street gangs
Territorial urban groups
Street gangs are groups organized around a neighborhood or territory, typically involved in criminal activity.
Members share identifying markers—colors, signs, tattoos—and loyalty enforced through violence.
The term usually implies urban youth involvement in drug dealing, robbery, or turf disputes: Police blamed the shooting on rival street gangs.
Distinguished from organized crime by looser structure and local focus.
- CripsLA criminal organization
- hoodlumViolent young criminal
- graffitiIllegal surface markings
- violenceHarmful physical force
- turf warsStruggles for domain control
crime · criminals · drug trafficking · territory · MS-13 · jump in · prison gangs · extortion · youth gangs · initiation · hand signs · delinquents · crew · juvenile delinquency · drive-by shooting · shootings · intimidation · hustle
- urban hazardspotholes, crime, traffic, accidents, sinkholes
- Latin crimedrug trafficking, drug cartel, kidnapping, human trafficking, organized crime
- turf warsturf, hood, neighborhood, streets, rival factions
- urban lifesidewalks, neighborhood, apartments, skyline, buses
- cyberpunkcyberspace, chrome, cyberware, implant, augmentation
- juvenile delinquencyjuvenile crime, juvenile justice, juvenile court, youth crime, youth offenders
street gangspolice
Civil law enforcement
law enforcement · police departments · neighborhood watch · peace officers · community patrol
street gangscivic organizations
Groups promoting public welfare
community centers · neighborhood associations · youth groups · boy scouts · girl scouts
street gangspolice force
Official law enforcement body
military units · lone wolves · government agencies · organized crime · corporations
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