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The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) is a national community organizing network established in 1940 [1] by Saul Alinsky, Roman Catholic Bishop Bernard James Sheil and businessman and founder of the Chicago Sun-Times Marshall Field III.
Southwest Louisiana (SWLA) is a five-parish area intersecting the Acadiana and Central Louisiana regions in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is composed of the following parishes (counties): Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis. [1] [2] As of 2020, the combined population of the five parish area was 313,951. [3]
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles and sometimes abbreviated as LA County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,663,345 residents estimated in 2023. Its population is greater than that of 40 individual U.S. states .
The Gateway Cities, shaded in blue (the boundary is generalized) The Gateway Cities region, or Southeast Los Angeles County, is an urbanized region located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, between the City of Los Angeles proper, Orange County, and the Pacific Ocean.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department uses two stations (#118 on Gale Avenue, and Station #43 on Stimson Avenue on the west side of town). According to the 2011 FBI uniform crime reports, with a population of 222, the City of Industry had 1,136 known property crimes, [ 54 ] giving it the highest average per-resident property crime rate (5.117 ...
New Iberia (French: La Nouvelle-Ibérie; [a] Spanish: Nueva Iberia [b]) is the largest city in and parish seat of Iberia Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [3] The city of New Iberia is located approximately 21 miles (34 kilometers) southeast of Lafayette, and forms part of the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area in the region of Acadiana.
Within Louisiana, more than 93% of the communities had a lower crime rate than Shreveport. NeighborhoodScout found Shreveport to be one of the top 100 most dangerous cities in the United States. [143] In the late 1980s, authorities started to track local Los Angeles-based gangs that distributed cocaine out of low-income neighborhoods. The first ...
DeRidder is a city in, and the parish seat of, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, United States. [3] A small portion of the city extends into Vernon Parish.As of the 2010 census DeRidder had a population of 10,578. [4]