The Gangs of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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In this video I give an overview of the gangs in Edmonton, Alberta. Edmonton routinely has some of the highest crime rates among major Canadian cities, and while most of it is not gang-related, a portion of it is.

NOTE - All information presented in this video is publicly available and has been covered extensively by other news organizations. This is intended to be a general overview.

CORRECTION - In this video I refer to the Hells Angels as a gang, but they are classified as an outlaw motorcycle club - an important distinction. Words matter, and I address a few mistakes I made in a follow-up video I posted a couple weeks ago.

The Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club is the most dominant group in Canada.

Indigenous street gangs are prominent in the prairie region as well, and the following gangs are active in Edmonton to some degree, although it should be noted that currently the AB/SK/MB Warriors + Native Syndicate have a very limited presence in Alberta.

1 - Redd Alert - Prominent street gang with origins in Edmonton
2 - Alberta Warriors - Parallel origin story to Redd Alert, very limited presence in Alberta
3 - Indian Posse - Largest Indigenous street gang in Canada overall
4 - Native Syndicate - Prominent Indigenous gang based in Regina, limited presence in Alberta
5 - Manitoba Warriors + Saskatchewan Warriors - very limited presence in Edmonton

The ASAP gang has been rising in influence throughout the prairies in recent years.

The White Boy Posse is a major gang that started in Edmonton, they had links with the Hells Angels and had a major presence before diminishing significantly. Many members joined other groups.

British Columbia based gangs United Nations and Brothers Keepers have been active in Edmonton to some degree.

The Crazy Dragons are a well-known Edmonton gang that evolved from the ashes of the Vietnamese Trang Gang, and their prominence was the catalyst for the development of another Edmonton gang - the Crazy Dragon Killers. They are no longer really active, but a prominent part of gang history in Edmonton.

Edmonton also has a small but notorious Bloods gang called the 3-2 Bloods, based around 32 street in the city's Rundle Heights neighborhood.

Some smaller gangs that have been active in Edmonton include:

Ghetto Boyz
Inner City Boyz
North End Jamaicans
West End Jamaicans
West End Boys
4 Deuce Killers
Clareview Crips

The are also many other small gangs in the greater Edmonton area, and I have not listed all of the gangs that have existed in the city.

Edmonton has also reputedly had some minor involvement with larger international crime organizations as well.

Gangs are active throughout the greater entire Edmonton region, but you will probably find more open street gang activity in some of Edmonton's rough areas like the downtown east side, 118 Ave NE, Stony Plain Rd, 107 Ave, 111 Ave, etc.
These are generalizations, however, and do not always apply.
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[strangenorth]

CORRECTION - At around 5:50 I accidentally referred to Maskwacis as Hobbema and I called it an Indian reserve instead of a First Nations reserve. I was tired and it was an honest mistake but I realize that names are important and that there are more commonly accepted terms.

[kungfor]

Growing up in Alberta this was an interesting watch. I'm glad to see the youtube algorithm has decided to bless you, liked and subscribed to help it along.

[steveseeley]

6 year old children forced into prostitution?!!! We have to clean this BS up and put all those involved behind bars! Absolutely sickening.

[wildbill]

The incident at 4:05 went like this-
The 4 boys were at the 7-11 at 50 street and 118 ave, and they were approached by a couple young native women, and were in vited to a party. They said sure let's go. When they got to the house, which was up 50 street a ways, they were jumped by a bunch of native males, pushed into the basement and beat and tortured for hours. This happen in Northern communities too. Young workers will be in town having some R&R time when they get approached by some local women, and get invited to a bush party. When they get there, the local native men take over. They get robbed beaten or worse.

[reidenorman]

Well done man. I found this very informative. Definitely and new sub!

[MrUbrD]

Solid research and production, thank you.

[stewa]

I feel terrible for this couple that tried were developing their own little property management portfolio. They had a quadplex plus a basement apartment that had a great setup, lots of storage with a very open space. I really liked the unit. As a quick background, I am indigenous, but I am adopted. I had just taken a year off of work and was looking for a pet friendly rental to raise my puppy in. I did no background work on checking out neighborhoods, I just moved in.

It didn't take long to realize that the people in the basement were probably the reason why these people had bought this place at a good price. I am pretty sure they were dealing drugs, as the front door was being opened all day and night. There was a 24 hour convenience store across the street that always had foot traffic around it.

This one native guy that wore red shoes would come around with the same little group, any time I was on the balcony he always asked me if he could come up and smoke one with me, I kept refusing.

One day I had a couch being dropped off, the front door was propped open, so this fat drunk native girl just saunters into my place. I put my hand on her to ask her to leave, her pants fall to the floor and she starts having a tantrum as we all cart her outside.

A day or two later I get a knock on the door, it's a cop knock.. we all know it. I look out the peephole to see no body. The RCMP officer heard me coming towards the door and took cover around the corner. I opened the door, she asked about some person, I explained that I had just moved in and had no affiliation with anyone here. Seeing the way that she ducked out of the way of the door, I asked her if I should be worried, she asked me if I had any cameras in the place.

Later that day, I was playing with the Pup and I think she barked or whined. This woman just starts screaming in the hallway WHERES MY BABY THEY HAVE MY BABY. I am concerned, Sam starts barking and she starts pounding on my door. Foolishly, I opened it thinking I could calm her down. She nearly shoved me aside trying to walk into my place, I told her there's no kid here just a dog, then shoved her back from my door and closed it.

