By Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times | May 18, 2013 ‘Working smarter’ and reorganization can go only so far. It’s not clear that the public is ready to make the investment. OAKLAND — It was a quiet evening by this city’s standards, and still the police emergency lines were lighting up. As screams rang out [...]
A 41-year old veteran Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested by the LAPD and charged with murder after his son go into an altercation.
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer October 12, 2012 | 11:40 a.m. PST Reps. Brad Sherman, 57, and Howard Berman, 71 at a debate Thursday at Pierce College got heated after discussing federal immigration bill between the to men. Sherman got up close to Berman’s face, threw his arm roughly around his shoulders and challenged “You want to [...]
By Stefani Camille Streetgangs.com Staff Writer September 27, 2012 | 1:01 p.m Last Friday, two ex-Lynwood officials, Louis Byrd, 80, and Fernando Pedroza, 47, were in front of Compton Superior Court Judge Eleanor Hunter to be sentenced to prison for corruption. Byrd and Pedroza were charged in 2007 after a four-year investigation, along with three [...]
Maura Dolan (Los Angeles Times) | September 23, 2012 Donald Heller wrote the 1978 ballot measure that expanded California’s death penalty. Ronald Briggs, whose father spearheaded the campaign, worked to achieve its passage. Jeanne Woodford, a career corrections official, presided over four executions. The lawyer, El Dorado County supervisor and retired San Quentin Prison warden [...]
Michael Montgomery (KABC) | September 13, 2012 State corrections officials are moving forward with a plan for handling prison gangs and other violent groups, including changing rules that have kept some inmates locked in special isolation units for decades. But the initiative is raising concern among prisoner rights advocates and some experts who worry that [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff July 28, 2012 | 12:38 a.m. PST On Wednesday a U.S. Coast Guard crew seized 8,500 pounds of marijuana off the coast of San Pedro, south of Los Angeles. The San Francisco-based Coast Guard Cutter Aspen was the boat that made the huge bust. According to Capt. James Jenkins, commander of the Coast [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff June 4, 2012 | 11:55 a.m. PST Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez, announced on Friday that he is stepping down and taking a voluntary leave of absence from his position. This decision came as a result of an ongoing investigation for alleged corruption and influence peddling within his office. The investigation began [...]
JAKE HENSHAW • Desert Sun Sacramento Bureau • May 4, 2009 SACRAMENTO — With gang crimes becoming an all too grim staple of life in communities such as Desert Hot Springs, the state’s gang czar spent his first year trying to identify funds to counter the violence and programs to get the job done. Paul [...]
Hood 2 Hood: The Blockumentary $21.98 $18.99 See All DVDs, Books & Magazines Hood 2 Hood, The Blockumentary is an action packed film that takes you on a tour through America’s highest crime rated neighborhoods. Rich Kid Entertainment contacted all the underground hood connections from hoods across the country from California to New York, to [...]
Hood 2 Hood: The Blockumentary Part Two Price: $19.99 See All DVDs, Books & Magazines Rich Kid Entertainment did is again, following their hugely popular Hood 2 Hood they just released Hood 2 Hood, The Blockumentary Part Two which is an action packed DVD that takes viewers on a graphic detailed journey through the highest [...]
Hoodlife DVD $16.95 See All DVDs, Books & Magazines Hoodlife is based on real life events that occur in Oxnard, California in the year of 2006. A gang called Black Mafia Gang (BMG) located in Ventura County gives us a close and in-depth look at how they live as gang members on the streets. These [...]
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