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number 10 ms-13
the most dangerous gang currently active
right now in the united states of
america is by far the ms-13 for years
now the violent ms-13 gang which has its
origins in el salvador has been
terrorizing new york city long island
and the surrounding area
according to the new york times federal
prosecutors have linked the gang to over
55 murders in just the past 10 years the
gang has perpetrated a wave of violence
that has left entire blocks bloody the
ms in ms-13 stands for mara salvatrucha
and there are thousands of members of
this gang all across the country most of
the gang members are immigrants from
central america just recently in may 10
men were charged in taking part in three
murders in queens one of them on the
platform of a subway the other out in
the open on a sidewalk and the other
near a public park
one of the victims was only 17 years old
beaten and strangled after the ms-13
gang members saw his tattoos and thought
he was a member of a rival gang in the
end he wasn't and the ms-13 members
killed a perfectly innocent person
simply because he had the wrong tattoos
number nine bloods and crips the bloods
have been around for years nearly five
decades to be exact they formed in 1972
in los angeles as a street gang to rival
an earlier street gang called the crips
the bloods can be identified by their
members wearing the color red while the
crips can be identified by the color
blue but have you ever wondered why
these two gangs hate each other so much
the rivalry began even before the bloods
were formed as a real group it started
in the 1960s when a gang of crips
attacked two students at the centennial
high school in compton after the attack
one of the victims formed a new gang
dedicated to protecting other people
from the violent crips but the crips
were unstoppable beating and killing
everyone who got in their way including
other gangs like the black p stones the
athens park boys and the peru's by 1978
a lot of these smaller gangs had formed
an alliance and named themselves the
bloods they then began securing
different sections of the neighborhood
that the crips weren't allowed in thus
began the territory wars but all these
years later the blood rivalry is still
ongoing today the bloods have at least
15 000 active members in the eastern
united states the gang is heavily
involved in the distribution of crack
cocaine and to be honest that's pretty
much their only game
number eight aryan brotherhood the aryan
brotherhood is a savage gang of
neo-nazis that operate both inside and
outside of prisons in the united states
there are an estimated 20 000 members of
what has been referred to as the oldest
and most notorious racist gang anywhere
in the country according to the fbi the
aryan brotherhood makes up a
significantly small percentage of the
prison population yet is responsible for
the most murders like most street gangs
the aryan brotherhood focuses on drug
trafficking extortion murdering people
for money and prostituting their fellow
inmates for cash as you most likely
already know the organization is white
only they're the most hardcore racists
anywhere in north america in order to
become a member of the aryan brotherhood
in prison a new member is typically
required to kill another inmate usually
of a different color the origin of the
aryan brotherhood isn't something well
known it began in the 1960s at a time
when prisons in the u.s were segregated
when segregation ended and the prison
inmates began to be locked up with one
another inmates organized themselves
into gangs based on race the aryan
brotherhood was the all-white gang
believed to have first been formed in
the san quentin state prison
number 7 the yakuza the yakuza the
notorious japanese mafia has a larger
influence in the u.s than many people
think
in fact the yakuza was once so powerful
on u.s soil that during the obama
administration they had their assets
frozen and were banned from conducting
any business in the country the measures
were introduced by the u.s treasury
department in response to the increasing
trouble with the yakuza and human
trafficking they also had a pretty hefty
hand in money laundering and illegal
prostitution
unlike the violent and disorganized
street gangs the yakuza operated
primarily like shady businessmen through
their illicit activities they brought in
billions and billions of dollars a year
in earnings the u.s couldn't actually
stop the yakuza from doing business so
instead they targeted the two men at the
top of the crime syndicate kenichi
shinoda and kiyoshi takayama they froze
their american-owned assets and
basically banished them from the states
however considering there are somewhere
around 80 000 gangsters in japan others
will simply take their place in america
and keep up business as usual have you
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already number six the mexican mafia
from what we can figure out the best
estimates placed the gang being formed
in 1957 by luis flores during his
incarceration at the dwell vocational
institution in california the gang was
created to protect hispanics inside the
california prison system but by 1960 the
gang had some serious power they pushed
their influence outside the prisons and
began expanding into the public scene
raking in money from gambling extortion
and the sale of drugs the mexican mafia
joined forces with street gangs in east
los angeles and became an unstoppable
force
they had unbelievable influence until
the 1990s when police really came down
on them and started to pull out the guts
of their illegal machine but in 1995 the
fbi had used the rico act the same act
