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Long Beach is home to some of the most notorious gang that reside here in California and in this episode we’re gonna take a dive into the North, East, and We...
16 maj 2021 · Once upon a time in the ’80s and ’90s, Los Angeles County drug and gang violence was epic in the global imagination. Long Beach is no exception. In 1991, at the peak of our city’s most violent year, there were 104 murders. No Long Beach resident who survived those decades wants to return to them.
13 mar 2018 · Gangs used to demarcate their boundaries with graffiti, which was more popular back in the ‘80s but is less popular now. Instead, people who live in these communities need a mental map of where they are and aren’t allowed to go.
The Varrio Longo 13 are the largest Sureño gang throughout the Harbor Area of Long Beach, California. The Longo 13 is made up of three sets: The East Side Longos (ESL13) which is the largest of the three, with an estimate of over 600 members. The second largest of the three are the West Side Longos (WSL13),….
19 maj 2023 · Come a few years down the road, a guy called Gangster started the South Side LADS (S.S. LADS), representing the Long Beach area and Orange County with a mixture of whites and Latinos. This marked its turn into a full-fledged gang operation: selling drugs, home invasion, violence…
30 sie 2021 · When one compares maps of low-income households throughout the City of Long Beach today, with maps of racial and ethnic disbursements, they’re similar in divide.
14 lip 2018 · Long Beach is the birthplace of the nation’s first hybrid street-prison gang Public Enemy No. 1 (PEN1 or PENI), which is also one of the nation’s most violent white supremacist gangs. The discussion around racism has been both local and national.
