The term “stalking,” which originally only referred to criminal activity, is no longer the case anymore, especially since social media has boomed. Today, it has become commonplace to see and track someone’s activities on social media, rather than always following their tracks in real life.
Nevertheless, gang stalkers still carry out this activity, and this is currently a quite serious problem. In fact, not a few have lost their lives due to this gang-stalking. They carry out the actions in groups, so they’ll create their own certain forms of communication where only their members can understand.
So, how do they communicate? Let’s discover everything about it below!
What is Gang-Stalking?
Gang-stalking is defined as an activity carried out in groups against individuals they previously targeted. Further, this is also an international pattern of repeated disruptive and intimidating behavior to make their targets afraid and feel threatened.
In this activity, they will follow, stalk, and even carry out harassment and violence, either physically or mentally. That’s why gang-stalking is a criminal activity, although it doesn’t always lead to crime.
Why Does a Gang Stalk Someone They Call a “Target?”
There are several reasons why gangstalkers do this. Basically, they want to make their targets feel weak because they think that other people should not be better than them in various ways. They also often create their own standards to differentiate their levels.
Here’s why gangs commit stalking on others!
- Unresolved past problems
- Personal grudges
- Gang problems
- Another person or gang has different beliefs about them.
- Racial prejudice
- A desire to regain a relationship
- Having a mental disorder such as cluster-B personality disorder, delusional disorder, or psychotic disorder, they are generally refractory to conventional psychological treatment.
- Jealously
- A delusional belief in romantic destiny
- Homophobia
- Racism
- Fear of the other
- Exclusion
- the desire to control others under his command.
- A sadistic urge to torture the victim.
- Carrying out orders from someone means their crimes are paid for.
- Or even no clear reason at all.
The Gang Stalkers’ Form of Communication
Each has its own way of communicating between its members and usually does not use verbal language but rather signs, symbols, pictures, and even their clothes.
The following is how gang stalkers communicate with each other:
1. Hand Signs
This is the most commonly used by the majority of gang stalkers to communicate with their members. In addition, a hand sign also signifies a challenge to a rival gang. They will usually make a letter or number using their fingers.
Hand signs are usually shown to other members as a signal to initiate certain behaviors or inform them that something is happening. And this includes pointing one finger forward, forming an “X” with the hand, or making circular movements with the thumb and forefinger.
There are dozens of hand signs that gang stalkers use, but the same form of hand sign has a different meaning for each gang. Here are some basic hand signs used by street gangs:
- Crip Clique
- ‘b’ for blood
- ‘vl’ for Vice Lords
- ‘ivl’ for Insane Vice Lords
- Latin King
- ‘W’ for Westside
- ‘S’ for Southside or Sureno
- ‘N’ for Northside or Norte
- ‘K’ for King
- Double ‘King’ with a 3-Point Crown
- ‘Blood’ spelled out
- ‘ic’ for Insane Crip
- Neta
- Eastside
- ‘bk’ for Blood Killa
- Pitchfork
- ‘ck’ for Crip Killer
- King Killa
- 3-point crown
- People Nation Playboy Bunny
- Folk Nation Playboy Bunny
- 6-point Star
- 5-point Star
- 6 Killer
- Blood with an upside-down 3-point crown
- Tiny Rascals
- Folk-Crip ‘8-Balla’
- ‘sbp’ for South Beach Posse out of Miami
- Blood spelled out with two hands
2. Tattoos
Tattoos are also a common sign that identifies membership in a gang. These can be made on any part of the body, generally on the arms, neck, hands, chest, back, or ankles. It usually includes the name, initials, street of origin, or gang symbol. Some make them professionally, while others make them themselves.
The picture of every tattoo actually has different meanings depending on how the gangs interpret it. Of course, there are so many kinds of tattoos that are spread across various gang stalkers, such as teardrop tattoos, “1488” tattoos, the cobweb, five-point crowns, five dots, the clock with no hands, and many more.
Well, we can only show you some of them usually found in most gangs, including:
Cat Tattoo
It represents a prisoner’s life as a thief. If a single cat is drawn as a tattoo, it means that the criminal acted alone, while several cats signify that the criminal was part of a gang.
