Dominicans Don't Play
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Dominicans Don't Play (DDP) is a New York based street gang comprised of Latino youths whose heritage is traced to the Dominican Republic. They are largely concentrated in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan parts of Queens and the Bronx. More recently the gang has expanded to New Jersey and Florida. Law enforcement identifies members through the wearing of black, blue, white and red beads - which is problematic given these are also the colors of the flag of the Dominican Republic and numerous other countries.
Throughout the groups relatively short history as a gang they have been involved in numerous violent altercations in both New York,New Jersey, and Florida. In 2004 several people associated with DDP were arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of a River Edge, New Jersey man after the North Hudson Dominican Day Parade in August 2003. They have had an ongoing feud with other area gangs, including the sets affiliated with the United Blood Nation and the Trinitarios. A scuffle between DDP and the Bloods at Pelham Prep High School in the Bronx on March 11, 2005 resulted in the stabbing of two teenage boys.[1] On April 13, 2005 fifteen year old Alex Ramirez, a member of the DDP off-shoot BONZ - or "Beat On Niggaz", was charged with second-degree murder after witnesses said he slashed 16-year-old Marviel Martinez (rival gang member trinitario) in the neck and then thrust the blade deep in the teen's back Tuesday morning at the Jerome Ave. station in 183st.[2]
[edit] Potential for Expansion
The group has limited potential for nationwide expansion and is largely confined to areas with significant Dominican populations. Washington Heights is considered to have the largest concentration of Dominicans of any neighborhood in the United States, and the combined population of Dominicans residing in New York and New Jersey totals around 1.2 out of an overall US Dominican population of 2.3 million as of 2001.[3]
[edit] DDP in Spain
However, on March 7, 2006 Spanish Police in Madrid arrested thirteen young people, four of them minors, who were suspected of being members of the Latin Kings and Dominicans Don't Play. Their alleged crimes included public disorder and illicit possession of firearms. The economic crisis that effected Latin America in the 1980s, also known as "the lost decade," generated a massive outflow of Dominican migrants who often moved to la Madre Patria (the Motherland), also known as Spain. According to official sources from Spain's Ministry of Labor, some 12,000 Dominicans currently are legal residents, of whom around 9,000 are female. About 56 percent of Dominicans live in Madrid (5,200 women and 762 men in 1995), although there are estimates that the real number of Dominicans residing in Madrid may reach 25,000.[4] Despite their limited numbers in comparison to the United States, Dominican youths in Spain are confronted with similar social-economic problems which provide a fertile environment for gang and criminal activity as a means of identification and financial improvement. Additionally, a neo-racist wave of intolerance developing in Spain in response to the threat that foreigners represent has contributed to the rise of gang lifestyle as a means of protection.
[edit] DDP slang
DDP-dominicans dont play AD3-Amor de 3(love of 3) Amor de 3-love of the 3 point crown \^/- the 3 point crown ^3^- 3 point crown
