TYPICAL STOMP STREET

The majority of Stomp Street is Latino, as are all its leaders.  However among the Soldiers there are a wider variety of ethnicities.  Most soldiers are male, between the ages of 15 and 30.  Stomp aggressively tries to recruit any male between the ages of 15 and 25 into their gang, refusal, particularly if you are Latino, often is more dangerous than joining.  They have been known to try and recruit Latino’s from other gang territories, and those who refused are usually targeted for their insult if they dare enter Stomp territory again.

New members usually face a rough initiation where they are beat in, unless they were part of a gang that had been taken over by Stomp.  Other ways to get into the gang include undertaking dangerous missions, failure of which usually ends in death or disfigurement, or female members can get fucked in, though those who choose this route are rarely treated with respect.  Members of the gang are required to be at least conversant in Spanish, even if its via language chip.

The gang makes heavy use of hand signals and graffiti.  Graffiti is used to not only mark territories, but as a means of chronicling activities and events.  The highest honor a Stomp member can receive is to be immortalized in one of the many murals that decorate the walls of buildings in their territory.  The gang symbol is a stylized skull, always painted with Red, White, and Green, the colors of the Mexican Flag.

In addition, music is a large part of Stomp culture, particularly a bizarre mix of narcocorridos mixed with hip hop.  These songs detail in depth the exploits of the gang, it’s leaders, and act as chronicles of the gang activities.  They also tend to take jabs of the gangs enemies alive or dead, causing great animosity among their foes, especially family members of one the dead targets.  The writers and performers (almost always the same people) are frequent targets of rival gangs, though the music has been becoming quite popular outside the zone, even though it has been the cause of at least 4 civilian deaths from gangs hearing it.  These groups frequently play at stomp parties, and Carnicero has built a stage on top of his apartment building just so they can perform regularly there.  In Addition Stomp broadcasts this music from their own pirate radio station, La Raza, on 88.3 FM.

Every member of Stomp is carries at least a handgun, though often they are cheap wonder-nines, polymer one-shots and even homemade guns.  And since their alliance with 2-3 most have access to submachine guns and assault rifles and even grenades.  RPG’s and heavy machine guns are not unheard of either.

Due to their aggressive recruiting and expansion, subsuming or destroying lesser gangs who oppose them,estimates of stomp numbers are around 300 hard core members in the Zone, with at least another 100 members who live outside the zone.  In addition there are a large percentage in prison, at least 200 estimated.  They are partial to low-riders and pickup trucks, but like most gangs in the zone they will drive whatever they can aquire. 

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