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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Street Gangs of Los Angelas There has been a lot made of the fact that I keep pointing out the FACT that the media in the United States always has an alternative motive in everything it prints. I am shocked that a number of people who post often in 4um would disagree with me. In fact, several have claimed that I am an apologist for the illegal immigrants coming into the states, simply because I point out why they have come, and mention how impossible it is to stop the flood unless you first fix the problem, which is not the illegals, but the United States government. I have made several posts pointing out what is behind the flood, including benefits paid to the illegals, legally, and the passage of NAFTA in Mèxico, which is the main reason that the flood of illegals from Mèxico is now so big. But there have been a number of people that take real exception to me explaining that the Latino gangs are not the only gangs operating. Why is that? Because the media now speaks of no other gangs; just the Latino gangs. My, if it were me, that would raise a big red flag..... The following is fairly current information. All Blood Gangs in Los Angeles County http://www.streetgangs.com/bloods/ There are 88 incorporated cities and dozens of other unincorporated places in Los Angeles County (LAC). In doing this research on the proliferation of gangs within Los Angeles, each of these places were visited in an attempt to not just identify gangs active in Los Angeles, but to determine their territories too. Through several weeks of field work and research there were a total of 274 Black gangs in 17 cities and five unincorporated areas in Los Angeles County. In this research, both the cities and unincorporated areas are identified as "places," a term that the U.S. Census uses. Please go to the site for a complete list of locations and names of gangs. It is quite impressive. A Brief History of the Los Angeles based Crips http://www.streetgangs.com/crips/ Raymond Washington, a 15 year-old student at Fremont High School started what would later become known as the Crips in 1969. After much of the Black Panther power base was eliminated and as other social and political groups became ineffective in Los Angeles, Washington, who was too young to participate in the Panther movement during the 1960s, but absorbed much of the Panther rhetoric of community control of neighborhoods (Baker 1988, p. 28) fashioned his quasi-political organization after the Panther's militant style by sporting the popular black leather jackets of the time. In addition to emulating the Panther appearance, Washington also admired an older gang that remained active throughout the 1960s called the Avenues, led by Craig and Robert Munson. He decided to name his new quasi-political organization the Baby Avenues (aka Avenue Cribs) to represent a new generation of youths. Washington got together a few other friends near his 78th Street home near Fremont High School. His initial initial intent was to continue the revolutionary ideology of the 1960s and to act as community leaders and protectors of their local neighborhoods. The revolutionary vision did not endure and because of immaturity and a lack of political leadership young Raymond Washington and his group never were able to develop an agenda for social change within the community and became obsessed with protecting themselves from other thugs in the community. Early members included Anglo "Barefoot Pookie" White, Michael "Shaft" Concepcion, Melvin Hardy, Jimel "Godfather" Barnes, Bennie Simpson, Greg "Batman" Davis, Mack Thomas, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Raymond "Danifu" Cook, Ecky, No 1, and Michael Christianson. Many of these youth became the neighborhood "toughs" in the community and gained respect from other youth in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. In Los Angeles County today, there are 88 incorporated cities and dozens of other unincorporated places in Los Angeles County (LAC) with Crips firmly established in 24 cities and areas in the County. In 1972 the eight Crip gangs grew to 45 in 1978. By 1982 there were 109 Crips in LA County and by the late 1990s there were 199 individual Crip gangs active in LA County. Crip growth in Los Angeles has stablized and even declined in areas that are undergoing demographic change, but in other parts of California, the United States and abroad, many places have started copy cat gangs. Again, please go to the site and find the VERY impressive list of affliated gangs and their locations. And remember, please, this is ONLY about Los Angelas! Please note this; Many of these youth became the neighborhood "toughs" in the community and gained respect from other youth in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. If you read any of the materials on gangs, you will learn that the gangs are not about race; they are about respect, and protecting 'their' turf. There are blacks in the Latino gangs, and Latinos in the black gangs. It simply depends on where the children, the ones with no options, live when they are old enough to be taken in to a gang, and for most of them, earn some respect and actually belong to something. Remember, most of the children we are speaking of are the fruit of the