Nazi Low Riders

Nazi Low Riders

Emblem of the Nazi Low Riders
Founded	1978
Founding location	Southern California
Years active	1978–present
Territory	Southern California, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico [1]
Ethnicity	White/White Hispanic
Membership (est.)	1,000+5,000 members and associates in and out of prison
Criminal activities	Robbery, drug trafficking, extortion, murder, dog fighting, assault, money laundering, assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, arms trafficking, racketeering, illegal gambling, loan sharking
Allies	Aryan Brotherhood, Public Enemy No. 1, Sureños, Mexican Mafia, Playboys 13, Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, Mexikanemi, Hells Angels, Pagans, Vagos, Ku Klux Klan, Blood & Honour, Combat 18, Sinaloa Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Dirty White Boys, Los Angeles crime family, Peckerwood
Rivals	Crips, Bloods, Nuestra Familia, Texas Syndicate, Los Zetas, Black Guerrilla Family, MS-13, Norteños, Latin Kings, Azusa 13, 18th Street gang, People Nation, Jewish Defense League, Israeli mafia, Russian mafia, Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, Friends Stand United, Anti-Racist Action

The Nazi Lowriders (or NLR, or "The Ride") is a criminal organization primarily based in Southern California, and Texas. They also have small factions in rural and suburban Chicago, and are believed to have spread to many other states. They are allies of the larger and more notorious gangs, the Aryan Brotherhood and the Mexican Mafia and fellow White Supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1. Their main rivals are the Bloods, the Crips, the Black Guerrilla Family, MS-13, Nortenos, and Nuestra Familia. The Nazi Low Riders operate in and outside prison walls. They are often fuelled with their favorite drug of choice, methamphetamine. NLR violence has struck the general public, including police officers.

The gang originated in the mid to late 1970s from the Aryan Brotherhood, but was not really noticed by law enforcement until the early 1990s, by which time the California authorities had been cracking down on the Brotherhood. As opposed to other white criminal gangs in California prisons, the NLR gained a reputation for being very violent. They are labeled as a prison gang by the California Department of Corrections. They are strong in numbers in such California communities as Oildale, Bakersfield, Lancaster, Inland Empire, Rosamond and Orange County. The "Nazi" part of their name is more a sign of a racist belief in white supremacy than anti-Semitism, while "Lowriders" is a play on the term used for Hispanic gangs.