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L.A. Gang Wars
Here's highlighs from The Times' continuing series of stories about gang violence in Southern California.
COLUMN ONE
L.A. gang unit cops slow their pace when it's calm. Suddenly, shots are heard, then screams, sirens and police radios.
Battle over the drug trade has led to escalating violence in Florence-Firestone.
L.A. long ignored Harbor Gateway. Now a Latino gang calls the shots.
With an understanding of gang life born from his own past, Mike Garcia brings comfort to street combatants and peace to a Boyle Heights hospital.
Taggers in a turf war and the woman who died trying to stop them shared decades-old roots in Pico Rivera
Turnaround comes after police campaign turns to ex-gangsters for help.
To crack down on gangs and stem soaring violence in Compton, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca asked his deputies and detectives not just to investigate crime but to also probe where gang members were getting their guns.
School was out, and the municipal gym jumped with the wholesome noise of girls and boys slapping basketballs onto the hardwood. Then came the clatter of a helicopter overhead.
A rising number of gangbangers are moving into well-paid futures as members of the region's building trade unions.
Los Angeles has spent $100 million over the last decade on a gang-prevention program, even though it doesn't track how many youths it keeps out of gangs and has been repeatedly criticized for not adequately coordinating with schools and police.
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