Question: are crips east or west?
Answer: Crips are an older set found in 1969 by Raymond Washington in South Central Los Angeles. Bloods was found in 1972 by a group of breakaway crips in Piru, Compton. In west coast the crips outnumber bloods by 5:1 but in east coast,the united blood nation, another form of bloods are dominant among African American gangs.