55th Street Crip Mac
Catherine Rubeo
Robert story 3Gang InformationLocationSouth Carolina , west ridge blvd on east 378ActiveVeryLeadersKnown LeadersJameson Wiggins, CMac DalocAlliesKnown AlliesRollin 60s,rollin 50s rollin 30s rolling 90s , folk nation as Almighty black discipline,ZoesEnemiesEnemiesRollin 20 bloods , piru , Hoover criminal , gangster discipline, 4-waywestside bloods,UBN AND ALSO with other crips ,POLICE DEPARTMENT
55th Street Neighborhood Crips are a gang based and located in zSouth Los Angeles, Jameson and Cmac have evolved this faction to be more ruthless, more aggressive, and more hungry for the money bag, and have chosen Los Santos as our next stronghold location. We plan to run drugs, guns, and anything we can do to make money and gain respect in the city.
Jameson Wiggins, and CMac Daloc brought this set of the Crips to the city to be able to introduce a gang that is ruthless, and fearless of anything standing in their way. We're determined to make money, party, and live the life we all wish we could. We plan to turn this into an empire that can easily feed all of its members and more.
55NHC are currently made up of 8 active members. We plan to gain 2 more members and more power. Our main goals are buy properties and control a portion of the legal income market, and push drugs and guns and also control a majority of the illegal income market as well.
55th Street Neighborhood Crips was started in Los Angeles, Jameson moved him and Cmac out to Los Santos to escape some legal trouble and to get away and found to love the city and all the opportunities to make money were almost stupid to pass, so we stayed.
Present Day 55NHC is growing stronger and stronger, recruiting more and more members and growing our empire. We plan to continue recruiting and never stop growing. We also plan to purchase more mini marts, and a gang hideout soon.
During our reign in Diamond city we acquired less than perfect associates and tactics to further the gang activity. We burned ourselves out on doing the same thing day in and day out and needed a change of pace. Most of the crips initially moved to Australia with Jameson but soon we broke up there too.
One day Jameson gave Cmac a ring to see how life was and see how DCRP was, concluding that phone call Jameson decided it was time to move back to DCRP and rebuild.Cmac had met a guy named Carlos who was talking about joining up with the crips and had good ideas on how to steer the gang in the right direction this time. Jameson caught a flight that night and as soon as he landed he met up with Tmac and Carlos and begun to reignite the blue flame in DCRP. The Crips are just getting our feet planted again and soon we will be on top. New team, new faces and ideas, and new mindsets running into money making opportunities will propel us to be the #1 gang in the city very soon.
The Crips are a primarily African-American alliance of street gangs that are based in the coastal regions of Southern California. Founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1969, mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams, the Crips began as an alliance between two autonomous gangs, and developed into a loosely connected network of individual "sets", often engaged in open warfare with one another. Its members have traditionally worn blue clothing since around 1973.
The Crips are one of the largest and most violent associations of street gangs in the United States.[23] With an estimated 30,000 to 35,000 members in 2008,[4] the gangs' members have been involved in murders, robberies and drug dealing, among other crimes. They have a long and bitter rivalry with the Bloods.
Some sources suggest that the original name for the alliance, "Cribs", was narrowed down from a list of many options and chosen unanimously from three final choices, over the Black Overlords and the Assassins. Cribs was chosen to reflect the young age of the majority of the gang members. The name evolved into "Crips" when gang members began carrying around canes to display their "pimp" status. People in the neighborhood then began calling them cripples, or "Crips" for short.[26] In February 1972 the Los Angeles Times used the term.[23]
Another source suggests "Crips" may have evolved from "Cripplers", a 1970s street gang in Watts, of which Washington was a member.[27] The name had no political, organizational, cryptic, or acronymic meaning, though some have suggested it stands for "Common Revolution In Progress", a backronym. According to the film Bastards of the Party, directed by a member of the Bloods, the name represented "Community Revolutionary Interparty Service" or "Community Reform Interparty Service".
