Gangland...anyone watch??

[eastcoastS14]

so apparently LA is fucking insane! anyone watch the show gangland on the history channel....they had one about LA on last night and the Surenos(sp) and the mexican mafia in the prisons....I always knew cali had gang problems and shit but this shit was nuts...they were just letting loose on people, gang affiliated or innocent. They snuck into one kids house who just moved into their neighborhood and put a pillow over his face and shot him in the head for no reason...crazy shit

any of u cali ppl live near any of this shit??

here it is for ppl who havent seen it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LHbq2pAFgM

[ESmorz]

and that is why you don't live in inner city LA.

[exitspeed]

Gangs haven't been cool (but not really) since:

http://www.undergroundwestcoastrap.com/nwa.jpg

[azndoc]

Ummmm yeah it's bad over here.

But as long as you stay out of those areas then its okay.

But all it takes is to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Some of my customers are in those really bad areas and I only go there during the daytime. So it's kinda okay.

Alex loves to watch the show, I sometimes watch it. Just to stay on topic. lol

[kouki_s14]

I watch it and it's not really news to me. There are gang wars in ALL cities in LA, it's just that in the nicer areas you dont hear about shootings, stabbings, etc as much. Certain cities with reputations down play murders and it doesnt turn into a media shitstorm.
I lived in a rather wealthy city, but i would still get guns and knives pulled on me if i was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
This is LA and most major cities for you.

[exitspeed]

Some of my customers are in those really bad areas and I only go there during the daytime. So it's kinda okay.


Jack is that white guy from Menace II Society that gets to that guys house early int he morning.:keke:

[S14DB]

Yeah if you want to talk about Domestic Terrorism...

[VROOOM]

I DVR all of the gangland episodes, along with monster quest. that show is pretty bad ass

[midnightouge]

I used to live in east LA before we moved to norcal and we used to hear a gun shot and cops every night.

btw My dish records gangland for me:boink:

[muddafakka]

I've only seen the episode about the 3 cops and informant who went undercover into Hell's Angels.

[ravinaziankid]

That's not called a gang when you just kill innocent people for no reason, that's called terrorism and they should be dealt with the same way terrorists are dealt with. That's just my opinion. I really don't want to say it, but they should screen and increase security from illegal immigrants from coming into the US because it looks like most of these terror attacks are from immigrants.

[Xandy Boosts]

Parent's used to own a Donut Shop @ South Central LA. Sold it 2 years ago. Seen a lot of shit go down there.

Owned it for about 12 years? All the cool customers that was my age when I started working there, as I grew up with them, probably 85% of em turned out to be murderers and ended up being arrested or got killed.

[eastcoastS14]

That's not called a gang when you just kill innocent people for no reason, that's called terrorism and they should be dealt with the same way terrorists are dealt with. That's just my opinion. I really don't want to say it, but they should screen and increase security from illegal immigrants from coming into the US because it looks like most of these terror attacks are from immigrants.

I agree with this completely...except for the immigrant part lol I think it would be hilarious to see the army rolling into LA and kicking down doors and arresting gang members

[corriganjoshua]

Im stationed at 3rd ID Ft benning GA we have discussed this before haha

[ManoNegra]

There are all sort of gangs. Sure many are immigrants but from my personal experience most are 2nd generation immigrants, US citizens born here.

For me it used to be worse in the late 80s. I would walk to Jr. High trough 18 Street neighborhoods and got stopped and asked 'where I was from' on an almost daily basis. Lot of younger kids back then.
Nowadays I think that gangs have actually slowly moved away from petty crimes - jumping kids for their lunch money - and into heavier stuff like drug trafficking and weapons. They don't seem to bother regular people as much as they used to. Not good for their business to bring unwanted attention to their profitable illegal activities.

[lil240sx95]

its suck though it categorizes us hispanics to be only "gangsters"
but its true crazy shit, my dad works on slauson and holmes and fuck! haha people are crazy, some kid stole my uncles phone from his pants and just ran like crazy.

