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QuinSnydersHair

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/26/tonga-crips-gang-utah/9463661/

I happened to stumble upon this article and thought a discussion on gangs both in Utah and in general could be interesting. Many of you know I teach and I do so in an urban district in NJ that's about 95% Latino. Even in middle school, we see a good amount of gang involvement. We're no Camden or Newark (I'm sure many of you have heard of these cities and their God awful gang and criminal activity) but it's still quite prevalent.

I'm curious mostly about what these gangs are like in Utah, people's knowledge or experience with them, and their perspective on gangs in general and how law enforcement could better stifle them.
 
I'm in Gilbert Arizona and my High School (Highland High) was very famous for having a very rich Mormon Gang called the Devil Dogs. They were part of the football team and were a White Power gang. They all drove like corvettes, took steroids, and such as they had very rich parents. Many of my High School teachers taught the gang leaders and such. It was like 4 or 5 years before I went to high school but I would always hear about them during my elementary school days. They would beat up random Mexicans, Black People, Asians, some white people and even had Mafia connections and had an ecstasy cartel. Also instead of calling the cops people would call their LDS bishop when they committed a crime.

Some articles I found on them on google.

https://www.mormonstoday.com/001027/D2GilbertGang01.shtml
https://articles.latimes.com/2000/oct/26/news/mn-42302
https://www.fronterasdesk.org/content/search-tolerance-arizona-town-tries-create-new-legacy
 
My mom was the principal at Murray's alternative high school for years and I often heard about gangs. The one that seems to stick out the most was the TCG, or Tongan Crip Gang. Mostly though, I think the majority of gangs in Utah are groups of tools like Elephant talked about. Friends or cliques in schools that act tough but would **** their pants if confronted by a real gang member.
 
At my school were tcg (tongan crips), osb (oquirrh shadow boys), ktb (kearns town blood), sia (samoans in action), kfs (kill for skill), sok (straight outta kearns), Q'vo, baby regulators, and then straight edge and smp (smoke more pot)

ktb, sia, tcg, were the most dangerous. Osb, ksf, and Qvo were pretty scary.
Baby regulators became pretty dangerous after i graduated and left salt lake for a while (college)

Sok,s/e, and smp were not a big deal


Definately most scared of the tongan crips doe. They sell lots of heroin in salt lake now
 
fishonjazz said:
At my school were tcg (tongan crips), osb (oquirrh shadow boys), ktb (kearns town blood), sia (samoans in action), kfs (kill for skill), sok (straight outta kearns), Q'vo, baby regulators, and then straight edge and smp (smoke more pot)

ktb, sia, tcg, were the most dangerous. Osb, ksf, and Qvo were pretty scary.
Baby regulators became pretty dangerous after i graduated and left salt lake for a while (college)

Sok,s/e, and smp were not a big deal


Definately most scared of the tongan crips doe. They sell lots of heroin in salt lake now
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Can vouch for fish when he says the gangs in kearns were crazy. There was a gang on the next street from mine called Tongan blood crew, they had drive by shootings at their house regularly for a year or two when I was in elementary school. It was on my way to school. There was a biker gang that lived across the street from them, and they were pretty scary. But one thing that was cool about the bikers was that they didn't let anyone give any of he small kids any crap.

I am pretty confident in saying that the gangs in salt lake area during the late eighties and early nineties were pretty much centered around kearns/west valley and rose park. Those places were pretty messed up for a whole. Kearns has change for the better, and I am not sure what it was that changed it, but it is a much less dangerous place to live now.
 
b_line said:
Kearns has change for the better, and I am not sure what it was that changed it, but it is a much less dangerous place to live now.
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Yep
Now its south salt lake, glendale, and ogden that have gang problems
 
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