Gang activity in South Central Los Angeles has its roots in a variety of factors dating to the 1950s, including: post-World War II economic decline leading to joblessness and poverty; racial segregation of young African American men, who were excluded from organizations such as the Boy Scouts, leading to the formation of black "street clubs"; and the waning of black nationalist organizations such as the Black Panther Party and the Black Power Movement.[28][29][30][31]
Williams recalled that a blue bandana was first worn by Crips founding member Curtis "Buddha" Morrow, as a part of his color-coordinated clothing of blue Levis, a blue shirt, and dark blue suspenders. A blue bandana was worn in tribute to Morrow after he was shot and killed on February 23, 1973. The color then became associated with Crips.[32]
By 1978, there were 45 Crip gangs, called sets, in Los Angeles. They were heavily involved in the production of PCP,[33] marijuana and amphetamines.[34][35] On March 11, 1979, Williams, a member of the Westside Crips, was arrested for four murders and on August 9, 1979, Washington was gunned down. Washington had been against Crip infighting and after his death several Crip sets started fighting against each other. The Crips' leadership was dismantled, prompting a deadly gang war between the Rollin' 60 Neighborhood Crips and Eight Tray Gangster Crips that led nearby Crip sets to choose sides and align themselves with either the Neighborhood Crips or the Gangster Crips, waging large-scale war in South Central and other cities. The East Coast Crips (from East Los Angeles) and the Hoover Crips directly severed their alliance after Washington's death. By 1980, the Crips were in turmoil, warring with the Bloods and against each other.
After the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979, many of the former government of Anastasio Somoza Debayle fled to the U.S. and were supported by the CIA to counter the communists. Enrique Bermdez was allegedly picked by the CIA to head the contras, who met with Oscar Danilo Blandn and Norwin Meneses to discuss fundraising. They decided to use drug trafficking to raise funds, and targeted black communities in South Los Angeles.[36]
The gang's growth and influence increased significantly in the early 1980s when crack cocaine boomed and Crip sets began distributing the drug. Large profits induced many Crips to establish new markets in other cities and states. As a result, Crips membership grew steadily and the street gang was one of the nation's largest by the late 1980s.[37][38] In 1999, there were at least 600 Crip sets with more than 30,000 members transporting drugs in the United States.[23]
As of 2015, the Crips gang consists of between approximately 30,000 and 35,000 members and 800 sets, active in 221 cities and 41 U.S. states.[1] The states with the highest estimated number of Crip sets are California, Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Members typically consist of young African American men, but can be white, Hispanic, Asian, and Pacific Islander.[23] The gang also began to establish a presence in Canada in the early 1990s;[39] Crip sets are active in the Canadian cities of Montreal and Toronto.[40][41]
Some practices of Crip gang life include graffiti and substitutions and deletions of particular letters of the alphabet. The letter "b" in the word "blood" is "disrespected" among certain Crip sets and written with a cross inside it because of its association with the enemy. The letters "CK", which are interpreted to stand for "Crip killer", are avoided and replaced by "cc". For example, the words "kick back" are written "kicc bacc", and block is written as "blocc". Many other words and letters are also altered due to symbolic associations.[44] Crips traditionally refer to each other as "Cuz" or "Cuzz", which itself is sometimes used as a moniker for a Crip. "Crab" is the most disrespectful epithet to call a Crip, and can warrant fatal retaliation.[45] Crips in prison modules in the 1970s and 1980s sometimes spoke Swahili to maintain privacy from guards and rival gangs.[46]
As with most criminal street gangs, Crips have benefited monetarily from illicit activities such as illegal gambling, drug-dealing, pimping[47], larceny, and robbery.[1] Crips also profit from extorting local drug dealers who are not members of the gang.[citation needed] Along with profitable rackets such as these, they also participate in vandalism and property crime, often for gang-pride reasons[citation needed] or simply enjoyment.[citation needed] This can include public graffiti (tagging) and "joyriding" in stolen vehicles.[citation needed]
The gang's current primary source of income is street-level drug distribution,[citation needed] however many Crip members also make notable amounts of funds from the black market sale of illicit firearms. The gang's size and power was greatly augmented by the profits from the street sale of crack cocaine throughout the 1980s.[citation needed] The gang's initial phase of growth and popularity was due to the explosion of crack cocaine in the United States during the 1980s.[citation needed]
The Crips became popular throughout southern Los Angeles as more youth gangs joined; at one point they outnumbered non-Crip gangs by 3 to 1, sparking disputes with non-Crip gangs, including the L.A. Brims, Athens Park Boys, the Bishops, The Drill Company, and the Denver Lanes. By 1971 the gang's notoriety had spread across Los Angeles.
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