Don’t you dare and trespass the invisible boundary (Alameda Blv.) between the good and bad neighborhoods in south LA or you would get yourself in gang land, where you will find people who had nothing better to hope for than to die for their family gang: this is the zone of the crips and the bloods, two rival African American gangs who distinguish themselves by the blue bandana (crips) and the red one. This hot area in LA was were 92 riots started, after Rodney King got beaten. Most of this gang members come from single mother houses, most of which are drug abusers and traffickers, with no role model to follow and find in the gangs a secure place of belonging and identity to survive in the ghetto.

Some of these youngsters have never seen the Pacific ocean even though they live 10 min. from the sea, for if they are caught in enemy territory or in white neighborhoods, they will have to pay the price. Most of the males in this deprived areas are either in jail doing time or under 6 feet.

And then, right after they are out of the pen, their gangs will welcome them open armed and take them back into the crime circle of the streets where the siren plays its tune night and day and the police chopper pays its nightly visits.

anger and hatred are not scarce by products of the hoods of L.A. and right by the side of these no man land, the products we have ben served time and again by the movies, the nice Los Angeles of Beverly Hills, China Town, the beach,…

Gang  members have to show no humanity whatsoever or this can be understood as weakness. Only brutal force is to be released, animal instincts if you want to eat tomorrow: kill or get killed. For this you will have to get feared, your deeds will be your visit card for the others to “digg” you have to watch out and don’t mess with me.

Gang members go for the big automatic weapons, a low caliber short in rounds pistol wont be enough for your next encounter where a rain of bullets can fly upon you. Some will carry full arsenals for there is always the time and place to let them smoke and do the talking, there is always who to protect, upon whom retaliate, upon whom to revenge;