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The Crips are a primarily African-American alliance of street gangs that are based in the coastal regions of Southern California.Founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1969, mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams, the Crips began as an alliance between two autonomous gangs, and developed into a loosely connected network of individual "sets", often engaged in open warfare with one ...
The United Blood Nation, also known as the East Coast Bloods, [4] is a street and prison gang active primarily in the New York metropolitan area. [3] It is the east coast faction of the California-based Bloods street gang. [2] Their main source of income is the trafficking and sale of illegal drugs. [3] [7]
The Pirus, Black P. Stones, Athens Park Boys and other gangs not aligned with the Crips often clashed with them. On June 5, 1972, three months after Ballou's murder, Fredrick "Lil Country" Garret was murdered by a Westside Crip. This marked the first Crips murder against another gang member and motivated non-Crip gangs to align with each other.
The LAPD on Friday announced a case targeting nine alleged gang members in a ... The Kitchen Crips is a predominantly Black gang that claims as its territory an area of South Los Angeles east of ...
The Crips and the Bloods, two majority-Black street gangs founded in Los Angeles (L.A.), California, have been engaged in a gang war since the 1970s. [30] [31] The war is made up of smaller, local conflicts between chapters of both gangs, and has mostly taken place in major cities in the United States, especially L.A.
Jessi Fernandez, a onetime gang member from L.A.'s Eastside, is part of a swelling pipeline of ex-convicts who make it to a UC or Cal State and find an unexpected path forward.
Incredible images from a Black Lives Matter protest in Atlanta show members of the Crips and the Bloods tying their flags together in a display of unity.
Gang sign used by the Mob Piru set of the Bloods. Sets vary considerably in membership size. For example, some of the larger Crips sets, such as the Rollin' 60s Neighborhood Crips have over 1,000 members and are present in multiple cities across the United States. In comparison, smaller sets such as the Butler Block Crips have 8-10 members and ...