Gang map of the Pico Union area of Central Los Angeles
By Alex A. Alonso
September 2, 2009
The Pico Union area is home to over 40,000 residents that includes a population that is over 87 percent Hispanic of both foreign and US born Hispanics of mostly Mexican and El Salvadorean descent. Over 100 years ago, Swedish immigrants settled in this community and formed the First Evangelical Free Church in 1913 which is still standing at 1356 Albany Ave. During the 1950s and 1960s, Mexicans immigrated to this community, then as a result of civil war that broke out in El Salvador beginning in 1980, the demographics slowly began to change again as thousands of refugees fled El Salvador and settled in this community.
The Pico-Union community stretches from Normandie Avenue (west) to the 110 Harbor Freeway (east) between Olympic (north) and the Santa Monica 10 Freeway (south).
First Evangelical Free Church
Today there are over 10 gangs in this small area, all of Hispanic origin and home to the original Mara Salvatrucha gang that formed in the early 1980s, and the original 18th Street gang that formed as a click of an older Clanton gang 50 years ago.
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man i dont even f wit LA
k-ing Ni66ah’s for no reason and get cuaght
I dont like ALL U CHAVALAS HAHA DIS B DAT BIG MARA GANG THAT BE STOMPING ON ALL U BUSTAS AHA FAKETEEN, BURRITO, lollipopWOOD ETC kLLAAAAA 4 LIFE
LA MARA ANDA SUELTA Y CONTROLA PUTOS \,,/
BY THE WAY f ALL ENEMIGAS AND HATERS.
.POCHAS LOST TOBERMAN PARK,
AND BONNIE BRAE ON OUR SIDE
THEY AIN’T CONTROLLING NADA!!!
f BURRAS f el morroS fHERPYS f ishMER
BIG BAD WEST SIDE EIGHTEEN STREET GANG HOOVER LOCOTES CLICK TLS f ALL HATERS
BK SPECT
F#@K faketeen.you mutherF#@Kers cant play the game thats why you lame as fakes thro rat wut a .P ish.we took over tobermen park ese westside varrio BURLINGTON LOCOS CYKLONES CLICK RIFA PUTOS COME OUT AND GUN PLAY IF CAN HANG WITH THIS BEEZZ V.BNLS CYKOS FAKETEEN k WITH A PATION
Ura hoto
BK WHATS UP WITH THAT
YOU SURE AINT k-ingG NO
BURLINGTON LOCOS
WHATS UP WITH ALL THE HOOVER LOCOS
AND REDSHIELD BOYS YOU VATOS
SHOULD WORK FOR THE COPS
ALL U DO IS THROW RAT…EVERYTIME WE SMOKE
ONE OF YOU LAMES FROM FAKETEEN..A HOMIE
FROM BURLINGTON GETS RATTED ON BY YOU
VATOS…WE SMOKED SO MANY OF YOU FOOLS YOUR
HOOD IS A JOKE….
f YOU BURRITOS YOU AINT ish PUTO YOU ARE THE fING RATAS PUTO DE el morro LOOK BACK el morro BURRITO AND SEE HOW MANY OF YOUR fING CHAVALA ARE RESTIN IN PIECES CHAVALAS , WE OWN THE STREET LEVAS WE ARE CONTROLING EVERYTHING PERRA , YOU BETHER STAR RUNNING fING CHAVALA. f BURRITOS DE el morro THIS IS MR BLACKY BIG XV111ST GANG RSBS
BURLINGTON LOCOS says:
August 2, 2010 at 3:18 pm
WHATS UP WITH THE FAKETEEN STREETS YOU VATOS NEED TO STOP
THROWING RAT AND SNITCHING.THERE IS ALOT OF HOMIES FROM
BURLINGTON LOCOS DOING LIFE IN PRISON FOR SMOKING YOUR HOMIES
AND ALL YOU VATOS CAN DO IS SHOW UP IN COURT AND TESTIFY ON
THE HOMIES.WHATS UP WITH THAT ā¦..THATS WHY WE RAN YOUR LAME ASS
HOOD OUT OF TOBERMAN PARK.THATS RIGHT WE TOOK YOUR HOOD FROM
WHERE YOU VATOS STARTED AT..ALL I GOTTA SAY IS BURLINGTON HAS kED
SO MUCH OF YOU FOOLS WE LOST COUNT LIKE TEN YEARS AGO..
