11-29-2007, 03:29 PM
[quote ztirffritz]My wife works in an area that actually does have gangs. She as learned alot about gangs from her students and the police that occasionally arrest them. I'm not sure if I'll get this right, but originally, on the west coast at least, there were two gangs. One came from near the border of Mexico and the other came from farther south. The police in the jails learned that it was like trying to keep cats and mice in the same cage. They had to be separated. They dressed one gang in blue and one in red so that they could tell which was which. Things only got worse from there...
First the "Crips & Bloods" are Black gangs, not Latino.
But your story is partially true.:
http://www.nagia.org/Gang%20Articles/Cri...Bloods.pdf
"During the 1970s, colors also became a way to signify allegiance to one gang or another.
The California Youth Authority gave handkerchiefs to inmates in youth correctional
settings. The Crips began using the blue bandannas as their symbol. However, because the Crips (who outnumbered the Bloods three-to-one) wore blue, the Bloods adopted red bandannas. By the mid-70s, the gangs’ territories were well known and defined. Blood versus Crip battles were commonplace on the street, county jails, and prisons."
BGnR
But your story is partially true.:
http://www.nagia.org/Gang%20Articles/Cri...Bloods.pdf
"During the 1970s, colors also became a way to signify allegiance to one gang or another.
The California Youth Authority gave handkerchiefs to inmates in youth correctional
settings. The Crips began using the blue bandannas as their symbol. However, because the Crips (who outnumbered the Bloods three-to-one) wore blue, the Bloods adopted red bandannas. By the mid-70s, the gangs’ territories were well known and defined. Blood versus Crip battles were commonplace on the street, county jails, and prisons."
BGnR