Crips and Blood History

First hand about their real history and myths surrounding the origins and founder of the gang

Introduction: When the World Wide Web, there are web sites, newsletters, and other sources indicating that Stanley "Tookie" Williams is the founder of the Crips. This report with historical information submitted by the 30-year veteran of the sheriff's department in Los Angeles, described the history and origins and the Blood and Crips illustrates the fact that despite being a part This story, Tookie Williams, not the founder or a Crip set the current leader.

History and origin: The original Crips in Los Angeles in the mid to late 1960s, and Blood formed in response to Crips. The two bands subgroups unstructured or series, which comes mainly from the specific environment. Usually, members dressed in typical fashion, with a color screen (associated with the Crips in blue and red with the blood), use monikers, sometimes showing gang names or monikers clothes, and communicate through graffiti. However, when individual members or groups became more serious about drug trafficking, they also become more attentive to attract attention to themselves with the trappings of gang is.




In the early 1980s, the gang members appeared outside Los Angeles and others in California primarily to sell cocaine. Investigation Report in 1991, placed Crips or blood in 32 countries and 113 cities. However, this change is not regulated by any national leadership. Instead, crimes are often committed or directed by individual leaders (who often change), rather than as a result of some collective or hierarchical decision making process.

The Crips is a free association of 200 gangs, many of whom are at war with each other, and no one recognized or given any kind of central authority. Individual bands is equally weak in their organization. Most are quite fragile coalition of smaller independent bands.

Background

There are many stories about the initial and subsequent expansion and Blood Gangs CRIP. The following paragraphs describe some of the most common myths, and provides information, factual light on the Crips and Blood gangs as witnessed firsthand by Sgt. Curtis Jackson, the Sheriff's Department Los Angeles, retired.

While he was with the LASD, Sgt. Jackson has been recognized nationally and internationally as one of the foremost experts of the United Nations in the street gang. It is considered the "godfather Black Gangs" and be there at the beginning of the phenomenon of street gangs Black.