The Bloods is a notorious LA-based street gang involved in various crimes, including drug trafficking, theft, assault, burglary, and even murder. Most of its members are African American. Furthermore, ...

The war between the Rollin’ 60s Crips and the Inglewood Family Bloods was past its 50th year when Skipp Townsend brought the sworn enemies together over brunch. During the meal at a swanky open-air ...

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 ...

Monday night rival Baltimore gang members came together to let the world know that they never formed a truce to harm city police officers in revenge for the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who died ...

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, ...

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Skipp Townsend was a member of the Rollin' 20s Avenue faction of the Bloods gang in Los Angeles for 27 years. He became a member of the Bloods in the early 1980s. According to Townsend, this was for ...

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Mesmerizingly portrayed with vintage photos and film footage, Crips and Bloods: Made in America opens with a raw look at the violence and unrest that exploded in central Los Angeles during and after ...

Gang membership in NYC is at an all-time high, according to multiple law enforcement officials, and the age of many gang members is barely in the double digits.

Tired of having to scrap their way through the streets of West Compton in the early 1970s, A.C. Moses and his childhood friends banded together to defend against the other local gangs that were ...

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 ...