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18TH STREET The 18th Street gang was created in the late 1960s in the Rampart area of Los Angeles. They have been described as the most violent and aggressive street gang in the country. Over the past few years 18th Street quickly grew, but membership levels have appeared to reach a peak in many states. As with most gangs, 18th Street gang members can be easily identified by their tattoos. A common identifier is the number 18, which is usually represented in the Roman numeral (XVIII). Members engage in graffiti vandalism to mark their turf. Although 18th Street maintains a stronghold in several Southern California cities, they have continued to migrate throughout the nation. Although they claim 18th Street by name, they are actually a collection of several smaller gangs who use 18th Street as their gang's moniker. 18th Street is heavily populated with illegal immigrants from both Mexico and El Salvador, but also has numerous Asian, Black, Native and White members. 18th Street is a well established gang that is involved in all areas of criminal activity. Some members have even become involved in producing fraudulent Immigration and Naturalization identification cards and food stamps. Several 18th Street gang members have evolved into a higher level of sophistication and organization than other gangs. This progression is credited to the gang's close relationship with Mexican and Columbian drug cartels. In Los Angeles the 18th Street gang is considered the largest gang in Los Angeles County. It is estimated that there are close to 20,000 members in Los Angeles County. Most of them are Mexican and Chicano with some Salvadorean membership and a few Blacks. Some estimates of the 18th are as low as 8,000, but this low estimate still makes them the largest gang in the county if you include all their barrios as one. The 18th Street Gang is actually a collection of several smaller gangs, making them the most fragmented gang in the County also. The individual factions can number from 50 to several hundred members each. Factions of the 18th Streets are dispersed throughout the county in San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, the South Bay, South Los Angeles, and Downtown Los Angeles just to name a few. Their strong hold and their oldest barrio is located east of the Staples center between the Harbor 110 Freeway (east) and Hoover Ave (west). There are also two significant size 18th Street Barrios in South LA, one between Vernon (north) and Slauson (south) along Vermont Avenue and second one being between Florence (north) and 91st Street (south). To say that the 18th Street is the largest gang in LA is a bit misleading, because what makes them so big is a collection of about 20 different gangs. The largest single Hispanic gang interms of turf size and membership would be one of 18th Street's main rivals, the Florencia 13 gang that has a turf that stretches from Western Ave (west) to Compton Ave (east). The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office has three gang injunctions against the 18th Street Gangs; two in the Rampart Division and one in the Southwest Division of the LAPD. The 18th Street gang in the Southwest division was implicated in the murder of an LAPD officer in 1998. The Rampart injunctions were under review and temporarily halted in September of 1999. In 2002 these injunctions were refiled by the City Attorney's Office.Certain factions in South Los Angeles are feuding with Black gangs, such as the Black P Stones from the West Adams area and the Black P Stones from the Jungles of Los Angeles. They have also been feuding with the Neighborhoods Rollin 20s Blood.
Eighteen Street in Los Angeles County
The 18th Street gang was created in the late 1960s in the Rampart area of Los Angeles. They have been described as the most violent and aggressive street gang in the country. Over the past few years 18th Street quickly grew, but membership levels have appeared to reach a peak in many states. As with most gangs, 18th Street gang members can be easily identified by their tattoos. A common identifier is the number 18, which is usually represented in the Roman numeral (XVIII). Members engage in graffiti vandalism to mark their turf. Although 18th Street maintains a stronghold in several Southern California cities, they have continued to migrate throughout the nation. Although they claim 18th Street by name, they are actually a collection of several smaller gangs who use 18th Street as their gang's moniker. 18th Street is heavily populated with illegal immigrants from both Mexico and El Salvador, but also has numerous Asian, Black, Native and White members. 18th Street is a well established gang that is involved in all areas of criminal activity. Some members have even become involved in producing fraudulent Immigration and Naturalization identification cards and food stamps. Several 18th Street gang members have evolved into a higher level of sophistication and organization than other gangs. This progression is credited to the gang's close relationship with Mexican and Columbian drug cartels.
In Los Angeles the 18th Street gang is considered the largest gang in Los Angeles County. It is estimated that there are close to 20,000 members in Los Angeles County. Most of them are Mexican and Chicano with some Salvadorean membership and a few Blacks. Some estimates of the 18th are as low as 8,000, but this low estimate still makes them the largest gang in the county if you include all their barrios as one. |
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