What are youth gangs?
A youth gang is a group of people who get together on a regular basis to carry out violent, illegal, or anti-social activities, including intimidation, assualt, vandalism, buglary and murder. Gang members come from all races and social classes. They can be male or female, starting as young as 7-years-old. Each gang has a name, a shared form of identification, such as clothing, hand signs, alphabets and other graffiti, and a particular turf or territory. Back To Top What is gang graffiti? Spray painting graffiti or “tagging” is one of the main ways that gangs communicate. Graffiti is the gang’s newspaper, a way to spread information about meetings, drug dealing and turf locations. Graffiti and other gang-related vandalism destroy neighborhoods and cause damage that is a financial burden to everyone. Graffiti also disrespects other gangs, provoking violent fights that threaten innocent people.
A youth gang is a group of people who get together on a regular basis to carry out violent, illegal, or anti-social activities, including intimidation, assualt, vandalism, buglary and murder. Gang members come from all races and social classes. They can be male or female, starting as young as 7-years-old. Each gang has a name, a shared form of identification, such as clothing, hand signs, alphabets and other graffiti, and a particular turf or territory.
