Los Angeles street gangs are behind brazen robberies in which people are followed home from fancy locations, stripped of a fortune in jewelry or other goods and sometimes shot, police said Tuesday. At least 17 gangs, most of them based in South Los Angeles, have independently staged robberies,...
Results show that the majority of gang-on-gang violence originates and targets individuals in the city of Los Angeles. Furthermore, more than two-thirds of the violence committed at the hands of Blood and Crip gangs is upon individuals that are not affiliated with a gang. Strategies are ...
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Discover the most infamous gangs in L.A., including the Crips, the West Coast Bloods, the 18th Street Gang, and more.
balance between the constitutional rights of street gangs and the compelling state interest in protecting the innocent victims of gang terrorism. It is time for us to return to reason. It is time for us to use the legal weapons necessary to reclaim the streets of Los Angeles for the people....
territory referred to as the City of Angels. Its estimated population of 10,850 is the epicenter of LA's addiction crisis and one of the US' largest homeless encampments. This neighborhood is littered with drugs, divided into sections by street gangs from South Los Angeles, who control the ...
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As an introduction to the empirical section of the book, the next two chapters draw upon insights from the country where gangs have been part of the cultural fabric for over 300 years—the USA. They focus specifically on Los Angeles, the city that gave America the modern street gang. In ...
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said that as the targets of M-13, the immigrants without legal status were extorted, robbed, raped and murdered by M-13 members. Since 2007, L.A. county had tried to weaken the gang's power by sending hundreds of its members to prison. ...
But the lower standard of proof in civil court may make the legal maneuver a useful tool against gangs, said Wes McBride, executive director of the California Gang Investigator’s Assn. and a former gang investigator with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. ...