Originally Posted by BlackFamily
Originally Posted by SoCalGangs
It’s weird to call “Surenos” a gang. A bunch of gangs that fall under the Sureno umbrella in jail and prison, yes. In prison I suppose you can consider them an organization. In the streets, they’re not a gang.


I would like more input from you on the Surenos banner as well. It seems like most of the members of those barrios that branch out to other cities just carries that banner. In my state I came across a few tags by them in Hattiesburg. It simply displayed ' Sur 13 ' with the 3 dots. Hispanic community in Hattiesburg is around 1.3K but nothing significant from Sur 13 activities. In Memphis they're the largest or one of the largest hispanic gang in the city yet mainly you see their taggings. Banging wise it's little of that. Nashville is a bit similar and Atlanta have higher activity. Generally it's not a specific L.A barrio being claim just the banner.


Yeah I think it’s just different when you get further and further away from LA. I think it’s combination of just wannabes trying to replicate LA/California gang culture and sometimes people from California spreading it around. Also could be that the Hispanic population isn’t that big in some places to they just band together under a generic Sur 13 umbrella. But it’s very generic to write “Sur 13” on the wall. It would be like writting “Crips” with no set name by it, and maybe even more generic than that. Here in California if you see a random Sur13 tag it’s almost always writen by little kids/wannabes, not real gang members. Although one exception is that there is an actual gang in LA called Varrio Sur 13 located in Hollywood and another clique in north east LA which could make it more confusing.

Last edited by SoCalGangs; 03/13/18 03:19 AM.