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Vespucci Beach The neighborhood of Vespucci Beach has been a hotspot of violence, deemed responsible for rapid street-gang growth since the early 30s. Originally the neighborhood ‘Vespucci Beach’ was predominantly white, the 1980 U.S. census counted 84,413 residents in the 3.17-square-mile Vespucci neighborhood – an average of 15,184 people per square mile, about the norm for Los Santos; in the late 1900s. The City of Vespucci estimated that the population had increased by 40,885 since 1985, and as of 2020 53% of the population was Mexican. The largest immigrant groups include: 5,934 (2.3%) Irish, 5,578 (2.1%) Cambodian, 4,460 (1.7%) Ukrainian. During the early 1920s an influx of Hispanics to the area caused the demographics of Vespucci Beach to change quickly. With an influx of Hispanics to the South Beach communities within Vespucci, there was also an influx of African-American residents from the Southern and Midwestern territories of the United States. In response to violent backlash from White-American residents in Vespucci, new residents of the beach side community banded together to form street-gangs to defend themselves against what we know as 'West Los Santos Anti Immigrant/Nationalist Gangs’. History behind Vespucci’s own ‘Longo 13’ The neighborhood of Vespucci beach has always been a hotbed for gang-activity, specifically it has been the home to one of the oldest street gangs in Vespucci Beach, being the Longo 13 gang made up of several smaller cliques. “Longo” being a term used by locals in Vespucci beach describing the geographical identity of Vespucci Beach stretching from its local Marinas, up to Del Perro Beach. Since the 1970s locals have regarded the name Longo more specifically as a reference to these cliques under the representation of Longo 13. Due to the culture surrounded by Vespucci’s long history with immigrants the gang was split geographically, and its rapid growth in membership created three independent gangs who share the Longo name: ‘Eastside Longos’, ‘West Side Longos’, ‘North Side Longos’. Varrio Longo 13, has become one of the largest Sureño gangs throughout the Marina Area of Vespucci Beach. The largest of the Longo gangs is the ‘Eastside Longos’, being planted within the Hispanic community along S. Bay City Avenue in Vespucci Beach. Members of the East Side Longos, whose main rivals are the city's African-American and Asian gangs - Circa 1991 Eastside Longos 13 - Barrio Viejo (ESBV13) The Eastside Longos (ESL13), claims an area around the South Beach neighborhood of Vespucci. Their territory stretches from N. Palomino Avenue down S. Magellan Avenue to S. Bay City Avenue. They share this region of Vespucci Beach with other Sureño gangs such as Vespucci 13 & Barrio Small Town 13. They also are surrounded by multiple Crip gangs such as the ‘E/S Asian Boyz Crips’, ‘V-Town Playboy Gangster Crips’ and ‘Shoreline Vespucci Crip’. Barrio Viejo is the oldest clique within ESL, this is also one of the more active cliques operating out of Vespucci Beach. Barrio Viejo has become infamous due to their harsh treatment towards racial groups and is the primary reason for the alliance of Crip gangs in the Marina Area of Los Santos. During the early 2000s, multiple task-forces such as the United States Marshals Service, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms partnered with Los Santos Sheriff's Department and several other local agencies to file a civil injunction with the Vespucci Beach City Prosecutor against active members of the Eastside Longos, which prohibits members from a variety of legal and illegal activity in the area. The civil injunction was brought before the City Prosecutor to deter the increase in gang-activity in the South Vespucci neighborhood around S. Melanoma Street & Bay City Avenue. Vespucci Beach & Hate During the 1990s, Vespucci Beach was at the peak of its racist history. Since the early 1900s the 'Marina Area' has experienced hundreds of racially motivated gangs popping up and being responsible for dozens of racially-motivated attacks on several different ethnic groups. Since the mid-1980s, Vespucci Beach, famous for its muscle beach, and early morning winds, has also been something of a magnet for white-supremacist gangs. Its Bay Avenue backyards, and downtown area have been gathering spots for young people whose heads, swastika tattoos, steel-toed boots and racist philosophy mark them as "skins." In the last few years, skinheads from Vespucci Beach have been linked to violent episodes both in and outside L.S. Fears of an escalating gang war gripped the Vespucci Beach neighborhood during the late-1990s after three shootouts between Mexican