Bloods Gang Knowledge

By late 1971 the Crip alliance was well established in Los Angeles. In this same
year the Avalon Garden Crips and the Inglewood Crips had joined forces with
other Crip sets and began to engage in violent warfare with non-Crip sets. They
began to expand to non-Crip set territories controlled by other independent
(gangs not in an alliance) gangs including The L.A. Brims, which started in 1969
on the west side Los Angeles and was already a powerful organization by 1971.
The Crips targeted these independent organizations because they were not part of
the Crip alliance or any alliance and therefore lacked the strength in numbers that
the Crips had and were easy targets. The Piru Street Boys, who presented a
powerful force in Compton, actually collaborated with the Crips prior to 1972.
For a short time the Pirus were sanctioned by the Crips as the Piru Street Crips,
and they also wore the traditional blue flags of the Crip alliance.

During the summer of 1972 the Piru Street Crips had a conflict with the rest of
the Crip gangs and warfare ensued. The conflict was over a murder the Crips had
committed on March 21st of that year at the Hollywood Palladium. After a
concert at the Palladium, up to 20 Crips attacked a small group of young men
and robbed them of their wallets and leather Jackets. During this attack a young
man by the name of Robert Ballou Jr. was beat to death after he refused to give
up his Jacket. Robert Ballou was not a member of any organization so the Piru
Street Crips had a problem with the other Crip gangs for attacking a neutral
person. A neutral person is a person not in a gang, and is also known as a civilian
or neutron. The Piru Street Crips were strongly against the abuse of civilians and
waged war against the other Crip gangs over this event, but they were severly
outnumbered by the rest of the Crip gangs and the Crips prevailed in that battle.
The Pirus dropped out of the Crip allaince and wanted to terminate all peaceful
relations with all Crip gangs after this war, so they turned to the Lueders Park
Hustlers for assistance. The Lueders Park Hustlers agreed and a meeting was
called on Piru Street. The Pirus also invited every independent organization
targeted by the Crip sets to join the meeting. The Crips had murdered an L.A.
Brim member by the name of Lil Country earlier that year, so the Brims attended
the meeting as well. Others that attended were the Denver Lanes and the
Bishops.

At the meeting, the groups discussed how to combat Crip intimidation, along
with the creation of a new alliance to counter the Crips. At that time the color of
flags was not important, but since the Crips were known to wear blue flags, the
Pirus and the other independent organizations decided to discontinue the wearing
of blue flags. They decided to take on the wearing of an opposite color, red, and
created a united organization which became known as the Blood alliance. Blood
gangs also decided to start demonstrating their flags to the right side, since all
Crips are known to demonstrate their flags to the left. Even though all Blood
gangs now demonstrate their flags to the right as a result of that meeting, some
old school Blood members continued to demonstrate to the left regarding it as
the original side and how they were raised. The Athens Park Boys and Pueblos
were later also sanctioned into the Blood allaince, and soon after, other
independent gangs who had been threatened or attacked by the Crips were also
sanctioned into the Blood alliance as well.

Another organization, called the Black P Stones, was also sanctioned into the
Blood alliance in Los Angeles. The Black P Stones actually originated in
Chicago, Illinoise and were brought to Los Angeles in 1969 by T. Rodgers, who
was sent to L.A by Chicago’s main 21 at the age of 12 to spread the nation and
it’s teachings. T. Rodgers started 2 sub-sets of Black P Stones in Los Angeles,
one sub-set is called the Jungles (Baldwin Village, an area that had an
organization called the Jungle Boys which T. flipped into Stones) and the other
sub-set is called City (in the West Adams area). The People Nation alliance did
not yet exist in Chicago at the time, so the Stones joined the Brims in Los
Angeles as their own Brim sets before the Brims requested to be sanctioned into
the Blood Alliance. Even though the Black P Stones in Los Angeles joined the
Blood Alliance with the rest of the Brims and soon became their own Blood sets
separate from the Brims, The Black P Stones in Chicago remained an
independent gang untill the People Nation was created in 1978. The Black P
Stones in Los Angeles took on the wearing of red flags like all Bloods and now
flag to the right as Bloods should, but uses the same symbols (5 point stars,
pyramids, etc) and teachings as the original Stones in Chicago; thereby making
the Black P Stone Bloods of Los Angeles the first 5 riding Bloods set. The
original Black P Stones in Chicago have been known to show great animosity
towards the Black P Stone Bloods in Los Angeles for joining the Blood alliance
without permission from the Stones in Chicago, so the Black P Stones in Los
Angeles are regarded as renegades by the original Stones in Chicago. Renegade
is a person or group of individuals claiming a gang or organization that they are
not or are no longer really a part of or on count with. The Blood Stone Villains
(also known as East Side Villains) and Blood Stone Pirus of Los Angeles are not
part of the Black P Stone Bloods, they got their name from a 1970’s R&B group
called “Bloodstone” and have no connection to the Black P Stone Bloods in L.A.
other than being under the Blood alliance. Contrary to popular belief, T. Rodgers
did not start the Bloods, and was not even at the meeting where the Bloods was
created. His gang just simply fell in line with the Blood Alliance after the Blood
Alliance was created.

