CRIPS DOCUMENTARY: BULLETS HAVE NO NAMES PART 2 OF 2
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.
Rivalries have been reported with:
-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
Hundreds, if not thousands, of incarcerated members, mostly African American, operate in Southern California and across North America. 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.
