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Yes, I have met a member of the Vatos Locos, a hispanic gang in Lake Worth. Also, in West Palm Beach I have seen actual gang activity near Palm Beach Lakes blvd. and of course there was the infamous mall shooting at Boynton Beach last Christmas Eve. Plus there's shootings, killings, stabbings, etc. Gang activity is very much alive here. Unless of course you live in a wealthy area.
Every state and major city in the United States is plagued with local, loosely structured, street gangs that are mainly motivated by drug sales. Historically, disruptive incidents in our prisons have been based on the geographic origins of the inmates involved (e.g., Miami gang inmates vs. Tampa gang inmates).
These local groups form based on common interests and a sense of loyalty to individuals from their city, neighborhood, street, or housing complex. They adopt generic names such as Players, Posse, Crew, Mafia, Gang, and Bad Boys and attach their particular street or avenue name to it.
Although they are loosely structured and tend to conduct their illegal activities in a specific location, they are extremely violent and develop bitter blood rivalries.
Often the group evolves, and adopts an alliance with a national street gang such as the Bloods, Crips, or Chicago-based Folk Nation and People Nation sets and use their symbols and identifiers. This graduation in gang involvement often occurs in county jails, prisons, and juvenile facilities.
This increases the importance of tracking the development of gang membership while inmates are in custody. Tracking enables DC to notify local law enforcement of new members or of any changes in a member's affiliation.
Hundreds of these local gangs have been identified in every city from Pensacola to the Florida Keys. This includes small rural towns, upper middle-class neighborhoods, schools, and other areas where we tend to deny gang existence.
Here is a list of gangs/security threat groups we have encountered within the Department of Corrections:
10th Street Thugs Miami
112 Avenue Boys Miami
12 Nation Street Gang Miami
18th Street Gang Multiple Cities/Counties
205th Street Players Miami
2-1 Jacksonville
22 Ave. Players Dade
23rd Street Boys Ft. Pierce
25 Street Folk St. Petersburg
299 Street Boys Miami
29th Street Players Miami
2nd Street Fellows Miami
35th Street Players Miami
39th Ave North Boys Clearwater
3-D Kings Sunrise
4 Avenue Players Leon
56 Ave Players Miami
6 Street Mob Broward
69 Folk Pensacola
773 Boys Quincy
8 Ball Posse Sarasota
98 Posse Ft. Pierce
American Nazi Party Multiple Cities/Counties
Apopka Boys Apopka
Asian Bloods Multiple Cities/Counties
Army of Light Hendry CI
Aryan Brotherhood Prisons
Aryan Nations Multiple Cities/Counties
Asian Gangsters Pinellas
Baby Demons Miami
B-Boys Pinellas City
Bad Boys Hillsborough
Basin Street Rat Pack Tallahassee
Bellaire Boys Clearwater
Black Angels Wimauma
Black Gangster Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Black Guerilla Family Multiple Cities/Counties
Black Hawks Hillsborough
Black United Soldiers Tallahassee
Blackheart Miami
Bloods Multiple Cities/Counties
Blue Arrows West Palm Beach
Broadview Mob Broward
Carol City Lynch Mob Carol City
Carver Shores Boys Orlando
City Of Chaires Posse Tallahassee
Cloud Nine Ft. Lauderdale
Criminal Minded Posse Lake Worth
Crips Multiple Cities/Counties
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Crips
Crypt Disciples Pensacola
Danger Zone Palatka
Davie Boys Broward
Death Squad Pompano Beach
Devil Boys Tampa
Dixie Court Players Okeechobee
Dixie Playboys Ft. Lauderdale
Dog Pound Gangsters Polataka
Dogg Pound Miami
Dover Locos Plant City
Down By Law Palm Beach
Du Rag Posse Palm Beach
Eastside Bradenton
Eastside Locos Manatee
Eastside Posse Orlando
Eau Gallie Posse Eau Gallie
Ebony Kings Jacksonville
El Rukn Multiple Cities/Counties
Ex-Legion Broward
Familia Multiple Cities/Counties