AND THE MOST U FOOLS CAN DO IS RETALIATE BY GOING TO COURTā¦
WHATS UP WITH THE FAKETEEN STREETS YOU VATOS NEED TO STOP
THROWING RAT AND SNITCHING.THERE IS ALOT OF HOMIES FROM
BURLINGTON LOCOS DOING LIFE IN PRISON FOR SMOKING YOUR HOMIES
AND ALL YOU VATOS CAN DO IS SHOW UP IN COURT AND TESTIFY ON
THE HOMIES.WHATS UP WITH THAT …..THATS WHY WE RAN YOUR LAME ASS
HOOD OUT OF TOBERMAN PARK.THATS RIGHT WE TOOK YOUR HOOD FROM
WHERE YOU VATOS STARTED AT..ALL I GOTTA SAY IS BURLINGTON HAS kED
SO MUCH OF YOU FOOLS WE LOST COUNT LIKE TEN YEARS AGO..
AND THE MOST U FOOLS CAN DO IS RETALIATE BY GOING TO COURT…
you havent got the slidest idea of what you saying tham f..if it wasnt for us well at least me..you mathafers would be hangging ariound with fen mayans down watts or 106 st …so chill out trampa.
f your piece of ish hood puro WITMER
f FAKETEEN …PURO PICO UNION BURLINGTON LOKOS GANG…kER BEEZ
f a faketeen lame ass paisa gang and, f lollipop woods, chickens,orchatas,el morros,arcacas,ratas,diarreas…all you lames ain’t posted like u say u do still BIG WEST SIDE WITMER STREET LOCOS GANG LBS CLICK…
Shut up fkn calderon.lame ass cricket.I remember when u had a bigass lila tatto and a small ass bn tatt.but I also witnessed the 18streters throwing a grip of rat
Big Q-vo to all the big bad Burlingtown gangsters, faketeen ker!!! Also, Big Q-vo to all the rat throwing fake ass dirty cholos from the one-eight! I grow up in the Union and had some friends from Burlington, small gang but k-ingg machines. I remember the fake hoovers and Red shields dropping dimes on all the ish that was going on with Burlington and Faketeen. Deportation was on the line for most Fakeers so they rated out BN members to avoid deportation. So, f Aidsteen, Orphans, Forty-second, and all the rest of the lame as fake gangs. Especially the kissing ass KWS! BNLS all the way!!!!
your map is all wrong the areas you have mapped do not exist and pico union is ALL OCCUPIED BY BURLINGTON LOCOS FROM HOOVER TO FIGUEROA AND WASHINGTON TO PICO UNION we hunt this area and are responsible for ending all caca riders ,the salvies from the mara and the ongoing SLAUGHTER of the p*ssyocha chavalas to remove this vile salvadorian scum out of PICO-UNION! 1986 3RD MOST VIOLENT GANG IN LA..(la times) and we continue the tradition as the aggressors on ramparts Crash gang list and will continue to spill blood in this eternal war i have given my life as my youngsters have to live and build a dream in PICO-UNION which is a city without PUSS*OCHA i have lived that dream when i destroyed caca riders,forty leva and the el morros. This i have pledged 23 yrs ago to my varrio and my brothers till i cant pull the trigger no more… VARRIO BURLINGTON LOCOS 13 PSYCLONES MOB kS FOR THRILLS!
