The Crips History
The Crips are a mostly an black gang. They were founded in Los Angeles, California in 1969 mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams. What use to be an alliance between two autonomous gangs is now a loosely connected network of individual sets, often engaged in open warfare with each other. Its members usually wear blue clothing, a practice that has waned somewhat due to police crackdowns.
The Crips are one of the largest and most violent associations of street gangs in the United States, with an estimated 35,000 members. They have been involved in murders, robberies and drug dealing, among other crimes.
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 …show more content…
They were heavily involved in the production of PCP, marijuana and amphetamines. On March 11, 1979, Stanley Tookie Williams, a member of Westside Crips was arrested for 4 murders and then on August 8, 1979, Raymond Washington was gunned down. Washington had been against Crip infighting and after his death several Crip sets started fighting against each other. The Crips leadership was dismantled prompting a deadly gang war between the Rollin' 60 Neighborhood Crips and Eight Tray Gangster Crips which began causing nearby Crip sets to choose sides and align themselves with either the Gangster Crips or Neighborhood Crips waging an all-out war in South Central and other cities. The East Coast Crips and the Hoover Crips directly severed their alliance after Washington's …show more content…
If one’s apparel is unclear, gang signs are commonly used, which is a derivative of sign language for these gangs. Crip members are likely to change the letter “B” with the letter “C” when composing particular words. Therefore, “back” ends up becoming “cacc,” “being” ends up becoming “ceing” example “kiccing cacc ceing cool.” When talking to each other, Crips refer to each other as “Cuzz” and “Blood Killas”(BK), and affiliates of this gang could be seen sporting British Knight (BK) shoes.
Before the 1980’s, the Crips and the Bloods had little involvement in narcotics trafficking. “Nonetheless, by 1983, African-American Los Angeles gangs took advantage of drug market after the easy accessibility of narcotics, especially crack, as a way of earnings”. Several of the gang affaires who became engaged in the purchasing and selling of drugs originated from the inner city areas where unemployment and poverty are a way of life.
Gangsters could possibly make anywhere from five hundred to five thousand dollars each day dealing crack cocaine. Therefore, the cash reward was a primary part which attracted gangsters to this specific profession. Bloods and Crips manage crack cocaine distribution in several cities around the
The Crips are one of the largest and most violent associations of street gangs in the United States, with an estimated 35,000 members. They have been involved in murders, robberies and drug dealing, among other crimes.
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 …show more content…
They were heavily involved in the production of PCP, marijuana and amphetamines. On March 11, 1979, Stanley Tookie Williams, a member of Westside Crips was arrested for 4 murders and then on August 8, 1979, Raymond Washington was gunned down. Washington had been against Crip infighting and after his death several Crip sets started fighting against each other. The Crips leadership was dismantled prompting a deadly gang war between the Rollin' 60 Neighborhood Crips and Eight Tray Gangster Crips which began causing nearby Crip sets to choose sides and align themselves with either the Gangster Crips or Neighborhood Crips waging an all-out war in South Central and other cities. The East Coast Crips and the Hoover Crips directly severed their alliance after Washington's …show more content…
If one’s apparel is unclear, gang signs are commonly used, which is a derivative of sign language for these gangs. Crip members are likely to change the letter “B” with the letter “C” when composing particular words. Therefore, “back” ends up becoming “cacc,” “being” ends up becoming “ceing” example “kiccing cacc ceing cool.” When talking to each other, Crips refer to each other as “Cuzz” and “Blood Killas”(BK), and affiliates of this gang could be seen sporting British Knight (BK) shoes.
Before the 1980’s, the Crips and the Bloods had little involvement in narcotics trafficking. “Nonetheless, by 1983, African-American Los Angeles gangs took advantage of drug market after the easy accessibility of narcotics, especially crack, as a way of earnings”. Several of the gang affaires who became engaged in the purchasing and selling of drugs originated from the inner city areas where unemployment and poverty are a way of life.
Gangsters could possibly make anywhere from five hundred to five thousand dollars each day dealing crack cocaine. Therefore, the cash reward was a primary part which attracted gangsters to this specific profession. Bloods and Crips manage crack cocaine distribution in several cities around the