Five Percenters Multiple Cities/Counties
Flip Side Posse FL State Prison
Flipside Lake Wales
Folk Disciples-Chap 6 Orlando
Folk Nation Multiple Cities/Counties
Fort Pierce Boyz Fort Pierce
Fountain Head Posse Melbourne
Fourth World Mafia Pompano Beach
G.O.D.S. MG Multiple Cities/Counties
Gang Colors Miami
Gang Of 14 Jacksonville
Gangster Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Gaylords Coral Springs
Ghost Gangster Disciples Lake County
Grand Theft Auto Hillsborough
Grateful Dead MG Multiple Cities/Counties
Hell's Angels Multiple Cities/Counties
Hollywood Criminals Hollywood
Holton St. Boys Leon
Imperial Gangsters Multiple Cities/Counties
Imperial GD Multiple Cities/Counties
Inner Circle Assassins Pompano Beach
Insane Cobras Okaloosa CI
Insane Gangster Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Int. Gangster Association Orlando
International Posse Multiple Cities/Counties
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International Posse
Jackson Height Posse Tampa
Jacksonville City Boys Jacksonville
Jamaican Posse South Florida
Jamestown Project Gang St. Petersburg
Joe Louis Street Posse Tallahassee
Junkyard Jits Ft. Pierce
King Garden Boys Miami
Ku Klux Klan Multiple Cities/Counties
La Cruz Hollywood
La Familia Tampa
La Raza South Florida
La Vida Sunrise
Lake Bradford Boys Leon
Latino Bad Boys Miami
Latin Counts Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Eagles Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Folk Miami
Latin Force Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Gangster Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Kings Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Thug Posse Palm Beach
Legion Hollywood
Legion of Doom Miami
Longwood Lost Boys Longwood
Lynch Mob Palm Beach
Mafia Boys Miami
Maniac GD Miami
Maniac Latin Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Miami Boyz Miami
Mickey Cobras Lee County
Money Kings Ft. Myers
Most Powerful Nation Davie
MS 13 Multiple Cities/Counties
N.S.W.W.P. Multiple Cities/Counties
Nasty Boys Titusville
Neta Orlando
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Neta
******s From Lackawanna Jacksonville
Night Hawks Jacksonville
Northside Nation Broward/Miami
Northside White Boyz Ft. Myers
Opa Locka Boys Opa Locka
Outlaws Multiple Cities/Counties
P Stone Nation Multiple Cities/Counties
Pagans Multiple Cities/Counties
Parson's Gang West Palm Beach
P-Dogs Tampa
Peckerwoods Jacksonville
People In Control Tampa
People Nation Multiple Cities/Counties
Pine Manor Posse Ft. Myers
Pompano Bloopers Pompano
Pompano Boys Tampa
Port Of Tampa Gang Tampa
Project Boys Quincy
Quincy Jaw Jackers Quincy
Red Revolutionary Militia Washington CI
Righteous Gangster Disciples Tampa
Rockbrook Boys Tallahassee
Rollin 20's Crips Panama City, Tallahassee
Romans Of Fowler Ave Tampa
Rude Boys Ft. Pierce
Second Power Kendall
Shower Posse Jacksonville
Side by Side Boys Miami
Simon City Royals Multiple Cities/Counties
Skidrow Pompano Beach
Skie Row Pompano
Skinhead (Racist) Multiple Cities/Counties
Skullheads Miami
Solidos Multiple Cities/Counties
Southside Neighborhood Gp Tallahassee
Spanish Cobras Miami
Spanish Gangsters Multiple Cities/Counties
Spanish Law Boyton Beach
Spanish Lords Multiple Cities/Counties
Stoners Lake Wales
Street Action Posse Miami
Sureno 13 Multiple Cities/Counties
Sur XIII Multiple Cities/Counties
T.N.S. Dade
Tampa Boyz Tampa
Tampa Posse Tampa
T-Dogs Titusville
Terror Of Dome Immokalee
Texas Syndicate Prison
The Konneticut Kids Miami
The Unforgiven Prison
Thug Life Pensacola
Thunder Cats Palm Beach
Town & Country Villains Tampa
Tre Duce Folk Pensacola
Tres D Tampa
Truman Arms Posse Pensacola
Twin Colts Okeechobee
Unforgiven Multiple Cities/Counties
United Kings Multiple Cities/Counties
Us ******s Love Violence Ft. Lauderdale
Vados Locos Miami
Venice Shoreline Crips Lee County
Vice Lords Multiple Cities/Counties
Victory Park Zoe Pound Miami
VIP Tampa
