Civil Society/Crime/Theme/Warlocks Motorcycle Club/Overview
The Warlocks MC is a one-percenter outlaw motorcycle club founded in Philadelphia in February of 1967. It was the first official 1% outlaw motorcycle club founded in Pennsylvania. The club is most prominent in the Philadelphia and Delaware County area, but they have territory all throughout the Delaware Valley, including South Jersey and Wilmington Delaware, and have a heavy presence in the Lehigh Valley. There are now chapters all throughout Pennsylvania, South Jersey, and Delaware. The club's insignia is a Harpy, which in Greek and Roman mythology, was a female monster in the form of a bird with a human face. Their colors are red and white. The club rapidly expanded at the end of the Vietnam War when thousands of soldiers returned home to the United States, many to Pennsylvania.
In the years since its founding two new generations of leadership have come and gone. Some of the Originals remain within the organization, but they have long since aged out of having any real impact over day to day operations. Time and technology have changed the MC profoundly, as have the progression of laws targeting organized crime in the United States, particularly the RICO Act. In recent years, members of the MC have been brought down by police operations for crimes as various as cooking and trafficking meth, kidnapping members of rival gangs, and the murder of a uniformed police officer. It's left the MC fractured into small county and city specific chapters, each with its own governing body and membership loyalties. The decentralization has made the overall structure less influential, but wildly empowered individual chapters.
The Philadelphia Chapter, still referred to as the Originals by satellite chapters in surrounding counties, is experiencing a period of evolution and regrowth. The streets of the city are no longer conducive to crime from bike back. Any riding they do tends to be on pavement leading away from the city center. Paradoxically, they play while away and shit where they eat. They've taken to running protection rackets within their territory, particularly in south Philadelphia, and use the derelict homes of Philadelphia's poorer neighborhoods as meth dens; their two main sources of income.
Their main ally in the region is the Philly Mafia. Their main rival in the region is the Breed MC out of Asbury Park, New Jersey. They occasionally assist the Philly Mafia as hired muscle and in being the consequences imposed when people don't pay the mob their protection money. Their conflict with the Breed is typically over the meth market.