XVIII St. ~ Los Angeles
From TRAV13SOTE
“The 18th Street Gang…
It is the biggest and deadliest street gang to rise from the nation’s gang capital, reshaping Los Angeles’ criminal underworld.
With as many as 20,000 members in Southern California alone, the gang called 18th Street is 20 times the size of the region’s typical gang, dwarfing even the notorious Bloods and Crips.
“We recognize them as one of the most violent street gangs and one of the most prolific in the United States,” says George Rodriguez, who until his retirement this month oversaw investigations for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
A band of unruly outcasts when it formed in the 1960s, 18th Street has become an ominous prototype. Although primarily Latino, 18th Street has broken with gang tradition, opening its ranks to comers of all races from many working-class neighborhoods in a calculated move to boost its numbers. Its primary recruitment targets: immigrant youngsters.
Wherever 18th Street surfaces, the quality of life inevitably suffers, bringing despair to residents and presenting law enforcement authorities with challenges they seem unable to conquer.
Cars are stolen, homes burglarized. On average, someone in Los Angeles County is assaulted or robbed by 18th Streeters every day. The gang has left a bloody trail of more than 100 homicides in the city of Los Angeles since 1990 — a pace three times that of many of the city’s most active gangs.
Police say 18th Street — with its tight ties to the Mexican Mafia prison gang — has become so influential in narcotics circles that it now deals directly with the Mexican and Colombian cartels. Eighteenth Street also has pioneered a disturbing trend in gangs: renting street corners — sometimes in hourly shifts — to non-gang dope peddlers, who are forced to pay “taxes.”
“They’re worse than a cancer. A cancer you can kill. These guys keep growing,” says gang expert Gabriel Kovnator of the California Youth Authority, where 18th Streeters constitute the largest group of gang members in custody.
Although 18th Street’s primary impact has been in central Los Angeles County, the gang has taken root on the Westside, the San Gabriel Valley, Orange County, the South Bay and the San Fernando Valley. Transplanted 18th Streeters also have exported their criminal ways to other states and countries.
In Utah, officials say 18th Street has arrived with a vengeance.
“Within the past two or three years, I’ve heard more and more gang cops telling me, ‘18th Street, 18th Street,’” says Sgt. Ron Stallworth, the state’s top gang intelligence officer. “If these guys are here to the extent we think they are, we have to extend some very serious resources to get our ducks lined up.”
Eighteenth Street has become the largest and fastest-growing gang in Oregon. Its members have tried to assert control over the state prison narcotics trade and are blamed for one of Salem’s worst gang slayings: A 15-year-old 18th Streeter, who wanted out, was gunned down by his homeboys.
“It’s just phenomenal what’s happening here [with the gang],” says Ron Weaver of the Oregon Youth Authority.
In El Salvador, church leaders have been working to broker a truce between 18th Street and its rivals. Authorities from Honduras, meanwhile, recently visited Los Angeles seeking advice from law enforcement on the gang.
“Eighteenth Street is like a many-headed hydra,” says Assistant U.S. Atty. Gregory W. Jessner, who oversees a prosecutorial task force targeting the gang.”
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b_sick wrote:
18st now in holland…
whe have a click of 100 members…
check me webside http://www.everyoneweb.com/18thstreet
Posted on 12-Feb-07 at 3:59 am | Permalink
DOZERx8 wrote:
18st is everywhere. its the revolution.
your with us or against us.
http://www.myspace.com/captain_dazey
Posted on 17-May-07 at 4:19 pm | Permalink
18 wrote:
18 STREET RIFA FUCK DA REST DAT CAN HANG WITH THE BEST
Posted on 22-May-07 at 10:31 am | Permalink
creeper18 wrote:
cant fuck with the best man fuk the rest putas chavalas cant hand with us….
Posted on 08-Jul-07 at 9:55 am | Permalink
CH1N8 wrote:
aquiii les dejo la pagina de montreal canada puro 18 st eighteen yq putas !!