gang-members, and African-American gang-members followed the brutal execution of 12-year old girl in September, 1998. That was decades ago but the race-motivated carnage has only increased, says the Los Santos Police Department. The conflict between Hispanic gangs targeting black gangs. reciprocating as their communities are increasingly surrounded by the exploding population of Hispanics, much of it fueled by illegal-immigration. In Vespucci Beach, the dividing line is Palomino Avenue & Magellan Avenue. Individuals of a variety of race understand the invisible lines that separate individual races from each others neighborhood. Federal prosecutors in 2003 charged members of a Latino gang with conducting a violent campaign to drive blacks out of the Vespucci Beach-Del Perro neighborhood in L.S. County, which resulted in some 20 homicides over several years. In 2021, 187 young people, age 10-24, were murdered - an average of 1 every two days. Most were of African-American descent. While statistics show most of the violence in minority communities is black on black or Hispanic on Hispanic, the trend is shifting, according to many law enforcement officials who say they see an upsurge in racial violence. Longos 13 and Vespucci Beach Crip Gangs Since the late 1980s, Longos have been a part of intense battle with neighboring Crip Factions in the ‘Marina Area’ of Greater Los Santos. One of the most intense conflicts in recent time has been between Eastside Longo and Blacc Bandit Crip. The clique within Longos 13 responsible for most of the violent crimes with Blacc Bandit Crip was the Northside Longo 13 clique, located around N. Bay City Avenue & N. San Andreas Avenue. Due to the Police and Sheriff's Department’s county crackdown on gang-activity in the early 1990s the conflict between Blacc Bandit Crip & Northside Longos 13 was diminished as ongoing feuds between the two gangs resulted in many of members on each side either becoming incarcerated or deceased. As the conflict between Blacc Bandit Crip & Northside Longos 13 finished, other cliques within Longos 13 throughout Vespucci adopted the moniker of ‘Crip Killer’. This infuriated local Crip gangs creating tension between Longo neighborhoods and Crip neighborhoods. These tensions have been amplified by an increase in racial-attacks between ‘African-Americans & Hispanic-Americans’. Many non-gang affiliated residents become assumed gang-members by each side. Resulting in the 2004 death of ‘Tonya Price’, a local elementary teacher who was shot inside a hair-salon by reputed ‘Eastside Longos 13’ gang-member Elise Salazar. Race-related fights have afflicted school campuses across the county, but specifically in the Marina Area. Civil rights advocates say that violence has grown at an alarming rate last year, continuing the 1990 trend of more Latino versus black confrontations prompting increases in police presence as to community discussions between the ethnic groups. Eastside Longos 13 and 'Marina Area' Crip Gangs - Present Day At the height of the racial-conflict in 'Vespucci Beach', many members of the Longo 13 street-gang were incarcerated due to the intense back and forth violence intertwined with hate crimes. This was the result of many Crip gangs in the area, as both sides partook in the war. The racial gang-war between Vespucci Beach Crips, and the Eastside Longos began to meet deceleration after a peace-treaty was called between Eastside Longos 13, and E/S Insane Crip Gang in 2016. The peace-treaty was the result of several gang-members from the Insane Crip Gang being apprehended for the murder of 13-year old Hispanic boy, "Michael Cerritos". Many residents in the Vespucci Beach deemed the treaty to be insincere as the Los Santos Sherriff's Department had cultivated the peace-treaty as a threat to increase civil-injunctions in the 'Marina Area'. By 2019 the treaty had become a thing of the past, individuals from Longo cliques had currently re-activated the conflict by attacking African-Americans around the S. Melanoma Street, neighborhood of Vespucci Beach. Due to the decline in Crip gangs remaining active in the Vespucci Beach since the Blacc Bandit Crip (Vespucci Beach), and Insane Crip Gang (Del Perro) any conflict between the Crips and Longos has become stagnant. This has allowed the Longos 13 gang to develop it's new generation of gang-members through recruiting at local high-schools in the East/North side neighborhoods of Vespucci Beach. Currently the is only extensive conflict between Longos 13, and any Crip gang located in Vespucci Beach. Is between Barrio Viejo (ESL 13) & Playboy Gangster Crips & E/S Asian Boyz Crip Eastside Longos 13, Present Day In current times, Eastside Longo 13 is one of the