Skipp Townsend, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Sept. 8. The war between the Rollin’ 60s Crips and the Inglewood Family Bloods was past its 50th year when Skipp Townsend brought ...

Deputy City Attorney Brooke White began a recently filed court motion with the words “There is something terribly wrong in Oakwood.” That is about the only thing widely agreed upon in what’s become, ...

It was the early 1970s in Los Angeles — a city divided by race, poverty, and lost hope. What began as small neighborhood ...

Faced with the dilemma of devoting their lives to their religion or firebombing the homes of rivals, Mormon gangbangers decided they could do both. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, youngsters in Salt Lake ...

Tyrone White was a member of the 65 Menlo Gangster faction of the Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles during the late '80s and '90s. White held the position of a street soldier and participated in ...

Tyrone White was a member of the 65 Menlo Gangster faction of the Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles during the late '80s and '90s, witnessing police brutality and the LA riots. White held the ...

Peace is brewing in parts of San Diego between decades-long sworn enemies the Crips and the Bloods. Veterans from both gangs hope that dialogue will trump threats and badly needed resources will ...

Lawyer up, all you Bloods and Crips on the northwest side. Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos will announce tomorrow the county’s first civil injunction filed against a gang, targeting “members ...

MARIETTA — In an explosive county commission meeting Monday, where one commissioner referred to Cobb Countians as “political Bloods and Crips” and another said they didn’t trust the county attorney, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. “Crips and Bloods: Made in America,” a documentary feature airing ...

Members of rival Brooklyn gangs held a truce long enough to build a lucrative drug and gun trafficking operation before law enforcement authorities dismantled it by arresting seven people and seizing ...

Americans have a few, glaring misconceptions about Afghanistan's Taliban fighters that Foreign Policy contributor Gretchen Peters would like to clarify. While media portrayals of the Taliban have ...