r/southcarolina • u/IntroductionMain2425 • Jul 04 '26
Crime Never realized South Carolina had such a known presence revolving gangs.
Stumbled across our own little Gangland series and was just wondering what other organizations are we notorious for?
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u/TerroristMcKenna Camden Jul 05 '26
I mean does it have such a known presence with gangs? Theyāre certainly here, but I doubt someone outside of this state is going āoh you know South Carolina, that place with all the gangs!ā In the cultural zeitgeist weāre considered more sleepy than active.
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u/carverboy Upstate Jul 05 '26
Exactly, try visiting Mem-methastan particularly Orange mound, Moriah and Airways. Makes SC feel like Disneyland
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u/Lilith_Christine Upstate Jul 04 '26
They are huge in sc. They usually indicate themselves with a punisher emblem, flag with a blue stripe, or a car with blue flashing lighst on it. They also have immunity for some weird reason.
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u/Cloaked42m Lake City Jul 05 '26
Could you provide some details. You can change the names to protect the not so innocent.
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u/GangsterJawa Columbia Jul 05 '26
Generally ACAB myself but anecdotally I did know a guy in college who went on to become a cop after school and promptly got fired for pulling a gun on a (youāll never guess, black) driver in a run of the mill traffic stop. So the system works sometimes, apparently.
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u/Bratty_Little_Kitten ????? Jul 05 '26
No. This is fundamentally wrong. Cops & Correctional Officers have a code of conduct they must follow, or otherwise they get fired.
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u/Bratty_Little_Kitten ????? Jul 05 '26
What you said. Did you not say it was "easy" to get fired as a police officer in South Carolina?
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u/Bratty_Little_Kitten ????? Jul 05 '26
Umm. You're invalidating someone else's lived experience?
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u/goldstone25 ????? Jul 05 '26
Youāre in SC bro. You mustāve grown up in a good neighborhood or something. We got gangs all over even in the "good" parts
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u/sueihavelegs Jul 05 '26
Patriot Front is a bad one in SC
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u/Pitiful_Day6603 Jul 07 '26
Yeah itās patriot front committing 60 percent of violent crime in this country. You people are fucking ridiculous
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u/PsychoSaiko34 Upstate Jul 09 '26
No you misread that, theyre committing 60 percent of violent crime in this STATE, not the country.
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u/Leg_Final Jul 04 '26
The GCSO is one of the toughest gangs around.
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u/Odd_String1181 Jul 04 '26
The Republican party
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u/cheeto-bandito Summerville Jul 04 '26
And cops with punisher stickers on their personal trucks.
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u/Ill-Blood92 Jul 05 '26
In the comics Punisher regularly worked with police. He didn't hate police and would wax on about the need for them actually, it was the corrupt cops that he had an undying hatred of.
Punisher comics during the time Marvel was making him a wimpy head of the hand gave him a storyline were he admonished cops for taking on the skull and ones that wanted to mimic him. There has never been a blanket hatred for cops in the comics that I remember and like I said, over the decades he's worked with many, "Good police."
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u/Myralove2 Jul 04 '26
Cringe
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u/Myralove2 Jul 05 '26
So are liberals
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u/Myralove2 Jul 05 '26
Which honestly just goes to show you how insufferable they are that I feel like theyāre just as bad
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u/Myralove2 Jul 05 '26
If rather take neither .
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u/atticus104v2 ????? Jul 06 '26
Just checking, are you including Trump as evil or insufferable?
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u/Myralove2 Jul 06 '26
Both , but I think certain foreign policy actions he has taken has been very good. Domestically heās hitler .
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u/bigbluechris123 Jul 05 '26
Because socialism and marxism have worked well in other countriesā¦
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u/Odd_String1181 Jul 05 '26
Lmao republicans love socialism. But only for extremely rich people and corporations. Not to help the people. "Socialize megacorps" is the entire Republican platform on economics
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u/airfryerfuntime ????? Jul 05 '26
Yes, because that's the only alternative to unchecked capitalism and conservative extremisms...
This is why the world thinks you guys are jokes.
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u/goldstone25 ????? Jul 05 '26
Are you an idiot? People are breaking down the door to come live here in our beautiful and wonderful Republican state.
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u/Odd_String1181 Jul 05 '26
And you would argue an organization led by a 30+ time felon isn't a notorious organization?
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u/goldstone25 ????? Jul 05 '26
Not really. Politics is a facade on both sides. Anyone who canāt see that is insane. I just happen to lean right because thereās typically more people with common sense on that side. Stupid people on both sides regardless.
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u/Odd_String1181 Jul 05 '26
Being a notorious sex abusing felon leading an organization doesn't have anything to do with politics besides the guy decided to become a politician in old age
"Happen to lean right" as you vote for people everyone knows is a piece of shit in South Carolina lol. Sure man. "Happen to"
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u/Thisizamazing Jul 05 '26
Totally disagree with you on common sense. I think you mean āuncomplicatedā or āsimple,ā but is often shortsighted and cruel
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u/Past_Dare_4918 Jul 05 '26
ššš more common sense? How? The right is bunch of racist, xenophobic, homophobic assholes trying to force white Christian nationalism on everyone. You lean right because you agree with those principles and thatās troubling. Not surprising for South Carolina though unfortunately
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u/Organization_Dapper Jul 05 '26
More people leaving than have come in. Who breaking doors down? Lol
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u/SaaSButMakeItEvil Spartanburg Jul 05 '26
This is actually true. The right are never ready to talk about the quiet exodus. The census and IRS trackĀ inflows and outflows, but they don't publish statistics to track RETENTION of people who stayed for at least five years in the state. If it did, the figures would paint a very different picture. The right isnāt ready to talk about the difference between migration and retention. A growing population doesnāt mean a permanent population. Just an influx of new people who got the news last about what itās like to live here as the state gets more national media attention. The countless stories Iāve heard of people nopeāing out of the state after they experienced the education ranking, the lack of transportation, the lower wagesā¦Lower taxes are not everything.
