LOS ANGELES GANGS

LOS ANGELES GANGS

This is a small listing of links to information regarding gang activity and history in Los Angeles.

Gangs
http://www.lapdonline.org/get_informed/content_basic_view/1396

Gangs are not a new phenomenon. During the last five years, there were over 23,000 verified violent gang crimes in the City of Los Angeles. These include 784 homicides, nearly 12,000 felony assaults, approximately 10,000 robberies and just under 500 rapes. In the last few years the City of Los Angeles has experienced an epidemic of youth violence that has been rapidly spreading from the inner cities to the suburbs. Gangs are no longer just the problem of those who live in the crime ridden neighborhoods where the gangs thrive, they are now everyone’s problem.

There are more than 250 active gangs in the City of Los Angeles. Many of these gangs have been in existence for over 50 years. Sadly, these gangs have a combined membership of over 26,000 individuals.

More information can be found at
http://www.lapdonline.org/get_informed/content_basic_view/1396

Gang Injunctions
http://www.lapdonline.org/gang_injunctions

WHAT IS A GANG INJUNCTION?

There are currently 37 active injunctions in the city involving 57 gangs.

A gang injunction is a restraining order against a group. It is a civil suit that seeks a court order declaring the gang’s public behavior a nuisance and asking for special rules directed toward it’s activity. Injunctions can address the neighborhood’s gang problem before it reaches the level of felony crime activity.

Gang injunctions have a clearly demonstrable positive affect on the neighborhood area covered. Some have had a remarkable effect. In smaller areas, gang nuisance activity can be permanently removed. In larger areas, with gangs entrenched for years, the gang’s hold on the area can be reduced and maintained with a small team of law enforcement officers. Anecdotal evidence is fully supportive; residents continue to ask for the period of peace a gang injunction can provide.

Some press releases from The Federal Bureau of Investigation Los Angeles for 2008
http://losangeles.fbi.gov/press.htm

This a Fact Sheet from Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles.
http://www.vpcla.org/factGang.htm

Information from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
http://da.co.la.ca.us/gangs.htm

Gang-Related Crime in Los Angeles County
http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr03x.htm
Information compiled from the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and the California Department of Justice.

A special report on gang violence in Southern California
Terror in our streets: L.A. Daily News Special
http://lang.dailynews.com/gangs/

In the event you would like to know about some of the gang activity in North Hollywood, here is a listing of articles from The Daily News (Los Angeles).

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/search/Search.aspx?SearchBy=0&Word=north+hollywood+gang&Search=Search&By=0