[VROOOM]

I work in North Long Beach. its kind of a bad neighborhood. a few months ago i heard a car fly down the street in front of my work. i looked outside and saw a car chasing another car. the first car lost control and ran into a fence. one of the guys in the car following got out and put 2 in the guy that crashed head. then just got in the car and left.it happened less than a 1/4 mile from my work.

[zeitgeist]

Great show. I knew LA was bad but not that bad. Wont ever be visiting there again

[Matej]

Last year some family moved to KC from inner LA to escape gang violence because they didn't want anything to happen to their son and daughter, and a few weeks after they moved here their son got stabbed and shot to death in a random mugging, it was story on the news here, pretty messed up.

[azndoc]

Jack is that white guy from Menace II Society that gets to that guys house early int he morning.:keke:

Yeah I always tell them sorry for waking them up at 1pm in the afternoon.

I live in kinda of a bad neighborhood but in a enclosed gated townhome place so it's okay.

One time I was outside of my front door step smoking a cig. when this guy came up to me looking pretty fucking high off his mind asked me for a cig also. So I gave him one since it would've been awkward to say no when I'm holding the pack in my hand. Then we get to chating and he's telling me about how he was chillin down the block and some old school og disrespected him and he was about to go find him and stab his ass. Then he pulls out from his waist this big ass knife about 8 inches long. He shows it to me and I'm thinking in my head, damn I'm glad I gave him a cig. He then proceeded to tell me more in detail about what had happened, but in spanish. I just stood there nodding my head and having an awkward laugh. At last I made up some excuse to go inside and haven't seen him in a while.

Yeah. That's about it. There's a lot of crazy shit that happens, but since I'm not in that lifestyle I don't know about it anymore.

[ALTRNTV]

Ah... gang-life in California. Nothing new.

[Matej]

Sounds like Cali police should crack more on that instead of loud mufflers, but I guess that wouldn't be easy money.

[HyperTek]

interesting thread ill have to catch an episode when i get home..

I live like 40 minutes away from LA.. Inland Empire. we get all teh lil wannabe gangstas. In highschool there where tons of lil wannabes.. i wonder if they are still alive today.. unfortinutly the ones im thinking of are hispanic.. no offense. it really sucks. I know of a few asian gangsters too.. what pisses me off is there are some nice girls *university girls, nursing students etc* that get involved with these guys and end up reproducing.. I was talkin to this milf, but she kept bringing up her ex and shes still stuck on him and shes a med student too..

My mom and bro used to live in some pretty bad nieghborhoods in the 70s. She move out of there for the sake of my brother.

[jrbump]

The one about the "Latin Kings" in NY was pretty freakin' intense.

The main guy was/is super paranoid, Like N. Korea paranoid. He had all sorts of his captains and such killed, their families too.

[PhilthyS13]

I liked the one about Nicky Barnes, the heroin dealer in the 70's. His character appeared in that Denzel movie American Gangster. I saw interviews with him and heard him on Howard Stern. I think it's funny to see him because he looks like any other 70 year old man. Except that he used to throw people off bridges and probably worse. I think I heard a story where he caught some guy stealing and he had a "talk" with him. The guy shit himself.

I hope they do an episode on the Golden Dragon massacre. Everyone (who was alive at the time) remembers that around here.
http://www.mistersf.com/notorious/index.html?notgoldendragon.htm

[ManoNegra]

its suck though it categorizes us hispanics to be only "gangsters"
but its true crazy shit, my dad works on slauson and holmes and fuck! haha people are crazy, some kid stole my uncles phone from his pants and just ran like crazy.

