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This is a field guide to the street gangs of Los Angeles. It was distributed to law enforcement officers about 25 years ago.

18th Street

18th St. Gang
The 18th Street Gang, named for a street in the Rampart section of east Los Angeles, formed in the late 1960s. It was also known as the "Children's Army" because of their recruitment of elementary and middle school kids.
Their tactics include threatening harm to member's families when they try to leave. Failure to show proper respect of a gang leader or fellow member may result in an 18-second beating, or even execution for more serious offenses.
The gang's criminal activities include auto theft, carjacking, drive-by shootings, drug sales, arms trafficking, extortion, rape and murder for hire.
18th Street has been linked to Mexican and Columbian drug cartels and the Mexican Mafia. They're also believed to work in co-operation with rival black street gangs.
The reach of the 18th Street Gang extends across North America with a membership tally of more than 30,000. It was the first Hispanic gang to cross racial barriers after a heavy recruitment effort in the early 1990s. What began as a Hispanic gang now has members that include African Americans, Asians, Caucasians, and Native Americans.

Eighteen Street in Los Angeles County

	Gang	Clicks	City/Area	Policing Agency
1.	18th Street, North Side		Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, North Hollywood	LAPD North Hollywood Div
2.	18th Street	54th, King Blvd Gs	Los Angeles, South	LAPD 77th Div
3.	18th Street	106th	Inglewood	Inglewod PD
4.	18th Street, Westside	Columbia Lil Cycos	Los Angeles, Westlake area	LAPD Rampart Div
5.	18th Street	Pico Locos	Los Angeles, Pico Union area	LAPD Rampart Div
6.	18th Street	Kdubs, Diablos, Tiny Winos	Cuday	LASD
7.	18th Street, Eastside	Bebitos	Los Angeles, Northeast area	LAPD Northeast Div
8.	18th Street	Shatto Park Locos	Los Angeles, Wilshire area	LAPD Rampart Div
9.	18th Street	South Central	Los Angeles, South	LAPD 77th Div
10.	18th Street, South Side		South Gate
11.	18th Street		Baldwin Park
12.	18th Street, Westside		Jefferson & St. Andrews area	LAPD Southwest Div
13.	18th Street	Smiley Dr, Alsace Locos, Rancho Park	Los Angeles, West Adams	LAPD Southwest Div
14.	18th Street	7th & Broadway, Wall St	Los Angeles, Downtown	LAPD Central Div
15.	18th Street	Rimpau	Los Angeles, Mid City area	LAPD Wilshire Div

MS-13

MS-13 Suburbia
MS-13 was organized during the 1980s in Los Angeles by Salvadorans. Having grown up with violence, members fled their country's civil war.
When they arrived in Los Angeles, Mexican gangs preyed on them. The response was to band together in a mara, or "posse," composed of salvatruchas, or "street-tough Salvadorans" (the "13" is a gang number associated with southern California).
Once confined to the inner city, MS-13's reach now extends across 42 states. The gang also now contaminates the most unexpected turf: suburban communities unaccustomed to deal with MS-13's ruthless brand of violence. Experts say there are currently 3,000 members in Northern Virginia.
Membership has risen to 60,000 between the U.S. and Central America. It's criminal activities have expanded to include drug smuggling and sales, black market gun sales, human trafficking, assassinations for hire and assaults on law enforcement. Experts say most of their crimes are done on a whim.

MS-13's notoriety exploded in recent years, fanned by bone-chilling reports of its machete attacks, beheadings and the fatal stabbing of a pregnant teenager after it was discovered she was a federal informer.
MS 13 documentary. if you want to watch it...http://videovault.morrisvideos.com/videos/worlds-most-dangerous-gangs-ms-13-doc

Mexican Mafia

Mexican Mafia
The Mexican Mafia, also referred to as La eMe, (Spanish for the letter "M"), was formed in 1957 by Chicano street gang members incarcerated at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, California.
Approximately thirteen Mexican-Americans from East Los Angeles, including gang members from the Maravilla street gang, formed the original core of the gang called Mexikanemi, Aztec for "He who walks with God in his heart."
Initially, they banded together over religion and to worship an ancient pre-Hispanic cultural heritage. But their main focus was to protect themselves against African-American convicts, other inmates and the prison staff.
Deuel was called "Gladiator School" by the inmates. Prisoners there honed their fighting skills, and learned the business of drug dealing. They also learned how to maim or murder with handmade weapons.
As the organization grew, it rapidly evolved into a criminal organization involved in extortion, narcotics trafficking and murder, both inside and outside the prison system walls. Today, the Mexican Mafia has spread from California to at least seven other states including; Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
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Hells Angels

Hells Angels
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) was formed in California during 1948, the name inspired by daring bomber pilots of World War II. Bored by post-war, suburban conformity, the Hells Angels hit the road on shiny, impressive, ear-splitting Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
The Hells Angels seemed tailor made for the youth culture of the 1950s and 1960s: longhaired, rebellious, and always ready to party. But those parties invariably turned sour.
One of the biggest parties of all sealed their reputation for murder. At a Rolling Stones concert outside of San Francisco in December 1969, the Hells Angels stabbed a spectator just a few feet from Mick Jagger. A Hells Angel member, Alan Passaro, was later acquitted of murder on grounds of self-defense.
Law enforcement agencies classify the gang as one of the "big four" outlaw motorcycle gangs, contending members carry out widespread violence, drug dealing, trafficking in stolen goods and extortion.
But Hells Angels advocates assert that bikers as a whole are decent, but that one percent of them are bad apples hiding behind the promise of a free-wheeling lifestyle.

The CripsThe Crips

The Crips are a primarily, but not exclusively, African American gang founded in Los Angeles, California in 1969 by 15 year old Raymond Washington. What was once a single gang is now a loosely connected network of individual sets, often engaged in open warfare with one another. The gang is known to be involved in murders, robberies, drug dealing, among many other criminal pursuits. They have been popularized in many movies, thousands of songs, and even video games like GTA 3.

Yakuza

The term “Yakuza” literally derives from beginnings of the traditional words “Yattsu (Eight)”, “Ku (Nine)” and “Za (Three)” based on the worst hand attainable in the Japanese card game Oicho-Kabu.

Prospective yakuza come from all walks of life. In the past they would accept sons who have been abandoned or exiled by their parents. Many yakuza start out in junior high school or high school as common street thugs or members of bosozoku gangs. Some yakuza “goons” are actually mentally handicapped, but recruited due to their large physiques while the leadership levels of yakuza gangs usually consist of very sharp, cunning, intelligent men, as the process to rise to the top-levels in the yakuza can be very competitive and Machiavellian. Members of yakuza gangs cut their family ties and transfer their loyalty to the gang boss. They refer to each other as family members - fathers and elder and younger brothers. The Yakuza is populated entirely by men, and there are usually no women involved. However, unlike many crime groups, women are sometimes involved in its activities. When the Yamaguchi-gumi Family boss was shot in the late nineties, his wife took over as boss of Yamaguchi-gumi for a short time.