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[46] [47] [48] Gang activity and violent crime are focused in Central and East Salinas [49] and exacerbated by the city's comparatively low tax base and consequently limited policing resources. [ 44 ] [ 50 ] A hypothesis to explain the city's particularly intense problem with gang related violent crime cites the city's proximity to Salinas ...
Norteños may refer to Northern California as Norte Califas. Their biggest rivals are the Sureños from Southern California. [3] As of 2008, the statewide north–south dividing line between Norteños and Sureños was regarded as running through the southern end of the Central Valley. [3] The gang's membership consists primarily of Mexican ...
Mexican American street gangs originated in Los Angeles in the early 1900s as a result of various factors, including economic conditions and racial prejudice. In 1957, the Mexican Mafia (or La Eme), California's first prison gang, was established by Luis "Huerro Buff" Flores and other East Los Angeles gang members, at the Deuel Vocational Institution.
Jessi Fernandez, a onetime gang member from L.A.'s Eastside, is part of a swelling pipeline of ex-convicts who make it to a UC or Cal State and find an unexpected path forward.
Nuestra Familia was organized at Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California in 1965. [1] In the late 1960s, Mexican-American inmates of the California state prison system began to separate into two rival groups, Nuestra Familia [7] and the 1957-formed Mexican Mafia, according to the locations of their hometowns (the north-south dividing line is Bakersfield, California).
Playboys 13 Gang, also known by the acronym PBS13, [6] [7] [8] is a predominantly Mexican-American street gang founded in the Los Angeles County, California and extends to areas in South Central Los Angeles and Orange County, California. The gang also goes by the Spanish term "Conejo" which means "rabbit" [9] or Rabbit gang
Alisal (/ ˈ æ l ɪ s æ l /; Spanish for "Sycamore grove"), [2] sometimes called East Salinas, [3] is a neighborhood of Salinas in Monterey County, California. [1] It is located east of downtown, [3] at an elevation of 89 feet (27 m). [1] The unincorporated community of Alisal was annexed to Salinas in 1963. [3] [4] Alisal is home to Alisal ...