Chills i remember u in that run down blue house across the allyway way on toberman st…..u still got long hair chick looking like the mirdas u clam to k….and as far as moving da hood out the way!!!na homie never i pass by ur so called hood da homies hit all up n down ur hood from i remeber u foos always pass by shooting and hiding why u think da hood always hit up down the street u foos clam to bk on wht that tells u we bk walking up n down hunting burras but u foos are never to bk found u foos tried it but cant hang but its ok to tell the truth u foos are scared keep it real like Bird im not speak on it but what he flead for fear of his life…. We never hide n homies willing n have given there life for the hood…..Puro WS 18 ST HOOVER LOCOS
You are all smart. Who cares about smart street gangs. Grow up and find something productive to do with your lives. Go to school and get an education and make something out of your lives. You idiots ruin it for all Hispanics in this country. Who wants to be locked up for life for k-ingg someone else? If you are going to break the law then leave the damn country and go back to a 3rd world country!!!
joto! you go back to salvador with your “hispanics” we are MEXICAN not hispanics or latinos But it sounds like your thinking your white or self hating F you u dont have a clue and what are u doing on here anyway leva??
Ur right danny.but easier said than done.this place is jam packed our own ppl push us to be who we are.our life is out of the ordinary,almost comic book like.in my mind I was a hero:)fighting against the villans from the other hood.I became famouse.I came out on tv for the wrong reasons.had all the 18st guys come for me to k me.and I smiled.were young dumb and lucky.we all reach the pivit point sooner or later.I’m just lucky I made it to that point without any convictions,werass others reach that point,and can’t move forward with a felony on there resume,so danny don’t judge wat u don’t understand live your life and with words and view points like you have u won’t be able to change anybody elses.do ur best in bn a father cause u might find urself saying (my boy isa good kid hell never do that)werall good but nobodys perfect
when would be the day the police do a mass deportation to the jungle…. It should take just a couple hours, no witnesses, and LA would be clean again…
F#@K burras stay inside weak azz hood yo homie sparkey pc up in county got his tooth knocked out got wacked cuz he a rat Ez up Bz down tripple 6 gang ws 18
Salvie, let’s see if we can get this Sparky rumor correct. First, BN has no member with the name Sparky, especially old enough to hit county. Furthermore, Salvies or wet backs like you head straight to the INS building. So, you probably bumped into someone who chick slapped you and you thought he was from the big bad Burlington locos trece gang! Finally, get a fen education you fen smart salvie…… reading and writing will work wonders, especially when deportation is in the front lines. Keep your mouth shut fen Rats………. BN. LIFE…….. 1842LCRSTCCOPHSMSk!!!!!!!!
f .POCHA fIN LOP THERES ALONG LIST OF RAT ASS .POCHAS THROWING RAT f U PUTO! kER B GANGA P/V
Wess sied k Beez Burlington Lokotes. …panch and fakes suck it..
BIG DRIFTERS GANG PUTOS
f fakes all you foos are a bunch of paisas straight warache makers..and next time yall want to come to the dubb and kick up dust get out the car to bust only negros do that chick ish drive bys… But then we dont blame you lames since the Witmeros be putting in work on you fakes hahaha red shield boys are a bunch of loud mouth putos that scream fakes to every car that goes by but when yall saw them witmeros with them truenos all 6 of u booked it and dissapeared like the wind hahaha but anyways u foos can say whatever the f u wanna say here but both of us really know was up… Witmer Gang f fakes, orchas,chickens,sofas,arcacas,rankwood,king tacos,diarreas and any one that want some…
COME THROUGH AND GET UR WIG SPLIT! !!
DON’T MESS WITH DFS.
f CLUMS AND THE REST OF THE BUMS.
FROM THE .P BUNNYS PBSK.
PICO UNION DRIFTERS GANG CONTROLA.
