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Print is professionally printed on Fujifilm Fujicolor Crystal Archive photographic paper. This listing comes as an individual letter and can be purchased in conjunction with other letters from our range to create whatever name you desire. These unique letter prints make great gifts for anniversaries, weddings, new homes, children’s rooms etc.Īll letters are taken from genuine London Graffiti done by the countries talented street artists. They paint the picture it’s up to you to interpret it.Photos of unique graffiti/street art you see everyday in London that represent letters of the alphabet that can be purchased, with others from our store, to be arranged to make a unique personalised name. Having to respond violently to cross outs from rival gangs cuts into the bottom line.įinally, know when to recognize graffiti as non-gang related. This can be especially true with crews that focus on money-making schemes like drug dealing. More senior gang members, especially those who have been through the courts after being charged with a gang enhancement, may frown on the practice. Peewee gangsters, excited to demonstrate their affiliation with a gang, will tag almost anything. These tags may not be sanctioned or authorized by more senior gang members. Generally younger gang members do most of the tagging. Just make sure to identify where a gang member is from. So, learn your crew’s and subset’s symbiology!Īs an aside, these LE gang websites are a great way to identify tattoos on gang members from another jurisdiction. In the county where I work, I know of at least three gangs that claim the 500 block of a particular street as their turf, thus they use tags such as “500” or “500 blk.” Nationwide there are hundreds of gangs that also claim 500, so putting your request on blast will yield many answers unrelated to the crew you are investigating. A gang symbol in Colorado most likely won’t mean the same thing in Florida. The answer to that is going to vary from one jurisdiction to the next. Probation/parole searches of gang member (juvenile gang members love to put these symbols in their school notebooks and elsewhere) ĭon’t make a common mistake of going on statewide or nationwide law enforcement gang websites to ask what a symbol means.You can learn about these signs and symbols from: For example, a tag with the symbols of multiple subsets demonstrates unity. It’s important to know your gang’s signs and symbols – especially with subsets and cliques of the same gang. Conversely, a tag in what you considered to be a rival gang’s turf that isn’t crossed out may indicate a shift in the balance of power between two gangs with one gang losing turf. New locationsĪ tag in a new area may reveal that the gang’s turf has increased. In certain instances, a rival gang member will use his moniker as part of the cross-out process, providing even more intelligence. This can then be cross-referenced to acts of violence between rival gangs to try to determine who committed the act. This provides a rough time stamp as to when the cross out occurred. It’s important to photograph and document graffiti as soon as it pops up. Like an archeologist digging through layers of ruins, you must determine how many layers of cross outs you are dealing with. A cross out – crossing out, covering up or writing over a gang’s tag – is a flagrant act of disrespect and can often be an indicator of future violence between gangs. Much intelligence can be gleaned from a rival gang’s reaction to a tag. We conducted surveillance at his funeral and were able to confirm many of the gang member’s monikers by matching up the attendees to the names on the tags. In my jurisdiction, after a gang member was killed, several RIP tags sprung up. Occasionally gang members will list many of the monikers in conjunction with a RIP tag, sort of like a sympathy card. If you see an unfamiliar moniker pop up after a gang homicide, you can probably connect that victim with that tag. These can be good for gathering police intelligence regarding gang monikers. “RIP” tags memorialize dead gang members. How police can investigate and prosecute taggersĪ tag (gang graffiti) done by a gang in their own turf serves to define a gang’s turf, acting like a “no trespassing” sign to rival crews.