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Territory Maps of Gangs in Los Angeles

Welcome to Streetgangs.com. After spending several months in the field examing gangs and the their territories, I had an accurate reflection of the number of African American gangs active in the County of Los Angeles.

Using Geographic Informations Systems (GIS) software by ESRI, I was able to digitize all of the known gang territories and conduct several analyes of their territories. Below are a few of the over 30 maps that were published in Territoriality Among African Street Gangs in Los Angeles.

South Central Black Gang Territories
Gang Regions in South Los Angeles
Territory Size Variation of Los Angeles Street Gangs
Aggressive Gang Graffiti
Homicides in Southwest Division of Los Angeles
Blood and Crip Gang Territories in Compton and Surrounding Areas

If you are interested in ordering a set of paper maps showing Black gang territories in Los Angeles for 1960, 1972, 1978, and 1996 click here or if you are interested in GIS shape files along with the attribute data that you can view in Arc View click here. If you do not have Arc View you can still view these digital shape files by using ArcExplorer, a free lightweight GIS data viewer developed by ESRI. This freely available software offers an easy way to perform basic GIS functions. ArcExplorer is used for a variety of display, query, and data retrieval applications and supports a wide variety of standard data sources.