California, with its enormous urban population and complex socioeconomics, has become home to some of the most infamous and influential criminal gangs in the United States. Names like the Crips, ...
A motorcyclist coasted to a stop on a sun-baked street in the San Fernando Valley. He retrieved a stepladder from the bed of a pickup truck and leaned it against a high metal fence that encircled a ...
Even in the cutthroat world of Los Angeles street gangs, the saying associated with one Crips faction stands out as cold-blooded: “You ain’t a Rollin’ 60 ‘til you kill a 60.” The Rollin’ 60s ...
I witnessed a woman pull up on the side of the street and just run, yelling, ‘My baby! My baby! My baby!’ ” shaken local ...
The gang, a violent subset of the national Bloods gang, was responsible for a series of crimes including murders, shootings, drug trafficking, and a multi-state crime spree across 10 Georgia counties.