Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Crime
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Some members of outlaw motorcycle clubs engage in criminal activities and organized crime. Besides their connection with motorcycles and the one percenter subculture, such individuals and motorcycle clubs are seen by law enforcement agencies as being unique among groups carrying out crimes because they maintain websites, identify themselves through patches and tattoos, have written constitutions and bylaws, trademark their club names and logos, even carry out publicity campaigns aimed at cleaning up their public image.
There exists on an international level an ongoing conflictual environment between OMCs and the states of the nations in which they reside within which many unhelpful misconceptions and falsehoods are propagated for political purposes. These are used to amplify the deviance of the whole subculture and help define such motorcyclists as 'Outsiders', 'evil doers' and deviants rather than permitting diversity within society.
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—Lillie Devereux Blake (1835–1913)
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