ALBERT SABATÉ (ABC News) | April 27, 2013 “G-Dog” tells the story of Homeboy Industries and the inspirational priest behind it. The emotional documentary, by Academy Award-winning director Frieda Mock, is a portrait of a man whose unconditional love and humor have reinvented gang intervention in Los Angeles and beyond. For a quarter of a [...]
Baby No Good is from the Fruit Town Brims, a street gang in South Los Angeles located west of the University of Southern California. He talks about his life in the gang, his family, how hard his mom work, and the absence of his father in his life. Post date: March 12, 2013 Interview Date: [...]
By Stefani Camille www.streetgangs.com staff writer January 17, 2013 Rapper name Guerilla Black, real name Charles Tony Williamson, 35, from Compton was arrested on Wednesday in Manhattan Beach. Williamson was taken into custody on suspicion of credit card fraud by local officers and U.S. Secret Service according to the Manhattan Police Department. In the Los [...]
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Street gangs did not start in Los Angeles, nor is Los Angele the gang capital of the United States or the world. Tom Brokow gave Los Angeles this dubious title during a 1988 documentary, and it stuck. Los Angeles does not have the most gangs, the most gang members nor does it have the most [...]
Varrio Junior Mafia is a predominately Hispanic street gang located in South Los Angeles along 107th Street between Vermont and Normandie Avenues. Their main rivals are Varrio South Los and 18th Street. Related stories: Varrio Eastside 36th Street – South Los Angeles, California Varrio 36th Street is a… Temple Street – 52nd Tokers – South [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer October 17, 2012 | 12:15 p.m. PST The L.A. County supervisors, which includes Mark Ridley-Thomas said there is lack of confidence in the Sheriff’s Department’s ability to clean up its jails. The county supervisors voted Tuesday to hire a special monitor to oversee reforms intended to keep deputies from controlling inmates through [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer October 12, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. PST Daniel Bissman, 36, hired by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as an unarmed courthouse security guard despite his history of violence and theft. How did this happen? Despite an extensive background investigation detailing Bissman’s misdeeds, he was hired for the $25,944-a-year job in November 2009. [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer October 09, 2012 | 9:58 p.m. PST Former Controller Laura Chick says don’t vote for city attorney, Trutanich. Chick urged voters in an open letter to think twice before re-electing him to a second term. Chick, who supported Trutanich publicly in April 2009, said in a letter Tuesday that she had “made [...]
By TOM HAYS Associated Press / October 2, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department is planning to double the size of its gang unit to 300 detectives to combat teen violence fueled by dares and insults traded on social media. Rather than target established street gangs involved in the drug trade, [...]
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 [...]
Photos of former Navy and LAPD officer Christopher Dorner
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