With all of them warring against each otherβCrip against Crip, Crip against Bloodβand the crack wars raging, and L.
Brown directs a self-empowerment nonprofit called Amer-I-Can, and he starts inviting the four gangs up to his posh Hollywood home, feeding them pizza around the pool and pushing them to lay down arms. I just got shot up! We got to make this shit right for the little homies.
They walk right into a crowd of PJs. You all wit the peace? The peace treaty on! Aqeela Sherrills, gang member and street worker, in front of the Watts Towers. Since the late s, in fact, the only demographic to see an increase in murder victims is men between the ages of 25 and 34, and 67 percent of killings between young men are gang-related.
Much of the new gang activity is occurring in the affluent D. I had experienced that in New York, working with the FBI in their attack on the old-style mafias, and how they were able to break their backs, and the belief that you could use many of the same prescriptions against these gangs, whether they be Latino or African American, the two principal groups I have to deal with here.
MS, an international gang that started among Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles. In South Central L. But to hear it from people on the street, like Aqeela Sherrills, who has become a national figure in grassroots peace activism, speaking at dozens of conferences as far away as Croatia, running a Watts-based nonprofit that brokers truces between gangs all over the country, and meeting with the likes of director Michelangelo Antonioni and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, Bratton is missing the point.
