Category Archives: Organised Crime Groups

The Outlaws Motorcycle Club

The Outlaws Motorcycle Club, despite being older than the Hells Angels, still continues to lack what some might call the ‘romance’ of the rival motorcycle gang.  It is very rare to hear stories regarding the Outlaws which don’t refer to … Continue reading

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Hells Angels – Part Four

Welcome back to the concluding article on the Hells Angels.  In the previous article we discussed membership requirements; but once you’re a member what can you expect to be doing?  The Hells Angels motto is: ““When we do right, nobody … Continue reading

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Hells Angels – Part Three

We concluded Part Two with an explanation of how the Hells Angels had expanded to their current membership numbers during the last fifty years.  There are estimated to be between two  and two and half thousand full members worldwide, which … Continue reading

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Hells Angels – Part Two

In the first part of our Hells Angels guide, we explained the somewhat uncertain roots of this motorcycle group and discussed their gradual expansion throughout California in the 1950s, detouring to New Zealand in 1961 before further groups were established … Continue reading

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Hells Angels – Part One

The Hells Angels can be regarded as the original motorcycle gang and although they do not compare in age to some of the world’s older organised crime groups, they can be dated reliable to 1948.  There is some uncertainty about … Continue reading

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The United States – The Bloods

Once you’re familiar with the story (Part One & Part Two) of the Los Angeles based gang The Crips, it’s only right that we should elaborate on the history of their counterpoint and long standing rivals, The Bloods. The Crips … Continue reading

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The United States – The Crips, Part Two

As mentioned in the previous article, ‘Tookie’ Williams claim to be attempting to create a type of black power movement was looking increasingly suspect.  Perhaps the fast expanding number of gangs joining the Crips became unwieldy and incontrollable, but by … Continue reading

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The United States – The Crips, Part One

A name familiar with most movie fans and observers of American society in the past forty years or so, The Crips are one of the longest established African-American organised gangs in the United States.  Along with their bitter rivals The … Continue reading

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Serbian Mafia – Part Two

By late 1990, Arkan was regarded with such gravitas by the Serbian authorities that he attended a council of war as the conflict in the Balkans inevitably edged closer.  The Serb Volunteer Guard gradually morphed into what became known as … Continue reading

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Serbian Mafia – Part One

Although we generally regard the Serbian Mafia as a group which emerged from the Balkans following the sanctions imposed on Serbia in 1991, there were already precedents relating to organised crime from the region.  Ljuba Zemunac was certainly active as … Continue reading

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