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In 2013, a Los Angeles judge signed off on a permanent gang injunction aimed at six rival gangs in the Echo Park area, creating what authorities call a "safety zone" for the area. The injunction targets the members of six gangs, namely Echo Park Locos, the Crazys, the Big Top Locos, the Diamond Street Locos, Frogtown Rifa, and Head Hunters. [27]
Rampart may have been one of the most disputed gang territories in LA. There are numerous criminal street gangs in the Rampart Area. [17] They include, but are not limited to 18th St, MS-13, Echo Park, Rockwood, Temple St, Witmer St, Clanton 14, Wanderers, Varrio Vista Rifa, Head Hunters, Diamond St, and La Mirada Locos.
Mi Vida Loca (also known as My Crazy Life) is a 1993 American coming-of-age drama film directed and written by Allison Anders.It centers on the plight of cholas (the female counterparts to cholos) growing up in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, who face the struggles of friendship, romantic entanglements, motherhood, and gang membership.
The New Rampart Police Station. The Rampart scandal was a police corruption scandal which unfolded in Los Angeles, California during the late 1990s and early 2000s.The scandal concerned widespread criminal activity within the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division.
It took 26 years for death to catch up to Donald Ramon Ortiz. A member of the Mexican Mafia, Ortiz was cast out of the criminal organization in the mid-1990s after angering other members.
By the time the 1970s rolled around the Avenues had grown from a neighborhood social club into a highly organized gang whose territory stretched 6 miles. The Avenues also began to clash with neighboring gangs, such as Highland Park 13, Cypress Park Boys, Toonerville, Frog Town Rifa and Thee Rascals, in an attempt to assert their dominance. At ...
He also showed a reporter a gang Whatsapp thread with texts from gang members threatening turf wars with the Venezuelans. Octavia Mitchell, 52, lost her son to gun violence in 2010 and her nephew ...
Mi Vida Loca is a 1993 American drama film directed and written by Allison Anders, about Cholas growing up in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles. The 1993 action film Falling Down features a Cholo gang as minor antagonists in the first act, who harass Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) and later execute an unsuccessful drive-by shooting against him.