City attorney claims Black P Stones have 1,000 active members
Streetgangs.com Staff
June 16, 2011 | 2:15 p.m.
During a press conference last month to announce the arrest of several dozen members of the Black P Stones Bloods of the Jungles (Baldwin Village) in South Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich falsely claimed that there are 1,000 active gang members in the Jungles. According to police records there are a combined 700 documented members between the Black P Stones in the Jungles and the neighborhood in West Adams (two separate gangs). Additionally the “documented” statistic represents a number of counted gang members over a period of time that covers years, so it does not represent an active number.
Additionally, the City claims that there 38,000 gang members in 400 gangs City-wide, so it would be statistically impossible for one gang to have 1,000 members.
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BPS ain’t that huge….the only to black single gangs that fit those kind of numbers are Rollin 60s NHC & Rollin 20s NHB…Back in 2000 at 60s hood day they counting almost 1500 heads…The 20s last count was 1200…By the way isn’t this the 2nd time bps have gotten hit this month?? Leave them boys along they keep themselves….Don’t hear about yall riding up smiley dr. cleaning up 18st hood.
Hood Days are always deep, because those days represent a celebration of the neighborhood over time, so everyone comes out. The OGs, Vets, the interventionists, youngsters, families, etc. I was at a Venice Shoreline Hood day and there had to be at least 500 people there. There are people that never were from the gang that will show up on a hood day too.
you cant count Hood Day numbers because most people that come out to a Hood Day are not active.
That well could have been what the citys attorney did…Counted the altogether numbers.
the City atty is just reading a script that someone else wrote, He is clueless and just wants to come off strong on crime, even if those methods are ineffective. – they want to get re-elected, remember that.
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