Finally. I think they sent a skinny girl to like set me up? I was taking the pup out for a walk (she was like 3 months old at this point) and this girl came up to me and sort of asked if she could come with me on the walk. I said sure.. but I was suspicious. I got about a block away then said hey.. I changed my mind, i'm just going to head home. She said that she had nowhere to go and asked if she could hang out with me. I said fine. She kept telling me about this adult toy store just down the road and that we should walk there (there's no store) Any way.. she hangs around until like 2 or 3 in the morning, waiting for me to fall asleep when I ask her where I can drop her off. She tells me that she is staying at her brothers place.. so I give her a lift, watch her walk up the driveway then pull out.. do a u turn and wouldn't you know it? this skinny little thing is walking in like -15 degree weather AWAY from the home that she told me she lived in. I am fairly sure she was just waiting for me to fall asleep so she could either rob me or let the guys in to jump me.

I reach out to the landlord, and say hey, I think you have some drug dealers in the basement, they were like yes, we know. I am cursing the lease and the fact that I didn't ask any damn questions.

About a month later, it's winter time now. I believe they served the tenants in the basement with an eviction notice for renovating which I believe is a two month notice. These clowns downstairs started slamming the doors, then leaving the lobby doors wide open, just regular clown stuff. About two weeks into December we had a serious cold spell, on that same night they found a way to get in the mechanical room and shut off the boiler. When the owners came and turned it back on, about a half an hour later pandemonium just broke out. Boiling hot water was spewing out from every pipe, it was so hot that I really had no way to stop it and was more concerned with keeping paws safe. So much water seeped through the walls that it was pouring out of the grout between the bricks on the outside of the building, which quickly froze and expanded. I can only imagine how much dirty water that started off boiling hot and then probably ended up freezing cold ended up in the basement, it would have destroyed everything that the tenants had in there. So a bit of instant karma.

I ended up moving out to a much nicer area with great neighbors and even more space. It was mostly uneventful save for another very cold night (hypothermia warnings) at about 4am I heard a knock on my front window. Normally i'd ignore it, but it was so damn cold. It was a frail old native woman who was looking for someone named Richard. Having gotten mail for a Richard in my mailbox I surmised it was the previous tenant (who died in the unit, LL didn't tell me) I invited her in, she told me she caught the last bus across the city, was fighting with her sister and had nowhere to go. I made her some soup and made her a bed on the couch and sent her back home on the bus the following day. Her fingers looked okay, but she said they were numb.

10711 104st NW, if you look on google maps you can still see that one of the windows that are boarded up, the rest look like they are occupied so not all was lost at least.

Edmonton was nuts, I got treated like I was the problem, I was followed in stores and seemed to be related to anyone that wanted a few bucks or a cigarette. It made me forget that I genuinely like helping people on the streets, which is something that I am resuming now that I am out here in Kelowna.

[tonybellick]

Started out as just something to put on while I take a crap but this was very informative bro cheers from Calgary 👊🏽 subbed

[Digitalsurfer]

I worked with a guy who left a large gang in Edmonton. He had some crazy stories on how they smuggle drugs into Edmonton from Vancouver. He managed to escape jail, and death, twice. And now has a kid and is an apprentice

[citizenfour]

Great video. Well researched.
Glad this came up on my feed. Subbed.

[dennistokarsky]

the word 'loser' should be included before mentioning any gang name.

[joshcambell]

thank you for posting this video of my city as a resident who lived there for most of my childhood in the Collingwood area before i moved out to saddle lake (which is a 2 hour drive from Edmonton) so i could continue schooling. now i luckily never had to deal with the gangs of Edmonton but try dealing with the gangs of saddle lake. it's either equally or more worse out here since it's a rural area and the time it takes for police officer's to respond out here takes minutes at best (not to mention almost everyone knows each other out here including the police officer's) not to mention the horrible acts of violence that takes place out here not even 3 months ago someone was beaten then had their arm hacked off with a machete and that is only one story that i have been allowed to hear from my mother and i've even had my own uncle try to recruit me into one of the gangs out here but thankfully he took me saying no at face value and never bothered me again about anything like that or what he does. i hope someday you can come out here and do a video explaining the gangs of saddle lake because everyone needs to know about it. love the video, keep up the great work and stay safe out there.

[theandonly]

Wow, I'm surprised at how many gangs there are in Edmonton and all over Canada. Thanks for such an informative video. It's good to be aware of what's going on. At the same time it makes me want to move to a secluded island. People always claim that Mexico and Central America is dangerous, but Edmonton is bad too. I had my pickup truck stolen over a year ago and I'm wondering which gang might be involved.

[chrisdeal]

Having been a building manager and resident of North East Edmonton for years I can say this is spot on . The depravity of these abo riginal gangs knows no bounds and meth fuels it all

[evangelesong]

Theres a gang of Canadian geese that have taken over downtown Vancouver. They can be quite agressive.

[uncledal]

As someone who lives and works in an area that’s prone to crime and violence, it’s crazy to learn that there are way more street gangs than I thought. I walk to work for many years without even thinking about it. Crazy

[JustineMatsalla]

This is mind blowing. I've lived in Calgary my entire life, I went to school with some gangsters who are no longer alive. Not going to mention who. Anyway, I've heard about only 4-6 of the gangs you mentioned.

[stevenwhittaker]

informative. keep the videos coming sir!

[Deliveries_with_ADHD]

I've lived in Edmonton since 1978. I've lived in the north Millbourne area of Millwoods since 1989. Most of the "gang problems" in Millwoods have been centered around the Jackson heights area. I've never had trouble with gangs of any kind. I've had more hassles with drunks and homeless than anything else. First time i saw a hells angels biker was on a visit to Vancouver back in 2009.

[skipper]

Very professional, straight to the point, lots of info in a short time. Subscribed!!!