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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.
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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
Grape Street Watts Crips, West Side Piru, [2] 118 East Coast Crips [3] [4] The Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] also known as the Bounty Hunter Bloods , is a " set " of the Bloods gang alliance situated in the Nickerson Gardens public housing projects in Watts, Los Angeles .
The Venice Shoreline Crips formed in Venice's Oakwood neighborhood, which was originally labeled as a "servant's zone" by Venice founder Abbot Kinney and was one of the few places within a mile of California's coastline where blacks could own property.
The Grape Street Watts Crips is a set of the Crips gang based in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. The gang's rivalry with the Bounty Hunter Bloods has been described as being "the most violent and long lasting feud between two gangs that are in the Watts area."