I think different episodes deal with different gangs, this one happens to be about the Surenos and Nortenos and the Mexican mafia.
When I was a kid there all type of gangs: Latin, White, Black... all depends what area of LA you'd be in.
But thinking that all LA is bad because of that show is also pretty dumb. I mean I live in the Crenshaw area and yeah it's a rough area but if you know how be smart you won't be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[eastcoastS14]

yeah there are gangs around here too...Ive seen latin kings and shit around all decked out in yellow and black. And there is a growing gang problem in the city next to the one i go to college in...2 years ago we we went to this halloween party...I go to school in salem MA so halloween is huge here and everyone is out. But anyway we saw these kids getting arrested, and apparently they had been in my friends party earlier, they were cambodian dudes dressed in all red...the cops busted them like right after they left the party and it turns out they were carrying machetes in their pants...

parts of boston are really nuts too...lots of random shootings everyday, this dude I was cool with freshman year was from a real sketch ass part of boston and they found him in a car shot in the head earlier this year

[dirtdiggler666]

hell ya i was watching that shit last night it was fucking crazy

i was sitting in my garage going fuck i got to move, i live in palmdale and alot of that shit is coming up here:-/

[VROOOM]

I think different episodes deal with different gangs, this one happens to be about the Surenos and Nortenos and the Mexican mafia.
When I was a kid there all type of gangs: Latin, White, Black... all depends what area of LA you'd be in.
But thinking that all LA is bad because of that show is also pretty dumb. I mean I live in the Crenshaw area and yeah it's a rough area but if you know how be smart you won't be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

this is true, as long as you keep to your self and dont act stupid everything should be fine. also its not nearly as bad as it was in the late 80's/early 90's

[Vision Garage]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwqo1F3fRI

2Pac said it BEST!!

Preach on Brotha!!

[eastcoastS14]

the thing about it tho is so many of the neighborhoods they showed looked like any other neighborhood, and its all like certain blocks...so i feel like id move to LA and have no clue of what is around me and what areas not to go to lol...at least here the real dangerous places look like shitholes...when I went to LA so many places looked the same....

lol funny cause I was watching it at my friends house last night, and I was sitting on the couch wearing a grey shirt and a blue hoodie and i was thinkin damn id probably get shot for wearing this in certain parts of LA....

[ALTRNTV]

the thing about it tho is so many of the neighborhoods they showed looked like any other neighborhood, and its all like certain blocks...so i feel like id move to LA and have no clue of what is around me and what areas not to go to lol...at least here the real dangerous places look like shitholes...when I went to LA so many places looked the same....Most of the gang-infested parts here also look like shit-holes.
It's scary though, look at one of the gangsters in a wrong way, and that could be your last day alive. I have a shaved head, so I try to wear neutral colors, but even that can get you killed.

lol funny cause I was watching it at my friends house last night, and I was sitting on the couch wearing a grey shirt and a blue hoodie and i was thinkin damn id probably get shot for wearing this in certain parts of LA....Wear that in Long Beach. :keke:

[eastcoastS14]

^^ yeah Im black and white so I just look spanish and especially in the summer or cali sun Id be so dark and I have a buzzed head...so id be fucked

lol I did kinda lol when I was there and saw some dudes who just looked like the sterotypical mexican gangsters...the wife beaters and black pants chucks and shaved heads...lol one dude had slicked back hair and a hair net on haha...kinda goofy if u ask me

[Matej]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQuxHQY-_M

[kouki_s14]

I live like 40 minutes away from LA.. Inland Empire. we get all teh lil wannabe gangstas. In highschool there where tons of lil wannabes.. i wonder if they are still alive today.. unfortinutly the ones im thinking of are hispanic.. no offense. it really sucks. I know of a few asian gangsters too.. what pisses me off is there are some nice girls *university girls, nursing students etc* that get involved with these guys and end up reproducing.. I was talkin to this milf, but she kept bringing up her ex and shes still stuck on him and shes a med student too..



From my experience it doesnt really matter if the gangsters are wannabes OR real murderers. If the murderer has a gun, they will pull the trigger without hesistation. If the wannabe has the gun, they will still pull the trigger being scared shitless inside. Most likely the wannabe will be some immature kid trying to protect a stupid reputation.

