In 1969, a Los Angeles youth named Raymond Washington, 15, organized a group of other neighborhood youths and started a gang called the Baby Avenues. ... Some of these sets included Avalon Garden Crips,

In Los Angeles and other urban areas in the United States, the formation of street gangs increased at an alarming pace throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The Bloods and the Crips, the most well...

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In 1971, when Williams was 17, he and a friend named Raymond Washington started the Crips.

I will look into how the Bloods and Crips started, why gang violence is on the rise, violence in our nations schools, women in gangs, how sports teams and their logos are used for a gang and...

Other reporters have said that you started the Crips as a way of protecting people in your community.

Relationships question: What do bloods and crips have against each other? edwin meraz started the bloods while CRIPS blowed the BLOODs head off 211 ... Is TI a crips? What is crips?

Profile of the The Crips prison gang ... 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.

Williams, 51, and a high school friend started the Crips street gang (search) in Los Angeles in 1971.

Eventually, Stanley Tookie Williams, generally acknowledged as co-founder of the Crips, started his own gang called the Westside Crips.