Los Angeles may be famous for its glitzy Hollywood allure and sun-kissed beaches, but beneath the surface lies a complex web of notorious street gangs that have shaped the city's history. The most infamous gangs in L.A. are as much a part of its identity as its iconic skyline, impac...
Los Angeles may be famous for its glitzy Hollywood allure and sun-kissed beaches, but beneath the surface lies a complex web of notorious street gangs that have shaped the city's history. The most infamous gangs in L.A. are as much a part of its identity as its iconic skyline, impac...
Los Angeles may be famous for its glitzy Hollywood allure and sun-kissed beaches, but beneath the surface lies a complex web of notorious street gangs that have shaped the city's history. The most infamous gangs in L.A. are as much a part of its identity as its iconic skyline, impac...
Los Angeles may be famous for its glitzy Hollywood allure and sun-kissed beaches, but beneath the surface lies a complex web of notorious street gangs that have shaped the city's history. The most infamous gangs in L.A. are as much a part of its identity as its iconic skyline, impac...
Moses self-published a book, “The Starting Lineup,” in which he offered a sobering look at the origins of the Crip and Piru gangs, explaining how the onetime allies turned bitter rivals. The book traced his family’s journey from Texas to Los Angeles in the late 1950s, following...
My wife had never been to a baseball game, so I took her to see the Los Angeles Dodgers one night. Our seats were right behind the third-base line. At the top of the first inning, the batter hit a foul ball. Miraculously, I managed to catch it on the fly. ...
In black gangs that genealogy is not as entrenched. Still, youngsters will sometimes be given red or blues rags to tote around and might be dressed in flashy tennis shoes whose brand names are imparted with a sinister double meaning--British Knight for “Blood Killers,” Calvin Klein for “...
The sold-out arena was jammed with high rollers: Wall Street tycoons, Hollywood celebrities, entertainment moguls. The fight also attracted an assortment of underworld figures: mobsters from Chicago, drug dealers from New York, street gangs from Los Angeles. ...
* In Long Beach, six people have died since October in what Police Detective Norm Sorenson called a “blood feud” between Latino and Cambodian gangs. “Cambodian youths were preyed upon by traditional black and Hispanic and Samoan gang members for years, and now, out of necessity . . . th...
When people talk about gangs in Southern California these days, they usually talk about young black men, Bloods and Crips. But the typical gang member is not a Blood or a Crip. He is not confined to South-Central Los Angeles. He lives in places like Wilmington and Pomona and Santa Ana ...