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“The group’s mercenary and criminal nature, coupled with a white supremacist ideology and a subculture of violence, makes it a triple threat, both to law enforcement and to the public at large.” - Tom Porter

 

The origins of PENI lie at the margins of Southern California youth culture. By the mid-1980s, skinhead gangs were forming across the region. Many of these skinhead gangs in the Los Angeles area were directly influenced by the growing Hardcore punk style. Like many other gangs, PENI was formed by a small group of youths who coalesced around their common interest in music. From the nearby Anaheim and Huntington Beach areas, another small group of youths interested in Hardcore music who associated with members of the newly formed PENI also became involved, thus expanding the gang's geographic boundaries. In 1986, Scottish, a Huntington Beach Skin, and several other local skinheads in the Anaheim area, decided to make PENI their official moniker and form a skinhead gang. During this time, Scottish began tagging the phrase PENI on various spots across Orange County because he thought it sounded cool. PENI's goal was relatively simple; to develop a street reputation and provide white kids with defense from other gangs.

    "By the 1980s a lot of the nonwhite gangs were really starting to push into Orange County and we wanted to put a stop to that shit, when my parents first moved to Santa Ana it was a nice white suburb and look at it now. So yeah, we were like a defense mechanism against all these fuckin' gangs and we thought we [whites] should have a gang too so that we could protect ourselves and our neighborhoods.” (Lonnie, PENI, September 3, 2001)

PENI embraced a gangster identity that included partying, fighting for fightings' sake, and protecting each other. Their activities were locally oriented and emphasized protecting their gang.

    "We mainly just hung out and someone would say, So and so is playing at this fucking club. We should go. It was just kind of like, go stir up some shit and unfortunately it seemed it started to evolve in a criminal element.” (Shorty, PENI, August 19, 2002)

PENI's current ability to maintain criminal and social relationships with minorities while simultaneously maintaining relationships with traditional white supremacists is steeped in their origins as a white supremacist street gang as opposed to a political movement. During the late-1980s as some skinheads gravitated toward political activism and forged relationships with white supremacist groups like White Aryan Resistance and the Ku Klux Klan, PENI intensified their commitment to delinquency and crime. PENI members began to strengthen their identity as gangsters and embraced a traditional criminal orientation. Although PENI remained racist in a territorial and localized way, they did not organize their activities to promote broad social change based on racism. They shared racism and in some cases they talked politics with more political gangs, but there was a political line that they refused to cross and a political identity they refused to embrace. PENI created a narrative of difference with political skinheads resting on the notion that they were nothing but a gang.

 

Prison

Once incarcerated, PENI members began forging new organizational ties with the Aryan Brotherhood (AB), the most powerful white prison gang in the United States. The AB's origins date back to a collective of white inmates in the California prison system known as the Blue Birds who were active in California's San Quentin State Prison in the 1960s. The AB viewed whites as superior to blacks and displayed racial pride through symbolic gestures like tattoos of shamrocks, swastikas, and Aryan battle warriors (e.g., Thor). As the AB began gaining greater power, the California Department of Corrections (CDC) moved confirmed members to secure housing units (SHUs). Once the AB was segregated from the general population, they began to recognize the need for white inmates to serve as middlemen to continue running their criminal operations. As more skinhead gang members were being sent to prison, the AB leadership realized they were a good resource. Mutual interest in white supremacy increased the likelihood that the AB would consider PENI as suitable partners. In a recent indictment, the Los Angeles County District Attorney explains the AB's search for assistants as a means To maintain control over the Caucasian prison population, the Brotherhood needed to give authority and powertotem.thumb.png.98e873e4e39b511e624ccd3f845564ea.png to another group that had the accessibility and mobility to continue committing crimes in prison.

PENI's connections to the Aryan Brotherhood have helped them strengthen their own gang leadership. PENI's initial formation in the mid-1980s resembled a loose-based peer group but their involvement in methamphetamine distribution, identity theft, and counterfeiting has coincided with the development of a relatively formal organizational leadership structure. For example, PENI developed a circle of five as a governing board that is designed to serve as a centralized decision-making authority, where the individuals in the circle hold the keys and are known as shot callers. The changes in PENI's leadership structure parallels what researchers have documented in other gangs when criminal activity becomes increasingly central to the gang's organization.

 

W/S DPDS

The Del Perro Death Squad (DPDS) is a continuation of the growing PENI and a chapter led by Arthur ‘Buddha’ Krause, a prominent member of the PENI gang and recently released from incarceration. The criminal activities carried out by the gang varies however members of the gang have been involved with both drugs and guns trade. In addition to the drugs and guns-related activity, VDS members have been known to commit a number of violent crimes ranging from assault, murder, and attempted murder - with various younger members doing so to increase their respect in the eyes of the gang.

 

Out of Character

 

This organization reserves the right to character kill any and all individuals who seek out and associate with the W/S Del Perro Death Squad. The leadership of this organization supports the rights of roleplayers to properly and realistically carry out prison/street politics and the consequences that come with said politics. This also implies that we will fall under the CK rights of the Aryan Brotherhood which will impact every member of the faction.

 

Unless you’ve got consent by the leadership of this faction, you do not have the rights to post screenshots on this thread.

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