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trafficked predominately marijuana and PCP, and their business 160 Steadily increased to include cocaine. In 1987, Crips and Blood operations mushroomed into new territories beyond Los Angeles, in part because a quantity of rock cocaine that sold for $25 in Los Angeles ‘could be sold for as much as $80 elsewhere. 18 Since 1984, the Crips and the Bloods have quickly transformed themselves into well-organized distributors of narcotics. 16% In 1991, both Crip and Blood street gangs were engaged in crack operations in 22 states and at least 27 major cities. 16: As of 1988, gang veterans and law enforcement officers determined that the cocaine trade in South Ceritral Los Angeles _Was controlled by 15 to, 20 black street gang original gangsters. /®4 Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Levant reported in that year that.75 to 100 black street gangs were actively involved in cocaine distribution, with weekly sales totaling as much as $1,000,000.+°9 Law enforcement officers have discovered that black street gangs are connected 160, .y1or, see n. 20. lolig. 16255. 1 . ©? skolnick,. p. 8, seen. 49, 1647, 165 Office of the Attorney General, State of California, Department of Justice, p. 2, see n. 100. 56