Jamestown Crew

From Rap Dictionary

Based in the Jamestown Crescent area of Rexdale, Ontario, Canada, the Jamestown Crew (aka the Doomstown Rexdale Crips) were once regarded by authorities to be one of the most sophisticated and most active street gangs in Toronto's northwest end with the reputation of being callous in regards to gun play. The Jamestown Crew was originally formed in the 1980's by high school friends of African Canadian and Caribbean descent, and consisted of neighbourhood toughs from around the Jamestown Crescent and John Garland community. Changing demographics, the gradual disappearance of once bountiful factory work plus the emergence of crack cocaine on Toronto streets began to harden disenfranchised youths from the Rexdale area as alliances were being forged and territory being divided. The violence that accompanied the drug trade within Rexdale's social housing made police presence in TCHC owned property such as Jamestown a regular occurrence; rounding up local dealers and undesirables. But with the fall of one crew gave opportunity to a new breed of young thugs who sought to pick up where their predecessors had left off. These harden, misguided young men adopted the Crips identity around the early 1990's, thus creating the Rexdale Crips card. Soon there after, other neighbourhoods within Rexdale began to adopt the Rexdale Crips card as well. The Jamestown Crew was regarded by authorities to be the largest and most violent gang in Rexdale, with members and associates ranging in the 100s. Members of the Doomstown Rexdale Crips have traditionally been considered enemies of the Ardwick Blood Crew, and have been so for over a decade. The Doomstown Rexdale Crips are also considered enemies of another formidable Rexdale Crips gang called the Mount Olive Crips; who they engaged in a decade long bloody battle with during the late 1990's through the year 2000 [1]. Other rivals include the South Side Connection Bloods gang, The Lanes Crew, Chalkfarm Bloods, Pelham Park Bloods, VR Troopers as well as the Up-Top Driftwood Crips (although attempts had been made in the past to align the two feuding gangs, it never came to past), Up-Top Shoreshot Crips and the South Side Falstaff Crips. The Doomstown Crips are cliqued up with the Stovetop Rexdale Crips and are friendly towards the Tandridge Rexdale Crips. Authorities alleged that the Jamestown Crew had links to other U.S criminal entities and gun runners from native reserves in northern Ontario. This gang was implicated in a joint police raid known as "PROJECT XXX" [2]. Members were involved in everything from drug and arms running, fraud, counterfeiting and intimidation through violence.