GoonDaKilla Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 W/S BARRIO 18TH STREET The origins of the 18th Street gang can be traced to Los Angeles, California, during the early 1960s in the Rampart District. Specifically, the gang formed in the “neighborhood where the Santa Monica and Harbor Freeway intersect, near 18th Street and Union Avenue,” the area is also known as Pico-Union. According to Dr. Al Valdez, an adjunct professor at the University of California, Irvine and retired head of the gang investigation unit at the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, 18th Street was established because a gang known as Clanton Street, currently known as Clanton 14 (C14),only recruited and admitted Mexicans.Clanton Street’s selective membership led to youth of non-Mexican and mixed-race backgrounds to create the 18th Street gang. Many of the gang founders lived near or on 18th Street, which eventually became the gang’s name. Gang researcher Alejandro Alonso, of Streetgangs.com, states that 18th Street’s historic territory is composed of five neighborhoods in Los Angeles: Eastside 18th Street, Northside 18th Street, South Central 18th Street, Southside 18th Street, and Westside 18th Street. Going National Eighteenth Street is one of the most significant gangs within Los Angeles and has spread to numerous locations. Such growth in membership and geographical coverage can be attributed to 18th Street’s open ethnic enrollment of members outside the Latino/a community, broadened the appeal for youth to join the gang.[7] Eighteenth Street’s reach has extended out of Los Angeles to cities and suburbs throughout the US. Approximately 200 cliques affiliated with 18th Street operate throughout Southern California, including the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys, the South Bay, South Los Angeles, Pico-Union (their original home), Inglewood, Lynwood, Huntington Park, as well as Riverside and Orange Counties.[8] According to a 2011 Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) national gang threat assessment, 18th Street has a presence in numerous states within the US, including California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.[9] Many 18th Street members have been reported to migrate to different cities and states in the US.[10] In doing so, 18th Street has created a nationwide presence. Through the movement of 18th Street members, the membership of the gang has increased rapidly–as of 2008, it was estimated to have about 30,000-50,000 members in the US.[11] According to a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Central America and Mexico Assessment, “gang activity used to be territorially confined to local neighborhoods, globalization, sophisticated communications technologies, and travel patterns have facilitated the expansion of gang activity across neighborhoods, cities, and countries.” 18TH STREET MIRROR PARK GANGSTERS / MIRROR PARK LOCOS Westside Los Santos is one of the many homes for the world-wide 18th Street gang. The 18th Street gang has been present in the suburbs of the district since the late 1960s. The Mirror Park Locos were the first 18th Street gang set to originate in the suburbs in the late 1960s, followed by the Mirror Park Gangsters in the early 1980s. Since then, numerous other 18th Street gang sets have been formed in the suburban neighborhoods of Vinewood and Mirror Park area.. Clashes with rival street gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha and the Sureños have broken out since the late 1980s. These clashes have claimed the lives of well over 50 street gang members, 4 police officers and several dozen innocent people over the course of 3 decades. Currently, Modern Day; 18th Street overall are pushing Blood Killer on every blood clique, unlike most street gangs who have a specific few sets that they have a rivalry with: 18th Street will beef a blood gang-member no matter where, how and when or why... and as for the statistics in 2020 on the Los Santos's Gang Unit chart, most of the homicides committed by 18th Street are specifically on blood sets in the city, almost entirely ignoring other gangs; the infamous 18th Street and Mara Salvatrucha 13 beef has seemed to have died down somewhat, alongside the 18th Street and Clanton 14th Street beef, and 18th Street and E/S Clover beef... and instead, seems to look as if all the blood sets are liable to be targeted and attacked by these group of dysfunctional deranged gangsters. In the last few decades, the war between several Blood sets and countless 18th Street cliques has spiraled out of control; Pedro Espinoza who murdered Jamiel Shaw II was one of the gang members and gang bangers who was deeply rooted in this bloodshed warfare. On the 2nd of March 2008, in Arlington Heights, Los Santos; Shaw, a 17-year-old Los Santos High School football player was ambushed by Pedro Espinoza and another accomplice, as he was returning home from the Richman Center. Pedro Espinoza was formally charged with first-degree murder. He was convicted on May 9, 2012. The guilty verdict also included special circumstances, which made Pedro Espinoza eligible for the death penalty. On May 23, 2012, the jury sentenced Espinoza to death. 3 1 Link to comment
i dont wanna od in LA Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 good luck seems promising asf Link to comment
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