Westmob, a

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San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, has fought a brutal gang war since 1999 against

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and its various factions. Westmob is sometimes known to associate with Oakdale Mob and Sunnydale gangsters. Its rivalry with Big Block was the subject of the 2002 documentary '' Straight Outta Hunter's Point'' and is linked to

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and drugs. They claim territory from West Point to Middle Point in San Francisco's notoriously dangerous Hunters Point projects. The gang made headlines around the nation when one of its members, David Hill, was arrested for murdering a police officer in April 2004.

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KRON 4 news- ''Many SF Homicides Linked to Gang Wars''- Map of SF gang areas
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