Gangs of East Los Angeles (Unincorporated Los Angeles County)

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Gangs of East Los Angeles (Unincorporated Los Angeles County)

Encompassing the land east of the Los Angeles River, East Los Angeles is a central historical area of the City that has for many years has been anchored by communities such as Boyle Heights and Lincoln Heights. This area was home to the Gabrielino Indians since the 1st Century, but the area fell to the hands of the Spanish in the late eighteenth century, with Mexican and American ranchers taking control of the land for much of the nineteenth century.

East Los Angeles became a popular immigrant destination during the early 1900s for Russians, Jews, Japanese, and Mexicans. Living east of the river and working in nearby factories, or traveling by electric rail into downtown Los Angeles, immigrants and their children helped fuel the prosperity of the growing City. By the onset of World War II, East Los Angeles was a nearly exclusively Latino community, soon reinforced by Mexican workers who arrived to man the machines in the area?s burgeoning war industries. Remnants of Jewish influence still remain in the form of street names and an old synagogue, but this primary Latino community is one of the most popular in the Country.

This area also includes the northern section of City Terrace. It is the largest Mexican-American community in the United States and home to over 1 million people in an area bigger than Manhattan or Washington D.C. Barrios west of Indiana are in Boyle Heights, which is actually part of the City of Los Angeles policed by the Hollenbeck division of the LAPD. The East Los Angeles area is policed by the LA County Sheriff’s Department.

Street Gangs in East LA

italian federalz

November 7, 2010 - 10:18 pm

beep beep nigga aha aha

November 7, 2010 - 9:00 pm

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rip187

November 7, 2010 - 8:59 pm

itaLiAn mafiA

November 7, 2010 - 4:11 pm

VNE GANG

November 5, 2010 - 10:46 am

FUCK CRAYONS AND FUCK UNOS SIN VERGAS!!!
BIG VNE X111 GANG PUNKS!

CFL

November 3, 2010 - 8:30 am

PURO 310 WEST!!!!!

Ese Terror

November 3, 2010 - 4:58 am

SOUTH~CENTRAL~VARRIO~USV~X111~UNOS~SIN~VERGUENSAS~GANG~56th~ST.~LOKOS~CLICK

muthafuck all my enemigasK

BLAST

November 2, 2010 - 2:14 pm

FUCK VNE…WS LOS CRAZYSX11 DEADEND GANG

TrueFact_411

October 25, 2010 - 2:32 am

FUCK A FAKETEEN!! THE REAL “LA MARA” WORLD WIDE MARA SALVATRUCHA!! FAKETEENS ST KILLA’ \../,

CYCO

October 21, 2010 - 9:47 am

FUCK EVERY HOOD HERE PURO VARRRIO NUEVO ESTRADA GANG

EAST SIDE CAL13

October 17, 2010 - 3:50 pm

EVIL SIDE COMMERCE AREA LUNATICS// CRAZY ASS LUNATICS
ROSEWOOD PARK
ES CALX3 FUCK FLOPPERS 12 KAMOTESK MVK SAWICHESK
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East Side King

October 22, 2010 - 4:01 pm

HA HA HA HA….you fools don’t even exist..lol…just on the web….C12 always owned that area…and KKR are the other contenders in that bitch…either one will blow out your weak tagging crew…and plus you fags claimed South East Downey..now you trying to say East Los..lol..save that bull shit you imaginary hood..lmao..and MVK…fool…MV would bitch slap that ass quicker than any gang…doubt you fags even bumbed heads with any hoods..you bitchs just trying to look hard and trying to ride on someone else rep…by talking about some real gangs..