Wach (C-Loc) Simpson's Crip

Colton (" C-Loc" ) Simpson was a Crip. Beginning at the impossibly tender age of ten in the mid-1970s, Simpson' s world was defined in terms of war. By the time he quit— the first gang member allowed to do so— he' d risen through the ranks to become Stabilizer and later, General. Simpson was the son of Dick Simpson, a ballplayer for the California Angels, but even before he became a gangbanger, his childhood was tough. Raised by his grandmother at the edge of Los Angeles' s South Central, Simpson didn' t turn to the streets so much as become engulfed by them: without asking to be part of the gang, his induction into the Crips involved running down an alley while the members opened fire on him as he ran.
Simpson was an elite gang soldier,