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The Bloods are a street gang
Gang

A gang is a Group of people who through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage share a common Identity . In current usage it typically denotes a organized crime or else a criminal affiliation....
 originally founded in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
. The gang is widely known for its rivalry with the Crips
Crips

The Crips are a primarily, but not exclusively, African American gang founded in Los Angeles, California in 1971 mainly by 15-year-old Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams....
. They are identified by the red color worn by their members and by particular gang symbols, including distinctive hand signs. The Bloods are made up of various sub-groups known as "crews" between which significant differences exist such as colors, clothing, and operations, and political ideas which may be in open conflict with each other.






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The Bloods are a street gang
Gang

A gang is a Group of people who through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage share a common Identity . In current usage it typically denotes a organized crime or else a criminal affiliation....
 originally founded in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
. The gang is widely known for its rivalry with the Crips
Crips

The Crips are a primarily, but not exclusively, African American gang founded in Los Angeles, California in 1971 mainly by 15-year-old Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams....
. They are identified by the red color worn by their members and by particular gang symbols, including distinctive hand signs. The Bloods are made up of various sub-groups known as "crews" between which significant differences exist such as colors, clothing, and operations, and political ideas which may be in open conflict with each other. Since their creation, the Blood gangs have branched out throughout the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.. Bloods have been documented in the US military, found in both US and overseas bases.

History

The Bloods gang was formed initially to compete against the influence of the Crips
Crips

The Crips are a primarily, but not exclusively, African American gang founded in Los Angeles, California in 1971 mainly by 15-year-old Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams....
 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

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. The origin of the Bloods and their rivalry with the Crips dates to the 1970s, where the Pirus
Pirus

The Pirus are a Los Angeles, California area gang based out of Compton, California. Originally a set or faction of the Crips street gang, the Pirus broke off during the 1970s and are considered to be the original founders of the rival Bloods street gang....
 street gang, originally a set, or faction, of the Crips, broke off during an internal gang war, and allied with other smaller gangs to found the gang that would eventually become known as the Bloods. The Pirus are therefore considered to be the original founders of the Bloods. During the rise of crack cocaine
Crack cocaine

Crack cocaine, crack or rock is a solid, smokable form of cocaine. It is a freebase form of cocaine that can be made using baking soda or sodium hydroxide, in a process to convert cocaine hydrochloride into methylbenzoylecgonine ....
, the gang's focus shifted to drug production. Bloods sets operate independently of each other, and are currently located in almost all States. Blood sets on the East Coast are often seen as affiliated with the United Blood Nation
United Blood Nation

The United Blood Nation, simply called the Eastcoast Bloods , formed in 1993 within the New York City jail system on Rikers Island's George Mochen Detention Center....
, a gang which originated in Rikers Island
Rikers Island

Rikers Island is New York City's County jail facility, as well as the name of the island on which it sits, in the East River between Queens and the mainland Bronx, adjacent to the runways of LaGuardia Airport....
.

Further reading

  • Yusuf Jah, Sister Shah'keyah, UPRISING : Crips and Bloods Tell the Story of America's Youth In The Crossfire, ISBN 0-684-80460-3


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