Raymond Washington, a 15 year-old student at Fremont High School started what would later become known as the Crips in 1969. After much of the Black Panther power base was eliminated and as other social and political groups became ineffective in Los Angeles, Washington, who was too young to participate in the Panther movement during the 1960s, but absorbed much of the Panther rhetoric of community control of neighborhoods (Baker 1988, p. 28) fashioned his quasi-political organization after the Panther’s militant style by sporting the popular black leather jackets of the time. In addition to emulating the Panther appearance, Washington also admired an older gang that remained active throughout the 1960s called the Avenues, led by Craig and Robert Munson. He decided to name his new quasi-political organization the Baby Avenues (aka Avenue Cribs) to represent a new generation of youths.
Washington got together a few other friends near his 78th Street home near Fremont High School. His initial initial intent was to continue the revolutionary ideology of the 1960s and to act as community leaders and protectors of their local neighborhoods. The revolutionary vision did not endure and because of immaturity and a lack of political leadership young Raymond Washington and his group never were able to develop an agenda for social change within the community and became obsessed with protecting themselves from other thugs in the community. Early members included Anglo “Barefoot Pookie” White, Michael “Shaft” Concepcion, Melvin Hardy, Jimel “Godfather” Barnes, Bennie Simpson, Greg “Batman” Davis, Mack Thomas, Stanley “Tookie” Williams, Raymond “Danifu” Cook, Ecky, No 1, and Michael Christianson. Many of these youth became the neighborhood “toughs” in the community and gained respect from other youth in Los Angeles in the early 1970s.
In Los Angeles County today, there are 88 incorporated cities and dozens of other unincorporated places in Los Angeles County (LAC) with Crips firmly established in 24 cities and areas in the County. In 1972 the 8 Crip gangs grew to 45 in 1978. By 1982 there were 109 Crips in LA County and by the late 1990s there were 199 individual Crip gangs active in LA County. Crip growth in Los Angeles has stablized and even declined in areas that are undergoing demographic change, but in other parts of California, the United States and abroad, many have started copy cat gangs.
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A Brief History of the Los Angeles based Crips
101 Crip Gang 7th Street Watts Crip Acacia Block Compton CripAltadena Block Crip Angelo Mafia Crip Anzac Grape Compton CripAtlantic Drive Compton CripsAvalon 40's Crip Avalon Gangster Crips 53 Avalon Gangster Crip 116 Avalon Garden Crips 88Bible Crips (defunct) Big Daddyz (BDZ) Blunt Smoking Only Gang BOGC Born To Jacc Crip 73rd st Boulevard Mafia Crips Bricc Block Crip Broadway Gangster Crip 112 BudLong Crip Gang 102 Burnside Avenue Crip Gang Burris Blocc Compton Crip (defunct) Butler Blocc Compton Crips By Yourself Hustler Crips Carver Park Compton Crips Chester Street Compton Crips Compton Avenue Crip, 95 DAWGS Dirty Old Man Gang Dodge City Crips Don't Give a Fuck Down Ass Pimp Gang, 109 Dragnet Du Rocc Crip Ducky Hood Compton Crip East Coast Crip, 1st (defunct) East Coast Crip, 59 East Coast