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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 ...
Despite becoming one of the largest gangs in the United States, the origins of the Crips gang is disputed, as different sources provide incompatible explanations about the origins of the group. [1] There are disagreements regarding the year the gang was founded, the motivation for forming the gang, how the gang was named and who the cofounders ...
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.
At the time of the Crips' initial formation there were only three Crip sets: Washington's East Side Crips (later called East Coast Crips), Williams' West Side Crips (later the Eight Tray Gangster Crips), and the Compton Crips, led by a teenager named Mac Thomas. Williams formed the West Side Crips using his own influence, having befriended many ...
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.
The absence of the old gangs saw numerous new youth gangs begin to form in their place, including the Sportsmans Park, New House Boys, Acey Ducey, and Chain Gang, on West Side. [ citation needed ] Washington, a native of the East Side in his early teens during the rise of the gangs, joined a local street gang called The Avenues, led by another ...
A gang change. At one time, gang members in the Braggtown set could also be part of the Crips as well as other homegrown gangs that hung out in the Hoover Road public housing area.
After his ouster, emboldened gangs evolved into criminal syndicates, trading in drugs and arms, and robbing and exploiting Haiti’s most vulnerable communities amid recurring food scarcity. This ...