List of Crips subgroups

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

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Stanley Tookie Williams, founder of the Westside Crips

Raymond Washington, founder of the Crips

Alaska

• 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 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 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

Colton

• Colton City Crips[3]

Santa Rosa

• The Asian Boyz (ABZ) Is an Asian American street gang that was created by the Cambodians in Long Beach.[4]
• The Dec Lao Crips (DLC) [4]
• Valley Oak Crips: Founded by Eritrean Americans in Santa Rosa's Valley Oak apartment complex in the northwest part of town, in the 1990s.[4]

City of San Francisco

• The Asian Crips (AC), a Japanese American and Korean American Crip set.[5]
• The Cambodian Crips (CC), is a primarily Cambodian American and Vietnamese American gang in Tenderloin, San Francisco which includes Little Saigon. Last reported in 2003.[6]

Merced

• The Merced Gangster Crips (MGC), a mixed-race gang in Merced, California.[7]

Tulare County

• The Lahu Pride Crips (LPC), is a primarily Lahu and Asian American gang.[8]
• The Mongolian Boys Society (MBS), is a primarily Hmong American gang.[8]
• The Oriental Boys Soldiers (OBS), is a primarily Lao gang an Asian American Street gang.[8]
• The Seek and Destroy Kin (SADK), an Asian American gang.[8]

North Hollywood

Possibly defunct gangs include:

• The Sherman Way Mafia Crips (SWM)[9]
• The Valley Hood Gangster Crips (VHGC)[9]

Exposition Park and surrounding unincorporated areas (Westside)

• The Rollin 30s Harlem Crips, also known as Dirt Gang is a mostly Belizean-American and African-American gang.

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. *

• The Project Watts Crips, more commonly known as the PJ Watts Crips (PJWC) or PJ Crips, are a Watts Crip set based out of the Imperial Courts Housing Project in Watts.[10]

Venice

• The Venice Shoreline Crips (VSLC / VSC), a predominantly African-American gang in Venice, California.

Fresno

• • The Dog Pound Crips (DPG)[11]
  • The Modoc Boys[11]
  • The U-Boys[11]
  • Garrett Street[11]
  • Northside Pleasant[11]
  • The East Lane Crips[11]
  • The Muhammad Family[11]
  • The Villa Posse[11]
  • The Strother Boys[11]
  • Klette Mob[11]
  • Fink White Deuce[11]
  • Six Deuce Diamond Crips[11]

East Palo Alto

• The True Blue Crips had presence in East Palo Alto during the 1990s, and may have presence in the modern day.[12]

Long Beach

• The Asian Boyz were founded in Long Beach in the mid-1980s, and was made up of mostly Cambodian Americans. It is the largest Asian American Crips subset.
• Baby Insane Crips[13]
• Rollin 20s Crips

Sacramento

• Garden Blocc Crips, situated mainly in South Sacramento[14]

San Diego

• The Asian Crips have a subset called Locced Out Youngsters which operate in the Mira Mesa neighborhood, among others.[15]
• Westcoast Crips, significantly settled in the Southeast San Diego area.[16]

Stockton

• 52 Hoover Gangsta Crips[17]
• 118 East Coast Crips[17]
• Asian Crips[17]
• Crazy Town Crips, with a heavy Asian American presence, especially Cambodian, and claims the Carrington Circle area.[18]
• The Eastside Crips[19]
• The Northside Gangster Crips, mostly African American with members who are Hispanic American and of other ethnicites[20]
• Original Crip Gangsters[17]
• Southside Mob Crips[17]

Richmond

• The San Francisco-based Cambodian Crips started forming in Richmond in the early 2000s, and feuds with the gang Sons of Death.[21]

Idaho

Approximately 5% of Idaho's gang members are Crips, out of 2,408 confirmed gang members in the state.[22]

• Crips are known to be active in Kootenai and Shoshone counties.[23]

Minnesota

• Tre Tre Crips

• ShotGun Crips

[24]

Nevada

• The Bite the Dust Crips (BTD), an African-American Crip subset[25]

• The Vegas Heights Gangster Crips (VHGC) [26]
• The Valley View Gangster Crips (VVGC) set in the Valley View neighborhood on the west side of Las Vegas[26]

