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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 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.
Crips and Bloods: Made in America is a 2008 documentary by Stacy Peralta that examines the rise of the Crips and Bloods, prominent gangs in America who have been at war with each other. The documentary focuses on the external factors that caused African-American youth to turn to gangs and questions the political and law enforcement response to ...
In Los Angeles' labyrinthian networks of Bloods and Crips gangs, with shifting alliances and feuds, Skipp Townsend is a mediator with credibility on both sides. Skipp Townsend: Peacemaker with ...
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.
Due to gangs spreading to suburban and smaller communities, youth gangs are now more prevalent and exist in all regions of the United States. One of the more popular youth gangs in the Midwest is the NJCK or North Jersey Cross Kids. [citation needed] Youth gangs have increasingly been creating problems in school and correctional facilities.
Yusuf Jah, Sister Shah'keyah, UPRISING : Crips and Bloods Tell the Story of America's Youth In The Crossfire, ISBN 0-684-80460-3; Bing, Leon, Do or Die: For the First Time, Members of L.A.'s Most Notorious Teenage Gangs - The Crips and Bloods - Speak for Themselves. ISBN 978-1-4930-0760-8
Later that day, after someone shot at a house in the Kitchen Crips' territory, Muratalla was "involved" in a shooting at a liquor store in a neighborhood claimed by the Swans, a Bloods gang ...