welfare state started and used by the United States government to destroy the families in the inner cities. You know, where any woman will be paid for having illegitimate children (the more she has, the more she earns), but if she dares to live with a man, NO MONEY! So what we are taking about is roughly 4-6 generations of children who have lived in single parent slums, never knowing a family life (not their own and certainly not for any of their friends), having free access to non-responsible sex at an early age (hey, every young girl in the slums knows exactly how to get her own appartment! Just like mommy got hers! AND MONEY TOO!), and having nothing better to do than spend 8-16 hous a day in front of the tele. And someone wonders that the result was a system starting that gave stability to some of their lives, for the first time, and gave them respect? Hey, if you do not respect them, fear works just as well. And if you will remember a show that was a hit a couple of years ago, The Gangs of New York, you may catch on that this is not a new wrinkle on life in the United States. Can anyone say, Mafia? Gangs are a natural result of pressure against any group as they band together. And as it says above, the Crips, and the Bloods, started in Los Angelas. Asian Gangs in Los Angeles County http://www.streetgangs.com/asian/ The fastest growing street gangs in LA County with about 20,000 members. There are approximately 20,000 Asian gang members in Los Angeles County and represent a diversre array of backgrounds and affiliations. There are Asian gangs that down with the Surenos, some affiliated with Bloods and Crips and several independent entities such as the Chinese Wah Chings, Philipino, Cambodian and Vietnamese gangs/ Below is a preliminary list of cities and places within Los Angeles County where Asian gangs are active. Same drill, please: check the site for a full list of gangs and locations. And please note this; The fastest growing street gangs in LA County with about 20,000 members. Alright, perhaps it is time to talk a little about Latino gangs. Hispanic Gangs in Los Angeles County http://www.streetgangs.com/hispanic/ There are about 500 Sureño Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles County representing over 50% of the gang memberbership. They are more geographically distributed throughout the region and are found in significant numbers in the San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, the Beach commmunities, Long Beach, Compton and South Los Angeles. Below is a preliminary list of cities within Los Angeles County where Hispanic gangs are active. Same drill, please. 18th Street Gang in Los Angeles County http://www.streetgangs.com/18thstreet.html In Los Angeles the 18th Street gang is considered the largest gang in Los Angeles County. It is estimated that there are close to 20,000 members in Los Angeles County. Most of them are Mexican and Chicano with some Salvadorean membership and a few Blacks. Some estimates of the 18th are as low as 8,000, but this low estimate still makes them the largest gang in the county if you include all their barrios as one. The 18th Street Gang is actually a collection of several smaller gangs, making them the most fragmented gang in the County also. The individual factions can number from 50 to several hundred members each. Factions of the 18th Streets are dispersed throughout the county in San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, the South Bay, South Los Angeles, and Downtown Los Angeles just to name a few. Their strong hold and their oldest barrio is located east of the Staples center between the Harbor 110 Freeway (east) and Hoover Ave (west). There are also two significant size 18th Street Barrios in South LA, one between Vernon (north) and Slauson (south) along Vermont Avenue and second one being between Florence (north) and 91st Street (south). To say that the 18th Street is the largest gang in LA is a bit misleading, because what makes them so big is a collection of about 20 different gangs. The largest single Hispanic gang interms of turf size and membership would be one of 18th Street's main rivals, the Florencia 13 gang that has a turf that stretches from Western Ave (west) to Compton Ave (east). Please note; ... The largest single Hispanic gang interms of turf size and membership would be one of 18th Street's main rivals ... The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office has three gang injunctions against the 18th Street Gangs; two in the Rampart Division and one in the Southwest Division of the LAPD. The 18th Street gang in the Southwest division was implicated in the murder of an LAPD officer in 1998. The Rampart injunctions were under review and temporarily halted in September of 1999. In 2002 these injunctions were refiled by the City Attorney's Office. Certain factions in South Los Angeles are fueding with Black gangs, such as the Black P Stones from the West Adams area and the Black P Stones from the Jungles of Los Angeles. They have also been fueding with the NeighborHood Rollin 20s Blood. Does the above sound as it there is a blood fued with the black gangs? Or, is it more likely that there is a battle going on over turf? Oh, and money. Please do not forget the money. A Brief History - Street Gangs in Los Angeles http://www.streetgangs.com/history/ In conducting