W/B-Boys Clearwater
Warlocks MG Multiple Cities/Counties
West Side Crips Lake Wales
Westside Boys Hialeah
Westside Duce Tampa
Westside Folk Disciples Lee County
Westside Gangsters Deerfield
Westside Locos Bradenton
Westside Mafia Jacksonville
White Aryan Resistance Multiple Cities/Counties
Aryan Nations sheild
White Aryan Resistance
White Fence Coral Springs
White Pride Kissimmee
Worldwide Folk Multiple Cities/Counties
Y.L.O. Dade
Young Bloods Ft. Walton Beach
Young Folk Hillsborough
Young Gun Tallahassee
Young Riders Webster
Zoe Pound Miami
Zoo ****** Multiple Cities/Counties
Zulus Multiple Cities/Counties
Yes, I have met a member of the Vatos Locos, a hispanic gang in Lake Worth. Also, in West Palm Beach I have seen actual gang activity near Palm Beach Lakes blvd. and of course there was the infamous mall shooting at Boynton Beach last Christmas Eve. Plus there's shootings, killings, stabbings, etc. Gang activity is very much alive here. Unless of course you live in a wealthy area.
Sorry but since the prices of homes are so out of whack with reality right now, it is hard to distinguish what wealthy is anymore.
Five years ago if you said you lived in a 200,000 home you were considered to have quite a nice home (thus wealthy) These days 200,000 gets you nothing much special and now you are not so "wealthy".
We are only moving this summer and are considering Wellington, and Jupiter. But I noticed that both of those towns have gangs so I guess they are not quite "wealthy" enough??
I live in a city of 3 million and have yet to see "a gang" so I am a bit hesitant and skeptical at the same time. I have seen a lot of graffiti on the fences along the freeways but never actually seen any "gangs".
We have Hell's angels and Los Brovos, but that type of criminal activity do not hang around the 7"Eleven at night, if you know what I mean.
I also lived in Nassau where you need razor wire around the top of your fence and electric gates around your property for protection with a security system, cameras and the Embassy security personnel coming by four times a day to check on things.
We are only moving this summer and are considering Wellington, and Jupiter. But I noticed that both of those towns have gangs so I guess they are not quite "wealthy" enough??
SKB
In the wealthier communities of Jupiter, Wellington, etc., the most dangerous gangs you'll have chance to meet up with are home owner's associations!!!
Every state and major city in the United States is plagued with local, loosely structured, street gangs that are mainly motivated by drug sales. Historically, disruptive incidents in our prisons have been based on the geographic origins of the inmates involved (e.g., Miami gang inmates vs. Tampa gang inmates).
These local groups form based on common interests and a sense of loyalty to individuals from their city, neighborhood, street, or housing complex. They adopt generic names such as Players, Posse, Crew, Mafia, Gang, and Bad Boys and attach their particular street or avenue name to it.
Although they are loosely structured and tend to conduct their illegal activities in a specific location, they are extremely violent and develop bitter blood rivalries.
Often the group evolves, and adopts an alliance with a national street gang such as the Bloods, Crips, or Chicago-based Folk Nation and People Nation sets and use their symbols and identifiers. This graduation in gang involvement often occurs in county jails, prisons, and juvenile facilities.
This increases the importance of tracking the development of gang membership while inmates are in custody. Tracking enables DC to notify local law enforcement of new members or of any changes in a member's affiliation.
Hundreds of these local gangs have been identified in every city from Pensacola to the Florida Keys. This includes small rural towns, upper middle-class neighborhoods, schools, and other areas where we tend to deny gang existence.
