Going global to fight gangs

L.A.’s biggest gangs have gone international; our law enforcement must do the same.
By Rocky Delgadillo
August 18, 2008
The two fastest-growing and most powerful gangs in the world are homegrown products of Los Angeles. The Mara Salvatrucha gang, or MS-13, and the 18th Street gang, known in Central America as Mara 18, sprang up in Pico-Union and [...]

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To deter crime, Los Angeles leaves the lights on

The Summer Night Lights program, started in July, combats gang and gun violence during the summer months by keeping parks and recreation centers in Los Angeles’s highest-crime districts open until midnight.
By Michael B. Farrell | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the August 8, 2008 edition
os Angeles – The lights burned late on [...]

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