Where the gangs are


By SB Anderson

The FBI has released its latest report on gang activity in the U.S., with local data. Get your PDF copy of the report.

Danger Room notes that the report points out an unexpected “threat” on its list: Insane Clown Posse.

The FBI considers the fans of shticky rap group Insane Clown Posse to represent a threat on par with the Crips, Bloods, and Aryan Brotherhood, according to its annual report on gang activity.

You might think Insane Clown Posse’s people — known as the Juggalos — are just a group of face-painting teenagers who wonder how magnets work. Not so, says the FBI’s 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. To the feds, Juggalos are a “loosely-organized hybrid gang” that are “forming more organized subsets and engaging in more gang-like criminal activity.”