Arroyo Grande is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. The population was 17,252 at the 2010 census. Arroyo Grande is a small coastal town with historic, suburban, and rural elements located at 35Â°7â²15â³N 120Â°35â²12â³W / 35.12083Â°N 120.58667Â°W / 35.12083; -120.58667 (35.120878, -120.586799).
In many cases, national street gangs originated in major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami and New York, and they later migrated to other American cities such as Atlanta, Cleveland, St. Louis, Dallas, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Orlando, Houston, and Detroit.he earliest American street gangs emerged at the end of the American Revolutionary War in the early 1780s. However, these early street gangs had questionable legitimacy, and more serious gangs did not form until the early 1800s.
Los Angeles Gangs: The Bloods and the Crips. The CRIPs were not always the gang-bangers they are known to be. The CRIPs were formed in 1969. Raymond Washington, a high school student at the time founded the organization in response to the increasing level of police harassment of the Black community. CRIPs stood for Community Resources for Independent People. It was styled on the Black Panther Party which was formed 3 years earlier, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, further down the west coast in Oakland. There were many organizations springing up around the same time all over the country with the same ideas of protecting and serving the community.