C.R.A.S.H.

Overview

C.R.A.S.H., short for Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, is an anti-gang unit of the Los Santos Police Department. In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas it is thoroughly corrupt, functioning as a criminal outfit that extorts and manipulates the gangs it is meant to fight.

History

Under Officer Frank Tenpenny, the unit protects Big Smoke and the Ballas in return for a cut of the crack trade. Before the game begins Tenpenny and Pulaski murdered Officer Ralph Pendelbury, who was about to expose them.

Leadership and members

Frank Tenpenny leads the unit, with Eddie Pulaski as his partner and Jimmy Hernandez as the rookie member.

Role in the story

C.R.A.S.H. picks up CJ in In the Beginning and blackmails him with the Pendelbury murder. They give him a series of missions, often from the Jim's Sticky Ring doughnut shop in Market: Burning Desire, Gray Imports, Badlands, 555 We Tip, Snail Trail, Misappropriation and High Noon. They are behind the betrayal in The Green Sabre. The unit collapses when Hernandez turns informant and is killed, Pulaski dies in the desert and Tenpenny dies after the chase in End of the Line.

Relations with other gangs

C.R.A.S.H. protects the Ballas and Big Smoke and oppresses the Grove Street Families.