Crips

The Crips are one of the Los Angeles, California gangs. The Crips are mostly identified by the blue color worn by their members and the gang is largely composed of African Americans but is multiracial. The gang has an intense rivalry with the Bloods. What was once a single gang is now a loose network of "sets" around the United States, and rivalries between sets of Crips can be as intense as their rivalries with other gangs.

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The Crips were formed by Stanley "Tookie" Williams and Raymond Washington in 1971, after the two became fed up with random violence in their neighborhood.

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The Crips became popular throughout southern Los Angeles as more and more youth gangs joined it; at one point they outnumbered non-Crip gangs by 3 to 1. In response, some of the besieged smaller gangs formed an alliance that later became the Bloods. Some of the most notorious Crip Sets (subgroups of a bigger gang) include LA's Rollin 60's Crips (Westside Rich Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips), Watts' Grape Street Crips (who wear purple as opposed to blue), Long Beach's Insane Crips, and Compton's South Side Compton Crips. There are also Asian and Samoan sets.

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