I would like to propose that the Crips are an anomaly in relation to what usually happens to perceived threats after moral panics. By 1972, three years after the groups formation, the Los Angeles Police Departm ent claimed the group had become increasingly violent, despite many accounts contradicting this sentiment, stating that such violence had yet to occur among the group.Īfter such accusations and panics, the group would begin its shift. These basic values was not given the opportunity to run its course” (Brown, p.97 2011).
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The Grape Street Crips are still rivals of the Hacienda Village Bloods, the Fruit Town Pirus, Circle City Piru, Be-Bop Watts Bloods, 92 Bishops, PJ Watts Crips, Ten Line Gangster Crips, all East Coast Crips, Fudge Town Mafia Crips, 99 Watts Mafia Crips, Mac Mafia Crips, Blue Gate Mafia Crips, the Compton Avenue Crips, Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips and Florencia 13. Although this truce helped stem some of the violence between the two gangs, flareups occure from time to time. This rivalry became so bloody and intense that a truce had to be brokered between themselves and other Watts gangs in 1992. The Grape Street Watts Crips have gained many enemies over the years their main rivalry being with the Bounty Hunters Watts gang. The Black gang members went by the "East Side Watts Varrio Grape" but by around 1986/87 the new Black members were known as the "East Side Grape Street Watts Baby Loc Crips". Despite this occurance, the two gangs remained close allies. When the Mexican members began to align themselves under the Sureños banner, they changed their name to the Watts Varrio Grape Street 13. In the beginning, their neighborhood was called "Watts Varrio Grape" (WVG), which included both Mexican and Black members together. They are the largest Crip neighborhood in Watts at 0.394 square miles and the second overall black gang in the area, 2nd to the Bounty Hunter Bloods.
Their territory stretches from 97th Street in the north to 107th Street in the south, between Wilmington Avenue in the west and Alameda in the east. They occupy the Jordan Downs Housing Projects with moat members attending Jordan High School which is located adjacent to the projects. In addition to wearing blue, the Grape Street Watts Crips sport the color purple to sygnify Grape Street, a north-south street in Watts, and 103rd in the heart of their neighborhood. The East Side (E/S) Grape Street Watts Crips are a large and long standing African-American street gang founded in the unincorporated community of Watts in South Los Angeles, California.
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