Street Gang History

Tremane Parker

CRJ 205-02

Edwin Alcea

Nov 20 2014

Gangs

When someone can think of the word “gang”, they are the most dangerous people that are found everywhere in the World. Street gangs, a motorcycle gang, and a prison gang are the main providers that sell illegal drugs on the streets of the United States and even behind bars. Gangs like the Bloods, Crips, and MS-13 most dangerous gangs on earth. These gangs represent hatred and they don’t care about a human being. Gangs today have related practices of making their own expressions of words, symbols, handshakes, and people can find inappropriate things from a gang.

First, the history proves that gangs existed since the increasing of humanity (teenviolentstatistic 1). People would band together

Crips represented the colors blue and white. If they were to wear their rival colors, they will punish that person. The gang also originated in Los Angeles during the late 1960’s. Rappers like Snoop Dogg is a member of the Crips. The Crips were urbanized and it increased due to the failure in the community guidance in the African American communal following behind the LA riot. When the gang began to sell narcotics and cocaine, more groups were growing and it moved into different cities. Now, there is an estimate of 800 Crip gangs in the United States which made over 30,000 to 35,000 members involved. Many of the local Crips sets throughout the United States are loosely structured and independent from the original Crips set in Los Angeles. Gangs can array in size from 3 to 100 members and can be whichever planned and very prepared of drug organizations or formless groups of juveniles that were involved in a present crime. Also, In Maryland and the Virginia area, Crips are loosely created in neighborhoods. The Gangs follow the culture, in other words, they have to follow a certain color, clothes, tattoos and graffiti. Gang members are mainly involved in the sale of drugs, robbery, and a cause of crime. Like all the other gang members, they have the opportunity when it comes to committing crimes. The Crips were founded by Stanley “Tookie” Williams and he used a variety of recognizing signs. Extending from tattoos to hand signals. Their color blue is used as an apparel to identify relationship with the gang differently from a red color worn by their rival Bloods. They were able to wear blue bandanas, blue rags, and nicknames such as “Cuzz” and “Blood Killas” are recurrent identifiers. In addition, they would scratch out the word B, O, L, and D and would instead input the word C to prevent a relationship with the Bloods. The most commonly, people would able to see a 5 crowned star and