WESTTHEDEAL Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) 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. Edited April 19, 2022 by WESTTHEDEAL 19 3 Link to comment
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