Gang killings in the los angeles county are the result of drug wars. Most gang homicides are not random, nor are they only disputes over drugs or some other crime. The vast majority of violent incidents involving gang members continue to result from fights over turf, status, and revenge.Ever since there have been street gangs there have been drive by shootings. Guns don’t kill people; people kill peopleShootings by gang members have increased as guns on the streets have proliferated. Drive-by killings are a direct result of the availability of firearms. People injure people; guns kill people.

They are responsible for numerous murders, drug-selling, and other violent and illegal acts that plague the Metropolitan area. These gangs or crews seem to operate with no sense of remorse and no respect for the lives of the residents they hurt or the lives they take. Residents themselves have little hope of ending the violence when even the police cannot stop it.

According to the National Crime
Victimization Survey (NCVS), victims
perceived perpetrators to be gang
members in about 6% of violent victimizations
between 1998 and 2003. On
average for each year, gang members
committed about 373,000 of the 6.6
million violent victimizations. Nonfatal
violent acts measured include
rape/sexual assault, robbery, aggravated
assault, and simple assault.

Between 1993 and 2003 younger
victims of violence were more likely
than older victims to believe the perpetrator
was a gang member. Offenders
were perceived to be gang members
in 12% of violent crimes against those
age 12 -19. The offender was identified
as a gang member in about 6% of violent
crimes against persons age 20-49
and in about 4% of violent crimes
against those age 50 or older.

a guy getting arrested because of the violence he created

people involved in gang violence

there was a thirteen year old named sammy stevenson, there was a gang fight and he got caught in the middle of it. he was trying to get out of the place where the gangs were fighting but6 he got shot. the man didnt mean to shoot him but he did. So gang violence effects the whole area around them and the people.