Keith, 46, has been addicted to crack cocaine for 12 years and has been living in a make-shift tent on the streets in the Hyde Park community of South Los Angeles. He has found a quiet spot next to the non-operational Burlington Northern/Sante Fe railroad tracks by Brynhurst & 71st Street. These tracks will soon [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer April 19, 2013 | 8:41 p.m. PST This map was created in 1978 and covers the areas of East LA, Boyle Heights, Alhambra, Monterey Park and Lincoln Heights. Gangs mapped: 1. Alpine 2. Eastside Clover 3. HV (Happy Valley) 4. 18th Street 5. ESR / Cyril 6.Hazard Grande 7. Metro 13 8. [...]
By Stefani Camille WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 08, 2013 The gang world has taken to social media to do their banging and crimes. This caused three rival gangs, some of New York City’s most violent, to be taken down. At least 63 alleged gang members of the Air It Out, True Money and Whoadey gangs [...]
Associated Press | March 26, 2013 LOS ANGELES—Federal prosecutors say a South Los Angeles gang member has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the close-range shooting death of a 24-year-old father in front of his 2-year-old son. A U.S. attorney’s statement says Anthony “Bandit” Gabourel received the sentence in a Los Angeles courtroom [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer March 6, 2013 | 8:44 p.m. PST LOS ANGELES – A member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang and longtime leader of the Puente 13 street gang, Rafael “Cisco” Munoz-Gonzalez, 42, was sentenced today to life in federal prison after being convicted in 2012 on federal racketeering charges that included a stabbing [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer March 1, 2013 | 6:55 p.m. PST Residents of the Jordan Downs who have been affiliated with the Grape Street Crips discuss the peace treaty that many Watts gang participated in during the 1992 cease fire, the gang injunction imposed on their neighborhood and possible peace with their rivals, East Coast Crips, [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer February 29, 2013 | 2:58 p.m. PST In September 2009, Los Angeles Deputy Mayor of GRYD, Guillermo Céspedes replaced Jeff Carr as the head of the city’s GRYD (Gang Reduction & Youth Development) program. In the interview after, he stated to the media that the statistics on gang-related crime by the Los [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer February 21, 2013 | 6:37 p.m. PST Aqeela Sherrills, from RHD California, organized the commemoration of the Watts Community gang truce and cease fire of 1992 among several gangs in the Imperial Courts, Nickerson Gardens, Jordan Downs, and Hacienda Village housing projects. The Bounty Hunter Bloods, Grape Street Crips, PJ Watts Crips, [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer February 15, 2013 | 7:21 p.m. PST Kershaun “Lil Monster” Scott who grew up in the neighborhood that was the flashpoint of the Los Angeles Civil unrest in 1992 came out to commemorate 20 years later. According to him, not much as changed over the years. This neighborhood is claimed by the [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer February 14, 2013 | 2:20 p.m. PST Civil rights attorney Connie Rice and co-founder of the Advancement Project was the keynote speaker at the Los Angeles Gang Violence Prevention & Intervention Conference (LAGVPIC) organized by the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater L.A. (VPC) in downtown Los Angeles on May 22, 2012. She [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer February 12, 2013 | 12:20 a.m. PST In 1992, members for several Black gangs in Watts agreed to a truce that had a major impact on gang culture among Bloods and Crips city-wide. The Bounty Hunter Bloods, Grape Street Crips, Hacienda Bloods and PJ Watts Crips from Imperial Courts spearheaded this effort. [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer February 7, 2013 | 6:15 p.m. PST Christopher Dorner’s Manifesto is highly critical of the LAPD, fellow officers and the bureaucratic process that led to his termination from the LAPD. Here are some quotes from the 11-page manifesto that is extremely detailed, well written and concise. Why Dorner decided to kill. No [...]
Photos of former Navy and LAPD officer Christopher Dorner
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Cle “Bone” Sloan on the set of Southland – Nickerson Gardens projects
Space Shuttle Endeavour parks near Randy’s donuts in Inglewood
California Department of Corrections once allowed gang colors
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