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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
The gang is perhaps most known for its longstanding rivalry with the Grape Street Watts Crips which has been described by gang experts as "the most violent and long lasting feud between two gangs that are in the Watts area". [8] In 1992, the Watts truce was declared which saw a rapid decline in violence between the two street gangs. However, by ...
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.
Instead of happy B-day, they say happy C-day because b stands for rival Bloods gang. They call marijuana gas, guns choppers and rivals opps. They all go by street names, like Ace, Smacc, and Paco.
A news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Michael Easley Jr. stated that Pittman, a Fayetteville Blood gang member and believed leader of a United Nation Blood gang subset, distributed ...
The name "Piru" is derived from the Piru Street Boys, a gang which was founded in 1969 by Sylvester Scott and Vincent Owens in Compton. [3] The Piru Street Boys are considered the forerunners to the Bloods, [ 4 ] which is why the terms "Piru" and "Blood" are often used interchangeably.
The documentary also notes how gang culture rose from competition between neighborhood cliques, namely groups like the Slausons, Dell Vikings, and the Gladiators. [14] In addition to providing a sense of community for local youth, these groups also fought back against white gangs who routinely caused problems in black neighborhoods. [ 15 ]
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