research on the proliferation of the contemporary gangs in Los Angeles, I did extensive archival and ethnographic research on the history of gangs and conflict in Los Angeles to get a better understanding on the present scope of gang activity in Los Angeles. Suprisingly there is little written about the historical background of Black gangs in Los Angeles, therefore I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in my manuscript entitled Territoriality Among African-American Street Gangs in Los Angeles which later became the focus of a documentary produced by Robert Stack on Los Angeles gangs which was part of his comprehensive documentary series that profiled global organized crime in 13 parts entitled Lords of the Mafia. This article about Black gangs was posted on the web site for The National Alliance of Gang Investigstors Association http://(www.nagia.org). If you have a special request, do not hesitate to contact me with your query. Read Article Gang Migration http://www.streetgangs.com/migration/ The purpose of this section is to examine the process of gang migration; that is how do gangs based in particular regions over time appear in other parts of the United States and sometimes other counties. Most of the time we see Crips, Bloods, Surenos and Nortenos in other parts of the US it is not the result of a physical migration but more a cultural migration via mass media images, television, movies, and music. But there is clear evidence that Los Angeles based gang members have transported gang identies to other cities, but there is very little research on this topic. I will develop this section on migration soon but here is one published report entilted Street Gang Migration: How Big a Threat? by Cheryl Maxson et al. in 1996 One of the striking things about these reports is that they talk about the black gangs, but seldom dwell much on the Latino gangs, unlike the national media. Wonder why that is...... Feds target gangs in crackdown http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/03/10/gang.arrests/index.html This is an interesting story, and please, feel free to read all of the info. It is a CNN story, so understand that it is slanted; however, there is info here if you look! For instance; Though the operation no longer discriminates among gangs, the Los Angeles, California-based MS-13 remains a priority. Just last year, FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker testified to a congressional committee that MS-13 had a significant presence in Virginia, New York, California, Texas, Oregon and Nebraska. The group has about 10,000 "hardcore members," Swecker said, adding that MS-13 was quickly becoming more sophisticated, widespread and violent. Deporting these gang members, Swecker said, "is partially responsible for the growth of those gangs in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico." Note; ... the Los Angeles, California-based MS-13 ... Yep. MS-13 is a creation of the United States; homegrown gangbangers. Now note this; ... Deporting these gang members, Swecker said, "is partially responsible for the growth of those gangs in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico." Oops! The secret is out! The Latino gangs DO NOT COME FROM Mèxico, they began inside the United States and WE ARE EXPORTING THEM. If I extrapolate the info I have already posted about the CIA and their ties to the black gangs, with both drugs and guns, I would have to assume that the Latino gangs are not favored with that kind of help, and this is why the emphsis on them, and ignoring the much older black gangs. Kinda of like illeminating the competition, and, of course, using the 'gang wars' to create fear and acceptance of more and more laws and police. There are a couple of other points that need to be made here. Why is it that the Latino gangs seem to interact more with whites? Could it be where they live? As an aside, how many of you have been down into the black ghettos, where the bloods and the cripes hold sway anytime in the last year or so? But the Latino gangs are concentrated where the Latinos live; near the fruit, farming and constuction where they work. That is much closer to your house, probably, than the black ghetto is. Another thing you need to understand about these gangs; young men are accepted into them at an early age. They then work themselves into the gang; running numbers, running drugs, whatever it takes to gain acceptance. Once they are accepted, THERE IS NO GOING BACK. If they try to get out, for any reason, they die. Joining these gangs is a life time commitment. That is why they wear their colors on their bodies; they are proud of what they have accomplished. This also means that there is no reforming them. NEVER! And in addition, many of the gangs, when the youngster is initiated into the gang, usually as early as 14 or 15, they are bought a coffin, and a burial plot. They know they have no other place to go, and that their life will be a short one, and they accpet that, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO ALTERNATIVES IN THE UNITED STATES. If any of you care to think this through, you are liable to think of a very, very close parallel to this situation, in the Middle East. There, they are called suicide bombers. Here, they are called gang bangers.
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