List of Crips subgroups

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Stanley Tookie Williams, founder of the Westside Crips
Raymond Washington, founder of the Crips

Crips street gangs encompasses a wide variety of different identities within its subgroups.

Alaska

  • The 51-150 Crips[1]
  • The 88th Street Crips[1]
  • The Altadena Blocc Crips, originally from Pasadena.[1]
  • The Baby Hamo Tribe Crips[1]
  • The Combat Crips[1]
  • The Fam Bam Crips, primarily active in Thurston County.[1]
  • The Hamo Tribe Crips[1]
  • The Loc Down Crips[1]
  • The Loco Latin Crips[1]
  • The Mongolian Boys Society[1]
  • The Mountain View Crips[1]
  • The Original Swamp Compton Crips, originally from Compton, California[1]
  • The Royal Samoan Posse, originally from Santa Ana.[1]
  • The Tongan Crip Gang[1]
  • The West Side City Crips[1]

Anchorage

  • The 51-50 Crips[2]
  • The Hamo Tribe or Hamo Tribe Crips, a predominantly Polynesian gang[1]
  • The Tongan Crip Gang (TCG), a chapter of the predominantly Tongan-American gang from Inglewood, California.[1]

California

Santa Rosa

  • The Asian Boyz (ABZ) Is an Asian American street gang that was created by the Cambodians after they separated from a rival Asian American street gang the Tiny Rascal Gang (TRG) [3]
  • The Dec Lao Crips (DLC) [3]

City of San Francisco

  • The Asian Crips (AC), a Japanese and Korean Crip set. Gang member Tomi-E founded the Japanese gang Hachiōji Short Line Crips in Hachioji, Tokyo based on his connection to the gang.
  • The Cambodian Crips (CC), is a primarily Cambodian and Vietnamese gang in Tenderloin, San Francisco which includes Little Saigon. Last reported in 2003.[4]

Merced

  • The Merced Gangster Crips (MGC), a mixed-race gang in Merced, California. A major gang takedown in 2009 led to the arrest of 16 members. In 2004, gang member Cuitliachuac (Toa) Rivera killed officer Stephen Grey during a routine traffic stop and received a death penalty.[5]

Tulare County

  • The Lahu Pride Crips (LPC), is a primarily Lahu and Asian American gang.[6]
  • The Mongolian Boys Society (MBS), is a primarily Hmong American gang.[6]
  • The Oriental Boys Society (OBS), is a primarily Lao gang an Asian American Street gang. The colors of this gang are mainly blue, yellow, grey and orange.[6]
  • The Seek and Destroy Kin (SADK), an Asian American gang.[6]

City of Santa Clarita

  • The Lover Boy Crips[7]
  • The Rollin 90's Neighborhood Crips[7]

North Hollywood

Possibly defunct gangs include:

  • The Sherman Way Mafia Crips (SWM)[8]
  • The Valley Hood Gangster Crips (VHGC)[8]

Exposition Park and surrounding unincorporated areas (Westside)

Watts (Eastside)

  • The Grape Street Watts Crips (GSWC / GSC / GSW), an African-American Watts Crips subset based out of the Jordan Downs Housing Projects spread from Grape Street to 97th Street, between Alameda Street and 103rd Street. *

Venice

Sacramento

  • The Garden Blocc Crips (GBC), a predominantly — but not exclusively — African-American gang. There are 3 different sub-sets, 21st, 24th, and 29th blocc crips.

