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The different articles was explaining LA gangs establishing a loose knit network but they never gain a foothold in Chicago city. The increase in violence is due to local conflicts not out of town gangs. Chicago's Westside , speaking Black community wise, have and continue to be predominantly VLN, BGN, BSN, & GDN. Minor presence of BPSN & BDN.
The different articles was explaining LA gangs establishing a loose knit network but they never gain a foothold in Chicago city. The increase in violence is due to local conflicts not out of town gangs. Chicago's Westside , speaking Black community wise, have and continue to be predominantly VLN, BGN, BSN, & GDN. Minor presence of BPSN & BDN.
5. "Los Angeles has the worst gang problem and the most gang members," a total of 78,233 in 1990, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Jill Walker, Los Angeles Isn't Alone in Problems with Gangs, WASH. POST, July 3, 1990, at AI0. South Central Los Angeles, a 43-square-mile section of the city with a population of half a million, is often described as a war zone; of 1990's 1,576 murders in Los Angeles County, 607 took place in South Central. Alessandra Stanley, L.A Times
Los Angelas: All Ganged Up, TIME, June 18, 1990, at 50. "Though the murder rate does not approach the carnage of Beirut or El Salvador on a per capita basis, it is higher than that of Belfast or Burma."
Id. The U.S. Army sends its doctors to a South Central hospital to train them in treating gunshot wounds of the type they might encounter on the battlefield. Id.
6. "In the past decade in particular, gang membership
You're a fraud. That's not what the original article said lol. It said:" South Central Los Angeles, a 43-square-mile section of the city with a population of half a million, is often described as a war zone; of 1988's 462 gang related murders in Los Angeles county, 107 took place in South Central. Alessandra Stanley, L.A Times.
Anyone who's reading this just copy and paste what he said into Google and real story will pop up and you will see he is a fraud and there were not 607 murders in South central but instead 107 gang-related murders. It doesn't say anything about 607 nothing lol this guy
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Murders Hit Record High in South L.A. but Fall in Harbor : Crime: Officials attribute the decline to work by a police task force and to a gang cease-fire. In neighboring areas, though, 'The level of violence is unbelievable,' LAPD commander says.
December 19, 1993|ROBERT J. LOPEZ | TIMES STAFF WRITER
With two weeks left in the year, homicides are already at a record level in the Police Department bureau that covers South Los Angeles.
The one exception to the general rise in murders in the South Bureau's turf appears to be in Harbor Division, which covers Harbor City, Harbor Gateway, Wilmington and San Pedro.
As of Friday morning, the South Bureau had logged 412 homicides, surpassing last year's record 403 slayings. The 1993 toll is especially striking, police say, considering that 13 of the homicides in 1992 were directly attributed to the riots.
"The level of violence is unbelievable," said Lt. Sergio Robleto, commander of the South Bureau homicide detail. "My detectives are hard-pressed to keep up with the pace."
Not so, though, in Harbor Division. As of Dec. 13, Harbor Division had recorded 31 murders. If that figure doesn't change before the end of the year, it will mark a 26% decline from the 42 homicides in Harbor Division communities last year.
Moreover, the number of gang-related murders in the harbor area plummeted, by a record 70%.
Most striking are the apparent declines in gang-related murders in San Pedro (from six in 1992 to one so far in 1993) and in Wilmington (from 10 murders to three this year). Harbor City, which had two gang killings last year, has had one so far in 1993, and Harbor Gateway's gang murders have numbered two so far, compared with three last year.
Police attribute the dramatic decline in murders in the harbor area to work by the department's gang control unit, Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, and an area-wide cease-fire observed by gang members since early this year.
"Frankly it's really difficult to say why crime doesn't occur," said Lt. Alan Kerstein, commanding officer of the Harbor detective division. "But I'm sure everybody deserves some credit for it. Crime goes down when officers are doing a good job and they're visible, and when a community is cooperating with the police department."
