The Spook Hunters were an all White-American racist street gang based in Los Angeles, California. They were established during the late 1930s or early 1940s, founded by a group of white teenaged nazi greasers as a reaction to a sudden influx of growing chicanos and blacks in the neighboring city of Los Angeles during World War II. They were known for inflicted unspeakable intimidation and horror upon cruising over through neighborhoods terrorizing minorities by targeting the youths and their families in African-American and Latino communities because they wanted Chicanos to remain in East LA and Blacks confined to Central Avenue. The gang originated near South Gate, but their reign of terror extended as far as Compton, Huntington Park, Watts, Downey, Lynwood and Inglewood. It is also a possibility that some civilian members of the white hate clubs like the Spook Hunters might have participated and turnt up in the Zoot Suit Riots of 1941 joining alongside with off-duty police officers and military servicemen forming the second-largest group of rioters chasing down and beating Pachucos and other minorities. Their source of power came from being enforced and also protected by both the LAPD and other white homeowners they had full support by those in the white community to help out in the streets, which means they could commit all the hate crimes they wanted to without fear of consequence or prosecution. This led to the formation of Black youths organizing and forming their own gangs for protection like The Slausons, the Businessmen, and the Gladiators. By the mid-1960s, Whites began placing their homes on the market in fear of property depreciation, due to blacks followed by Latinos started infiltrating various parts of the city they were previously restricted from, moving into white suburban neighborhoods. Once members of the Spook Hunters realized their time was up, they fled to the suburbs but the residue of their wickedly violent ways remained in the psyche of Los Angeles and its surrounding cities. The Spook Hunters and other White Hate Clubs played a significant role in the early formation of Black and Latino clubs, which rose out of discrimination and being excluded from white communities.
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