Fresno

Idaho

Approximately 5% of Idaho's gang members are Crips, out of 2,408 confirmed gang members in the state.[11]

  • Crips are known to be active in Kootenai and Shoshone counties, where they are reportedly the second largest gang after white supremacist groups. There are approximately 160 gang members in those two counties, not all of which are affiliated with the Crips.[12]

Minnesota

  • The Shotgun Crips
  • The SMG Crips
  • The Tre Tre Crips[13]

Missouri

44 Bud Crips'63 63 Laura Ave Crips 62 Kitchen Crips Opac Crips Murderville Wren Crips Boys of Destruction (B.O.D)

Nevada

  • The Vegas Heights Gangster Crips (VHGC) [15]
  • The Valley View Gangster Crips (VVGC) is a Gangster Crip set in the Valley View neighborhood on the west side of Las Vegas[15]

North Dakota

Oregon

Eugene

  • The 5100 Riverside Crips[18]

Portland

South Dakota

  • The North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux gang[22]

Utah

  • The Baby Regulators (BR).[23]
  • The Doomstown Crips (DTC).[23]
  • The Krazy Ass Samoans (KAS).[23]
  • The Lay Low Crips (LLC)[23]
  • The Locoville Crips (LVC)[24]
  • The Park Village Compton Crips (PVC / PVCC)[23]
  • The Punchito Crip Gang (PCG) gang.[23]
  • The Rose Park Family (RPF).[23]
  • The Salt Lake Posse (SLP) is a Tongan-American and Samoan-American gang. The gang has previously associated and recruited members of the Juggalo subculture, which eventually became the basis of the FBI's labelling of Juggalos as a hybrid gang.[23]
  • The Samoans in Action (SIA).[23]
  • The Sons of Samoa (SOS).[23]
  • The Tongan Crip Gang (TCG).[23]
  • The Tongan Crip Regulators (TCR).[23]
  • The Tongan Style Gangsters (TSG)[23]
  • The West Side Crips / Westside Crips (WSC)[23]
  • The Samoan Pride Gangsters (SPG)[24]

Washington

Crips graffiti tag on a dumpster in Olympia.
  • The Hilltop Crips, in Hilltop, Tacoma. Originally known as the "23rd Street Hilltop Crips", it was formed in the late 1980s and soon became one of the more prominent gangs in Tacoma. While its influence waned in the early 2000s, police say the gang has since increased in size, and had around 200 members in 2010.[25] The Hilltop Crips itself is divided into multiple sets.

Wisconsin

  • The Asian Crips is a nationwide Hmong gang.[26]
  • The Asian Neutral Boys is a regional Asian Crip gang.[26]
  • The Brotherhood Crips[26]
  • The Westside Crips.[27]
  • The Asian Royal Crips is an Asian Crip gang. They are also known as Asian Royal Clan and are associated with ARC.[27]
  • The Laos Crazy Gangsters is a nationwide Laotian gang.[26]
  • The Laos Crips is a nationwide Laotian gang.[26]
  • The Oriental True Crips.[26]
  • The Asian Ruthless Crips.[26]
  • The Crazy Crip Boys.[26]
  • The Garson Park Crips.[27]
  • The Mafia 5-1 Crips[26]

U.S. Virgin Islands

St. Thomas

  • The 22 Projects Crips[28]
  • The Limes Street Crips[28]
  • The Grass Valley Crips[28]
  • The Savan Crips[28]

St. John Island

South America

Brazil


Central America

Belize

  • The Campos Crips, a Belizean gang located in the northern Ambergris Caye area of San Pedro, Belize. The gang is known for its turf war against the Bloods for "sea lotto" (drugs smuggled to the shore of Belize). The gang is named after Belizean laborer Moses Campos who was said to be involved the killing of Santiago Trapp.[29]
  • The Rollin 30's Harlem Crips

Europe

Portugal

There is very little evidence of a subgroup of the North American gang Crips in Portugal. This set is located in the north, in the city of Guimarães:

  • Eighteen Trays Crips This set have been reported on the suburbs of the city.


Spain

In Spain several Crips sets have been reported.

