clubs commit to supporting the needs of their dominant outlaw motorcycle club. They operate by themselves but have members of their mother club which serve as advisors.
Support clubs can, and are often, used as a recruitment pool as many support club members end up "graduating" to their dominant club as full-patched members.[8] Support clubs often prove their suitability for membership by doing the criminal bidding of the larger outlaw motorcycle club.[9]
Support clubs are typically regional, based in a single location rather than having nationwide or global chapters. However, there are some exceptions to this like the Chicanos Motorcycle Club, a Bandidos support club which has chapters in at least 8 countries.
Insignia and patches of support clubs often bear a resemblance to the logo and colors of their senior outlaw motorcycle clubs as a way of signifying their allegiance. For example, several Bandidos support clubs have logos which consist of the traditional red and gold colors worn by members of the Bandidos. The support clubs may also have names which are related to the name of principle group. For instance, the Hells Angels have a number of puppet clubs with names that involve iconography related to "hell" including the Red Devils MC, Demon Knights MC, Devils Choice MC, and Satan's Soldiers MC.
Many law enforcement agencies regard support clubs to be facilitators of criminal activity at the discretion of the mother club as they are often used to service the illicit needs of the larger outlaw motorcycle club in an attempt to separate the larger gang from actual street-level crimes.[10][8] In most cases, these crimes are directed and supervised by a member of the larger outlaw motorcycle club or the larger outlaw motorcycle club itself - forbidding the support club to engage in criminal activities at its own discretion.[11]
List of known biker gang support clubs[edit]
Anatolian Tigers Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Alabars Motosiklet kulübü[12]
- Anadolu Kaplanlari Motosiklet kulübü[12]
- Anatolian Soldiers Motorcycle Club[13]
- Brotheriders Motosiklet kulübü[13]
- Falcon Motosiklet kulübü[13]
- Ghetto Guardians[12]
- Gokboru[13]
- Izmir Motosiklet kulübü[13]
- Sinners CC[13]
- Sipahi Motosiklet kulübü[12]
- Thirtyfive Army Motorcycle Club[13]
- X Crew Motosiklet kulübü[13]
Bandidos Motorcycle Club[edit]
Black Iron Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Dark Family[14]
Blue Angels Motorcycle Club[edit]
Cossacks Motorcycle Club[edit]
Galloping Goose Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Midwest Drifters Motorcycle Club[18]
- Vieux-Doo Dawgs Motorcycle Club[citation needed]
Gremium Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Bad Dogs[19]
- Bad Seven (7) Motorcycle Club[14][20]
- Black Raven Crew[21]
- Gromovnik Motorcycle Club[22]
Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Freedom Fellowship Motorcycle Club[23]
- High-Side Riders[23]
- Jesters Motorcycle Club[13]
- Northwest Veterans Motorcycle Club[23]
- Road Brothers Northwest Motorcycle Club[23]
- Solutions Motorcycle Club[23]
Hells Angels Motorcycle Club[edit]
Iron Horsemen Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Brothers 8 (VIII) Motorcycle Club[24]
Iron Order Motorcycle Club[edit]
Mongols Motorcycle Club[edit]
Outlaws Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Berserker Bikers[13]
- Black & White Crew
- Black Legion[13]
- Black Pistons Motorcycle Club
- Black Skulls Motorcycle Club[13]
- Black Venom[13]
- Border Riders Motorcycle Club[29]
- Chosen Few Motorcycle Club[29]
- Dead Eyes Motorcycle Club[30]
- Friends & Family Motorcycle Club[29]
- Iron Breed Motorcycle Club[31]
- Keltics Motorcycle Club[32]
- Knights of Sin Motorcycle Club[13]
- Legacy Motorcycle Club[32][33]
- New Attitudes Motorcycle Club[32]
- Piston Pirates Motorcycle Club[13]
- Randomers[13]
- Road Runners Motorcycle Club[29]
- Rough Creed Motorcycle Club[34]
- Throttle Brothers Motorcycle Club[13]
- Trogs Motorcycle Club[29]
- Wilde Horde[13]
- Wolf Pack Motorcycle Club[32]
- Wolverine-Clan[13]
Pagan's Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Deadnecks[35]
- Demon Souls[36]
- Lords of Chaos[36]
- Ourea Demons[37]
- Sons of Satan Motorcycle Club[38]
- The Blitzkrieg[39]
- The Thunderbirds Motorcycle Club[39]
- The Tribe Motorcycle Club[40][39]
- Untamed Rebels (Formerly)[36]
Renegades Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Iron Tribe Motorcycle Club[36]
Road Runners Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Adrrenalina Motorcycle Club[41]
- Brrave Knights Motorcycle Club[41]
- Daggerrs Motorcycle Club[41]
- Darrksiders Motorcycle Club[41]
- Taurrus Motorcycle Club[41]
- Warrlocks Motorcycle Club[41]
Rock Machine Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Vendettas[42]
Rolling Wheels Motorcycle Club[edit]
Satudarah Motorcycle Club[edit]
- La Familia Motorcycle Club[43][44]
- Saudarah[45]
- Supportcrew 999[46]
- Una Vida Motorcycle Club[47]
- Yellow Snakes[48][49]
Schwarze Schar Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Brigade Acht (8)[50]
Sin City Deciples Motorcycle Club[edit]
Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club[edit]
- American Iron Motorcycle Club[32]
- Defiant Souls Motorcycle Club[32]
- Deuce's Wild Motorcycle Club[32][52]
- Prairie Rattlers Motorcycle Club[53]
- Silent Crew Motorcycle Club[54]
- Silent Few Motorcycle Club[32]
- Silent Rebels Motorcycle Club[32]
- Silent Thunder Motorcycle Club[32]
- Solid Brotherhood Motorcycle Club[47]
- Southern Steel Motorcycle Club[53]
- Sworn Silence[55]
Vagos Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Deadly Sins Motorcycle Club[56]
- Green Brothers Motorcycle Club[57]
- Green Machine[36]
- Loki Warriors[58]
- Silent Ones Motorcycle Club[13]
Warlocks Motorcycle Club[edit]
Wheels of Soul Motorcycle Club[edit]
- Down and Dirty Motorcycle Club (formerly)[36]
References[edit]
- ↑ "15 Surprising Facts About The Bandidos Motorcycle Club". HotCars. January 31, 2020.
