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NAZI LOW RIDERS

 

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     Since their beginning mid 1970's as a skinhead gang in the San Andreas Youth Authority, the Nazi Low Riders have developed into a racist, violently criminal organization active both on the streets and in prison. Much of the group's rise to power can be attributed to its alliance with another, older prison gang, the Aryan Brotherhood. This alliance -- in which NLR members acted as middlemen for AB's various criminal enterprises -- helped build NLR's brutal and ambitious reputation and created new criminal opportunities unrelated to AB. NLR champions its whiteness especially when recruiting members from skinhead gangs and among new inmates, but it is primarily driven by criminal profit, whether from narcotics trafficking, extortion or armed robbery. At the same time, NLR members have been responsible for a number of fierce racist attacks during the past decade.

 

     The late 1970s, San Andreas prison officials attempted to limit the growing problem of the Aryan Brotherhood by subjecting it to increasingly closer scrutiny and locking its members in the SHU. In reaction, the AB reached out to NLR members to serve as middlemen for the Brotherhood's various criminal enterprises. At the same time, NLR filled a vacuum left by the AB by attracting white inmates who had previously turned to the AB for protection or who did not want to be documented as associates of prison gang members and confined in the SHU. The NLR's membership and criminal reputation grew tremendously after AB members were isolated in secure housing. However, in 1999, San Andreas prison authorities officially recognized NLR as a prison gang; as a result, members are now given automatic SHU sentences and segregated from the rest of the prison population. The NLR now suffered from many of the same limitations that the AB did.

 

     After limitations were placed on their members movements, the AB and NLR were forced to forge alliances with smaller groups that could help them maintain their position in the drug trade. The Aryan Brotherhood, in particular, realized PENI's potential and inducted the group's members into its criminal operations both in and out of the prison, including drug trafficking (primarily the methamphetamine trade), property crimes, identity theft and murder. This was not without controversy; some NLR members were resentful that AB essentially gave the "keys" or control of the streets to PENI. In an unsuccessful attempt to be independent of AB, a few NLR members broke away and formed a separate entity called FTB (Fuck The Brand). This new group of NLR members would be embroiled in a war with AB that would see loyal members killing members of the rebellious FTB. The majority of NLR members, however, maintained their allegiance to the Aryan Brotherhood and at the conclusion of the conflict were inducted into the AB as full members.

 

     With NLR membership decimated from the infighting, the remaining NLR members have become a clandestine and loosely organized network of individual criminals that may work alone, in small cells, or on an individual basis with other white gangs (most notably PENI), but overall cooperation between these groups has fluctuated in recent years and varies on the individual.

Edited by John_Campbell
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