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This is a list of notable criminally-active street gangs operating or formerly operating in California. To be included in this list, the gang must have a Wikipedia article with references showing it is a California street gang.
Armenian Power graffiti in Little Armenia, Los Angeles MS-13 graffiti. This is a list of notable criminal gangs in Los Angeles, California.. The County and the City of Los Angeles has been nicknamed the "Gang Capital of America," with an estimated 450 active gangs with a combined membership of more than 45,000.
The name Toonerville was created in 1902 by a cartooner in Louisville Kentucky, he merge his profession and the city he lived to create the toonervile folks cartoon and sold it to the newspapers, a group of friends in 1926 in Los Angeles started calling the area they lived toonerville due to the red line trolley going through their small mix race community and an area adjacent called Tropico ...
Vallejo came in second, at 8.7 incidents per thousand people, while San Pablo, Antioch, and San Francisco rounded out the top five. East Palo Alto, which used to have the Bay Area's highest murder rate, saw violent crime incidents drop 65% between 2013 and 2014, while Oakland saw violent crime incidents drop 15%. [165]
The gang, which dates back some 70 years in South L.A., gained notoriety after the shooting death of LAPD Officer Fernando Arroyos, who was off-duty and house hunting with his girlfriend when they ...
Vallejo (/ v ə ˈ l eɪ (h) oʊ / və-LAY-(h)oh; Spanish:) is a city in Solano County, California and the second largest city in the North Bay region of the Bay Area.Located on the shores of San Pablo Bay, the city had a population of 126,090 at the 2020 census. [7]
The gang itself is named after the Venezuelan state of Aragua, where the gang grew out of a local labor union and formed into a crew of inmates who took control of a local prison and slowly ...
Willie McCoy, also known as Willie Bo, was a 20 year old African-American rapper, killed by six police officers in Vallejo, California, on February 9, 2019.The officers had responded to a 911 call of an unconscious man in a vehicle in a Taco Bell drive through, when they found McCoy, with a .40 caliber handgun (later determined to be stolen from Oregon) with an extended magazine on his lap.