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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
traditionally, crips were more likely to rob and steal, while the bloods were into selling rock.
I'm pretty sure they all sell drugs now though.
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You got that a little backwards, the CRIPS were the first to sell rock, but that was not into the 80s when the CIA first dropped crack on Compton (this is a gem of history which came out public during the whole Iran/Contra scandal by some guilt-ridden CIA agents who also felt like bragging) The Bloods originate in the early 70s as a defense krew against expanding CRIP violence. The Bloods were brothers like the Bishops and the Compton Pirus (ironically Piru is a small block in Compton/Watts and now there are Pirus all over the world, some people even mistakenly attacht street lore that it is some African shit, its not, its a block name) who took on the name Bloods as many were Vietnam vets. They did not sell rock, they sold heroin which was the CIA drug of choice because of easy access in Indochina during the War (some say the war was entirely fought over control of heroin), but the CRIPS began to sell the CIA's new drug of choice in the 70s, coca, which apparently in 1981 became crack (even though people had been free-basing cocaine for over a hundred years previously)...
the history of Los Angeles street gangs is really a history of GEOPOLITICS...
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Originally Posted by gmku
Hmm, well I'll be fucked.
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I suppose so, but it is in fact Crips, though some folks believe it was originally Cribs (as in
Baby Cribs for Baby Avenue) but the Panther lore says it was always CRIPS (the acronym) and a good deal of the panters were killed so we might never actually know.
Some newspaper reports used to call them Cripples because they used to carry canes from 1971-1973, and a japanese woman reported being robbed by "three crippled black men" but that is sort of a coincidence, even a joke really.