Here is a list of gangs/security threat groups we have encountered within the Department of Corrections:
10th Street Thugs Miami
112 Avenue Boys Miami
12 Nation Street Gang Miami
18th Street Gang Multiple Cities/Counties
205th Street Players Miami
2-1 Jacksonville
22 Ave. Players Dade
23rd Street Boys Ft. Pierce
25 Street Folk St. Petersburg
299 Street Boys Miami
29th Street Players Miami
2nd Street Fellows Miami
35th Street Players Miami
39th Ave North Boys Clearwater
3-D Kings Sunrise
4 Avenue Players Leon
56 Ave Players Miami
6 Street Mob Broward
69 Folk Pensacola
773 Boys Quincy
8 Ball Posse Sarasota
98 Posse Ft. Pierce
American Nazi Party Multiple Cities/Counties
Apopka Boys Apopka
Asian Bloods Multiple Cities/Counties
Army of Light Hendry CI
Aryan Brotherhood Prisons
Aryan Nations Multiple Cities/Counties
Asian Gangsters Pinellas
Baby Demons Miami
B-Boys Pinellas City
Bad Boys Hillsborough
Basin Street Rat Pack Tallahassee
Bellaire Boys Clearwater
Black Angels Wimauma
Black Gangster Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Black Guerilla Family Multiple Cities/Counties
Black Hawks Hillsborough
Black United Soldiers Tallahassee
Blackheart Miami
Bloods Multiple Cities/Counties
Blue Arrows West Palm Beach
Broadview Mob Broward
Carol City Lynch Mob Carol City
Carver Shores Boys Orlando
City Of Chaires Posse Tallahassee
Cloud Nine Ft. Lauderdale
Criminal Minded Posse Lake Worth
Crips Multiple Cities/Counties
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Crips
Crypt Disciples Pensacola
Danger Zone Palatka
Davie Boys Broward
Death Squad Pompano Beach
Devil Boys Tampa
Dixie Court Players Okeechobee
Dixie Playboys Ft. Lauderdale
Dog Pound Gangsters Polataka
Dogg Pound Miami
Dover Locos Plant City
Down By Law Palm Beach
Du Rag Posse Palm Beach
Eastside Bradenton
Eastside Locos Manatee
Eastside Posse Orlando
Eau Gallie Posse Eau Gallie
Ebony Kings Jacksonville
El Rukn Multiple Cities/Counties
Ex-Legion Broward
Familia Multiple Cities/Counties
Five Percenters Multiple Cities/Counties
Flip Side Posse FL State Prison
Flipside Lake Wales
Folk Disciples-Chap 6 Orlando
Folk Nation Multiple Cities/Counties
Fort Pierce Boyz Fort Pierce
Fountain Head Posse Melbourne
Fourth World Mafia Pompano Beach
G.O.D.S. MG Multiple Cities/Counties
Gang Colors Miami
Gang Of 14 Jacksonville
Gangster Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Gaylords Coral Springs
Ghost Gangster Disciples Lake County
Grand Theft Auto Hillsborough
Grateful Dead MG Multiple Cities/Counties
Hell's Angels Multiple Cities/Counties
Hollywood Criminals Hollywood
Holton St. Boys Leon
Imperial Gangsters Multiple Cities/Counties
Imperial GD Multiple Cities/Counties
Inner Circle Assassins Pompano Beach
Insane Cobras Okaloosa CI
Insane Gangster Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Int. Gangster Association Orlando
International Posse Multiple Cities/Counties
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International Posse
Jackson Height Posse Tampa
Jacksonville City Boys Jacksonville
Jamaican Posse South Florida
Jamestown Project Gang St. Petersburg
Joe Louis Street Posse Tallahassee
Junkyard Jits Ft. Pierce
King Garden Boys Miami
Ku Klux Klan Multiple Cities/Counties
La Cruz Hollywood
La Familia Tampa
La Raza South Florida
La Vida Sunrise
Lake Bradford Boys Leon
Latino Bad Boys Miami
Latin Counts Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Eagles Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Folk Miami
Latin Force Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Gangster Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Kings Multiple Cities/Counties
Latin Thug Posse Palm Beach
Legion Hollywood
Legion of Doom Miami
Longwood Lost Boys Longwood
Lynch Mob Palm Beach
Mafia Boys Miami
Maniac GD Miami
Maniac Latin Disciples Multiple Cities/Counties
Miami Boyz Miami
Mickey Cobras Lee County
Money Kings Ft. Myers
Most Powerful Nation Davie
MS 13 Multiple Cities/Counties
N.S.W.W.P. Multiple Cities/Counties
Nasty Boys Titusville
Neta Orlando
Drawing showing hand with fingers crossed.