more active Longo sets in 'Vespucci Beach', through feuds with BBC, ICG, & ABZ have resulted in many of their older members either becoming incarcerated or deceased. Like all other Longo gangs in the area all of their members are exclusively Hispanic, White-Hispanic descent. Main areas of operations for the Eastside Longos is located around Bay City Avenue & Melanoma Street. It's most active clique within the Eastside Longos is Barrio Viejo, this clique is currently reforming it's presence in the area as many individuals within Barrio Viejo had been deported in mass, and incarcerated due to the racially motivated wars. Other cliques within Eastside Longos have gone defunct, specifically the previous '14 Dukes' clique that operated out of the Tug Street apartment complex. Eastside Longos are the last standing active Longo set in 'Vespucci Beach' despite members from Northside Longos being somewhat active around San Andreas Avenue. Vista Del Mar Apartments Large "housing project style" apartment complex in the South Beach neighborhood of Vespucci Beach/Marina Area district that's claimed by ESL13, the apartment complex borders the Tug Street Apartments to the North, and the Rug Street Apartments to the South. The Vista Del Mar apartments are claimed by the Barrio Viejo clique within ESL13. At a point the Vista Del Mar apartments was claimed by E/S Sons of Samoa Gangster Crip but civil/gang-indictments and incarceration of their members allowed ESL13 to takeover. The Vista Del Mar Apartments despite being a gang infested complex of West Los Santos has also experienced heightened Police Activity and the installation of 24/7 surveillance cameras, and ShotSpotter, a Gunshot Detection System due to the increase in gun-violence in the South Beach neighborhood.

Vespucci Beach used to be a well founded place for physical activities, shops, business and furthermore night life along the pier. Though all things change in time, good and bad. The ABZ gang was formed by Cambodian refugees in the late 80's in order to defend themselves from racial attacks. Later on, this gang was growing, and the majority of members, along with the founders, were from Cambodia. The rest of the members were from the Philippines and Vietnam. At the time, people of Cambodia were introduced to the instable economy and government, and a genocide. Even after the situation, people were seeking a better life in the States. Many happened to use their chance and they escaped their homelands. Newcomers were residing in Vespucci and formed their territory. Most of the gang members were immigrants, seeking a better life in the United States, but instead, faced brutal attacks by other Asian ethnicities. The ABZ gang was beefing with gangs such as the "East Side Longos” and "Tiny Rascal Gang", along with "Wah Ching" gangs. ABZ'S allies are the Sons of Samoa, Insane Crips, Rollin 20's Crips, and Vietnamese Boyz. The ABZ gang is functioning as a set of the large Crip gang. The gang also has other names which refer to Asian Crips, Asian Boys, 1226, or just ABZ. ABZ was led under a known figure by the name of “J Kyen” otherwise known as “Thumper”. That all changed on January 15, 2013, when Thumper was shot and murdered outside a local bar by an enemy gang from Vespucci Beach. Many members were seen at the funeral, the gang quickly and steadily fell under new leadership, "BD" or otherwise known as “Big Dave”. Big Dave was a thirty three year old Cambodian that resided directly on Cortes Street with his founding brothers, leading the affiliated into a better regime than before, clear actions, heavy handed and ultimately, level headed. This was a turning point for the community. Those inside the set known as “ABZ” have found themselves heavily respected by their peers and surrounding brothers and sisters. The gang operates fluidly alongside some of the other Crip sets among the city, and alone among their own. Their greed for money, violence, and complete claim of Cortes Street has been a heavy motivation for most members inside the said gang. Most members are involved in various robberies, car theft, indulging in copious amounts of drugs, let it be meth to coke and weed, there’s always a narcotic for a select individual in the criminal world. Numbers are not an issue when it comes to the said gang. The real competition and concerns for others come from the sheer action that the gang will go just as far as most to get their hands into any sorts of scheme or play that could result in gaining money, reputation and furthermore. Violence being a heavy aspect. Our mission is to maintain a good standard of roleplay in the Vespucci area. Portraying a realistic gang. If you’d like to roleplay with us or get to know