The Gatorz

From Rap Dictionary

The South Side Gatorz gang are a notoriously violent territorial street gang based out of the Jane and Woolner area in Toronto's west end, but then later seized control of the Black Creek/Trethewey area from a local Crips set by the new millennium. The Gatorz were formed in the early 1990's by Jamaican, Guyanese and Trinidadian immigrants to combat the growing spread of Blood and Crip sets in Toronto's west end (although some members have shown affiliation or alliance with some Crips). Members of The Gatorz will commonly sport some article of green clothing (most notably bandannas) or standard green army fatigues to show affiliation with the gang. Most members are of West Indian or African decent (although there are known Hispanic and Caucasian members as well) and range in age from early 20's to well in their 30's. Although this gang began as a form of protection against roaming neighborhood Blood and Crip gangs, they quickly turned into the aggressors in most conflicts and gained a reputation as being extremely violent and confrontational. As founding members grew older and tired of the police attention that gang violence tends to attract, most began to migrate from their neighbourhood and concentrate solely on the street level distribution of cocaine and marijuana in the surrounding communities outside of the G.T.A, leaving younger, aspiring members adopting The Gatorz card with little to no guidance or mentor ship. Today police consider The Gatorz to be a well-established, yet unorganized, street gang with little to no structural hierarchy that have branched out from street-level drug distribution to gun-running along the Hwy. 401 corridor. Members of The Gatorz are friendly towards the Trethewey Gangsta Killaz, the Complex Gooch Crips gang, the Up-Top Driftwood Crips, the Up-Top Shoreshot Crips and the Eglinton West Crips. They are rivals of the Five Point Generalz, Pelham Park Bloods, VR Troopers, Ardwick Blood Crew, Chalkfarm Bloods and more recently, the All Crips Gang.