When a person has a weapon, they feel powerful, gangster or not. If an idiot feels they have somethign to prove, they will use the weapon without thinking.

I liked the one about Nicky Barnes, the heroin dealer in the 70's. His character appeared in that Denzel movie American Gangster.

Denzel played Frank Lucas, Nicky Barnes was the other big dealer in New York at the time.

Usually if you dont want to get shot when you see gangsters, dont look at them. Simple.

[B Love]

Sounds like Cali police should crack more on that instead of loud mufflers, but I guess that wouldn't be easy money.

Hhahaha easy to say my friend is an LAPD officer. Most people you pull over with loud mufflers wont shoot at you

[HyperTek]

cops are regular people, no super powers... Ive seen cops my age... Wearing the badge im sure they are automatically hated in the first place.. they would probably catch more physical harm instead of a innocent bystander minding their own business.

[status:one]

I have seen this before... I have also seen two awesome documentaries on MS-13 which is the largest and most dangerous gang in the United States. Pretty fascinating. It's amazing how many members of these gangs realize when they grow up how stupid they were.

[ALTRNTV]

I'lL buSt a Cap iN yO asS cUh!

[womenbeshoppin]

I go to LA usually a few times a week. I don't know why but i love it, theres just something about it.

[MrMcgarrett]

Cholos ain't so tough:keke::ghey:

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/MrMcgarrett/HomieLove.jpg

[azndoc]

^^^^ OMG, I didn't even see it at first. I thought you meant the old guy. Not the two on the left side looking so in love. Or just crazy.

[ALTRNTV]

Is that Hector? Didn't he go legit and enter the NIRA Circuit? :keke:

[PhilthyS13]

Denzel played Frank Lucas, Nicky Barnes was the other big dealer in New York at the time.


I know. I think Cuba was Nicky. Hence he "appeared" in the movie.

[ESmorz]

Me and a buddy walked to a Denny's or something after a party in a ghetto ass part of palmdale at about 3 in the morning once.

The only thing that happened was some tweaked out hispanic guy asked us if we knew where he could get some meth. We said no. Then he gave us directions to the place...

[azndoc]

I know. I think Cuba was Nicky. Hence he "appeared" in the movie.

Yes I believe Cuba was Nicky. Seemed more like a pimp than a drug dealer.

[Wes_s13]

they should make one about Lynn..its crazy over here also, just not as big as L.A ...they call lynn " mini cali " ..i think they said lynn and lowell is the 4th largest gang populated cities in the U.S..

[VROOOM]

dude your an idiot, your an immigrant yourself. Asians immigrated to the united states. Asians are a big part of gangs in the US. In massachusetts, there are mostly asian gangs so stop being a jerkoff to the latino race.

he never said anything about the latino race. he said immigrant, which could mean any race.

[muddafakka]

Cholos ain't so tough:keke::ghey:

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/MrMcgarrett/HomieLove.jpg

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[HyperTek]

lol.. at first looks like they are about to fight.. but then looks like they are holding hands

[eastcoastS14]

dude on the right probably has a knife and the guy on the left is holding it down lol.....idk

wedding stabbings ftw

[Wes_s13]

with his eyes shut ready to kiss him haha

[usdm180sx]

I saw that episode. The one about ms13 was cracee. It's all about the mrps13 cuh

[s13Dr1ft]

I have seen this before... I have also seen two awesome documentaries on MS-13 which is the largest and most dangerous gang in the United States. Pretty fascinating. It's amazing how many members of these gangs realize when they grow up how stupid they were.

MS-13 is in over 6 countries and own alot of prison systems. Hell...a small portion of them moved into the South Side of Indy a few years ago, I was talking to a few friend cops of mine and they were telling me about them moving in. Dudes are no joke at all.

I wish i had TIVO or something to watch this show, i like watching the shit about prisons/gangs etc.