Many Pirus began to use burgundy flags in addition to the red flags to seperate
themselves from the rest of the sets in the Blood alliance, essentially turning Piru
into a “Card” or “Car” for short. Cards are smaller alliances of individual Blood
gangs within the Blood alliance itself, which gangs within the cards are known to
put before the whole Blood alliance. Blood gangs strictly bang (go to war) to
defend their territory (hood) before any alliance or card, and are known to be
very vicious in their attacks. Also, Blood sets are always trying to expand their
territories and find new territories to take over which essentially makes their
wars never ending. Bloods are known to mark their territories and all boundaries
by the use of extreme wall banging. Wall banging consists of marking territory
with graffitti which shows what gang controls that turf or going into a rivals turf
and crossing out rival graffitti.

There are significantly more Blood gangs today than when the alliance was first
created. This is because many independent organizations outside of California,
and across the United States have also turned into Blood sets. All it takes for an
entire independent organization or gang to become a Blood set is the will to
become Bloods, meaning any gang can become a Blood set if it chooses to do so.
Most Blood sets have names which include the name of their City, a street that
runs through their turf, or the name of the projects, apartment complex, or
community they control. Bloods are known to shout “SuWhoop” as a greeting to
other Bloods and “Blatt” as a war call durring battle (Blatt = B.lood L.ove A.ll
T.he T.ime). All bloods must shed the Blood (”Blood In” - shoot, stab, slice, etc.)
of an enemy before becoming a Blood to prove that he/she is really down to
“ride” (put in work) for the set/hood. Bloods are forbidden to attack any person
in their turf/hood who is not an enemy nor any person who is not in a gang
(neutral) without purpose, doing so will lead to being “Blooded Out” (killed).
Bloods believe that they must protect their hood and anyone living in their hood
and they take that belief very serious.

Blood sets have a loose structure of ranks based on how long a person has been
banging for their particular hood and how much work they put in for the hood.
Each Blood set has their own unique different set of ranks and what they stand
for. Bloods with higher rank are respectfully reffered to as “Big Homies” by
Bloods with lower rank. Once a person has joined a Blood set, it’s for life;
meaning you can not leave the set or flip (switch) to another set. New-age Blood
sets (mostly Blood sets outside of california) have grown a habbit of
implementing the number 5 into their set one way or another, and this practice
traces it's roots back to the Black P Stone Bloods of Los Angeles. These Bloods
frequently use the terms “5 popping”, “We ride the 5", replace the letter “S” with
a “5", and use the 5 point star. A lot of the times when a Blood uses the number 5
it simply symbolizes the number of letters in the word B.L.O.O.D., so when a
Blood calls himself “5" he is infact simply reffering to himself as “BLOOD”.
But sometimes Blood sets use of the number 5 goes deeper into written literature
and meanings of the 5 for their particular set or card; most notably with the UBN
Blood card of New York City and the Outlaw Loco Bloods set of Chicago. The
entire Bloods alliance are also enemies with the Sureños alliance.

Many Blood gang members can be found on TheHoodUp.com, which is a

notorious virtual gathering-place for many other gangs as well. The reason many
Bloods and other gang members choose to communicate with each other on
TheHoodUp.com over other sites is because of the ability to remain completely
 anonymous and avoid being tracked by the "internet-police" while being able to
communicate with other gang members from around the world.

135 Piru Doty Block Gang Mad Swan Blood

145 Neighborhood Piru Double 9 Gangsters Mid Wilshire Blood
456 Pomona Island Piru Double ii Midtown Family Blood
52 Pueblo Bishop Down Hood Mob Miller Gangster Blood
59 Piru Drak Mob Piru
64 Brim East Compton Piru Nine Trey Gangster Blood
92 Bishop East Homicide Brim One Eight Trey Gangster
Acre Hood Piru East Side 59 Brim Oriental Lazy Boyz
Almighty Black P. Stone East Side Bounty Hunter Watts Original Block 151
Blood Blood Neighborhood Piru
Athens Park Blood East Side Uptown Blood Outlaw 20's
Avenue Piru Gang Elm Street Piru Outlaw Loco Bloods
Backa Town Blood Evilside Gangster Blood Pacoima Piru
Bay Side Gangster Blood Family Swan Blood Park Nine Blood
Bebop Watts Bishop Fruit Town Brim> Professionals In Violence Blood
Black Heart Piru Fruit Town Piru Project Gangster Blood
Blood Stone Piru Gangster Killer Blood Queen Street Blood
Blood Stone Villain George Street Gangster Blood Rocky Road Blood
Brick City Gangsta Blood Gill Street Gangster Blood Rolling 20's Neighborhood Blood
Campenella Park Piru G Shine Rolling 50's Brim
Cedar Block Piru Hacienda Village Blood South River Piru
Center Park Blood Harvard Park Brim Sex Money Murder
Center View Piru Hawthorne Piru Skyline Piru
Centinela Park Family Hit Squad Brim Scott Park Blood
Circle City Piru Holly Hood Piru Scottsdale Piru
Cold Stone Villain Hoover Family Blood South Side 59 Brim
Crenshaw Mafia Gang Inglewood Family Gang Squiggly Lane Gangster
Cross Atlantic Piru Jane Usher Blood Tree Top Piru
Dalton Gangster Brim Jarvis Street Piru Ujima Village Blood
Denver Lane Blood Kabbage Patch Piru Unton Brim
Kings Park Blood Valentine Gangster Blood
KrimeVille Gangster Blood Vampire Bloods
Kalas Park Lok Victoria Street Blood
Kick Down Fence Blood Village Town Piru
Leuders Park Piru Water Front Piru
Lime Hood Piru Weirdos Blood
Lincoln Park Blood West Covina Mob Piru
Lynwood Mob Piru West Side Piru West Street Blood
Mad Dog Blood
Mad Stone Blood