The structure of the UBN is hierarchical in nature. Council members are selected from the leaders, typically the 'Godfathers,' of the larger hoods such as the Nine Trey Gangsters. The UBN gang leadership includes a national council ('the Council'). Although called by different names, such as 'the rims,' the 'stain structure,' and/or 'the empire structure,' the rules are strictly enforced through the chain of command. The UBN has since spread across the East Coast of the United States however, the ultimate authority for gang decisions is still maintained in New York and the New York prison system, described by UBN members as 'up top.' The gang maintains a strict hierarchy or chain of command. For instance, the Valentine Bloods became known as the 'Tony Starks.' The Gangsta Killer Bloods became known by two names, the 'G-Shine' and the 'Julius B Sunny.'

Once the UBN began to spread from the prisons to the streets, the members devised codes in order to avoid detection from law enforcement.

All of the Bloods gangs or 'hoods' who unified under the UBN were allowed to keep their original names, such as 'G-shine,' 'Nine Trey Gangsters,' 'Valentine Bloods,' and 'Sex, Money, Murder.' These original hoods were formed based upon their affiliation with certain streets, neighborhoods, areas, or local gangs.Īs these members were released from prison and migrated, the UBN spread across the streets of New York and eventually down the East Coast of the United States. The UBN was the East Coast offshoot of the California-based 'Bloods' and its members are only loosely affiliated with West Coast Bloods. It was determined by Omar 'Original Gangster Mack' Portee and his partner Leonard 'Dead Eye' McKenzie, both inmates on Rikers Island, that the Bloods hoods should unite in order to protect themselves from 'The Almighty Latin King Nation,' the largest prison gang in the New York prison system at the time. On July 16, 1993, at the George Mochen Detention Center on the east side of Rikers Island Prison, the 'United Blood Nation' (UBN), a single Bloods entity, was created.

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