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50 When law enforcement and school authorities were either unable or unwilling to provide the protection needed by members of the public from the Crips, black youth in many neighborhoods started to form their. own gangs for self- Protection against the Crip gang members. One such gang that formed was called the Bloods. The early Bloods called themselves Pirus, naming themselves .after the street they lived on in Compton, California. >>) Although the Blood-Pirus initially were successful against the Crips, the Crips soon began to.. outnumber the Bloods. By the mid~-1970's, the Crips had built a reputation for themselves as the strongest black street gang in the State. The growth in Crips't gang membership has increased steadily to a present ratio of three Crips for every one Blood. Today, all black street gangs align themselves with either the Crips or the Bloods. The Crips and Bloods continue to be rival gangs. Nowadays, however, aS many people may not know, the majority of the street gang warfare occurs between 0G FF ice of the Attorney General, State of California Department of Justice, Unclassified Confidential Publication for Law Enforcement, Crips and Bloods Street Gangs, BOCCI Unit, p. 3; Hourie Taylor, Police Commander, Compton Police Department, Black Street Gangs Organization and Subculture, rev. June 1988, p. 3. tolosylor, see n. 20. 53