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Running Head: CRIPS AND BLOOD DOCUMENTARY ANALYSIS

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Crips and Blood Documentary Analysis
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Crips and Blood Analysis
Introduction
Gang culture is one of the problems facing the United States
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These gangs dominate U
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cities, prisons, streets, and even the local authorities
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Among the most known gangs are the Crips and Diamonds from
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city of Los Angeles
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The two gangs were motivated by each
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Little more about the Crips
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Directed by Stacy Peralta, the documentary details the experience of the
three former gang members: the account of Bird, Kumasi, and Ron and the current gang
members
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This paper gives a detailed analysis of the documentary, especially the film technique, setting,
and thematic analysis
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Although a larger
part of the film is a narration by the narrator Forest Whitaker, a significant part of the
documentary involves interviews intended to persuade the audience on the scope and the impact
of the criminal gangs in Los Angeles, and indeed America
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The interviews are reinforced the
numerous images and photographs aimed at unraveling facts about the gangs
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The main aim of Paralta's use of the
mix of old images, interviews, statistics, and old footages is concise of presenting the message,
especially when intending to enlighten the audience on the state and the impact of gang culture in
the United States
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The directors use
flashbacks to explain the roots of the gang and the gang members
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The documentary also employs high tempo music, which
effectively aligns with the gang culture topic
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Contextual analysis

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The film details the rise of the two gangs, Crips and Diamonds
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However, when things went sour, the rate of unemployment
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It is also when the well-decorated civil rights activists Malcolm X and Dr
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Together with many others in the 60s and the earlier 70s, led to the
formation of African American Gangs, such as the Crips and the Bloods
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In the case of
street gangs in the United States, there has been a series of groups, and they all had a reason
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This was
the beginning of the first phase, and others now followed
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Then, the Sleepy Lagoon murder and the
zoot suit riots in the 1940s stimulated Mexican American gangs' growth
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With the Crips and Bloods, a reason like
competition led to Bloods formation for them to be on War with the Crisps
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Anything that grows has some downfalls too
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Several circumstances led to violence, which
contributed to the formation of violent gangs, like lack of youth opportunities, protection among
the young people, and the drug trade emergency as seen in the movie
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A documentary by Stacy
Peralta explores the rise of Crips and Bloods, and the documentary notes that children who grow
up to their young age and joins the gangs usually lack opportunities (Foster,2020)
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According to Peralta, when the gang members were interviewed, they
raised the issue of being neglected and not given a chance to youth organizations like the
Explorer Scouts of America and the Boy Scouts of America
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Another reason for the gang culture's rise was a
competition between the neighbourhood cliques, the Gladiators, Del Vikings, and the Slausons
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Therefore, the first organizations offered a newfound unity and safety for the young black men
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The documentary highlights the incidence of
protests that happened because of racial injustice
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William Parker refers to
African Americans as Monkeys in the zoo
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When now
Institutional changes occurred, the Black Panther organization was referred to as the biggest
internal threat to the USA's internal stability and clearly shown in the movie
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For
instance, the alliance in fights because the aim was to fight other gangs, a kinship that is if one

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had a family member in the gang joining an extension of boundaries mainly if other gangs lived
nearby and formed of branches
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Another reason for the growth of gangs was the California economy; this came about in
the 1950s when Los Angeles received Industrialization (Hernández,2017)
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This pushed African Americans into being jobless because the job market could not
accommodate them
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It was hard to survive, so the left option was to invent a survival way, which was the
gang groups
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Being that it was an
income-generating idea, the introduction of crack cocaine influenced many to join
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Since the drugs, a reality check can break apart and mislead
many; their consumption level is high
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Joining the gang group had many effects because the youth turned their lives to war and
drugs; at the end of the day, if one survived, they were jailed for life, so they were movements
with grave impacts on people
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The act of quitting
school before graduation or before completion is referred to as dropping out of school
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The youth gangs did not have that quality time to go on with
studies because now they belonged to the world, which is notable in the movie
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The human body functions uniquely that there is a stage

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when a lot of worldly pleasures engage you; responsibility also comes
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Another effect on young people is unemployment; this is practical to the youth who
joined the gang while at work
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Drug and alcohol
abuse also becomes a notable effect; as one watches the series, you meet them in various
junctions blowing drugs as an everyday thing
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Cocaine and marijuana used to give them a lot of income, and practically
whatever business one is engaged in, the first consumer from the business is the owner
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Committing petty and violent
crimes is an effect that is linked to drugs in most cases
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In an instance
where maybe they are stealing from a person, and one tries to defend themselves, they will injure
you, and therefore you have to submit to them, so the petty crimes must be active in such
occasions
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Quite a
considerable number lost their lives to the war, and whoever survived the gang, the life sentence
was to end in jail; therefore, members of the Crips and Bloods who survived death ended up in
juvenile conviction and incarceration when you watch through the movie
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All the freedom is
denied, and room to change becomes the norm
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The whole issue of Crips and
Bloods affected each individual differently; be it was physical, emotional, or mentally impacted,

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at least each individual felt the pain
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Consequences to do with Crips and Bloods are such long
term that one cannot heal from
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In as many cases to do with race are there but not as in
the past
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Ron, Bird, and Kumasi open up
to their experiences as former gang members who grew in the neighborhood in the 1950s
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This was enforced
by the police and the public organizations like the Boy Scouts
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So
the only way to help themselves is by coming together and forming a pair of fists because
fighting between rival clubs was the culture
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Therefore, having the Crips and Bloods made people understand the importance of
inclusivity and togetherness
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Conclusion
Indeed, there is a need to resolve the issues to do with gang membership and activities as
a wrap to the documentary
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There is a need to set up community

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based programs through this mobilization among the young people
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For the
cases in American cities, gang stretches out programs that involve street workers and social
opportunities like education and jobs has helped worked out
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Instead of attacking gang-related street violence, let us suggest ways of solving
the problem
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, &Plonczynski, G
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National Perspective
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Foster, S
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The Healing Properties of the Blues
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Hernández, K
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(2017)
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UNC Press Books
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(2006)
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Retrieved online
from: http://www
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gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/209392
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