Symbols, Signs and Emblems
Like most major gangs, Gangster Disciples use a well-defined system of symbols to communicate alliances and rivalries. This system is a combination of symbols that represent the Gangster Disciple Nation or the Folk Nation as a whole and symbols that rivals use to represent their organization, typically inverted to show disrespect. Other than chicago and northern Illinois, Gangster Disciples have a huge presence in Springfield,Illinois and East St.Louis.With more than 1,000 known members in the state capitol.
Read more about this topic: Gangster Disciples
Famous quotes containing the words signs and/or emblems:
“Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“All Love’s Emblems and all cry,
Ladies, if not pluckt we dye,”
—John Fletcher (1579–1625)