An Example of the Amount of Information from Just One Video

Below is an example of what can be gained from watching just one gang video. Watch the video and review the information below. This is an excellent example of what Social Media can provide to you and your investigations.



• Gang Name:
• Good Hope Road Crew
• Choppa City
• Cruddy Bang Fam
• Hand Sign

• Weapons:
• Glock .45
• Extended magazines
• 30/30
• AK47
• Nicknames – ‘Nina’ & ‘Geneva’

• Hangouts:
• Good Hope Road Carryout
• 16th & Bangor Street
• Butler Gardens
• Ridge Place

• Inner Beef:
• Cruddy Ack ‘not eye to eye with Izzy’

• Monikers:
• Presto
• Cruddy Ack
• Cruddy Lam

• Crime:
• Armed Robberies
• Drive by Shootings
• Selling Drugs
• Gambling

• Mentality:
• ‘Choppa bangs’
• ‘do whatever we got to do to maintain’
• ‘bust your damn brain for the change’
• ‘u got a problem just see us’
• ‘this cruddy fam and we run shit’
• ‘don’t play with us, we dumb shit’
• ‘ride or die’

• View of Women/Children:
• ‘whole crew smashing’
• ‘pimping dimes’
• ‘protégé’ & ‘smoking drugs in front of baby’

• Religion:
• ‘Salaam to my Ahks’ – Islam

• Surveillance:
• Recording MPD riding through neighborhood