Why do vice lords say joe

To us the term gang means a group of people who associate regularly on a social basis. The AVLN does not condone gang-banging and or criminal acts! We have a written history and an oral history.

Our written history is available via any yahoo search. Our oral history is kept secret, but know this Vice Lords are NOT Muslims, however, our religion, philosophy, ideology, and doctrine is called LORDISM which is a chosen way of life made manifest through the then primitive teachings and influences by the times and environment of our first teacher the Honorable Pep Pilow and chiseled by devoted believers from various Schools of Thought.

No one religion has a monopoly on God, yet any religion can claim God exclusively. This would mean the opportunity for the gang to hold celebrations and carry out aggressive recruiting drives as well. There is substantial evidence, historically, to suggest that inmates have used and abused such religious rights to disrupt correctional institutions. There is substantial evidence to suggest that what we have here is not a serious conversion to a spiritual identity, but rather it is simply a mechanism for antagonistic behavior e.

One reliable source traces the first Vice Lord Islamic identity to the year in Illinois. This is presented simply as professional opinion because we are, after all, dealing with a historical question less amenable to direct empirical testing. Oral history studies, including interviews with Vice Lord figures described in the work by Knox and Papachristos , are more useful.

Artificially induced: 60 percent. Correctional emulation: 15 percent. Political socialization: 5 percent. Correctional emulation and political socialization have a minimal effect. Please note, however, that these rival hypotheses might be expected to generate totally different results if we used a different type of gang or security threat group STG.

Different gangs have different developmental patterns. The Vice Lords simply enjoyed the benefits of a large influx of federal and foundation funding to get started and get up and running. That makes them, like the BPSN, a unique kind of gang in terms of its developmental sequence and pattern. The informal social organization ISO within the formal social organization FSO in the case of the Vice Lord gang, at the leadership level, is often a function of family relationships. The ISO is based on family solidarity therefore has pre-existing ties of kinship and family.

This is seen not just in the Vice Lords, it is a universal phenomenon within gangs, a factor traced to the power and privilege of an antecedent primary relationship to the gang leader. At the leadership level, however, this kind of ISO has special significance. This is a worthy area of additional intensive research, as there are major cases of defection from the Vice Lord gang factions that are not easy to explain over the years.

We just do not know for sure, it remains a plausible rival hypothesis for explaining the defection of this fundamental figure in the founding of the original Vice Lord Nation. Another way to look at the ISO within a gang FSO is that it may actually be a factor that allows for the continuity of the gang over time. This is the issue of natural gang organization dissolution. Thus, But a gang like the Vice Lords has over fourty 40 years of continuity as a gang entity.

These factions of the Vice Lords did exist in , but do not exist by that identity today in The different factions also utilize specific graffiti to identify themselves individually. Their common hand signs are a single upraised hand with the thumb, index and middle fingers to form a " VL.

The Vice Lords call fellow members "People" and use the term "All is well. The Vice Lords can be found in the Midwest and some Eastern cities. They continue to have a stronghold over many Chicago neighborhoods. The Almighty Vice Lords where created in a juvenile detention center on chicago's westside in , wayyy b 4 gd's crips, bloods, gangstas. And We where the only black nationally known gang next 2 the mafia.

CVL , Conservative Vice Lords was the first name, So fuck gd's,breeds, sd's ,26's,souls, and any other muthafukkas that aint ridin unda the 5 point star. On King Neal bitches.