<P> The Pirus, also known as Piru Street Family and Piru Street Boys (PSB), are a Los Angeles street gang alliance based in Compton, but also present in the cities of Carson, Inglewood, Hawthorne, San Diego, Fresno, Santa Barbara and Watts . Piru sets make up most of the original Blood Alliance in Los Angeles . The main colors of Pirus are red and burgundy . </P> <P> In 1969, the Pirus were created by teenagers from neighborhoods and young black men returning from Vietnam . The Pirus were a gang which was in Compton and spread throughout making it one large gang, but in 1969 with the Crip alliance made by smaller gangs, the Pirus also joined making a large set of the Crips . At that time, there were various "sets" throughout the region of Los Angeles, California . However, these "sets" were small groups of "hustlers ." In 1969, fifteen - year - old Raymond Washington started the Crips street gang with friends from his neighborhood on the East Side of South Central Los Angeles . The Crips began to attack hustler groups and cliques in order to create a larger organization . </P> <P> The Pirus soon joined with the Brims gang, a victim of the Crips attacks, and together in jail they created the Bloods; starting off at first as a way to address one another . Following this, new inmates entering the LA County Jail were asked by intake / deputies, "Who do you run with; Crips or the Bloods?" Those who were victimized by Crips joined the Pirus and Brims and ran with the Blood identity, that's how the Blood gang was formed; note the Bloods started in jail in LA County in 1974, Pirus and Brims both formed on the streets in 1972 . </P> <P> In Compton, Washington and his Crip affiliates approached the Piru Street Family in 1969 and the gang later changed their name to the Piru Street Crips . The Pirus, however, were arch enemies of the gang that would become the Compton Crips, led by a teenager named Mac Thomas . According to Westside Crips co-founder Stanley Williams, Mac Thomas and the Compton Crips were unhappy about Raymond Washington recruiting their arch rivals . According to Tookie Williams, Mac Thomas had even complained about Raymond Washington showing the Pirus the Compton Crips' turf including their personal hangouts . The alliance lasted for about 2 to 3 months . At one time some members from the Pirus were a part of the Crips before they broke off from the Crips and became some of the first gangs within the Bloods . There is disagreement whether Pirus and Bloods share the same usage . Bloods and Pirus are known to claim the term "no kutts", which means to individually rep one's own neighborhood or turf and claim it as their own . No Kuttz actually comes from them not associating with the prison gang "Bloodline" Kuttz is slang for bloodline . Bloodline is made up of bloods from all over not just 1 set in 1 city but if you're part of "BL" your loyalty is to Bloodline not to your original neighborhood and that's were conflict comes from . </P>

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