Advertisement Gang warfare and initiation rites, which have taken the lives of numerous gang members as well as innocent bystanders, are a fact of life in Los Angeles, especially in poor black neighborhoods. When they can, they impart a message that the life of a street warrior leads nowhere, except to jail and, frequently, a violent death. They negotiate truces for gang funerals, arrange baseball matches between rival gangs, run job fairs and have even produced written treaties between warring gangs. The agency's 54 street workers fan out over the city nightly trying to step between rival gangs. They work for Community Youth Gang Services, an agency funded by the city and county of Los Angeles, whose difficult task is to mediate between rival gangs and discourage young people from joining them. Gang warfare, O.G.' S ('original gangsters'), in street parlance. The teams should know many of them are themselves veterans of L.A. The goal: to prevent the bloody retaliation that is the usual sequel to such 'drive-by' shootings. The next afternoon, they are out talking to angry and frightened neighbors on 46th Street. What gang did the shooting? Did any of the victims belong to a gang? A little later, team members are at the hospital, talking to relatives and friends of the victims. Even as the ambulances pick up the victims, two teams of young men and women in familiar tan jackets are working among the crowds. Ten more fall wounded onto sidewalks and lawns. – A gang member with a felony conviction was arrested Thursday in Vista following a foot chase that ended in a scuffle with deputies.Īskep Gadar Hipoglikemia. Vista Home boys gang injunction Author: gstewa. Street gang in the City of Vista and 89 individual members of the gang, the largest in County history. A shotgun blast leaves a 4-year-old boy, certainly too young to know anything about the imperatives of Los Angeles gang wars, critically wounded.
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