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A first hand account of their real history and the myths surrounding the origin and founders of the gangs

Preface•
Throughout the World Wide Web,* there are web sites, news reports, and other sources that declare that Stanley "Tookie" Williams was a founder of the street gang known as the Crips. This report, with historical information submitted* by a 30 year veteran of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, describes the history and origin of the Crips and Bloods and describes the fact that although he was a part of that history, Tookie Williams, was not a founder, nor an*actual leader of a Crip set.

History and origin•
The Crips gang originated in Los Angeles in the mid- to late 1960's, and the Bloods street gangs were formed in reaction to the Crips.* Both gangs have loosely structured subgroups or sets, most of which are from specific neighborhoods. Typically, members dress in a distinctive fashion, display colors (with blue associated with Crips and red with Bloods), use monikers, sometimes display gang names or monikers on clothing, and communicate through graffiti. However, when individual members or sets become more serious about drug trafficking, they also may become more cautious about calling attention to themselves with these outward signs of gang affiliation.

In the early 1980's, members of both gangs surfaced outside Los Angeles and the rest of California, primarily to sell cocaine. Investigative reports in 1991 placed Crips or Bloods in 32 States and 113 cities. However, these migrations are not orchestrated by any sort of national leadership. Instead, criminal acts often are committed or directed by individual leaders (who change frequently), rather than as the result of some hierarchical or collective decision making process.

The Crips is a loose association of some 200 gangs, many of which are at war with one another, and none of whom recognizes or exerts any kind of central authority. Individual gangs are equally marginal in their organization. Most are loosely knit coalitions of small, autonomous cliques.

Background•
There have been many stories regarding the beginning and subsequent expansion of the Crip and Blood Gangs. The following identifies some of the most prevalent myths, and brings to light, factual information regarding the Crips and Bloods Gangs as witnessed first hand by Sgt. Curtis Jackson, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, retired.
While he was with the LASD, Sgt. Jackson was recognized domestically and internationally as one of the nations foremost experts on street gangs. He is considered to be the "Godfather" of Black Gangs and was there at the beginning of the Black Street Gang phenomenon.


Myths and Truths

Myth number 1•
* *“Crips” originally stood for “Community Resources for Independent People”.
** “Crips” evolved from the word “Crib”.
** “Crip” name started as a result of a newspaper (Los Angeles Sentinel 1972) article that accidentally described a Crib member, who had assaulted someone, as a Crip by mistake.

Truth•
The name “Crip” was short for “cripple”. One of Raymond’s sidekicks walked with a limp. It was originally thought that the individual who limped had been shot in the leg. A crime victim referred to their assailant (Raymond’s group) as being a “crip”, instead of a “cripple”. It has been confirmed that Raymond’s older brother, Reggie, was bow legged and had a bad ankle. His buddies would write “crip” on his Converse tennis shoes as a joke, demeaning his handicap. This was well before the name “Crip” became synonymous with the Crip gang name. This was verified by Raymond’s younger brother (Derard Barton), and a neighbor with first hand knowledge who lived across the street from Raymond.** The name “Crip” was definitely derived from the word “cripple”. This also explains why the original Crips utilized a cane, and walked with an exaggerated limp. The word “Crip” caught on, and stuck just like a lot of nicknames do. The “Crip” name was also given additional publicity as a result of a newspaper(s) account of the above described crime. Note: An original newspaper account, if there was one, had to have occurred in the 1971 time frame, as the Crip name was already wide spread by 1972. The 1972 article by the Sentinel correctly referred to the assailants as being Crips, because that was already their (Crips) established name”.
Myth number 2:
The first Crip Gang started on the “Eastside”. (referring to Eastside of the Harbor Freeway)

Truth•
The gang did start East of the Harbor Freeway., but the dividing line between the Eastside and the Westside, at that time, was Central Ave. An example would be the Kitchen Crips. The Kitchen Crip Gang was located directly east of Central. The Westside Kitchen was directly West of Central. In later years, as the Crip Gangs spread throughout Los Angeles, the Harbor Freeway. became the commonly accepted dividing line between the East and West side.

Myth number 3•
* Raymond Washington’s groups’ original intent was to “continue the revolutionary ideology of the 60’s, and to act as community leaders and protectors of their local neighborhoods”.
* Raymond founded the organization in “response to the increasing level of police harassment of the Black community”.

Truth•
These statements are all romantic folklore with absolutely no substance. Raymond was just a troubled 15 year old kid who hung around other troubled 14 and 15 year old youths. Raymond had been kicked out of a number of schools, and had already been involved in the juvenile detention system. Raymond, at 15, did not have the maturity, or the vision to formulate these great ideological ideas and plans that some “social experts” espouse. Gregory Davis, who has also been identified as being another one of the original leaders was only 14 years old in 1969.

Myth number 4•
Raymond’s Gang was called the Raymond Street Crips.

Truth•
The Raymond Street Crips were located well West and South of Raymond’s home turf. Too far away to be called his gang. That gang probably didn’t even start until after Raymond stopped Crippin’. The first Crip gang was simply called the Crips. When the gang expanded it became the Westside Crips. In later years this area became the East Coast Crips.


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Nothing to do with the history about bloodz(bloods)... and a little on Cripz(crips)

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heres some bloods and crips dances

C-Walk





Bloods dance

At 1:50 Iv been there. I'm from 62nd but I live in the hoovers and its not like that video.

There are a lot more crips than bloods, but the bloods are stronger.

The game is a blood.

the crip walk is genius:dance:!

Now a lot of hispanic gangs are being formed... :/

gangs fail.

There's so many gangs these days, as soon as one starts another starts to try and be dominant and so on