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efforts, increased police presence, commercial real estate development efforts along Martin Luther King Way, the creation of the
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who violently took over the illicit drug trade on Tacoma’s
Hilltop. Around 1984, an unknown Los Angeles Crip association began organizing local Hilltop youth to sell primarily powder and crack cocaine. A yearlong violent struggle between Cuban dealers and the Crips ensued. Eventually, Cubans involved
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The neighborhood's population is 12,002 and remains racially diverse. 41% of residents are White, 30% Black or
African-American, 12% Asian, 3% Native American, 1% Pacific Islander, 3% from other races, and 8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7% of the population. 32% of
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in the drug trade were murdered or left town. By
September 23, 1989, the Hilltop Crips had become powerful, with violence and homicides at a peak, and police departments overwhelmed. Hilltop made national news in 1989 when several
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