Crenshaw neighborhood South Los Angeles (Inglewood, Brea: crimes, motels, house)

[vivabigpapi]

Does Stocker Street have any gangs?

[SouthCentral]

Does Stocker Street have any gangs?

No, Stocker street passes through the wealthier part of Baldwin Hills which is one of the areas off Crenshaw that doesnt have any gangs. But there are gangs not too far. North of stocker is the Jungle(P Stones), across Crenshaw from stocker is 40's turf, and quite a ways south of stocker is L.A.'s biggest black gang, the 60s(their turf starts around Slauson ave).

[ArthursChoice]

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Originally Posted by vivabigpapi

so do leimert park and crenshaw (besides the jungle) have gang problems?

[Mr_Smith89]

It's It Any Gang Activate Around the Area Of The Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw Plaza??

[jagIV]

I love reading the 'gang' neighborhood threads here. Very informative! Thanks to katenik and CESpeed especially. I only have one thing to add, when I've driven around S. Central - it certainly looks a whole lot better than the ghetto hoods of the SouthEast and East coast. When I hear my CA Native friends out here refer to an area as 'ghetto' I'm always surprised to see how perfectly fine it looks. I mean, the homes have doors on them and the windows aren't boarded up. There are places in Birmingham, Atlanta, Chicago and Detroit that give me the chills to remember. Much scarier than anything I've seen in LA. I think part of that has to do with the fact that the crime is organized, as opposed to improvised.

[Los Angel]

Originally Posted by vivabigpapi

What's it like? Is it a nice neighborhood?

Crenshaw community is nice for some people and a nightmare for others. It just like any other working class neighborhood that has been stricken down by economics. What I mean by this? You have to know the history of how this community was built from the beginning and how it has become what it is today.

Originally Posted by cottonwood2420

Crenshaw has some VERY rough areas such as Baldwin Village, also known as "The Jungle", but overall the area is mainly middle-class.

Lower middle class or working class in my opinion. Middle class in Los Angeles is shriking more and more every year, especially in today's economic climate.

Originally Posted by CESpeed

the most influencial black neighborhoods in Los Angeles: Leimert Park.
Unfortunately, just before Slauson all the way to Florence is the exact opposite: roughest, dirtiest parts of Crenshaw-Hyde Park. After Florence you're in Inglewood and it becomes a clean nice neighborhood again.

Going up Angeles Vista Blvd from Vernon Ave, up that hill and over to the right, is the most influential black neighborhood in L.A. There's no comparison to Leimert Park and that hill. The homes up there are averaging close to 1 million. Leimert is nice, and I would like to see it get better, but it's no View Park-Windsor Hills community. That's the wealthiest black community in the United States, according to statistics.

Originally Posted by vivabigpapi

So is Crenshaw/Imperial a slum? Also, is Crenshaw/Stocker St. a slum? I'm wondering because Stocker's my last name.

It's no slum, but it is a part of Inglewood struggling with hard economic times, heavy substance abuse, and lowered salaried working class people. The area is going through a serious make-over. The Mayor vowed about three years ago he was going to turn Inglewood around. He's talling me this as we are getting our cars washed at a local cleaner. A few years later, I must say he made good on his promise. I see stores in Inglewood today that residence of yesterday had to drive out of the community to go and shop.

Originally Posted by vivabigpapi

So do Leimert Park and Crenshaw (besides the Jungle) have gang problems?

Leimert Park tends to get spill over gangs coming through. No actual gang itself, but the proximity of Leimert Part to gang neighborhoods, you do see a few fools from time to time. Not too many knucklheads either, but you do get some "fools on the corner" that tend to live on Degnan Ave.

Originally Posted by streetscenes

Worst neighborhoods along Crenshaw are at Crenshaw and Hyde Park and Crenshaw just south of Century Boulevard. First is the Hyde Park area, I think this is the home turf of the Rollin 60s gang.

This is true. The RSCG has turned a once nice looking neighborhood into a slum, but do to the efforts of the new LAPD Chief and the L.A. City D.A.'s Office, injunctions are alive and well over there, and the trippin' rate has dropped significantly. You don't see fools posted up like back in the day. Those good o'l days are over. The L.A Supreme Court is handing out life sentence's like candy canes over there and few other hot spots.

Originally Posted by streetscenes

The next is an area of apartments actually off of 104th street known as Darby Downs, it's actually kind of crummy all the way down to Imperial. City of Inglewood has been trying hard to redevelop this area. I think they were going to tear down some of the apartments and turn some of the 1br and 2br units into larger units to reduce the density.

Better Known As "The Bottoms." Getting rid of the lost cost rentals would put a serious dent in the crime in that area. There's propbably over 6 to 7 different gangs in that little tiny area. As long as you not buying your crack over there without knowing people in the area, driving through is no problem.

Originally Posted by DaBeez

Most areas that Crenshaw blvd runs along are bad. The only exception is the quarter mile from Olympic Blvd. to Wilshire where Crenshaw ends, and from maybe Redondo Beach Blvd to PCH where I believe it ends as well are the somewhat nice areas of Crenshaw. Other areas are to be avoided.

It's all relative. There's a large black population over struggling to survive like everyone else doesn't mean the area is bad. Intimidating some people, I'll by that. Some people are spooked by the damnest things. No one can control that. Some people are spooked by the sight of 3 or more black males just walking down the street.

Originally Posted by CESpeed

I adore katenik, but you cannot put Hyde Park and Leimert Park in the same category. It's like saying a Cadillac and a Bus are the same because they are both vehicles. Leimert Park is a very decent upper middle - middle class neighborhood and Hyde Park is a ghetto.

True, but Leimert Park is a stones throw from crossing over, maybe not to the point of becoming the new Hyde Park area, but having a shift in undesirable resident moving in and changing the demographics.

Originally Posted by Miami305Kid

Are you serious? I'm from the East Coast and even I know to stay away from Crenshaw and most of South Central

Why? Because Black people live there. There is no problem going there if you have a reason to: business, food, friends. Now if you want to get your gang slang on, or get your rock buy on', then maybe it's best to stay away from there.

Originally Posted by las

there are alot of car jackers on crenshaw also so watch ot when u stop at red lights.

You'll get car jacked where you get car jacked. How often do you hear about a car jacking?? Criminals aren't standing on specific corners up and down Crenshaw Blvd waiting for you to drive by, so they can steal your car. This is a rediculous statement, and it's racist. Yea, the LAPD is just going to sit around and let that happen all day long. Don't, Don't Believe The Hype! Yeaaaa

[AlmightyZeus]

Los Angel, thank you.

[Mr_Smith89]

Originally Posted by Mr_Smith89

It's It Any Gang Activate Around the Area Of The Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw Plaza??

Thanks LA You Answered My Question

I Think

[Los Angel]

Originally Posted by Mr_Smith89

Thanks LA You Answered My Question

I Think

To clarify...Yes. The plaza is in the hood. There are active gangs close by, with in a few miles (2-3). No problems at the plaza (actually you can get some real good deals over there), cause the LAPD is regulating regularly over there.

[Mr_Smith89]

Originally Posted by Los Angel

To clarify...Yes. The plaza is in the hood. There are active gangs close by, with in a few miles (2-3). No problems at the plaza (actually you can get some real good deals over there), cause the LAPD is regulating regularly over there.

Oh Im Not Worried Bout The Gangs I Know Not To Run My Mouth And Speak Out Of Tone And All That

You Ever Been??

And Is It Close To The Metro??