Bloods Vs Crips

A gang is said to be a group of three or more people who engage in criminal activities and identify themselves with a common name or sign(National Criminal Justice Reference Service). Many people join gangs for a number of reasons anything from protection or just a sense of brother or sister hood. People join for identity of recognition which means without the gang that person might feel worthless and impossible, for protection, fellowship and brotherhood that they many not receive at home, intimidation and the feeling of being better and bigger than another person, and for the criminal activity or drug use but in the 60s that wasn’t the case for the Bloods and the Crips. Bloods and Crips were originally started to protect their neighborhoods
Blood Members normally identify each member by color, clothing, symbols, tattoos, jewelry, hand signals, language, and graffiti. Lucky for the Bloods, their school, Centennial High School colors were red so they come get away with representing their gang at school by wearing Red Bandannas or Rags. From time to time the Bloods could also be identified by wearing green for the set Lime Hood Pirus. The Bloods were also known to wear sport clothings and their favorite sports teams whose colors were also red, San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Bulls and also the Dallas Cowboys clothings because it had the logo of the five pointed star that represented
Although both the groups started off as larger groups in the late 1970s they started to become smaller and forming “sets”. These sets would soon start claiming territory in a number of places in the Los Angeles area and from that point on things would begin to get bloody, deadly, and ferocious within the each gang territories. By the time the 1980s came around almost thirty thousand or more would belong to either The Crips or The Blood gang and all found themselves living in the Los Angeles area. Members of the gang started from ages a young as thirteen and as old as the mid thirties and in order to be officially entered into the group perform a specific action that would consider them worthy. These actions could be anything from fighting an existing member , kill another member in a different or rival gang or commit a crime in certain neighborhoods for either a small period or time or a long time. Once a member always a member unless you betray a member or the gang