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Gang. A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of ...
Tiny Rascal Gang [ 16 ] Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s. Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in the Los Angeles area. Over time, the gang grew into a more traditional criminal organization.
The gangs proliferated in the 1930s and 1940s as adolescents came together in conflict against the police and other authorities. [20] Territoriality was essential to the Los Angeles gangs, and graffiti became an important part of marking territory controlled by gangs. [20]
Also known as Gardena Trece, the gang counts roughly 300 members and claims a territory bounded by 135th Street to the north, 190th Street to the south, Crenshaw Boulevard to the west and Gardena ...
White Fence is one of the oldest gangs in Los Angeles. The gang itself claims its history goes back as far as 1900, [12] although the gang did not emerge until the 1910s in the form of the all-male sports team associated with the La Purissima Church. [1][2][3][4][5] The group was originally referred to as La Purissima Crowd, but gradually ...
Fresno Bulldogs, or BDS for short, also known by the abbreviations FBD and F-14, [4] are a primarily Mexican American criminal street and prison gang located in 559, California. They are considered to be one of the biggest drug gangs in Central California with membership estimated to be in the cities of Fresno, Selma, Kerman, Sanger, Clovis ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 September 2024. Group of street gangs in California This article is about the street gang. For other uses, see Norteño (disambiguation). Criminal organization Norteños Founded 1968 ; 56 years ago (1968) Founding location Salinas, California Years active 1968–present Territory Mostly in Northern ...
The gangs often identify themselves using clothing colored blue for Crips and red for Bloods; people wearing those colors in gang territory are often targets of violence. The war started when a lack of economic opportunities in South Central L.A. led to the formation of gangs like the Crips, who claimed city territory and guarded it from other ...