Gang colors include clothing, accessories, or tattoos of a specific color or colors that represent an affiliation to a specific gang or gang branch.
The NativistNew York City criminal gang the Bowery Boys from the 1820s–1860s wore firemen uniforms to show their gang colors and nativist, anti-Catholic, anti-Irish, volunteer firefighter affiliation.
The first recorded criminal street gangs in England were organized in London in the early 1600s and identified and apprehended by an early form of British city police, the Bow Street Runners. Early urban gangs in London and other British cities of this period went by the names of the Muns, Mohocks, Hectors, Bawcubites, Bickers, Bugles, Blues, Bravadoes, Tittyre Tus, Tuquoques, Roysters, Scowrers, Dead Boys, Circling Boys, and Roaring Boys with each gang distinguishing its membership affiliation by using a different colored ribbon attached to their clothing.[1][2]
United States
The earliest criminal street gangs in the United States were in New York City, from the 1820s–1860s, were politically-aligned with one of two prominent political parties, the anti-immigrant Nativist, Know Nothing Party or Irish immigrant-based Tammany Hall of the Democratic Party who wore distinctive gang colors to differentiate themselves from their allies and rivals. The most notorious and prominent of the New York gangs who could field 50–200 members per gang were the Nativist Bowery Boys, Atlantic Guards, and Plug Uglies versus the Irish American gangs of the Dead Rabbits, Roach Guards, and Shirt Tails.[3]
The Roach Guards wore a blue stripe on their trousers and the Atlantic Guards and Dead Rabbits wore a red trouser stripe.[4] The Bowery Boys wore neckerchiefs, red shirts, tall stove pipe hats, long, black, frock coats, and trousers tucked into high heel calf boots to identify them with their New York City Fire Department volunteer fire company origins and Nativist affiliations.[5][6][7]
Types of colors
Bandanas
The most recognizable form of gang affiliation is based on color. Bandanas come in a wide range of colors and can be paired with other pieces of clothing to represent all colors of the gang.[8] Not only are bandanas an easy way to show gang affiliation they are also easy to remove if the situation calls for it (i.e. if confronted by law enforcement). Gang members are known for wearing bandanas around their face as a mask, or in their pocket, with it sticking out.
Jerseys
Jerseys are common in the gang world for brandishing the colors of a member's gang. They represent the gang's city or region, contain multiple colors and often display specific numbers or words.[8]
Today
Legal ramifications
The prevalence of gang colors has declined in popularity over the past few years. In order to crack down on gang related crimes legislation has been passed to increase penalties for crimes committed by gangs or gang members.[9] For example, in some states, if a gang member commits a Class A misdemeanor, the highest level misdemeanor crime, then that offense is classified as a felony because the individual is a member of a criminal street gang.[9]
^Smith, Carter F. (2017). Gangs and the Military: Gangsters, Bikers, and Terrorists with Military Training. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 3. ISBN9781442275171.
^Lacey, Nicola (2003). Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and Materials Law in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 122–123. ISBN9780521606042.
^Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld 1928 pp. 19–21.
^Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld 1928 pp. 20–21.
^Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld 1928 pp. 26, 29
^James West Davidson, A Little History of the United States Yale University Press, 2015 p. 191
^Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Oxford University Press, 1998 p. 753
^ ab(PDF). Gang Community Response Team. Snohomish County Regional Gang Work Group. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 6, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
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