Chicano Street Gangs
Mexican Gang – Norteños The gang the I selected to go over in my essay are the Northern California based gang, the Norteños. I choose this gang because of my familiarity of the gang being raised in Northern California, specifically the East Bay. I am from Union City, and we have two sets of the Norteños gang in our town, one being Old Alvarado in the westside of town, and the other being Decoto being on the east side of town. Both sets came up relatively around the same time, being the 1970s. It was always a Hispanic community, due to being a farming town at one point so the gang was always around; however, with the integration of prison gangs in the late 60’s and into the 1970’s they became part of the Norteños. The Norteños are street soldiers so to speak of the prison based La Nuestra Familia (NF). The gang formed in the Duel Vocational institute in Tracy, CA in the late 1960’s. Ironically enough, the gang first gained notoriety as being an offshoot gang of the Me...