Crips

street gang founded by Raymond Washington and Stan Williams in Los Angeles, California, USA
Organization gang Q486682
Crips
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Crips

Summary

Crips is a gang[1]. Crips ranks in the top 2% of gang entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,133 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Crips is in the country of United States[3].
  • Crips's image is recorded as Crip handsign.gif[4].
  • Crips's instance of is recorded as gang[5].
  • Crips's headquarters location is recorded as Los Angeles[6].
  • Crips's headquarters location is recorded as California[7].
  • Crips's Commons category is recorded as Crips[8].
  • +1969-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Crips[9].
  • Crips's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09c6xm[10].
  • Crips's location of formation is recorded as Los Angeles[11].
  • Crips's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Crips[12].
  • Crips's BBC Things ID is recorded as 896f0e40-6437-4949-a72f-b048eca878d8[13].
  • Crips's Quora topic ID is recorded as Crips[14].
  • Crips's Quora topic ID is recorded as Crips-gang-1[15].
  • Crips's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 1341513699[16].
  • Crips's BlackPast.org ID is recorded as aaw/vignette_aahw/crips-1971[17].
  • Crips's FactGrid item ID is recorded as I Know What You Did Last Summer[18].

Body

Founding

+1969-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Crips[9]. Crips's location of formation is recorded as Los Angeles[11].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Los Angeles[6], a charter city[19], in United States[20], founded in 1781[21] and California[7], an U.S. state[22], in United States[23], founded in 1850[24].

Why It Matters

Crips ranks in the top 2% of gang entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,133 views/month).[2] Crips has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Crips is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . FactGrid. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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