used to take down the italian mafia to
charge 22 high-profile members
unfortunately after the devastating blow
to the mafia's hierarchy they simply
reformed they're still active today
continuing criminal activities
throughout california they don't wield
the same power they used to but they're
definitely still around
number five barrio azteca the barrio
azteca is one of the most savage and
dangerous gangs to ever operate in the
state of texas their leader is even on
the fbi's list of most wanted criminals
their members just recently murdered a
pregnant u.s consulate and her husband
but their crimes don't stop at murder
they traffic human beings and drugs they
commit torture and they're known as
professional contract killers they also
operate on both sides of the border with
thousands of members in both texas and
mexico they're heavily associated with
mexican drug cartels as well as two
other gangs we talked about earlier the
mexican mafia and ms-13
but since barrio azteca is in bed with
the cartels they also have some cartel
enemies after all nobody wars with each
other quite like the cartels do if not
for their rivalry with the sinaloa
cartel and jalisco new generation cartel
barrio azteca would be significantly
more dangerous but as it is most of
their killing drug dealing and human
selling is restricted to texas
specifically around el paso
number four the hell's angels there's
probably no gang in the united states
more notorious than the hell's angels
properly known as the hells angels
motorcycle club but a lot of people
don't actually know how the club came
into being it started in 1948 as a club
for motorcyclists in california
specifically it started in fontana and
they got their name from the bomber
crews in world war ii who called
themselves the hell's angels by 1961 the
gang had spread all the way in part of
new zealand they became infamous by 1965
when the attorney general of california
thomas c lynch issued a report on how
motorcycle gangs were committing hoodlum
activities
for their first few years in the
spotlight the hell's angels were mostly
known as dangerous outlaws
they were notorious bar room fighters
they were exceedingly violent and the
process to become one of the members
included initiations that often had to
do with committing illegal activities
and even beating or killing people it
was the 1970s when law enforcement
officials began to realize they were
manufacturing and distributing
methamphetamine while the hells angels
have lost much of their notoriety by now
they still have clubs functioning all
across the world nowadays they actually
do a lot of charity work and toy drives
but their colorful past remains vivid
number three the mongols the mongols are
a lesser known bike gang kind of similar
to the hell's angels they too were made
in california but a few years later than
the hells angels in 1969 they were
nothing more than a mainstream
motorcycle club their goal to simply
hang out and have fun today the mongols
are considered to be one of the most
dangerous gangs still in operation in
america they went from a mainstream club
full of normal guys to an army of
violent bikers in about 15 years
today most of the mongols 2000 members
are hispanic males most of the favorite
pastimes is racially motivated violence
they've become known to lash out at
african american civilians and gang
members indiscriminately it was the
bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms
that named them the most violent gang in
america this is in part because of the
gang war they fought with the hell's
angels in the 1980s gaining control of
southern california despite being tiny
compared to the larger gang they won the
turf war by sheer force of will and
unbridled cruelty
number two simon city royals the simon
city royals were formed in 1952 making
them one of the oldest gangs in
continual operation anywhere in the u.s
they're also one of the largest
predominantly white gangs involved in
the country in the 1960s they were
heavily involved with drug smuggling and
racketeering and were often involved in
turf wars with other local gangs like
the latin kings and the imperial
gangsters the simon city gang battled a
gang called the royals and lost forcing
the two gangs to merge together becoming
the simon city royals the gang wars went
on and on like really on and on without
end until the 1990s when things finally
started to calm down it was always over
turf and drug distribution today the
simon city royals still have a heavy
presence in the prison system and still
control parts of the chicago north side
they're also in wisconsin and
mississippi
number one the black spades the black
spades is a gang that started off in the
bronx in the late part of the 1960s and
became wildly popular in the 1970s the
gang officially formed at a junior high
school they were just a bunch of kids
influenced by groups like the black
panthers and the nation of islam
in the beginning they wanted to organize
a fight against racism and bigotry they
policed their local neighborhoods to
protect against the incoming scourge of
drug dealers and drug addicts slowly
taking over the community there was even
a chapter of black spades that was
entirely female unfortunately the black
spades became too popular for their own
good and started losing focus the
younger members became violent they
devolved into a criminal street gang
peddling drugs and they just kind of
disintegrated amazingly the black spades
made a comeback in 2019 after changing
their name to the black spade's new
direction and becoming a community
service program offering food
distribution to the less fortunate and
championing anti-violence
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