Neta
******s From Lackawanna Jacksonville
Night Hawks Jacksonville
Northside Nation Broward/Miami
Northside White Boyz Ft. Myers
Opa Locka Boys Opa Locka
Outlaws Multiple Cities/Counties
P Stone Nation Multiple Cities/Counties
Pagans Multiple Cities/Counties
Parson's Gang West Palm Beach
P-Dogs Tampa
Peckerwoods Jacksonville
People In Control Tampa
People Nation Multiple Cities/Counties
Pine Manor Posse Ft. Myers
Pompano Bloopers Pompano
Pompano Boys Tampa
Port Of Tampa Gang Tampa
Project Boys Quincy
Quincy Jaw Jackers Quincy
Red Revolutionary Militia Washington CI
Righteous Gangster Disciples Tampa
Rockbrook Boys Tallahassee
Rollin 20's Crips Panama City, Tallahassee
Romans Of Fowler Ave Tampa
Rude Boys Ft. Pierce
Second Power Kendall
Shower Posse Jacksonville
Side by Side Boys Miami
Simon City Royals Multiple Cities/Counties
Skidrow Pompano Beach
Skie Row Pompano
Skinhead (Racist) Multiple Cities/Counties
Skullheads Miami
Solidos Multiple Cities/Counties
Southside Neighborhood Gp Tallahassee
Spanish Cobras Miami
Spanish Gangsters Multiple Cities/Counties
Spanish Law Boyton Beach
Spanish Lords Multiple Cities/Counties
Stoners Lake Wales
Street Action Posse Miami
Sureno 13 Multiple Cities/Counties
Sur XIII Multiple Cities/Counties
T.N.S. Dade
Tampa Boyz Tampa
Tampa Posse Tampa
T-Dogs Titusville
Terror Of Dome Immokalee
Texas Syndicate Prison
The Konneticut Kids Miami
The Unforgiven Prison
Thug Life Pensacola
Thunder Cats Palm Beach
Town & Country Villains Tampa
Tre Duce Folk Pensacola
Tres D Tampa
Truman Arms Posse Pensacola
Twin Colts Okeechobee
Unforgiven Multiple Cities/Counties
United Kings Multiple Cities/Counties
Us ******s Love Violence Ft. Lauderdale
Vados Locos Miami
Venice Shoreline Crips Lee County
Vice Lords Multiple Cities/Counties
Victory Park Zoe Pound Miami
VIP Tampa
W/B-Boys Clearwater
Warlocks MG Multiple Cities/Counties
West Side Crips Lake Wales
Westside Boys Hialeah
Westside Duce Tampa
Westside Folk Disciples Lee County
Westside Gangsters Deerfield
Westside Locos Bradenton
Westside Mafia Jacksonville
White Aryan Resistance Multiple Cities/Counties
Aryan Nations sheild
White Aryan Resistance
White Fence Coral Springs
White Pride Kissimmee
Worldwide Folk Multiple Cities/Counties
Y.L.O. Dade
Young Bloods Ft. Walton Beach
Young Folk Hillsborough
Young Gun Tallahassee
Young Riders Webster
Zoe Pound Miami
Zoo ****** Multiple Cities/Counties
Zulus Multiple Cities/Counties
After reading that list, how bad must Fort Lauderdale be when even gangs don't want to live here.
After reading that list, how bad must Fort Lauderdale be when even gangs don't want to live here.
They avoid the area for a reason or is their place to visit and enjoy life without the danger of attacks from other gangs. Can be the designated neutral zone; no fights, no action, just a place to enjoy without fear.
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Security Threat Groups In Florida
