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Gangs
Los Angeles Gangs and Hate Crimes
Soon the prison race war spilled into the streets. The first battles were in the Santa Monica and Venice areas at apartment complexes like the Oakwood and Mar Vista Apartments.
February 28, 2008
Patrol
Violent Crime in Los Angeles Hits Highest Level Since 2009, Police Blame Gangs
Los Angeles officials on Wednesday attributed last year's crime jump to increased gang activity and homelessness, among other things.
January 14, 2016
Blogs
Gangs
July 14, 2009
Special Units
Los Angeles Gang Tour Draws International Tourists
Tourists from Europe and Australia are learning about Los Angeles gangs with the help of Alfred Lomas, who is leading "LA Gang Tours" to show them graffiti artists and gang-member hangouts, NPR.com reports.
January 21, 2010
Patrol
Award-Winning Documentary to Screen at TREXPO East Next Week
The screening of “Drug Wars” will be followed by a question-and-answer session with director Fleming and PoliceMag.com Gangs columnist Richard Valdemar, retired from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
August 19, 2008
Special Units
L.A. Training Center Offers Counter-Drug Symposium
The Los Angeles High Intensity Drug Training Area (HIDTA) training center will offer a two-day symposium for law enforcement officers covering threats such as Mexican drug cartels, street gangs, and border security.
May 24, 2012
Special Units
America Needs a Surge Against Gangs
Back about 20 years ago when gangs in Los Angeles were shooting at each other in drivebys and hitting a lot of innocent bystanders, I was fond of saying that I had a solution for the gang problem: marksmanship lessons.
July 31, 2008
Special Units
Crips and Bloods Documentary
This promo is for "GangBangin' Fo' Life, Vol. 1," a propagandistic documentary that shows members of the Crip and Blood street gangs in the Compton and Watts areas of Los Angeles. The clip shows active gang bangers involved in fights, crack cooking, drug deals and other activities.
February 22, 2010
Special Units
OMGs Invade Los Angeles Hipster District
Jose Luis Sanchez, 25, faces a court hearing Jan. 18 for allegedly opening fire outside an Sunset Boulevard nightclub, targeting a "full-patch" Hells Angel.
January 5, 2011
Special Units
Los Angeles Tears Down Avenues Gang Bastion
The two-bedroom stucco house at 3304 Drew St. in Glassell Park was once the center of one of the most menacing drug marketplaces in Los Angeles. From the house, Maria "Chata" Leon, an illegal immigrant, her family and associates controlled drug and gang activity on the street for years, police said.
February 4, 2009
Special Units
L.A. County Sheriff Announces Inquiry Into Deputies' Secret Societies
Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell has launched a comprehensive inquiry into secret deputy cliques and is looking into whether gangs that condone illicit behavior are operating within his ranks.
July 27, 2018
Gangs
Going Beyond Suppression Patrols To Eradicate Gangs
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Curtis Jackson pioneered a different way to attack gangs. Instead of using "show of force" suppression patrols, Jackson relied on intelligent tactics.
April 26, 2010
Special Units
Los Angeles To Record Less Than 300 Murders In 2010
About half of the murders in Los Angeles are gang crimes and considered "repressible," according to an editorial in the Los Angeles Times.
December 27, 2010
Gangs
The Business of Gangs
The dynamics of Los Angeles and the Crip and Blood gangs of the 1980s presented certain criminal entrepreneurs with to opportunity to control the drug trade in large sections of the city, and the L.A. drug lifestyle provided an unlimited consumer base for expansion; it was supply and demand economics in its most vicious form.
May 31, 2007
Special Units
L.A. to Sever Ties with Prominent Gang-Intervention Agency
Los Angeles City Hall officials are preparing to sever ties with one of the more high-profile gang intervention organizations in South L.A., a decision the agency head decried as "an injustice" -- even dangerous because of the agency's success in reducing violence between rival gangs. The city's Gang Reduction & Youth Development office plans to end its contract with Unity T.W.O. Inc. at the end of the month.
July 15, 2009
Special Units
Investigating Gangs Outside the Gang Squad
I remember riding with another L.A. Deputy Sheriff in an East Los Angeles gang car in 1975. To me, it was a privilege working with a special gang suppression unit, but my partner complained that he hated working gangs because it was useless. But he was wrong.
June 30, 2007
Special Units
The State of American Law Enforcement - Gangster Nation
Ride around the streets of Salisbury, N.C., and you'll see graffiti that looks out of place. Gangs in this Southern city have splattered once-pristine walls with messages pledging allegiance to gangs in Los Angeles and New York City.
October 31, 2008
Gangs
Roots of Evil
Gangs calling themselves the Hole Stoners, ELA Stoners, The Lot Stoners, Mid City Stoners, and Mara Salvatrucha Stoners (MS13) sprang up all over Los Angeles.
April 9, 2009
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