The Almighty Vice Lord Nation (Vice Lords for short, abbreviated AVLN) is the second-largest and one of the oldest street and prison gangs in Chicago, Illinois. Its total membership is estimated to be between 30,000 and 35,000. It is also one of the founding members of the People Nation multi-gang alliance.[3][7]
In 1957, the Vice Lords gang was founded by several African American youths originally from the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago.[8] These youths met while incarcerated in the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles (also known as the St. Charles Juvenile Correctional Facility). At the time, they were led by founding member Edwin "Pepalo" Perry.[9] The name "vice" was chosen when a gang founder looked up the term in the and found the meaning as "having a tight hold".[9][10]
In an attempt at softening their public image, a leader of one of the original 8 Vice Lord sets changed the gang's name to "Conservative Vice Lords", which today serves as the foundation of the entire Vice Lord Nation.[9] They developed new logos and advertised themselves as a community outreach group. They went as far as to petition for a community outreach chapter named "Conservative Vice Lord Incorporated".[9] This attempt was successful enough that the group began to receive a large amount of positive publicity from various politicians and community leaders. CVL, Inc. established a number of recreational areas for neighborhood children which were then used as meeting houses after they had closed for the day.
At the same time, the gang was successfully consolidating smaller neighborhood gangs (including the Cherokees, the Morphines, the Commanches, the Continental Pimps, the Imperial Chaplains, the Clovers, the Cobras, and the Braves) into the Vice Lord Nation. As a result, their numbers swelled significantly. In spite of the positive press, it was soon discovered that the Vice Lords were still violent criminals. An introduction of narcotics into the Lawndale neighborhood during this time, along with a rapid increase in crimes involving intimidation, extortion, and murders of business owners who refused to pay for "protection" were perpetrated by the gang.[9]
After public pressure, a federal investigation into CVL, Inc.'s use of the Rockefeller grant money was conducted and as a result, several leaders were arrested and sent to prison. By the early 1980s, Perry and Alfred were dead and Gore was in prison for murder. The younger Vice Lord leadership attempted to conceal the gang's true intentions with another camouflage campaign, this time by adopting Islamic ideologies.[9] By the mid-1990s, they had created a large document called Lords of Islam which addressed new rules for the gang. Their headquarters, located near Pulaski and 16th Street, is referred to as the "Holy City".[9]
Vice Lord street gangs use a variety symbols to identify themselves, including a rabbit wearing a bow tie (the Playboy logo) as well as a red/gold 5 point star. Members often have tattoos of either on their hand below the thumb to identify themselves/also a protective mechanism for members' facing possible jail time.[13] often stylized with top hat and cane as well as a champagne glass and a glove. Their colors are black, red, and gold.
Lloyd continued to lead the gang on the outside through fellow inmates and prison employees affiliated with the gang. While incarcerated, Lloyd wrote The Amalgamated Order of Lordism, a 61-page manifesto on the Vice Lord command structure in the prisons and on the streets. He was incarcerated in 1971 until his release on parole in 1986, then was back in prison a year later on a weapons conviction until another parole in 1992. When he left prison in 1992, he was picked up by fellow gang members dressed in furs who were driving a convoy of five limousines.[15]
Later in 1992, he was involved in a protracted gang war over control of the Vice Lord Nation, involving kidnapping and the murder of rival members' children. Law enforcement intensified its efforts to remove Lloyd from the street, and from 1994 to 2001, he was again incarcerated for weapons violations.[16]
Lloyd publicly quit the Vice Lords after his release from prison, and became an outspoken critic of gang life.[17] Lloyd attempted to earn a living as a gang mediator, and he became affiliated with a non-profit organization. He was briefly a guest lecturer for a class called "Street Gangs in Chicago" at DePaul University, which was controversial, in part due to field trips in which Lloyd took the students to the West Side.[18][19]
In August 2003, Lloyd was shot four times in Garfield Park. This was the third assassination attempt on Lloyd. Lloyd became paralyzed from the neck down due to injuries from the shooting. Rumors persisted that Lloyd still wanted to collect a "tax" from the Vice Lords as its leader, even though he had supposedly left gang life. Lloyd has given interviews stating that he believes his attackers included some of his former henchmen.[20] Lloyd died in 2015 aged 64.
A gang led by Jamilton Andres Ulloa Suarez, known as El Topo, another pran in the region, was said to be responsible, according to Gustavo Gonzalez Lopez, Minister of Popular Power for Interior, Justice and Peace.
Until his release from the island's San Antonio prison in 2015, after 12 years of incarceration for drug trafficking, Cazorla was one of the country's most innovative crime lords, turning his prison into a lucrative personal fiefdom.
It looks like Frieza is a gang boss, has henchmen , and slaves(Saiyans). Also he illegally sells planets(I dunno if that's canon). If he is a gang Lord then are there other gang lords in the universe? If he sells the planets to someone, then who? Why is he wiping out planets if he needs to sell the planets to someone? Wouldn't that ruin his business for good?
CHICAGO (CBS) -- A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a Chicago man with leading a street gang that murdered rivals and violently protected its drug dealing operation on the city's West Side.
Donald Lee, 40, was convicted after a two-month trial in U.S. District Court. Lee was the leader of the Wicked Town faction of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang, and was convicted of racketeering, conspiracy, gun, and drug charges.
Lee and Benson were among 13 defendants charged in a multi-investigation into the gang, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. The other defendants have already all pleaded guilty, prosecutors said.
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The Cobra Lords are a street gang operating out of Millennium City, based out of the district of West Side. They identifiable by their distinctive dress of leather vests and ripped jeans, bandannas, and chains. They're embroiled in a gang war with other gangs in the area, including the New Purple Gang and the Cult of the Red Banner.
Dragon LordsGalleryNameDragon LordsAliasesWhite Dragon's Gang, Flying Dragons[1]MembersLeader(s)Mister Negative;
formerly White DragonCurrent Member(s)Various unnamed membersFormer Member(s)White DragonAffiliation and IdentityIdentityPublicAlliesTriads, Snakeheads[2], formerly the Hood's GangEnemiesSpider-Man, Moon Knight, Maggia, Tiger-Claw Gang, Phillip Chang
formerly Mister Negative, Tiger's ClawOrigin and StatusOriginCriminal gang, smugglersStatusActiveRealityEarth-616Base of OperationsChinatown, Manhattan, New York City, New YorkCreators and AppearancesCreatorsMarv Wolfman, Ross Andru First Amazing Spider-Man #184
(June, 1978)
The Dragon Lords emerged from four rival Chinese gangs known as the Dragon Gangs, in Chinatown, who were united by the White Dragon into one gang to control all crime in Chinatown. Among their criminal activities was a protection racket and it was as a recently established unified gang that they soon had a confrontation with Spider-Man.[3] Decades later, they would join the coalition of Chinese gangs that made up Mister Negative's Chinatown syndicate after he killed some of the White Dragon's men and then corrupted him to his side via use of his powers.[4]
The City of the Black Toga: Home to hundreds of back alley courts, rotting tenements, and an endless number of gangs, whose fortunes rise and fall as surely as the tides of the Inner Sea. Each gang vies against the others, pitting beggar against bravo, slayer against thug, and gang lord against gang lord.
The initial stakes are small as the gangs vie for control of a small slum. But as bodies begin to appear in the Hlal and the shadow war threatens to spill over into street violence, the price of blood favors those who trade in swordwork and black magic.
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