But the story was far different in other South Bureau divisions, where a record murder tally is occurring despite a decline in the citywide homicide rate. A complex set of economic, sociological and law enforcement factors have led to the bureau's rise in homicides, according to police, community activists and experts.
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If it were a city, the South Bureau would rank among the 10 deadliest in the nation. The 57-square-mile area includes four police divisions stretching from the Santa Monica Freeway to San Pedro and from Watts to Windsor Hills. Nearly 70% of its homicides have occurred in two South-Central precincts--the 77th Street and Southeast divisions.
"It's like a war zone down here. People are dying almost every day," said community activist Jaime Zeledon, who lives in the Southeast Division, where 133 homicides had been recorded as of Friday.
"Nightly, we can hear the gunshots," said Father David Herrera of the Church of the Nativity, four of whose parishioners have been shot to death this year. They included a 15-year-old boy caught in the cross-fire of two rival gangs, and a father who confronted a man who had shot his dog. The church, at 57th Street and Vermont Avenue, is in the 77th Division, where 155 homicides were reported as of Friday.
As of Nov. 30, the latest citywide figures available, Los Angeles had logged 982 homicides--down from 1,009 during the same span last year. There were a record 1,095 murders citywide in 1992.
Experts and community leaders say that in most of the South Bureau, poverty, unemployment and lack of recreational activities have led residents to resort to desperate acts. Some of the violence also stems from racial tensions between African American gang members and Latino immigrants in housing projects, police said.
In the Southeast and 77th divisions, the neighborhoods had a median annual income level of $15,904, compared with $33,167 for Los Angeles County, the 1990 U.S. Census found.
"As the economy goes, so goes the crime rate," said James H. Johnson, director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Urban Poverty. "I think the real issue in the South Bureau is in the area of Los Angeles that had already been economically devastated before the recent economic downturn."
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Added Helen Coleman, leader of the 71st Street-Victoria Avenue Block Club: "If you drive around here, you can see that young people have nothing to do. There's few parks and hardly any recreational activities."
Zeledon and others also blame the killings on a proliferation of high-powered weapons and a breakdown in societal values, saying that people are more willing to resolve disputes with deadly violence.
"It's gotten so that people just don't care anymore," said South-Central resident Carlita Harris as she watched detectives search for evidence Tuesday at a double slaying at 97th and San Pedro streets.
In that incident, a man and his wife were shot to death in their apartment in what police said may have been a drug-related robbery. No arrests have been made.
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The record for South LA was 403 in 1992 until y'all past that in 1993 with at least 412 homicides with just two weeks left in the year with a population of 600,000+.
In 2016, Chicago's west and southwest sides also had a population 600,000+ but it ha 448 homicides.
The record for South LA was 403 in 1992 until y'all past that in 1993 with at least 412 homicides with just two weeks left in the year with a population of 600,000+.
In 2016, Chicago's west and southwest sides also had a population 600,000+ but it ha 448 homicides.
The record for South LA was 403 in 1992 until y'all past that in 1993 with at least 412 homicides with just two weeks left in the year with a population of 600,000+.
In 2016, Chicago's west and southwest sides also had a population 600,000+ but it ha 448 homicides.
Third, despite the abandonment by city developers, the gang truce resulted in a reduction in South Central homicides from 466 in 1992 to 223 by 1998. As it was forgotten, a new cycle of
The record for South LA was 403 in 1992 until y'all past that in 1993 with at least 412 homicides with just two weeks left in the year with a population of 600,000+.
In 2016, Chicago's west and southwest sides also had a population 600,000+ but it ha 448 homicides.
So if Chicago Westside had 448 than that means the Southside of Chicago had 200 homcides and the rest of the city had another 100 to make up 700 for the year lol
That means South L.A with 466 still had more than the Westside and Southside Chicago
You think im making numbers up,look at the Huffington post link kid
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