The Crips: Prison Gang Profile

The Crips started as a street gang in Los Angeles when Raymond Washginton and Stanley Tookie Williams set up the gang in 1969 in East LA. Stanley Tookie Williams was co-founder of the Crips when he was only 17 years old, and given the death penalty in San Quentin State Prison on December 13, 2005. Raymond Washington, co-founder, was murdered in 1979.

The Crips spread to Texas prisons in the 1980s.

Like the Bloods, because the Crips have no written constitution, they are officially labeled a "security threat group" in prison, not a gang.

Some have said the word "Crip" allegedly came about after a woman in a Los Angeles housing project filed a report against two young teenage thieves, (including founding member Raymond Washington) descrtibing one of her assailants as a "crip with a stick," meaning a cripple with a cane. However, other sources indicate that the word derives from "Crib," from the Baby Avenue street gang that became the Avenue Cribs gang, located in the Central Avenue area of Los Angeles in the late 1960s.

• Bloods
• Latin Kings
• some Hoover Crips members have clashed in the past with members of the 18th Street Gang, however user sources indicate that they are not rivals, and actually share the same hood.
• Trinitarios

Latest News...

1/21/2007
Police: Cop Shooting Suspect Belongs To Crips Gang
Authorities said Sunday the man accused of killing an off-duty Paterson police officer is

12/21/2006
Gangs on our turf? Police study signs
Authorities across the Catawba Valley say they are noticing more signs of gang activity

12/13/2006
Gang rivalries cited in Tacoma killings


9/15/2006
Police: NYC Crew Hid Drugs in Toys

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Hundreds, if not thousands, of incarcerated members, mostly African American, operate in Southern California and across North America, including:

• Corcoran State Prison
• Essex County Jail, NJ
• Folsom State Prison, CA, where, according to user sources, the Santana Block Compton Crips operate with anywhere between 20 and 50 members.
• Ironwood State Prison
• Los Angeles institutions
• Monterey County Jail
• Monterey County parole offices
• Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga
• Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts
• Salinas Valley State Prison
• Soledad State Prison
• various facilities in Tallahassee and parts of Florida.
• Wyoming County Correctional Facility

Various youth detention camps have also historically housed both Crips and Bloods members, including:

• Camp Gonzales
• Camp Miller
• Camp Kilpatrick.

As of 2005, 30,000 Crips street members were operating in 221 cities across the nation. About 12,000 street members operated in Los Angeles about 1,000 lived in New Jersey as of 1996, where they had operated a stronghold in East Orange. There is also a "Long Beach Crips" chapter that have been reported to operate in Colorado prisons, with a faction called the "Ruthless Ass Gangsters" in Prospect Lake, Col. The Columbia Villa Crips operate out of Portland, Oregon. Over 300 members allegedly reside in Price, Utah.

Crips began to spread to Canada in the early 1990s. Toronto's North York was early known to carry the New Born Crips, and Toronto's Islington and Rexdale neighborhoods have also been active Crips turfs reported by user sources. A 1997 murder of a 14 year-old teen in Victoria, BC was later attributed to the Crips. The East Side Crips have been reported in East Kildonan, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The full breadth of the Crips cannot be captured here, but to view and submit locations of individual chapters, see the "Factions" section below.

Factions have included:

