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An Inside Look At Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs

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Class: Semi-Fiction

This book is a posthumorous look at M/C's written from an (LEO type)perspective.

The book is used as a training tool for law enforcement types (especially those in Rural Departments with low training budgets). The book perpetutates rumors and myths associated with M/C clubs.

The material presented is:

Extremely Outdated Highly Circumstantial Unsubstantiated by fact Clearly One-sided

If you live the M/C lifestyle or just want to read a fairly good piece of sensationalized fiction, you will enjoy the humor and laugh out loud at the some of the most preposterous suppositions ever concocted about the M/C Lifestyle.

I would recommend that if you want an educated, documented and real world look at the M/C lifestyle you read ---

The Rebels : A Brotherhood of Outlaw Bikers; Daniel R. Wolf

Daniel R. Wolf is a social anthropologist that has applied the rigors of research to bring about a truer represention of the 1 percent side of the M/C community.

Daniel Wolf lived the lifestyle, survived the discrimination, and went on to write a relatively accurate portrayal of a "1 percent" M/C.

The Rebels is a great book on the 1 Percent M/C topic.

This manual was a waste of money and time, it was put together by some Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigator who must have slept through the lecture's he attended. This manual was sold by Paladin Press for years, it's not worthy of being carried by a reputible company like Amazon.

This is a basic researched manual. To the general person that is involved in this culture, it is obvious that it is written with the main club's in mind, not the smaller, unknown clubs. The research is good but out dated by at least 20 years. One example : Avengers MC, are only in W.Va., Ohio and Mich. and never have been in Calif. or ever will be. Possibly to a person that is starting to be interested in this culture could look at this as a source of general information , ( out dated ) .

This is not a book, its some type written pages that were copied. The content is stupid. If you want real insight read "The Brotherhood" by Aruthur Veno. Its current and accurate.

I liked the book.I especially like that it was put together as an instrutor's lecture outline first then a cover was slapped on it to make it a book.But my advise to anyone who is even concidering investigating a motorcycle club or gang is to leave it to the professionals.Do not buy this book,read the investigation techniques in the back,get"hip" on some terminology used,buy some leathers and think they won't figure you out.They will,and you my friend,are in some deep do-do.One more thing,there are more than six outlaw bike clubs in Illinois,try around sixty,and it didn't even mention a well established Hell's Angles in Chicago.So if it's off that much just think how bad you can get hurt if you use the book as a tool.I do think that the book is great for anyone interested in outlaw bike groups and would like to have some feel for what their about but used any further than that would most likely be a big "no-no".

...probably like the law-dawgs that wrote it.

I really can't recommend this even as light entertainment. If you know absolutely NOTHING about the lifestyle then you might pick something up, but you'd be better off watching a couple of 60's biker flicks and it would be more fun too.

What you do read here that isn't common knowledge is mostly wrong. An example: The Filthy Few are hardcore assassins according to this book. According to Chuck Zito they're just the most incorrigible of party animals that show up first, go home last and ingest any and all mind altering substances in between. That's quite a difference of opinion there. (I've heard the theory that Zito is just trying to throw law-enforcement off the trail with this statement, but I'M not going to call Zito a liar.)

It's about 44 double spaced pages in outline format. Dry and uninspiring; if you simply MUST you can get through it in an hour. But don't say I didn't warn you.

This 43 page publication provides a good look at the terminology and lifestyle of outlaw motorcycle gangs. The book appears to be a training manual used to train law enforcement personnel, and it even includes a chapter at the end of the text on "investigative techniques." Other chapters include organizational structure of outlaw motorcycle gangs, their basic philosophies, money-making endeavors, their intelligence network, and even a chapter on the renowned "motorcycle mama." Not too much action in this text, but it definitely provides some good insight into the world of the hardcore biker.

The book is obviously a real insight into the MCs and gangs of the late 20th century.

I am the president of the HAMCI or the Hells Angels MC International chapter, & we steer clear of all politics within the so called ''official'' chapters. You'd better have a closer look around the globe my freinds.

We are 34 years old, and are never in one place, or country for too long. we do not have any truck with the killings & stupid 'wars' of most modern 1%er clubs, and we have our own, but more original attitude to anyone we meet. freedom, Fun, Bikes and chicks.

RIDE ON

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