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Because Crips and Bloods are aligned with the Folk and People Nations out of Chicago, they closely follow the Chicago philosophies. Chicago based/influenced gangs display an all for one, one for all mentality with complete devotion to their set and nation. Most codes of conduct require lifetime allegiance to the group. The groups have a strict set of laws that result in "violations" for breaking these rules. Violations are inner disciplinary punishment issued by the leaders of the group for violating t he set rules. They range from performing menial tasks to physical assault for a set time period, to death.

The members are required to follow all orders given by their leaders and failure to do so results in "violation".

The philosophies vary somewhat depending upon the set, therefore this information will be provided in the group's individual threat assessment

Symbols / Identifiers
The Crips adopted the color blue for their clothing to set them apart from other gang members. Also, the Crips began using the word "Cuzz," short for cousin, in greetings to identify each other.

The Bloods adopted the color red and began using the term "Bloods" to identify each other.

Within Crips sets, blue continues to be the dominate color. However, other dark colors such as black, brown, and purple may also be blended to identify certain sets.

Bloods sets still use red as the dominant color in most cases. However, other colors may be used if they are significant to the gang name, such as "Lime Street Pirus."

The primary personal accessories which identify gang affiliations are hats, handkerchiefs, shoelaces, and belts.

Most gang members are identified by a nickname (Moniker) or street name. Often, members will not know each other by their legal names. A nickname is important because it can give insights into a member's psychological perspective of himself, an indicat ion of his physical description, and can aid in identification based on graffiti.

The first letter of the real name and a gang term often will be used for a moniker. Examples are
C-Bone or T-Loc. These terms are intended to express a hardness or madness to non-gang members. Many members will tattoo their moniker on their body.

Both Crips and Bloods have their own rules for speaking or writing to their "homeboys." Homeboy is another name for a gang member.

Some common rules exist. Such as, Crips do not use the letter "B"; Bloods will not use the letter "C" and will replace it with a "B". For example, "cigarette: would become "bigarette."

Communications may take different forms, and we must recognize these "identifiers" if we are to successfully deal with gangs. Clothing, guns, jewelry, hand signals, and tattoos are all forms of communication to gang members. All of these may be used as in inroad when interviewing gang members.

Graffiti is used by gang members to communicate territorial limits and broadcast warnings or publicize a challenge to other street gangs. Challenges are made by one gang putting their graffiti on another's territory. This can be considered a killing of fense by the gangs. Also, simply crossing out of other gang's graffiti may lead to serious retaliation measures. Graffiti is an effective way to keep track of gang rosters, geographic locations, and gang violence.

This is Bloods graffiti:

This is Crips graffiti:

Please remember that Crips will also use Folk Nation identifiers and the Bloods will use the People Nation identifiers.

Allies
For the Crips allies are any gang that considers the Bloods an enemy and vice versa for the Bloods.

Enemies
Crips and Bloods sets are rivals. And since Crips and Bloods are affiliated with Folk and People Nations respectively, they are then rivals of all Folk or People sets and subsets.

Traditionally Folk Nation aligned sets and People Nation aligned sets are rivals. In addition, various other national and local street gangs develop as rivals, allies and/or initiate alliances. Under each of these alliances there are literally hundreds of individual sets or gangs. These alliances and rivalries are constantly changing and need to be reviewed frequently

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