North Dakota

• The Country Boy Crips, in Dickinson[27]
• The East Side Crips[28]
• The West Side Crips[28]

Oregon

Eugene

• The 5100 Riverside Crips[29]

Portland

• The Columbia Villa Crips, in Portsmouth[30]
• The Kerby Blocc Crips, in Humboldt[31][32]
• The Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips (see above), in Piedmont and Montavilla[31]

Pennsylvania

• The McDonald bureau Crips, is a Caucasian subset of Crips, based in McDonald Pennsylvania. (McC).[33]

South Dakota

• The North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux gang[34]

Utah

• The Tongan Crip Gang (TCG).[35]
• The Baby Tengalators (BT).[35]
• The Doomstown Crips (DTC).[35]
• The Krazy Ass Samoans (KAS).[35]
• The Lay Low Crips (LLC)[35]
• The Locoville Crips (LVC)[36]
• The Park Village Compton Crips (PVC / PVCC)[35]
• The Punchito Crip Gang (PCG) gang.[35]
• The Rose Park Family (RPF).[35]
• The Salt Lake Posse (SLP) is a Tongan-American and Samoan-American gang.[35]
• The Samoans in Action (SIA).[35]
• The Sons of Samoa (SOS).[35]
• The Tongan Crip Regulators (TCR).[35]
• The Tongan Style Gangsters (TSG)[35]
• The West Side Crips / Westside Crips (WSC)[35]
• The Samoan Pride Gangsters (SPG)[36]
• The South 700 Crips (S7) (The only St.George set thats predominantly White there are little people of color in this set)

Washington

Crips graffiti tag on a dumpster in Olympia.

• The Hilltop Crips, in Hilltop, Tacoma.[37]

Wisconsin

• The Asian Crips is a nationwide Hmong gang.[38]
• The Asian Neutral Boys is a regional Asian Crip gang.[38]
• The Brotherhood Crips[38]
• The Westside Crips.[39]
• The Asian Royal Crips is an Asian Crip gang. They are also known as Asian Royal Clan.[39]
• The Laos Crazy Gangsters is a nationwide Laotian gang.[38]
• The Laos Crips is a nationwide Laotian gang.[38]
• The Oriental True Crips.[38]
• The Asian Ruthless Crips.[38]
• The Crazy Crip Boys.[38]
• The Garson Park Crips.[39]
• The Mafia 5-1 Crips[38]

Caribbean islands

Grenada

The Crips have been identified in Grenada although they were mentioned to have no affiliation to the U.S. gangs. Last reported in 2008.[40]

U.S. Virgin Islands

St. Thomas

• The 22 Projects Crips[41]
• The Limes Street Crips[41]
• The Grass Valley Crips[41]
• The Savan Crips[41]

St. John Island

• The St. John Crips, on the St. John island.[41]

Central America

Belize

• The Campos Crips, a Belizean gang located in the northern Ambergris Caye area of San Pedro, Belize.[42]

South America

Brazil

• The Menshevicc Senshi Crips (MSC) is a Brazilian mixed race gang located around the Viracopos neighborhood area of Campinas, predominantly formed by Afro-Brazilians, Japanese-Brazilians and Russian-Brazilians, with ties to the First Capital Command.[43]

Europe

Netherlands

• The Eastside Crips is an Afro-Dutch gang in The Hague, Netherlands[44]
• The West-Holland Boys Crips in the areas Noordwijkerhout,Oegstgeest [45] [46]
• The Southside First Tray Crips is an African-Dutch gang in Rotterdam, Netherlands[44]
• The Eight Tray Gangster Crips in the areas Dordrecht,Groningen Den Haag [45] [46]
• The Traynity in Bijlmer The Netherlands[45]
• The Luca Crips in Rotterdam, Netherlands The Netherlands[45]

Oceania

Australia

• Crips have been documented in Melbourne, Australia, although no subsets have been identified. These gangs are predominantly Samoan, Tongan, and Maori.[47]

Guam (U.S. territory)

• The School Yard Crips (SYC), a Chuukese Crip gang in Guam[48]

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