- ↑ "10 Notorious Motorcycle Gangs". HowStuffWorks. June 6, 2011.
- ↑ Matthews, Dylan (May 19, 2015). "A beginner's guide to biker gangs". Vox.
- ↑ https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/147691NCJRS.pdf
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- ↑ Toppo, Greg. "FBI: Biker gangs are serious 'criminal enterprises'". USA TODAY.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Police concerned about rise of Hells Angels puppet clubs". vancouversun.
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- ↑ https://www.castanet.net/content/1125014255the.rtf
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 "Anatolian Tigers MC (Motorcycle Club)". One Percenter Bikers. December 21, 2016.
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- ↑ "Badly behaved biker apologises to Edinburgh sheriff as he is banned from the road". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com.
- ↑ "Blue Angels MC (Motorcycle Club)". One Percenter Bikers. December 5, 2015.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "Cossacks MC (Motorcycle Club)". One Percenter Bikers. February 18, 2016.
- ↑ Genet, Mike. "UPDATE: Police still looking for one suspect in kidnapping". The Examiner of East Jackson County.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 https://www.gdp.de/gdp/gdpber.nsf/id/DE_FA-Krimbek/$file/Vortrag%20Rocker%20GdP.pdf
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- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 Woodworth, Whitney. "Gypsy Joker gang members charged with murder, racketeering, kidnapping". Statesman Journal.
- ↑ "Iron Horsemen MC (Motorcycle Club)". One Percenter Bikers. January 4, 2016.
- ↑ "Iron Order Maidens Website Home Page". ironordermaidens.com.
- ↑ Charbonneau, Renee. "The Iron Order Motorcycle Club, Who are they REALLY?". bustedknucklechronicles.com.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 "Mongols MC (Motorcycle Club)". One Percenter Bikers. January 5, 2016.
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- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 https://info.publicintelligence.net/Outlaws%20WI%20Support%20Clubs.pdf
- ↑ Throttle, Insane (October 6, 2018). "Biker club bust "Dead Eyes MC" which police described as "a support club to the Outlaws Motorcycle Club.": Indian Motorcycles Delivers All-New Chieftain Lineup for 2019".
- ↑ Throttle, Insane (May 9, 2018). "The Hypocrites that are Cudahy- They say Outlaws Support Club is racist- Here is a post from Alderman Justin Moralez- Pure Racist!!!! Must see pic enclosed".
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 32.4 32.5 32.6 32.7 32.8 32.9 "Motorcycle Club Links".
- ↑ Throttle, Insane (May 1, 2018). "Finks Illinois are actually made up of ex disgraced members of Devils Diciples thrown out on bad. Foreign Clubs continue to recruit the bottom of the barrel".
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- ↑ https://info.publicintelligence.net/MSAIC-GangsAssessment2010.pdf
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 36.4 36.5 https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/media/publications/OMGs%20%26%20the%20Military%202014%20Report%2C%20ATF%2C%202014.pdf
- ↑ https://cryptome.org/2015/05/omgs-ongs.pdf
- ↑ "Sons of Satan MC (Motorcycle Club)". One Percenter Bikers. 3 February 2016.
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 Barkan, Steven E.; Bryjak, George J. (28 January 2011). Fundamentals of Criminal Justice: A Sociological View. ISBN 9781449636012. Search this book on
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- ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 41.3 41.4 41.5 "Road Runners MC (Motorcycle Club)". One Percenter Bikers. November 14, 2016.
- ↑ "High-ranking member of motorcycle club granted bail amidst gang war". Winnipeg. July 5, 2011.
- ↑ "Polisen varnar för våldsgängets nya taktik: "Inget hokus pokus"". www.expressen.se.
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- ↑ "About Us". www.silentcrew.de.
- ↑ Throttle, Insane (March 24, 2021). "Gang charges dismissed against five men in Wright County".
- ↑ "Prez of Vagos support club chapter arrested in Nevada". July 27, 2019.
- ↑ "Green Brothers MC (@green_brothers_mc) posted on Instagram: "Poco pero muchos a la misma vez. . Hazle algo a uno y responden … | Biker clubs, Motorcycle clubs, Tala". Pinterest.
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