what we’re about, just walk, ride, drive around Vespucci Beach. We prefer each and every individual inside the gang to have a realistic backstory and proper age. If you have no clue? Please do some research and reach out if you’re in need of assistance, we prefer realism over all. Send @FJ a forum PM. We don’t take member numbers into account, we prefer to see everyone representing a good display of roleplay and realistic actions. If you want to roleplay a gang banger that doesn’t smoke meth, doesn’t smoke weed and is a good standard individual that wishes to save people from crime? You are not welcome here, sorry. Once into the faction, we keep to the rules at all times, there is no disregarding or going against said server rules at any time or you will be kicked and dealt with accordingly. Every action has a consequence, every move could cause an effect into the future times of your character, there’s always something to be thinking about before doing. The faction leadership reserves CK perms on all individuals within the faction and those that wishes to become a part of it (Locals / Hang arounds). We are prioritizing roleplay quality and realism before everything. Thread credits @Rum

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A Day in the Life of… A Logistics Manager By Troy Francis _____________ All day long, an army of individuals are tirelessly working to provide the businesses and citizens of Los Santos essential goods which fuel the city. Whether it is the coffee you get from your local eatery or a new set of tints for your car. All of these goods are channelled through the Port of Los Santos, and are handled by the trucking companies, who call the Los Santos harbour, home. I recently spent time with IMEX CEO Aurora McCorkle and John Pickert, the HR Manager, to understand what an average day for a driver looks like as well as understand some of the challenges which the supply chain and logistics industry face. IMEX is one of the largest and most active trucking companies in the state of San Andreas, and often can be seen driving around in their trademark red vehicles. Truckers who are employed by IMEX often arrive at the headquarters, change into the company uniform and then start their shift. Each vehicle has access to a statewide shipping system, which then provides the driver with a route and the type of goods to be delivered. I attended a convoy event, which is where a group of drivers drive ‘convoy’ style to a business proactively and deliver a large volume of goods. John Picket, HR Manager at IMEX, said, ‘We organise convoys from time to time to restock our clients without them asking. Just to show that we care’. IMEX also uses a portal called IMEX Connect, where businesses can request priority delivery and arrange special contracts directly. It is clear that IMEX understands the needs of their customer base. Equally, it is clear just how difficult a trucker's job is. Drivers will often load and unload twenty crates per drop using nothing more than a trolley. However, the role that they fulfil is an essential part of the Los Santos economy. The trucking industry faces significant challenges. Of prime concern is security of the private property, and the large ‘lots’ which trucking companies occupy. Trespassers are a common occurrence, whether there to cause a nuisance or to commit crimes. IMEX contracts their security to G6, however, there are limits to what private security firms can do. Speaking to Miss McCorkle, CEO of IMEX, she called on the San Andreas Port Authority to do more to assist ‘I wish SAPA would do more. I wish they’d sweep our place like they used to do. But there’s a bit of hesitance from the higher ups, I feel. They’d rather their officers keep off of private property.' To sum up, having spent some time with IMEX, it appears to me that it is a business which has the best of intentions for their industry, their customers and ultimately the people of Los Santos. However, the security issues which they face are not to be underestimated and are a constant threat to both the safety of their employees and the stability of their business. The implications of this are wide ranging, but focussing purely on economics, if stock does not get delivered, businesses cannot trade effectively, which increases the risk of business owners having to reduce their staff. This, in turn, increases unemployment, resulting in less money circulating in the economy, resulting in an overall reduction in living standards for everyone. We hope you enjoyed the first edition of ‘A Day in the Life of’…’ Be sure to keep an eye out for our next edition. > Comments are enabled Username: Comment:

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