  • Front Yard Crips
  • G Stone Crips
  • South Side Trays Crips
  • Kilo Tray Crips

Netherlands

Oceania

Australia

Guam (U.S. territory)

  • The School Yard Crips (SYC), a Chuukese Crip gang in Guam[32]

New Zealand Christchurch- Neighbourhood Crips (NHC)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "2011 National Gang Threat Assessment". Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2011-10-22. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  2. ↑ "Police count more gangs arriving on Anchorage streets". Juneau Empire. July 7, 2009. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Gangs active in Sonoma County". The Press Democrat. September 21, 2014. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Cambodian Crips starting to muscle in" (PDF). Central City Extra. August 2003. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Brown Announces Takedown of "Merced Gangster Crips"". State of California Department of Justice. May 19, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Street Gangs in Tulare County: A Comprehensive Guide for Understanding Street Gangs". Tulare County Office of Education. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  7. 1 2 "JAI GANG CODE LIST". Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  8. 1 2 "A Presentation on Gangs and Crews" (PDF). Youth Relations Unit. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  9. ↑ "THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JONATHAN GUTIERREZ, Defendant and Appellant". Superior Court of Los Angeles County. January 28, 2013. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Dog Pound gang's million-dollar business: Drugs, fraud, human trafficking". fresnobee. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  11. ↑ "2010 Idaho Gang Survey" (PDF). Idaho Criminal Justice Commission. 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  12. ↑ Nafzger, Christian (October 22, 2008). "Criminal Street Gang Activity in Idaho". Treasure Valley Partnership. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  13. ↑ Stachura, Sea. "Rochester copes with emerging gang problem". Retrieved 2017-04-18.
  14. ↑ Porterfield, Jason (2008). Tattoos and Secret Societies. The Rosen Publishing Group. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  15. 1 2 Ley, Ana (June 8, 2015). "Las Vegas home to roughly 20,000 street gang members". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  16. ↑ Lymn, Catherine (December 23, 2014). "Shooting shows gang presence in North Dakota". Bismarck Tribune. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  17. 1 2 Johnson, Nicole (April 9, 2015). "UPDATE: Gang Problem Sparks F-M Street Crime Unit, "We Are Going at This Head On"". Valley News. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  18. ↑ Liedle, Chris (October 24, 2014). "There's been a big rivalry between several of the gangs". KVAL 13. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  19. ↑ Bernstein, Maxine (November 20, 2010). "A former Portland gang member leaves prison with a mission: to help others from following him". The Oregonian (OregonLive.com). Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  20. 1 2 Bernstein, Maxine (October 12, 2015). "Portland struggles with gang violence: 13 shootings in 2 weeks". Seattle Times. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  21. ↑ Valdez, Angela (September 20, 2005). "Our Gangs". Willamette Week. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  22. ↑ Eckholm, Erik (December 13, 2009). "Gang Violence Grows on an Indian Reservation". The New York Times. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  23. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Salt Lake Area Gang Project". Salt Lake Area Metro Gang Unit. 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  24. 1 2 "Polynesian/Islander Gangs and Culture" (PDF). Salt Lake City Area Gang Project. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  25. ↑ "2 more sentenced in Hilltop Crips crackdown in Tacoma - Crime News - The News Tribune". Thenewstribune.com. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  26. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Northeast Wisconsin Gang Assessment" (PDF). Wisconsin Department of Justice. 2008. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  27. 1 2 3 "TIME SYSTEM NEWSLETTER" (PDF). Wisconsin Department of Justice. February 28, 1997. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  28. 1 2 3 4 5 Gangs in Paradise. US Virgin Islands Gang Unit. 2008.
  29. ↑ Janowitz, Nathaniel (September 3, 2014). "Belize's Island Paradise Is Caught Up in a Bloods Vs Crips Floating Drug War". Vice News. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  30. 1 2 3 4 The Eurogang Paradox: Street Gangs and Youth Groups in the U.S. and Europe. Springer Journal. ISBN 9401008825.
  31. ↑ "How the 'gangs' of Melbourne have moved police and community groups to search for answers". The Age. August 18, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  32. ↑ "ERIC ED388745: Youth Gangs on Guam: A Status Report". 1 August 1995. Retrieved 24 August 2018 – via Internet Archive.
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