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Funny, my impression was always that Detroit wasn’t much of a gang city. Growing up I had a bunch of friends who were PRs who moved back and forth between Chicago and Detroit (I guess SW Detroit). Their opinion was that — apart from a few copycat Chicago imports like the Counts and Kings — Detroit didn’t have “real” gangs, but more like loose and unstable groups of drug cliques/crews. Maybe that wasn’t accurate then (90s) or maybe it’s changed since then. Given that they were originally from Chicago, their take was of course somewhat biased (they thought the Counts/Kings in the D were cornball wannabes).

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Here's a map of the city, showing the neighborhoods/territories with very high gang activity.

I'd say yes

They are actively talked about (including name dropped)

As where most the US major metropolitan cities have gone through gentrification and fought through crooked politics...

Detroit is still a city where you can do anything and open air drug markets are FREQUENT

Drugs I would say account for at least half of the income of Detroit, believe it or not.

The Detroit mob was still active or its just a big gambling crew?

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ATF report 2019 lists:

Bounty Hunter Bloods
Avon Gangsters
Seven Mile Bloods
Hustle Boys
East Warren
Six Mile Chedda
Gutta Boys
Maxout 220
BossHogs
Hustle Hard
Norton Shores
Young and Scandalous
Latin Counts
Vice Lords
Latin Kings
Playboy Gangster Crips
Smokecamp
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Excellent and accurate list

The only one I don't know personally is Norton Shores

Do they have a location and affiliation???

All those are 3 different main groups with sub gangs for which area there at

Maxout 220 / smokecamp are part of East 7 Mile Bloods
Then you got the bounty hunter bloods that are also off of 7 mile - but West side

Latin counts and kings are SW Detroit and they fight with Spanish Cobras (possibly gone by now) / GD (Folk vs PPL ) same as blue vs red but the Spanish way

7 mile bloods

And 42s (4 gang/crips) - newer gang that has taken over 6 mile and is at war with 7 mile.

I live on 6 mile and work on 7 so I have ppl on both sides

The music industry heads the way with gang politics rn

I.e. sada baby vs 42 dugg

[quote="Pogo The Clown" post_id=212707 time=1637254545 user_id=53]
Some really stupid names on that list. BossHogs? :roll:


Pogo
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[quote="Pogo The Clown" post_id=212707 time=1637254545 user_id=53]
Some really stupid names on that list. BossHogs? :roll:


Pogo
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The Wade Boggs.

Funny how the Latin Counts blew up when they were brought to Detroit. In Chicago they are a rather middling to small organization. Dudes I knew from Detroit made them seem like one of the major gangs there. I guess they’re the other Detroit “LCN” lol.

Well, it's me and my mellow mellow roll on Military
Gangbangers gangbangers, big bang fairy, kinda scary
Tags up all on the bricks
Latin Count, X-Men, CFP and all that shit
We love gangbangers and we hope they love us back
We just some wicked clowns and it's been like that


Pogo

The only ones that seem to make the papers are the 7 Mile Bloods. Basically different sets from East to Westside of 7 Mile rd. You also got Latin Counts in SW Detroit. Mainly based off Toledo st.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s in South Los Angeles the names of the street gangs, mostly, were spinoff of the area they were in. Maybe it was a street name, an avenue or street number. I always wondered where the east coast and Midwest gangs came up with their names

Some really stupid names on that list. BossHogs? :roll:


Pogo

ATF report 2019 lists:

Bounty Hunter Bloods
Avon Gangsters
Seven Mile Bloods
Hustle Boys
East Warren
Six Mile Chedda
Gutta Boys
Maxout 220
BossHogs
Hustle Hard
Norton Shores
Young and Scandalous
Latin Counts
Vice Lords
Latin Kings
Playboy Gangster Crips
Smokecamp

Was cruising down 8 mile yesterday and my curiosity started taking off. Plus, BMF release got me wondering as well. I feel like this question is totally up Scott Burnsteins alley, but I'm all ears if anyone is familiar with the Detroit gang scene because I genuinely have no idea. I'm more in tune with the limited Mafia happenings.


Thanks y'all.