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White Fence is one of the oldest gangs in Los Angeles. The gang itself claims its history goes back as far as 1900, [12] although the gang did not emerge until the 1910s in the form of the all-male sports team associated with the La Purissima Church. [1][2][3][4][5] The group was originally referred to as La Purissima Crowd, but gradually ...
Varrio Nuevo Estrada. Varrio Nuevo Estrada, also known as VNE13, [3][4][5] is a Chicano criminal street gang founded in Boyle Heights, California, in the Estrada Courts housing projects. VNE is one of 34 gangs in a 15-square-mile area east of downtown Los Angeles.
Homeboy Industries began in 1988 as a job training program (called Jobs for a Future) [1] out of Dolores Mission Parish in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, US.It was created by then-pastor Greg Boyle to offer an alternative to gang life for high-risk youth, who were living in a city (Los Angeles) with the highest concentration of gang activity in the country. [10]
Awards. Presidential Medal of Freedom (2024) Gregory Joseph Boyle, S.J. (born May 19, 1954) is an American Catholic priest of the Jesuit order. He is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries, the world's largest gang intervention and rehabilitation program, and former pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Los Angeles.
A 19-year-old woman was killed and another woman was wounded in a possible gang-related shooting Sunday night in Boyle Heights, according to the LAPD.
Crazy Butch Gang (1890s- early 1900s) Daybreak Boys (1840s-1859) Dead Rabbits (1830s-1860s) Dutch Mob (1870s-1880s) East Harlem Purple Gang (1970s-1980s) Eastman Gang (1890s-1910s) Five Points Gang (1890s-1920s) Flying Dragons (1967-1994) Forty Thieves (1825-1860s) - Considered the first known street gang in New York City; Gas House Gang (1880s ...
Ramona Gardens is a public housing development in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is operated by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles. Currently and historically Latino, it is also the home of the Big Hazard street gang, connected to the Mexican Mafia, and has been the center of the illegal drug market ...
Boyle Heights, historically known as Paredón Blanco (Spanish for "White Bluff"), [2] [3] [4] is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, located east of the Los Angeles River. It is one of the city's most notable and historic Chicano / Mexican-American communities and is known as a bastion of Chicano culture , hosting cultural landmarks like ...