Inside the East Coast Crips Street Gangs
The East Coast Crips are on a mission to prove they're tougher than their
West Coast counterparts by terrorizing the streets of
NYC. Crips on the
East Coast employ brutal, in-your-face violence, decimating anyone who stands in their way. Their unique brand of violence includes slashing the faces of their victims, leaving them permanently disfigured. The East Coast Crips will stop at nothing to conquer the "
Big Apple.
The East
Side (
E/S) East Coast Crips are a large and infamous umbrella gang consisting of many different neighborhoods located on the eastside of
South Central, Los Angeles, California.
Despite the name's suggestion, the
E.C.C. retain no connections to the east coast of the
United States, but rather it is in reference to the eastside of
South Central, Los Angeles (east of the
110 freeway that divides east and west
South Central). This gang derived from the original
East Side Crips and was formed in the late
1960s. The East Coast Crips has had a 3 decade long bloody battle with the Mad
Swan Bloods gang to the south of their territory but have also clashed with the 52
Pueblo Bishop Bloods (far north/east),
Harvard Park Brims,
Center View Piru,
Athens Park Bloods, the Be-Bopp
Watts Bishop Bloods, the
Family Swan Bloods,
52 Broadway Gangster Crips (north/west), the 53
Avalon Gangster Crips (north),
Kitchen Crips, the 51
Trouble Gangster Crips, Nutty Blocc
Compton Crips,
Main Street Mafia Crips, Compton Varrio
Tortilla Flats,
18th Street Gang, all
Hoover Criminals and more recently, with the
Grape Street Watts Crips. But their fiercest battle to date is the on-going one with the
Mexican Mafia backed Florencia 13. It is believed that the East Coast Crips robbed a
Latino street gang for a large amount of narcotics, which Authorities theorized prompted the Mexican Mafia to send a green light for gang members under the Sureños umbrella to attack, not only
African American gang members, but non-affiliated
Blacks as well. The East Coast Crips are one of the largest Crip sets in
Los Angeles to claim the
Neighbor Hood Crips card, making them allies of all "N-Hood" (
Neighborhood) and
Rollin 0s gangs. However, some E.C.C factions formed alliances with known N-Hood enemies such as the E/S 42 Gangster Crips, E/S 43 Gangster Crips, 47 Gangster Crips, 48 Gangster Crips, 87 Gangster Crips, and 97 Gangster Crips (this alliance is referred to as the
Movin'
Coast to Coast alliance). There are many different sets under the East Coast Crips umbrella: