Brisbane Bloods
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A website was found containing images of school students imitating the LA gang known as bloods
It also contains a cartoon of a Blood shooting a Crip – a rival gang – with a marijuana leaf in the background.
The schools include St Peter Claver College, Glenala High and Centenary High.
Police sources have said officers patrolling some areas of southern Brisbane carry photos and details of gang members.
Director of education ken Smith said this behaviour will not be tolerated.
"The department is concerned by the posting of photographs of some students in uniform on a number of youth culture websites," Mr Smith said. "Current evidence suggests that most of these young people in Brisbane are simply imitating the dress standards and body language of these overseas groups."
Some school principles(which will not be mentioned) has said there are crips and bloods gangs in thier school.
Many people have said all though they call themselves crips and bloods they are not as well organised as thier american counter parts.
They arent very well organised and choosing soft targets e.g pregnant women, young kids and elderly people
Members of the Crips and Bloods from the Logan and Woodridge areas have been arrested this year over assaults and robberies of train commuters between Beenleigh and South Bank.
Websites show students posing in their "colours" inside school grounds using the hand signals favoured by notorious US gangs the Bloods and the Crips.
Some images show students posing in a northside Brisbane shopping centre with a replica pistol.
Students from Clontarf High, Marist Brothers Ashgrove, Wavell Heights High and Sandgate High are among those featured on the websites.
The Department of Education has directed school principals to "act decisively on any evidence of gang-related activity in schools".
The deparment of education made this statement "The Department of educaation will not tolerate the existence or establishment of a dangerous gang culture in Queensland schools".
However, the force has launched a strategic research project involving senior officers to assess the "potential emergence of youth gangs in Queensland".
The mother of a young man who has been involved in gang culture in Brisbane's northern suburbs warned that authorities needed to take the issue more seriously.
"The community needs to start thinking about just how much is out there," she said.
"Schoolkids will tell you about what these kids are up to. They will tell you that they are carrying weapons. They are quite happy to carry weapons.
"In fact, it is almost an ideology that they need a weapon 'to protect myself because it is gang against gang'.
The gangs are weak at the moment but if given a strong leader with previous gang experience they could pose a serious threat to our communities.
There have been rumours that the crips and bloods go as far as Toowoomba Queensland but the rumours have not been proven so they remain rumours.
