The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday estimated there are some 1.4 million gang members in the United States and they are turning to white collar crimes as more lucrative enterprises.

Tyrone White was a member of the 65 Menlo Gangster faction of the Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles during the late '80s and '90s, witnessing police brutality and the LA riots.

Crips is an abbreviation for cripple, nickname of the gang's founder, who walked with a limp. ... Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com.

Many in attendance Thursday hailed from other L.A. gangs and had heard about the event on the radio, organizers said — so many that Pearl White, a neighborhood activist who fought to bring the ...