Alonso the so-called gang researcher

[BakalaKing]

ALONSO CLAIMS HE A GANG RESEARCHER BUT HE ONLY TALKS OR WORKS ON THINGS RELATED TO BLOODS AND CRIPS, YOU CAN JUST SEE TRAVELLIN THRU HIS WEB SITE, HOW MANY ARTICLES THERE ARE ON HISPANIC GANGS COMPARED TO CRIPS ? ( AND THE LATINO GANGS BEEN THERE MUCH LONGER THAN ANY CRIP OR BLOOD).
NOW HE HAS AN ASIAN GANG SECTION, IF YOU KNOW A LIL BIT ABOUT THE ASIAN GANGS, YOU SHOULD KNOW THEY ARE LOCATED IN UPPER MIDDLE CLASS COMUNITIES, THEY DONT CLAIM A SPECIFIC TERRITORY, AND ARENT 24/7 OUT THERE HANGIN, SO IT AINT LIKE A CRIP SET, THAT YOU WILL GO TO THERE HOOD AND WILL EVENTUALLY FIND ONE, YOU MIGHT WALK THRU THE HOOD OF AN ASIAN GANG AND YOU WONT FIND ANY, LIKE I SAID THE ASIAN GANGS (MOST) AINT BANGIN 24/7, AND ARE NOT TERRITORIAL ! SO I TRULY DONT THINK ALONSO WENT WALKIN THRU ALL THESE HOODS WERE THERE ARE ASIAN GANGS, AND HE LISTED THEM UP BY TRUSTIN WHAT OTHERS SAID.
NOW IVE SENT HIM LIKE 4 MESSAGES, ASKIN HIM FOR INFO ON THE WHITE GANGS , AND HE ANSWERED ME ONLY ONE, AND I QUOTE " I DONT HAVE THAT INFO ", SO WHAT KIND OF GANG RESEARCHER IGNORES A PERCENTAGE OF THE GANGS IN LA COUNTY ? WHAT KIND OF GANG RESEARCHER IS THAT ? BUT FROM WHAT I READ I SEE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ACKNOWLEDGES QUITE WELL THE WHITE GANGS. SO I WOULD LABEL YOU A GANG RESEARCHER, ONLY EXPERT ON BLOODS AND CRIPS.

[SoulJah]

Alonso is only one man, and its difficult to access a community that is not your own, and Los Angeles as i understand it is quite segregated.

I know here in London we have street gangs that are black (African, Caribbean, black British), white (English, Irish, Albanian...), Asian (i.e. Tamils, Bengali's, Vietnamese...), Turkish etc... Each community has its own different style of gang. White gangs rarely last beyond adolescence because they move into organised family structures or they may even find themselves in legitimate employment through family connections, Turkish gangs rarely claim turf or neighbourhoods, not all gangs are territorial in the sense that they stake claim to a particular neighbourhood like you say.

Now if your a white researcher and you want to explore gangs in the Tamil community in London, how would you do it? You dont speak Tamil, you dont know anyone from that community, your an outsider, you may be viewed in a negative way by this community because of the colour of you skin - how do you do it? It would be hard.

I understand what your saying, but there are barriers that prevent you from being an expert on every community. What kind of response would Alonso get if he decided to explore the workings of the Neo-Nazi gangs or KKK? I doubt that he is ignoring these communities, its just he has boundaries that may prevent him from gaining entree to them.

Maybe he should find his expert equivalent in all these different communities and bring them altogether to increase the scope of streetgangs.com?

[BakalaKing]

WHAT IM SAYIN IF HE DID A ASIAN GANG SECTION, AND AS YOU SAY HOW COULD HE KNOW WHERE ARE THE ASIAN GANGS LOCATED, SINCE IF HE WOULD GO TO CHINATOWN DO YOU THINK THEY WOULD TALK WITH A PUERTO RICAN GUY ? I THINK A GANG RESEARCHER CAN GO TO THE AREAS AND LOOK WHERE ARE THE GANGS OR EVEN TALK WITH THEM , REGARDLESS RACE.
SO IF YOU DO AN ASIAN GANG SECTION, WHEN LIKE I SAID THIS GANGS DONT HANG AROUND LIKE THE LATINOS GANGS, THEY ARE NOT TERRITORIAL, DONT FIGHT OVER TERRITORY WITH OTHER GANGS, MANY TIMES DONT FLAG COLORS LIKE CRIPS, SO VERY HARD TO RECOGNIZE AND THEY ARE NOT INTO THE BANGIN 24/7, IF YOU DO A ASIAN GANG SECTION SO INNACCURATELY, ( AND I KNOW ALONSO DIDNT WALK THRU ALL THESE HOODS, HE PUT WHAT OTHERS TOLD HIM, CAUSE IN THOSE ASIAN HOODS MOST OF THE TIMES YOU WONT FIND NO GANG BANGER), THEN IS A MUST IF U CONSIDER ASIAN GANGS YOU GOTTA CONSIDER WHITE GANGS CAUSE BOTH ARE DIFFERENT FROM CRIPS BLOODS SURENOS, CAUSE THEY AINT IN THE BANGIN FULL TIME, BUT ALONSO IGNORES THE WHITE GANG, MY OPINION THEY GROWIN, YET ALONSO LIKE HE SAID " I DONT HAVE THAT INFO ", , THEN U SHOULD BE CALLED A CRIP/BLOOD EXPERT.

[alexalonso]

WHAT IM SAYIN IF HE DID A ASIAN GANG SECTION, AND AS YOU SAY HOW COULD HE KNOW WHERE ARE THE ASIAN GANGS LOCATED, SINCE IF HE WOULD GO TO CHINATOWN DO YOU THINK THEY WOULD TALK WITH A PUERTO RICAN GUY ? I THINK A GANG RESEARCHER CAN GO TO THE AREAS AND LOOK WHERE ARE THE GANGS OR EVEN TALK WITH THEM , REGARDLESS RACE.
SO IF YOU DO AN ASIAN GANG SECTION, WHEN LIKE I SAID THIS GANGS DONT HANG AROUND LIKE THE LATINOS GANGS, THEY ARE NOT TERRITORIAL, DONT FIGHT OVER TERRITORY WITH OTHER GANGS, MANY TIMES DONT FLAG COLORS LIKE CRIPS, SO VERY HARD TO RECOGNIZE AND THEY ARE NOT INTO THE BANGIN 24/7, IF YOU DO A ASIAN GANG SECTION SO INNACCURATELY, ( AND I KNOW ALONSO DIDNT WALK THRU ALL THESE HOODS, HE PUT WHAT OTHERS TOLD HIM, CAUSE IN THOSE ASIAN HOODS MOST OF THE TIMES YOU WONT FIND NO GANG BANGER), THEN IS A MUST IF U CONSIDER ASIAN GANGS YOU GOTTA CONSIDER WHITE GANGS CAUSE BOTH ARE DIFFERENT FROM CRIPS BLOODS SURENOS, CAUSE THEY AINT IN THE BANGIN FULL TIME, BUT ALONSO IGNORES THE WHITE GANG, MY OPINION THEY GROWIN, YET ALONSO LIKE HE SAID " I DONT HAVE THAT INFO ", , THEN U SHOULD BE CALLED A CRIP/BLOOD EXPERT.

there is plenty on Hispanic gangs, and the Asian section is growing. Plus you have thousands of posts on the forum to read, probably more so than any other place on the internet.