1. 132nd Shotgun Gangsta Crips aka (tha duece) located in the Bronx, Castle Hill area of New York. The 133rd Paybacc Crips are also located here.
2. 177th Kitchen Crip Alliance (k.c.a) - started in 177th Parkchester, New York. The o.g. was 16 at the time with members as low as 9 years old. 60 active members were in it.
3. 187 Crips, South Dallas, Texas, and California
4. 187 (e.c.w) Eastside Crip Warriors started in 2003 in Monroe, New York.
5. 209 Laos Crips - a Laotian gang in Central California
6. 287 Lao Boyz Crips based out of Oklahoma City, OK
7. 52nd H.G.C. (5 Deuce AKA Hoover Gangster Crips - reportedly the only Hoover gang that stayed Crip without going to Criminal)
8. 52 Hoova Crip Gang - Port Arthur Texas
9. 619 Crips, Laotian gang in San Diego, CA
10. 74 Hoover Criminal Gang - Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NYC
11. 83 Killer Gangsta Crips
12. 98 M.S.M. - 98 Main Street Eastside, South Central. Mafia Crip Gang
13. Asian Boy Crips, a Hmong gang based out of Twin Cities, MN
14. Asian Boyz (ABZ), Sioux Falls, SD
15. Asian Crips, a Hmong gang reported in Twin Cities, MN, but reportedly based out of Fresno California .
16. Asian Neutral Boys (ANB) crip set in Wausau, Wisconsin
17. Asian Royal Crips
18. Atlanta Drive Crips
19. Avenue King Crips (Lynn, MA)
20. Bad Boy Crips, a Hmong gang based out of Milwaukee and Sheboygen, WI
21. Bay Mills Crips, Scarborough, Ontario
22. Black Mob Crips (BMB)
    1. According to user sources, the Black Mob Crips have bases of operations in Los Angeles, New York, Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, and Detroit
    2. Lithia Springs High School gang in Lithia Springs, Georgia, associated with the Crips, according to user sources. A BMB gang has also been reported in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
23. CVC Crips (Clarview Crip). According to user sources, this is the largest Crip set in Edmonton,
    Alberta.
24. Certified Gangstas (CG) - Crip gang in Southside Fort Worth
25. Compton Crips
26. Crack Down Posse, Montreal faction that began in the early 1990s
27. Crip Cartel
28. Crip Queens, a female Hmong gang in Twin Cities, MN
29. Crip Rydaz, Hmong gang in Oklahoma and Wasau, WI
30. Dangerous Oriental Crips, Laotian gang in San Diego, CA
31. EastSide Crazy Oriental Thugz (C.O.T). Began in San Diego, California, 38th st., 46th st. and 50th st.
32. Eastside Disciples Crips, Vancouver, BC
33. Eastside Mafia Crips, allegedley to have begun activity in 2007 in the eastend of Ottawa.
34. Eastside Parkside Gangsta Crips (p.s.g.c) (started in the Bronx, Castle Hill section of New York with rivalry reported with the Westside Piru Bloods
35. Eight Tray Gangster Crips (began 1974)
36. Fairfax
37. FCB ( Full Clip Boys ) Crip gang based in Michigan
38. Four Corner Bloc Crip (4CBC) - Long Beach, CA
39. G-$tone Crips
40. Ghetto Boys, a Toronto set in Jamestown
41. GSC - Ghetto Soldiers Crips, Toronto, Ontario
42. Glendower Crips - Scarborough, Ontario gang, rivals of the Bay Mills Crips.
43. Grape Street Crips
44. Graveyards
45. Great Grand Master Crip, California
46. Harlem 30's, LA, California
47. Hilltop Crip Gang (HTGC) - reported by users as "very frequent" inside Shelton Correctional Facility, Washington, with numbers approximately 50-100. Also reported inside Mcneil Islands Correctional Center, Washington, but only low frequency and not more than 20 members.
48. Hoover Crips (covering 43rd to 112th streets in L.A.)
49. Hoova Duece Crips, Houston, TX
50. Imperial Courts Crips
51. Inglewood Village Crips
52. Insane Deathrow Gangsta Crips
53. Insane Crip Gang - locations needed
54. Jamestown (Doomstown) Crips, in Toronto's Jamestown, rivals with Rexdale's Mount Olive Crips since 2000.
55. Junior Crips, another set in Toronto
56. Lake Como Crips (LCC) - Based on the westside of Fort Wort, Texas
57. Kansas Street Crips
58. Kerby Blocc Crips - led by 'lil Smurf, Anthony Branch Jr., a notorious Portland, Oregon gang leader, known among other things for often wearing a bulletproof vest. He died from gunshot wounds on Oct. 9, 1997, at age 20. Daren Keith McCoy was sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison for his death.
