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Armenian Power graffiti in Little Armenia, Los Angeles MS-13 graffiti. This is a list of notable criminal gangs in Los Angeles, California. The County and the City of Los Angeles has been nicknamed the "Gang Capital of America," with an estimated 450 active gangs with a combined membership of more than 45,000. [1]
The 18th Street Gang, also known as Eighteen St, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America, [1] [15] [16] [17] is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) street gang in Los Angeles. [18] It is one of the largest street gangs in Los Angeles, with 30,000–50,000 members between the United States, Mexico, and Central America ...
This is a list of gangs whose members are associated with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) (typically deputies). Press reports indicate the LASD has had a problem with gangs since at least the 1970s which has expanded to at least 18 gangs. [1] The department has used the term "cliques" when discussing these groups. [2]
Federal and L.A. County law enforcement raid 30 homes linked to South L.A. gang Florencia 13 in the shooting death of LAPD Officer Fernando Arroyos in 2022.
Latin Kings (gang) Lopers; Los Angeles crime family; Menace of Destruction; Mongols Motorcycle Club; Moonshiners Motorcycle Club; MS-13; Norteños; Peckerwood. Nazi Lowriders; Public Enemy No. 1; Rancho San Pedro Gang; Satanas; Sinaloa Cartel. Beltrán-Leyva Cartel; Sureños. 38th Street gang; The Avenues; Azusa 13; Culver City Boys 13; El ...
Many gang members have relocated to San Bernardino and Riverside counties – and other areas of Los Angeles County – due to the gang injunctions from the LAPD and on going gang wars with Cypress Park boys and Highland Park 13. Increased housing and rental prices in many east side neighborhoods have meant that former gang members have moved ...
By the late 1980's, another deputy gang called the "Cavemen" had formed within the East Los Angeles sheriff's station. It is alleged that former county sheriff Alex Villanueva is or was a member of the gang, and he stated before a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting on March 12, 2019 that "we were all Cavemen." [4]
The name Toonerville was created in 1902 by a cartooner in Louisville Kentucky, he merge his profession and the city he lived to create the toonervile folks cartoon and sold it to the newspapers, a group of friends in 1926 in Los Angeles started calling the area they lived toonerville due to the red line trolley going through their small mix race community and an area adjacent called Tropico ...