After his funeral recently, Arthur 'King Bobalouie' Moses was remembered as an early member of the Crips and a founder of the Pirus, one of the nation's first Bloods gangs.

particularly in contrast to Bloods gang members. When doing the crip walk, a person will hop from one foot to the other, twisting and turning the feet at angles, sometimes forming the letters C-R-I-P.

Latin Kings, commonly regarded as one of the more organized criminal street gangs, evolved into a nationwide criminal ...

The gangs of those days banded together to defend ... Violence became more regular and indiscriminate. The Bloods and Crips and their affiliates gained national prominence as the city's murder ...