FBI Classifies Juggalos as a Family Gang

Image Credit: Jim Kiernan

One word used by Insane Clown Posse Fans to describe their community is "family." (The world at large has a host of other descriptors for them that fly counter to that.)

The FBI has another word to describe the Juggalos: Gang. The Bureau's latest national gang threat assessment (which we've included in the post for your reading pleasure) lists Juggalos among "ethnic-based and non-traditional gangs" with the likes of Somali, Asian and Jamaican gangs. Are the Juggalos that organized?

The report states that Juggalos are engaging in activities more nefarious than smoking weed and spraying each other with Faygo in Utah, Arizona, California and Pennsylvania, and that subsets are "engaging in more gang-like criminal activity, such as felony assaults, thefts, robberies, and drug sales. Social networking websites are a popular conveyance for Juggalo sub-culture to communicate and expand."

So they don't know how magnets work, but they can use Facebook and Twitter. Got it.

The report also states Juggalos are moving into New Mexico "primarily because they
are attracted to the tribal and cultural traditions of the Native Americans residing nearby." The silver lining there: in addition to showing some intellectual curiosity by the Juggalos, they do have war paint in common with the native tribes.

How the FBI's report will affect the more sympathetic accounts on Juggalo culture as seen in Jim Kiernan's visit to this year's Gathering in Cave-in-Rock, IL or the American Juggalo documentary is yet to be determined.

2011 11 2 FBI Gang Threat Assessment

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By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on November 2, 2011 5:05 PM 0 Comments

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nick Di Girolamo

i got one thing to say to this," Say what you will of me, I'll always have Juggalo Family."

PsychopathicMusic

Juggalos are not a gang, we are a family! whoop whoop

Robert Holly

what juggalos are not a gang O.o we are a family and as for violent acts go those are possers that think they got the family word when they word clearly states just be your self for the most part if being your self means asults and crimes then there is something wrong with that person really wrong not with the whole family fawk you FBI

Brandon Mammarello

whoop whoop fam juggalos are not no gang we is a family and u hit tht right on point with what a juggalo really is MMFWCL

Eggcream

Besides attempting to do hip hop and making YouTubes of bare-breasted, drunken women dancing to the attempted hip hop, what do they do that's so bad?

marco_esquandolas

I didn't come here to defend the juggalos...so I won't.

Chris Lott

Other gangs that the FBI should be aware of:

Kool and the Gang
The Get Along Gang
The Apple Dumpling Gang

Militant Conformist

I find the thought of a Juggalos apocalypse scarier than a zombie apocalypse

archie_manning

...although far less likely.

archie_manning

Is White Trash now considered an ethnicity?

llaa72

tiny.cc/qcfnd

DonKeysHoTea

yet another victory for the FBI! thanks for keeping us 'safe'. and when were the transcripts of their Dr.King spying coming out again? from back when they were protecting us against uppity negroes?

whitecastlerock

a gang of idiots woop woop

fosiacat

who?

remyngtin

waterboard these reprobates

Elson Trinidad

F'ing gangsters...how do they work?

Tony

so shouldn't their leaders be locked up in gitmo now?

MrEricSir

What is a Juggalo?
A dead body. Well he ain't really dead
But he ain't like anybody that you ever met before
He'll eat Monopoly and shit out Connect Four
- Insane Clown Posse's "What is a Juggalo "