

The main among them were the Pirus or the Piru Street Boys. It was in this time that some of the non-Crip gangs got together to form an alliance. The Crips began to target other gangs as they grew in size.

The gang members were primarily African Americans and had a particular affinity for blue color in their dressing. However, as more and more local gangs joined in and made Crips one of the largest associations of street gangs, his influence diminished till finally he was shot dead in 1979. Washington disliked guns and preferred to settle all differences by hand to hand fights. Raymond Washington united his gang with that of Stanley Williams from the east and west side of Los Angles to form an alliance to protect their areas of influence. The gang initially propagated the philosophy that it wanted to protect its neighborhood from outsiders but this claim soon faded away and the gang was openly involved in various criminal activities including robbery, murders, drug dealings, etc. Raymond Washington formed a gang by the name Baby Avenues or Avenue Cribs signifying the young age of the members of the gang. The main gang that formed the Bloods was Piru Street Boys. Bloods was mainly a gang formed by smaller street gangs coming together to counter the growing influence of the Crips. Crips was a gang formed in Los Angeles, USA in the late sixties and early seventies.