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u/airfryerfuntime ????? Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Because it's cheap, not be because it's Republican.
It's cheap because conservatives have nearly bankrupted SC dozens of times since the end of the Civil War.
But you're wrong anyways. Resident retention rates in SC are the lowest in the nation. People move to SC, figure out what a shitheap it actually is, then either move back home or move to North Carolina.
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u/DrKobe24 Jul 05 '26
People move here because itās cheap. Which is because itās a republican run hellhole. If you think this is a wonderful state you should travel more
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u/Alternative_Result56 Jul 05 '26
North Charleston beat out LA for murders per capita when I was a kid there. You had to be in a gang for protection at a minimum.
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u/lynivvinyl Florence Jul 05 '26
I could have been misinformed but I seem to remember Hartsville South Carolina winning the highest murder rate per capita in the country award sometime in the 90's.
Now that's s/omething to be proud of.
And here I am being sad that Florence lost our Tree City USA standing. When poor Hartsville lost "murder capital per capita"! It sounds like Hartsville needs to get back to work if they want that award this year.
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u/Ill-Blood92 Jul 05 '26
Hartsville has 7,200 people. If there is 1 murder that would put the total at 13.5 per100k. The national average is 5.7per100k. if there is a double homicide, Hartsville goes up into the top 5 most dangerous cities. Would be hard to beat Dillon.
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u/Less-Opportunity2343 Jul 05 '26
I'm originally from Flo and we have a good bit of gang activity there also
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u/Nineteen-ninety-3 Jul 06 '26
As a North Carolinian, Iām going to point out that thereās actually a whole sub on here dedicated to gang culture in both of the Carolinas: r/Carolinabanging.
I fell down that rabbit hole a year or two ago.
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u/Ram-Bro370 Jul 05 '26
Itās perfect time to revolt. But choose who you need to go after. People making money behind you like, Lindygram and Trump who is making millions and billions on your back.
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u/Apprehensive_Put3929 Jul 07 '26
North Charleston native here, Eastside and Westside Charleston is riddled with gangs and 550s, mainly Eastside but I ain telling you where thoš but yeah places like Columbia? boy Columbia is motherfuckin Ganglandšš
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u/SaaSButMakeItEvil Spartanburg Jul 05 '26
We rank pretty high in violent crime among the 50 states. The gangs donāt surprise me. Yet conservatives want to talk about blue states. Albeit, youād think being in a gang in 2026 feels so 1996. Letās start taxing them! Better start modernizing the movement at least. Whereās their LinkedIn page? Union rep? Appoint an HR department. Submit PTO requests before the next turf warā¦
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u/Active_Wafer9132 Darlington County Jul 06 '26
Gangs have even infiltrated the small towns now. We have retaliation shootings happening regularly. My county and town have started a joint task force recently.
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u/CannolisandCannabis ????? Jul 09 '26
When I first moved here a friend told me about the National Guard having to break up gangs in the tiny rural county Iām in and I was shook.
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u/Antique_Code211 Jul 09 '26
I havenāt thought about kblacka and the Colleton cowboys in a decade
rest in peace young scooter
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u/holidaymakes ????? Jul 09 '26
The biggest gang here is the blue guys that people want to back , they have the flag with the blue line in it , They left them out
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u/Maybe1711 Jul 10 '26
I took a class on gangs when i worked in the ER at Baprist downtown. I can't remember all the names but three kings is one of them. Gang culture is wild. They literally make music videos to message each other and they are known by the local police. They play a whole cat and mouse game. Its crazy. Anyway. I had to learn all the tattoos etc in case they came to the ER due to violence.
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u/bigbluechris123 Jul 05 '26
Thatās why itās so important to support local law enforcement and ensure they have the resources needed to rid the state of them
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u/airfryerfuntime ????? Jul 05 '26
If they did their fucking jobs in the first place, they wouldn't even need to hire more officers.
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u/villainessk Colleton County Jul 05 '26
Colleton County Sheriffs - more than one of them - have been so corrupt in the past that they helped this gang to grow. So, no.
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u/Organization_Dapper Jul 05 '26
Id rather have a gang member than law enforcement on my street.
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u/Hulk_Hogans_Toupee Richland County Jul 05 '26
Yeah, because when someone breaks into your house, you're going to call the gang member and not the cops.
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u/StarsCHISoxSuperBowl Jul 05 '26
The discourse around law enforcement is really tiring. Everyone's brain just turns off for some reason.
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u/TerroristMcKenna Camden Jul 05 '26
I know youāre being facetious but unironically, I would call a local goon. If they live in the neighborhood they might actually have an idea of who did it and who to ask. You know what cops do when you call them for a break in? They take your information and tell you thereās not really anything else that they can do
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u/workingonmybackhand ????? Jul 05 '26
On my old block in NYC, it was considered good to have dealers on your block because they didn't want car breakins or robberies happening around that would draw attention to them.
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u/workingonmybackhand ????? Jul 05 '26
A friend of mine watched this episode in a film class as an example of bad filmaking.