RESPECT TO THE BURLINGTON LOCOS THEY OWN PICO UNION** THATS MY PALABRA!! f FAKETEENS N DUMBfS WS PLAY BOYS13CLS****PICO N FEDORA^^
INSTEAD OF KISSING ASS WHY DON’T YOU SUCK MY SICK INSTEAD
Poo buhts BARATAS PBSK.!!!
GRAB THAT BUNNY BY THE EARS N MAKE HIM SUCK d#$k.!!!
what. PICO N PEDORRA kERS
f Poo buhts BARATAS WE PUT WORK ON .POCHAS,el morroS,HERPYS,MECOS,
EVERLASTING ORIGINAL DRIFTERS GANG.
Y KE !!!!
The Union belongs to us period!!!! f these lops ain’t worth mention!!! Pico union Varrio BURLINGTONE X111 CONTROLA!!!
what is all this hate against salvis did a salvi 18 or ms bang ur chick or something talkin like ur above salvie foo u a chick who probaly shot foo without sayin anythin in fled quick and u pico union street garbage infested salvi with this coward way of k-ing a man real salvis fight face to face with machetes all this sneak no respect ish u claim salvis started when they hit pico they got from pos li ke u our military history is more than ur little pico union so called war storys are everythin salvis are now is a reflection of what they learned in the piece of ish hell hole u call pico union because el salvadors national guard and military police were draggin these pos to extinction so everytime u get mad at one of these salvies and how low they are then just look at yourself in the mirror cause thats what pico union is cause everyone knows most those salvies were bastard orphans who didnt have moms and dads to teach them the real salvi way what they got is education by other bastardized generation who came before them
f salvies!!! 18k, msk! PURO CHICANO POWER!!!
f burras!!
Where U Burras @ ? All U chick ass, punk muthafas don’t even live here in my neighborhood Pico Union anymore. The few hat stay here are always. Low pro. f punk ass Cricket, Chills and the rest of you big mouth burras who cant fight and are lame ass Burras!! Puro livesiochon ese Los Hoover Locos all day every night 7 days controlando!!
Where U Burras @? f chick ass,punk muthafas Cricket,Chills and the rest of U Burras living low pro!! All U chick ass Burras left my neighborhood Pico Union cause U’all couldn’t take that One Eight Heat!! Big Bad Eighteenth Street Hoover Locos Controlando.
You weak motherfer! You always talking but neva neva neva eva eva eva put in work! You lame ass paisas are either hanging in the westlake district or back in your third world country… You know where we be at!?! f Faketeen ice hold testifying levas! Hoover lmao! Please!!! Varrio BURLINGTOWN 13!!!!!
f BURRASk f ishMERSk f PEANUTSk f DUMBfSk
WEST SIDE Xv111 ST RED SHIELD BOYS
COME OUT AND PLAY chickASS LAMES
PICO UNION IS OUR H99D NOW CHAVALAS
f THEM Ni66ahS PRIME AND SUSPECT, f YOU .POCHOS. PINCHES RATAS ASESINAS fEN k-ingG A LO PENDEJO. KARMA A chick!!
HAHAHA LAME ASS Ni66ahS f BURRAS YALL KNOW WHAT TIME
IT IS COME OUT N PLAY REMEMBER WHEN YOUR BIG HOMIES RANKED OUT
IN FRONT OF THAT LAME ASS PARK HA ALL BAD4
WOW, all you gangsters are a shame and a waste of a life. Do something productive for once. THE BARRIO hates you for the ish and trash you are. You can’t even spell, think, and write well. Stop living off the system. GO tag your fed up spelling in your ass, don’t tag on others property. You guys are like DOGS marking your “territory” You are all failures at life. NO ONE WILL MISS YOU WHEN YOU live.
f you foos from rataochos every time you lames pass by the park you guys have a cop car escoring your lame asses that’s how you know you foos are a lame ass gang next time pass by your own and keep on sending your fat ratas hinas to keep punto homies f faketeen ese puro -V-BURLINGTON-X3 ALL DAY LONG
I live in back of toberman park and spend time in the park and bnls doesn’t own ish, I see day after day 18st gang members come to the park in bikes,walking or in cArs to tag the park or shoot at the gangsters from bnls. In all honesty bnls gang members don’t hang out at the park anymore cause there afraid of 18st
Undercover faketeen!
