Crips

First off, The Crips are an African American gang founded in Los Angeles California in 1969. Throughout the years this gang expanded to be one of the bulkiest and prevailing gangs in the United States, with more than 30,000 gang members. The Crips are known to be muddled in robberies, murders, drug dealing, and many other criminal pursuits. The Crips ultimately became the most powerful gang in California. The Blood was founded on Piru Street in the Compton, California in 1970. In 1970 many different African-American gangs surface in an effort to protect themselves from the many Crip gangs forming in the area. This particular gangs is the Bloods, which came to be one of the other most violent and lawless African-American gangs in Los Angeles. They stared as the "Compton Pirus."…

A person submit to Blood and Crips by doing numerous amounts of things. Before a person actually become a member of one of those gangs, he is vulnerable until he have someone that can co sign him. After he proves his worth, he gets through the process by being physically beat, known as jumping in and then having to commit a crime. Being a member of Bloods and Crips can lead to many psychological traps. All people are not equally liable to the influence of Bloods and Crips. They are not…

many other mediums. Rappers, actors, athletes, and more all have ties to gangs back in California. The two most well-known gangs, the Bloods and the Crips, have garnered national notoriety for their vicious, and nationwide, feud. These two gangs have been an integral part of the city for decades, shaping the culture and influencing the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Indeed, Compton would be a very different, though not necessarily better, place had the two gangs not been created. …

Crips & Bloods: Made in America is a documentary about the genesis of the two most notorious gangs in America. The documentary covers many circumstances that paved the way to an unavoidable outcome. African Americans were always oppressed by the White Americans since this country was formed. But as civil rights movements and fight for equality became successful for the older African American generations, the new generation felt another sense of discrimination from the White Americans. The bad…

Bloods vs. Crips Mrs. Stubbs-Mesumbe Period 5B Ike Anamelechi November 27, 2016 The Bloods and the crips are easily some of the most violent and famous gangs to ever be created. They were both founded in Los Angeles. These two gangs have been rivals for about their entire history as a gang. The Crips were founded in 1969 by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams. Not long after that , the Bloods formed from a lot of smaller gangs including the Pirus to become rivals for the Crips.…

and the Crips. Los Angeles is the leader of street gangs and is also known as the Gang Capital of America. Los Angles is home of over 1,000 gangs as of 2001 and over 120,000 gang members as of 2007. A popular gang in Los Angeles are the Crips. There are over 100 Crip gangs in Los Angeles and more than 13,000 members. The Crips were founded by Raymond Washington and Stanley “Tookie” Williams in 1971 as an alliance. Washington was from the east side and Williams was from the west, both were the…

However, the United States also has a history of oppressing immigrants to the point where upward mobility is a distant objective. The 1980s saw little change to the oppression when El Salvadoran immigrants flooded the States to escape their civil war. With most settling in Los Angeles, they were afforded little help from the U.S. government and society. The refugees settled into poverty-stricken areas and were afforded little legitimate means of finding economic success. Living so close to the…

The Black Panther Party organized breakfast programs, education, and protection to the African American community against police brutality. After the Black Panther Party was dissolved by the FBI in the 1970s, gangs such as the Crips or Community Reforms Inter-Party Service replaced them. They had the same constitution of the Black Panther Party, but because of the stagflation that occurred during this time, the economy collapsed and many African Americans were unemployed. As a consequence, the…

released in 1991 and is about teens growing up in the inner city of Los Angeles. Reva, the mother of Tre Styles, sends Tre to live with his father because of some trouble he got into at school. Reva wanted Tre’s father, Furious Styles, to teach him about life and being a man in hopes to protect her son from the streets. While growing up living with his father Tre reunites with his friends “Doughboy”, Ricky, and Chris. Doughboy is in a gang called the “Crips” and was recently released from…

it. Many African Americans, both male and female got injured. After this riot the creation of the Slauson gang formed. The police and everyone else believed they were gang members but the people in the group believed they were a group. They believed they were a group because hey weren’t allowed to be in boy scouts or any other group. After the Slauson gang was created different little group of the Slauson gang started forming their won little groups. This is were the Crips and the Bloods came…