The gang was established in 1967 in Southern California by 12 misfit, mostly Vietnam veterans who all had an interest in motorcycles, making money however they could, and not wanting to conform to mainstream America. A power struggle among the members resulted in the kicking out of one of the leaders, who, without permission, started his own Devil’s Diciples chapters across the country. Violent reputations were built on both sides of the country for both versions of the gang. Crimes, famously homicide, were being committed by them from Pheonix, Arizona all the way to Boston, Massachusetts. In 1977, they all came together in Yuma, Arizona and decided that they would be stronger as one gang than they would ever be as two separate gangs. In the mid-1980s, the headquarters were moved to Michigan and their criminal network was built selling crystal meth.…
Known for its motto ‘blood in,blood out’ this gang requires you to kill somebody to become a member and a member who tries to leave is usually killed. Also known as The Brand or AB it has around 10,000 members. Responsible for around 30% prison deaths, this White supremacist gang was founded in San Quentin state prison in 1960’s as a defence against black people in the prison who were forming a violent gang called The Black Guerrilla Family. AB is involved in organized crime activities like drug trafficking, prostitution…
Stanley Tookie Williams III was the co-founder of the Crips, with its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1971. In 1979 he was convicted of four murders committed during the course of robberies, and he remained in prison for the rest of his life. Later on in his life, he became an author of twelve books, including anti-gang and violence literature and children's books.…
California is home to several street gangs that identifies themselves with two of the most iconic African American street gangs in America. One group is the Grape Street Crips, which is located in the Watts part of Los Angeles. This group was originated within a little housing project that consisted majority of African Americans. This gang is considered to be one of the biggest Crip groups in the local area. There crimes include drug trafficking, murder, and theft. They have been in a violent war with the Bounty Hunter Bloods, which is another local gang.…
The ‘Crips’ are an L.A. based street gang that surfaced in 1969, this gang is said to be started by Stanley “Tookie” Williams and Raymond Washington, they chose the collective name of “Crip” because it appealed to the younger age of the members they were recruiting. This gang has been labeled as one of America’s most violent street gangs.…
They had to join the gang after their parents had died. When their parents were alive, why join a gang? They didn’t need to at the time while having nice parents to provide and be a family so they didn’t need a gang family. When their parents died they were in poverty and needed a gang to be with, “Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave” (Hinton Dig 4). So most likely they were not members of…
The Movie, Crips and Bloods: Made in America, is a documentary that informs people outside of the projects of LA, just what life looks like from an insider’s perspective. Many people don’t understand gangs and what it is that started the huge uprising of them. Growing up in the projects and being turned away from many youth groups took a large psychological toll on many of the kids growing up in LA in the 60’s. Instead of Boy Scouts, and other youth groups, the youth turned to making groups that eventually resulted in gangs. Not only were they turned away from youth groups but also unfairly treated by authority, which triggered African Americans to search for more of a sense of belonging. Gangs started small and seemingly…
They started off small with not much popularity going their way for bootlegging so instead they worked as hitmen. Hitmen are people sent to assassinate an individual for a price tag. The higher network a person had the more money their head was worth. Some killed to gain the money from head collectors. Furthermore they did several heist as well.…
The United States has had problems with gangs dated back as early as the 1800s. In today’s society when people hear about gangs the first two gangs that they think of are the Bloods and the Crips. Both of these gangs originated about forty years ago but are still going strong today. Although, at first these gangs were formed as a sort of territorial war the activities of the gang members has grown increasingly more dangerous. The Bloods and the Crips are mortal enemies and are extremely feared throughout the country.…
Members of the Hell’s Angels Refer to themselves as “one presenters”. A half century old boast playing off the saying that one percent of trouble markers give a bad name to ninety-nine percent of respectable bikers. The Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang is known as a group of “outlaws”, bad boys making their own rules and doing what they want. This group has been around for a long time, starting trouble all over the United States and other countries. They have done everything from drug trafficking to assault; this gang is no one to mess with. During the 1960s around the time of the world wars this group of individuals was considered a militant group. Now they are considered a dangerous motorcycle gang to stay away from.…
Crips have a long and bitter rivalry with the Bloods. Crips have served in the United States armed forces and on bases in the United…
The name Crib chosen by the Raymond and his peers is were the word “Crips” originates from no one knows the actual reason people start calling them that but they soon adopted the word. In the year of 1971 the Avenue Cribs started to be known around the Los Angeles area as what we call today crips. Raymond Washington and his fellow peers looked-up and admired the Black Panthers, him and his friends wanted to preserve the aura of the Panthers, by creating the Avenue Cribs or Baby Avenues which were the first of their kind but not the last. They were like big brothers of the neighborhood protectors of their block to a certain extent, they wouldn’t let anyone come to their neighborhood and start trouble. Raymond and his Avenue Cribs originated from the Eastside of Los Angeles they were later known or actually given the title as the original crips. Gangs like the Avenue Cribs were being formed throughout the Los Angeles area from as far as Watts and Compton to Inglewood and the Westside of Los Angeles. Not just Black gangs were created in Los Angeles but Mexican gangs such as the notorious MS-13 were too, Ms-13 is one of the biggest gangs in the country. Ms-13 created by the children of Hispanic immigrants who left the civil war in El Salvador in the nineteen-eighties, their purpose of this gang was to protect themselves from rival Mexican-American gangs. Ms-13 has wide-spread from Los Angeles area throughout southern cities such as Charlotte, Durhan, and North Carolina where Hispanics are the fattest growing minority. The gang culture of Ms-13 has spread even as far out from Los Angeles urban and suburban areas all the way out of the country such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. These gangs may have limit boundaries between each other in the city of Los…
In the opening statement of the fist interview conducted between the two bloods who represent the sub group of failing block in northeast Portland I asked “how old were you when you joined the gang?” both members said they joined at the age of thirteen, and was introduced by their big “hommie” who introduced him to the streets by slanging crack.…
Since the late 1960’s, the “Crips” have been synonymous with gang violence and crime. Despite being started as an organization utilized to defend itself and its’ neighborhood from other violent gangs, the “Crips” have evolved into a fierce organization that draws its’ standing from murder, drugs and a bountiful number of active members. It is a prime example of how an organization could allegedly start as something positive for a community and eventually devolve into one of the most feared criminal organizations on the West coast of the United States. In this examination of threats to the United States we will investigate the entirety of the “Crips” structure. The first section will outline the history of the organization with emphasis placed…
The Gangster Disciple is a gang which was formed on the South-side of Chicago in the late 1960s, by Larry Hoover, leader of the High Supreme Gangsters, and David Barksdale, leader of the Black Disciples. The two groups united to form the Black Gangster Disciple Nation (BGDN).…