No homie I’m from pudk i live in the back of toberman park I don’t give a f about 18. I know most of them fools from bnls but I’m just tired of the fu King kies u guys dnt own ish I see them fool from 18!hit up the park everyday and u guys dnt do ish. U guys are starting to hang out again but that’s only cause 18 were going to take over the park u fers are not here u guys say bnls but u guys are never in the park just hiding like the oussies u are
You ain’t from pudk and if you are what they call you???? fen fake talking trash! Your the biggest .P of all!!!!!
Yall Poo buhts dont want none
Every Cholo/Gangster in the world deserves to live. I HATE YOU ALL. Everytime I go to a store I heard lalives and boys talk about how they hate you. Everything you do is a smartity. Some of you idiots can’t even spell. You left school to have kids with a smart firl and go live of EBT, WIC and Welfare. Kids outside of America wish they could be a legal citizen so they could go to school and study. And you guys ARE legal citizens waste your life on gangs. š What a failure at life. I, the neighborhood, and the city ALL HATE YOU.
WOW. I lived in Pico-Union for 30 years and at this point 18 nor BNLS run it. I’ve even seen an MS13 tag on Hooever and Venice and no one went over it. It was there for over 2 weeks.
I miss living in the pico union district like when i was a lil kid rest in peace the homie kraks…..
You all gangster are a fing disgrace to yourself, your barrio, and your families. Go live in a fire putos.
Every one has there punk ass opion on da hood but let the truth bk known we doing something rite thats all i see f my hood but from every hood whats that saying homies must be doing something rite….i under stand….we have taraize all of L.A from my click Hoover loks da homies from Clcs, Rsbs, Gvls, 7bgs, SdrvGs,Rpbgs,Spls n so on u go to prison 60% are livesiocheros for life so i under stand…we ant as strong as we use to be but we still holding on strong even threw every thing we been trew all these yrs were da only varrio that has but up with more ish then any other varrio….as far as burras are concren to me u foos are a bunch of levas foreal, yeah we lost homies to u foos and yea we havnt caught u foos yet but n.e one pull a trigger but a real gee holds it down not u lams always hideing n half of the time u foos are so scared u just shoot inasint people kn ppl that are not even from da hood… Wow…just like da hood u foos clickd up wit lollipopwoods what a good spoot to hang out at a half a block away from da rampart police station chickessssss
You all ready know los ws street criminals 11th street .
f ALL U FAKE ASS LEVAS YOU NEVER EVEN PUTTING IN WORK, JUST THROWING RAT. ONLY PLACE U GOOD IS IN THE PC TANK U PUNK ASS CHAVALAS. ONE TIME I SAW ONE OF YOU VATOS STR8 DRINKING STRAWBERRY MILK THRU A STRAW LIKE SOME WEAK ASS PUĆECA. ANOTHER TIME I SAW ONE OF YOU FOOS PLAYING HOPSCOTCH IN TOBERMAN ALL WEARING PIGTAILS AND ish. IT WAS A DISGRACE. STOP EATING CATFOOD AND WEARING 2 DIFFERENT COLOR SOCKS, THIS IS OUR HOOD! WE WEAR EYESHADOW AND LIPSTICK BUT YOU LEVAS CANT EVEN PUT ON A LITTLE FOUNDATION TO HIDE THOSE PINCHE ESPINILLAS.
Over half the fools in here making comments can’t even speak right let alone spell corectly… Go back to school read a book.. stop talking ish hiding behind a computer. so rediculous and sad .
You all ready know los ws street criminals 11th street .
Ws STC 13. Los street criminals from 1985 .nd we still here 2022. Tho.