Crip, 62 NHC East Coast Crip, 66 East Coast Crip, 68 East Coast Crip, 69 Shacc Boys East Coast Crip, 76 East Coast Crip, 89 NHC East Coast Crip, 97 East Coast Crip, Q102 East Coast Blocc Crip, 118 East Coast Blocc Crip, 190 East Coast Crip, 200 East Side DAWGS East Side Hustler Crip 104, 108 East Side Hustler Crip 115,118 East Side Players, 97 East Side Ridas, 64 East Side Ridaz, 59 Farm Dog Comton Crip Four Corner Block Crip Four Duece Crip Gang(w/s) Four Line Drive Crip Front Hood Compton Crip Front Street Crip Fudge Town Mafia Crip 105, 107 Gangster Crip, 105
Gangster Crip, 118 Gangster Crip, 42(e/s) Gangster Crip, 43 Gangster Crip, 43 SS Gangster Crip, 47 SGangster Crip, 48 Gangster Crip, 83 Gangster Crip, 87 Gangster Crip, 96 Gangster Crip, 97 Gangster Crip, 98 Gangster, Hoover 52 Gardena Pay Back Crip Geer Gang Crip Ghost Town Crips Grandee Compton Crips (defunct) Grape Street Watts Grave Yard Crip Harbor City Crips Hard Time Hustler Crip, 88, 93 Hard Time Hustler Crip Hard Time Hustler Crip, 78 Harvard Gangster Crip, 127 Hat Gang Watts Crip Hickery Street Watts Crip Holmes Town Crip Home Boys Crimino Gang Hoover, 43 (defunct) Hoover, 59 Hoover Gangster, 52Hoover, 74 Hoover, 83 Hoover, 92 Hoover, 94 Hoover, 107Hoover, 112 HSHG Imperial Village CripInsane Crip Kelly Park Compton CripKitchen Crip Gang, 87 Kitchen Crip Gang, 95 Kitchen Crip, 116 Latana Blocc Compton CripLDH 73 Lettin Niggas Have It Osage Legend Crip, 102 Mafia Crip, 99 Main Street Crip Main Street Mafia Crip Marvin Gangster Mayo Ave Compton Crip Menlo Gangster Crip, 103 Menlo Gangster Crip, 65 McKinley Avenue Crips Mona Park Compton Crips Most Valuable Pimp Gangster Crip Myrtle Street Crip NBGC Neighbor Hood 90 Crip Neighbor Hood Compton Crips Neighbor Hood Crip 106, 102 Neighbor Hood Crip 115 Neighbor Hood Crip 67 Neighbor Hood Crip, 111, 112 (w/s) Neighbor Hood Crip, 111, 112 (e/s) Neighbor Hood Crip, 46 Neighbor Hood Crip, 55 Neighbor Hood Crip, 57 Neighbor Hood Crip, 59
Neighbor Hood Crip, Lynwood Neighborhood Watts Crip Nestor Ave Compton Crip Nothing But Trouble Halldale Crip NSG Senyo Gang Nutty Blocc Compton Crip Original Blocc Crip Gang Original Hood Crip Original Swamp Compton CripOriginal Valley Gangster Crip Palm & Oak Gangster Palmer Blocc Compton Crips Park Village Compton Crips Perverts Pimp Town Murder Squad PJ Watts Crip Play Boy Gangster Crip PlayBoy Huster Crip PlayBoy Style Crip 82 PlayBoy Style Crip 101,106 Poccet Hood Compton Crip Raymond Ave Crip 102 Raymond Ave Crip Pasadena Raymond Street Hustler Compton Crip Crip Rollin' 130's Rollin 20s Long Beach Rollin 30s Rollin 40s Rollin 50s Rollin 60s
Rollin 80's West Coast Crip Rollin 90s NHC Rollin 90s Westcoast RSH Compton Crip Santa Fe Mafia Crip Santana Blocc Compton Crip School Yard Crips Sex Symbols Shotgun Crip Sin Town Crip 357 Six Hood Compton Crip Sons of Samoa South Side Compton CripsSpook Town Compton Crips Stevenson Village Crip (Cold Village Dog) Straight Ballers Society T Zone Crip 110 Ten Line Ganster Crip Tiny Hoodsta Crip TMHG Tonga Crip Gang Tragniew Park Compton Crip Twilight Zone Compton Crip 157 Under Ground Blocc Crip Victoria Park Crips Ward Lane Compton Crip WaterGate Crip Watts Mafia Crip Gang Watts Playground Crip 115 We Dont Care Crip West Boulevard Crip 28 West Boulevard Crip 64 West Side Mafia Young Ass Playas