Crips And Bloods Summary

In the documentary, Crips and Bloods: Made In America, it gives us a detailed history and insightful interviews from first generation club members. It is quite astonishing to think that gangs like the Crips and Bloods started because of young men of color wanted to be a part of organizations like, the Boys Scouts, Cub Scouts, and other clubs like them. In turn, these young men of color created their own clubs to have organization amongst themselves and to do something positive. Every single human gathering take after unmistakable standards, which are constantly upheld by authorizations of some kind, shifting from casual objection to physical discipline. (page 136). Although young people of color tried to do something positive, start their own clubs, and organized car meets, police deemed these clubs to be gangs. I feel as though the police and some politicians seen young people of color forming their own clubs as signs of deviance. Deviance is described as Modes of action that do not conform to the norms or values held

by most members of a group or society.
Growing up in South Central Los Angeles, I’ve witnessed firsthand, the destruction that sanctions have caused to the urban community throughout the decades and lived amongst what is known to be a deviant subculture. A lot of behaviors and crime being committed within the urban communities and the fact that violent street gangs flourish in sectors of Los Angeles seems like a rather unavoidable result of many long-simmering factors. The anger over police intimidation and invisible social barriers still sounds indignant and thoroughly justified after all these decades. Throughout my years as an adolescent living in South Central Los Angeles, I have been harassed by the police numerous times. One incident, my friend and I were hanging out on our front porch, when a police car pulled up, the officers exited the car, and said to us “pistol check”, then proceeded to illegally search us for no reason at. We weren’t gang members, but this is the type of treatment we received. At the time, I seen this as normal, and so did everybody else growing up in my neighborhood. Watching this video brought back a lot of memories, as I too can relate to one of the guys being interviewed and he recalled how the police would question his existence by asking where he is going or what are doing here? Community policing runs rampant in urban communities especially South Central Los Angeles. Indeed, there is an invisible barrier surrounding South Central. One day my fiancé and I decided to spend the day at the beach in Malibu. On our return trip home we decided to drive down Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. I noticed things like, no billboards or advertisements or no liquor stores. The only thing I seen being advertised was banners hanging from the light poles for art expos at the Getty museum. The further east we drove, the grimmer it got. More cop cars, ambulance sirens blaring, and police helicopters.
It is argued that the pathologies as often as possible credited to individual pack individuals tangles of misery, dread, and agnosticism are delivered in and by the more extensive culture, trying to cordon off the apparent danger, basically leaving the criminals to police and destroy themselves.

The film takes a gander at a dangerous blend of components, including the chronicled relocation of blacks to urban focuses, trailed by movements in the economy, both unexpected and steady, on top of the continuous and pulverizing impacts of destitution, absence of training, medications, bigotry and misogyny. As Bloods and Crips contends, these different powers roused a level of self-loathing in people of color that drove them to isolate their own neighborhoods and take up arms against each other, a contention sponsored by numerous present and previous pack individuals, who express distress, outrage, dissatisfaction and renunciation over the continuous

battle.
There are numerous moments of sociological note throughout the film, but one sure to attract attention is the subtle attribution of responsibility for gangs placed upon female-headed households and the lack of youth supervision. This comes off a bit as victim blaming and seems to suggest that if only African American males were in such households that youth would not stray into the orbit of gangs. Surely mothers who shoulder the burden of raising children regardless of racial group or neighborhood residence transmit certain values to their children. But, the film veers away from such a conservative and moralizing argument by hinting at a variety of reasons why these mothers were so busy and were not as able to show love for their children, such as their long work hours in lowly paid jobs. Bloods and Crips also adopts part of the prison abolitionist perspective on gangs, by asserting that criminalization and hyper-incarceration has itself destabilized neighborhoods and disrupted potentially-functional families that could include male parents.

References
Bloodz &Crips - Made in America. (2017). YouTube. Retrieved 10 April 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdv08c0aiTE
Giddens, A. (2014). Introduction to sociology. New York: Norton.