Posted on 10-Jul-07 at 4:10 pm | Permalink
LA MONII wrote:
H3Y WAZ UP I KNO ALOT ABOUT YALL AND MOSTLY ALL MY FAMILIA IS FROM THE BIG ONE EIGHT P3RO W3L ALRATOZ AND K33P IT UP
Posted on 11-Sep-07 at 1:15 pm | Permalink
spartan18 wrote:
big ups to all 18 streeters out in the world spokane on the map takin over the inland northwest SOUTHWEST DIECE OCHO HOOVER LOKOTES BIG BAD 18
Posted on 25-Dec-07 at 2:37 pm | Permalink
KASPER 18TH wrote:
PURO UNO OCHO GANG TORONTO CANADA SUREÑOS XV3:.
Posted on 14-Jan-08 at 5:40 pm | Permalink
XVIII $ Life wrote:
XVIII is here taking Eastern Oregon. If you cant hang with the best, get ready to get fucked like the rest. XVIII 4 life putas
Posted on 19-Jan-08 at 2:29 am | Permalink
Tien-R wrote:
so i jus wanna ask..
does 18th St. and Sureno13 click up? or not..i’m jw. dey both work fo La Eme..
Posted on 19-Jan-08 at 6:33 pm | Permalink
MOSKA wrote:
E’Z UP FUCK ALL THE CHAVALAS WE WILL BE THE ONE PULLING THE TRIGGER…
Posted on 08-Feb-08 at 3:44 pm | Permalink
Operation Ivy wrote:
There’s a war going down between my brothers tonight,
I don’t want no war going down, going down tonight.
Stop this war
Civilization? Ha! I call it as I see it.
I call it bullshit, you know, I still cannot believe it
Our evolution now,
has gone the way of hate
A world evolved
resolved in this stupid fate
Stop this war
All so different yeah,
I say we’re all the same
All caught, you know,
in the division game.
Self destruction fast
impending like a bullet.
No one can stop it, once it’s fired,
no one can control it.
Stop this war
A final word, wait
it’s not a call to action
We ain’t no sect,
no, this ain’t no fucking faction.
Unity, unity, unity
you’ve heard it all before.
This time it’s not exclusive
we want to stop a war.
Stop this war
Ain’t nothing wrong with another unity song
Stop this war
Unity, as one stand together
Unity, evolution’s gonna come
Unity, as one stand together
Unity, evolution’s gonna come
Unity, as one stand together
Unity, evolution’s gonna come
Unity, as one stand together
Unity, evolution’s gonna come
Posted on 08-Feb-08 at 8:15 pm | Permalink
ARiiANNA wrote:
DiZ SHiiT iiS WAy FUCKED UP FOREAL !
Posted on 12-Mar-08 at 5:52 pm | Permalink
ESA_MARYJANE wrote:
ARRIBA TODOS LOS DEL UNO OCHO!!!
ITS ALL BOUT DAT 18ST!!!
FUCK DA REST EXCEPT DA B.E.S.T!!!
Posted on 29-Apr-08 at 10:53 pm | Permalink
TRUSTY wrote:
E’s up to all the homies WS18ST HOOVER LOKOS ON MINE. IM CHILLING HERE IN PICO AND UNION..WEST SIDE BEST XV111 FUCK SLOBS BKAY ALL DAY
Posted on 12-May-08 at 4:44 pm | Permalink
John Smith wrote:
The only person on here that seems educated is the one that quoted OP IVY. Everyone here should go back to school or start paying attention at school. Gangs are for people who can’t think for themselves and are destined to be losers.
Posted on 23-May-08 at 10:05 pm | Permalink
ROB wrote:
hey waz up! este es el CANELO del big barrio 18 west side keep it real wit da hood LA 18 RIFA
Posted on 27-May-08 at 4:24 pm | Permalink
VÌÖLÈñ† W§¹8§†.HVL§ wrote:
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.” Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 12:25.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. (Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Nochi tlakamej uan siuamej kipiaj manoj kuali tlakatisej, nochi san se totlatechpouiltilis uan titlatepanitalojkej, yeka moneki kuali ma timouikakaj, ma timoiknelikaj, ma timotlasojtlakaj uan ma timotlepanitakaj. Nahuatl
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Posted on 14-Jul-08 at 3:30 am | Permalink
esa grumpy wrote:
damet tats right keep ur head up c/s
Posted on 01-Aug-08 at 10:31 am | Permalink