Gang timeline

By paulrrr

  • Early street gangs

    Broadway boys street gang as created right after revolutionary war
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    Hispanic gangs begin

    Many Mexican gangs began to form along the west. The infamous Latin kings gang is created in Chicago
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    African American gangs

    Gangs such as Crips and bloods are starting to form in Los Angeles during the civil rights movement. Many more form towards the 90s as the cocaine epidemic rise aswell as riots begin to form.

  • Ms-13

    The infamous Salvadoran gang MS-13 is creates

  • Gang members is at a all time high

    By 2008 there are now over 17,000 gang members in the northeast.

  • Gang costs

    Gang violence costs the US over 100 million dollars in 2023