Epaulette Tattoos
It is often used to signify someone’s criminal accomplishments. This tattoo can also be considered a sign of rank, indicating that a person is a high-ranking criminal or has special status as a criminal before he is imprisoned.
Three-Leaf Clover Tattoo
The three-leaf clover image is commonly used by members of the Aryan Brotherhood, where it depicts neo-Nazi ideology and is combined with their own ideology of white supremacy.
Cross on the Chest
The cross, which is drawn on the chest, shows the highest rank of a criminal and is usually used by higher-ups in the mob.
Three-Dots Tattoos
The three-dot tattoo does not identify a particular gang, but rather the gang’s own lifestyle. Apart from that, it can also have religious meaning. In prison, it represents “mi vida loca,” which means “my crazy life,” which is usually found on the hands or around the eyes.
Graffiti
In addition to representing themselves with tattoos, gang stalkers oftentimes mark their territory with graffiti; it could be anything like initials, Roman numerals, and other symbols. And the level of difficulty can also vary, from a simple to a complicated pattern.
This is usually used to warn other gangs that this is their territory, and if there is an attempted takeover, then they are ready to attack. The gang graffiti is usually drawn on the big walls along the way. So if you find one near your location, this shows that the area is controlled by a certain gang.
3. Colors
To make communication easier or identify their members, the majority of gang stalkers will use certain colors, usually red. In Madison, for example, blue and red are associated with specific gang activity. Generally, green symbolizes money.
4. Jewelry
Don’t be surprised if you see members wearing jewelry with the same shape and model. However, this identifies that they are in the same gang.
Aside from that, jewelry also categorizes members of a gang, which usually consists of folks and peoples. If you see jewelry with a star ending in six, it indicates a meeting in a gang connected to “folks.” While jewelry with a five-point star is usually associated with “peoples.”
5. Clothing
To represent their gang, some gangs will wear certain clothes with certain colors, so if other gangs see them, they will know that they are members of a certain gang. associated with the gang. Additionally, they will usually choose their own gang clothing using their gang’s symbol or sign.
6. Street Names
Some gangs use street names to represent them, and this aims to avoid identification by law enforcement. Meanwhile, gang members will use greetings such as “folks” and “peoples” when communicating with each other.
In addition to those forms, members of a gang will also communicate with each other, both verbally and non-verbally, through the following:
- The use of certain signs or symbols that we have not mentioned above, like wiping your eyebrows, scratching your face, combing your hair back, etc.
- Use of slang that only their members understand.
- Body movement
- Palantir
- Metaphorical analogy
- Telegram
- Smartphone to make spam calls to targets, a kind of terror
- Radio
- Text groups or other encrypted phone chats
- Use of direct communication tools via micro-transceiver. They will usually stick the device in their mouth or in the hole in their hand between their thumb and index finger, which is attached to their ear.
Every form of communication carried out by gang members basically aims to differentiate themselves from other gangs.
What Are the Effects of Gang-Stalking on Victims?
Of course, there’s no tolerance for gang-stalking activity if it involves violence and harassment that results in death. However, this is a very terrible experience for the victim’s life. If they survive, the trauma they feel will last a very long time, even a lifetime.
Even though most victims don’t know who or why someone is stalking them or what bad things will happen, the emotional impact will be on the victim.
Apart from the physical suffering that the victim experiences, they may also suffer from the following mental health issues:
- Anxiety disorder
- Fear of what the gang stalker can do
- Feel confused, isolated, or frustrated
- Paranoia
- Lonely
- Feeling of alienation
- Eating disorder
- Sleeping disorder
- Various unpleased physiological symptoms, like headache
- Inability to work or school normally,
- Inability to carry out daily tasks
- Inability to interact with other people.
Conclusion
Every gang has their own form of communication to talk to each other, especially when stalking someone. There’s no doubt that they will mark their own gang through various signs, which are usually shown on clothes, bandanas, hats, jewelry, colors, tattoos, and on various other things that cannot even be explained.
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