Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth

They're around because they have almost no hierarchy and basically any fatherless nigga off the street that wants to join, can.

Ya, these guys are true geniuses:

Crips gang members 'posed for SELFIES at murder scene and tried to shoot a pregnant woman who criticized them' | Daily Mail Online

Here's their stringent membership initiation process, with strict guidelines for becoming a member like simply "being born in the neighbourhood."

Jon's Jail Journal (by Shaun Attwood)

Seriously...you're going to pretend a bunch of random ass niggas selling drugs and stealing car stereos on the street are smart? Give it a rest.

I'm going to go put on a blue hat or whatever the fuck bullshit they wear and knife some pregnant bitch to steal her purse, then call myself a crip or a blood or whatever. We be smart muthafuckas, yo!