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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.
The California State Senate and the United States Commission on Civil Rights have conducted hearings in the past about the issue of deputy gangs in Los Angeles County however. State law does require law enforcement agencies in the state to maintain policies which prohibit the existence of gangs within law enforcement agencies. [2]
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 ...
Jessi Fernandez, a onetime gang member from L.A.'s Eastside, is part of a swelling pipeline of ex-convicts who make it to a UC or Cal State and find an unexpected path forward.
During the 1950s and 1960s, White Fence was considered one of the "most violent and powerful gangs in East Los Angeles." [13] [12] The rivalry between the gang and another Hispanic gang, El Hoyo Maravilla, is one of the longest, ongoing feuds in all of Los Angeles, a rivalry going back to the 1930s.
A total of 68 suspected gang members with ties to White supremacy were charged in the Los Angeles area Wednesday in a large-scale takedown, federal prosecutors said. The Peckerwoods Gang members ...
When East L.A. deputies arrived at the scene of the crime, they found two spent bullets, six .380-caliber shell casings and one eyewitness ready to talk to them: 17-year-old Monica Rivera.
Varrio Nuevo Estrada, also known as VNE13, [3] [4] [5] is a Chicano criminal street gang founded in Boyle Heights, California, in the Estrada Courts housing projects. VNE is one of 34 gangs in a 15-square-mile area east of downtown Los Angeles.