59. Killa Code Regime Crips, Queens NY
60. King Mafia Crip, a Hmong gang based out of Twin Cities, MN
61. Kitchen Crips (from Central Avenue to Compton Ave. in L.A.)
62. la Cinco Tras Familia (Five Three) - West end, Lakeshore Blvd West and Mimico Ave, in Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario
63. Lao Boy Crip, a Laotian gang based out of Dallas, TX
64. Lao Crip, a Laotian gang based out of Orange County, CA
65. Lao Pride Gangsta Crips (multiple states) noted in St. Louis, Missouri, and Rhode Island
66. Ledbury-Banff Crips (an alleged Ottawa-based gang that was recently implicated in the murder of Mohamed Zalal by police, who they believe was a member. Reports from an associate of Zalal counter that no such gang exists, despite several years of reported police intelligence on the gang's activities. The Ledbury Banff Crips allegedly began in 1999 in the South end of Ottawa as the "Junior Crips")
67. LDP Providence Crips, based in providence, RI
68. Linda Vista 13 TLS (LV 13 TLS)
69. Loco Crip, a Hmong gang based out of Twin Cities, MN
70. Lay Low Crips (the largest Crips sets in Salt Lake City in the 1990s)
71. LCB ( Locos Baddest Crip) based in Wausau Wisconsin
72. Mafia Crips (MC's), reported in Edmonton, Alberta
73. Main Street Mafia Crips, Los Angeles,CA - Michael Rowles - helped found the gang while still in his early teens
74. MOD Menace of Destruction - Hmong gang since 1979
75. Neigborhood Crips Los Angeles,CA
76. Oriental Boys Soldiers (OBS44 OBS50 OBS47) - San Diego Cambodian Crip gang
77. Outlaw Crips (around Central Avenue and Vernon in L.A.)
78. Mansfields
79. Mother Natures Mistakes - a Toronto set of the Crips in Jamestown, Toronto
80. Mount Olive Crips, a Rexdale, Ontario set, and rivals with the Doomstown (Jamestown) Crips since 2000.
81. New Born Crips - a Toronto group that developed in the early 1990s, which, as of 1998, had 70 known members.
82. Nutty Block Crips, in Los Angeles
83. Oriental Killer Boys, Laotian gang in San Diego, CA
84. O.B.G.N.S.C= Original Baby Gangster Northside Crip, Columbia, S.C., also known as the Northside Loccs.
85. Oriental Mobster Crips, Laotian gang in San Diego, CA
86. Original Gangster Crips - noted in the early 1990s in Little Rock, Arkansas, under the leadership of Leifel Jackson (ref). Once rivals of the Westside Bloods.
87. Parc Village Compton Crips
88. Piatt street Gangster Crips, 19th street, Wichita KS.
89. Renegade Nieghborhood Crips (Manhattan, Harlem, Lennox ave, NYC)
90. Rich Town Crips, a mixed Hmong-Laotian gang based out of Central California
91. Rollin 20 NHC (R20^llin) known in Cincinnati, Ohio and West Covington, Kentucky
92. Rollin 20s - Long Beach
93. Rollin Sixties
    1. Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips, some members relocated from Los Angeles to start a hood in Cincinnati, Ohio
94. Ruthless Lao Posse, Laotian gang in San Diego, CA
95. Queen Street
96. Santana Block Crips - noted in Folsom State Prison
97. Saskatoon West Side Crips
98. Smurfs - Soldiers Must Use Ruthless Force, a Crips set founded in New York in the 1970s. Reported also in Los Angeles and New Orleans.
99. South Side Crips
100. Tiny Oriental Crips, Laotian gang in Linda Vista,CA, San Diego, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arkansas, North Carolina, Kansas City, and Texas.
101. Tongan Crips (now the largest Crips set in Salt Lake City)
102. Totally Gangster Crips, a Hmong gang in Wisconsin
103. Totally Mafia Crips, a Hmong gang in Wisconsin
104. True Asian Crips, a Hmong gang in Wisconsin
105. True Califronia Crips - Orange County, New York, and across the east coast
106. True Crip Gangster, a Hmong gang in Twin Cities, MN
107. True Local Crips, a Hmong gang in Twin Cities, MN
108. True Lady Crips, a female Hmong gang in Twin Cities, MN
109. Underground Gangster Crips (UGC) - Indianapolis
110. Uzi Crew Crips - Toronto, Ontario
111. Versai Gangsta Crips (VGC), New Orleans
112. Westside Crips, a Hmong gang in Eau Claire, MN
113. Westend Mafia Crips, in Birmingham, Alabama
114. West 59th Street Hoova Crips, Baltimore, Maryland cased off of 8 Trey, 83rd Street, Los Angeles
115. Winton Terrace Crips, based in Cincinnati, OH