This is a list of notable criminal gangs in Los Angeles, California. The County and the City of

Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...

has been nicknamed the "Gang Capital of America," with an estimated 450 active gangs with a combined membership of more than 45,000.

Gangs

* Abergil Crime Family * Bahala Na Gang * Black Vanguard *

Bloods The Bloods are a primarily African Americans, African American street gang which was founded in Los Angeles, California. The gang is widely known for Crips–Bloods gang war, its rivalry with the Crips. It is identified by the red color worn ...

** Black P. Stones **

Bounty Hunter Bloods The Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, also known as the Bounty Hunter Bloods, is a "set" of the Bloods gang alliance situated in the Nickerson Gardens public housing projects in Watts, Los Angeles. History The gang was originally established in 1969 b ...

** Pirus ** Feared Monstrous Kings *

Crips The Crips are a primarily African-American alliance of street gangs that are based in the coastal regions of Southern California. Founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1969, mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams, the Crips ...

** Asian Boy ** Grape Street Watts Crips ** Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips ** Sons of Samoa ** Tongan Crip Gang ** Venice Shoreline Crips *

Peckerwood ''Peckerwood'' is a US racial epithet used against white people, especially poor white, poor rural whites. Originally an ethnic slur, the term has been reclaimed by a subculture related to prison gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs. The term was in ...

Aryan Brotherhood The Aryan Brotherhood (AB or The Brand) is a neo-Nazi prison gang and an organized crime syndicate that is based in the United States and has an estimated 15,000–20,000 members both inside and outside prisons. The Southern Poverty Law Center ...

** Nazi Lowriders ** Public Enemy No. 1 ** Compton Executioners ** Lynwood Vikings * Satanas *

Sinaloa Cartel The Sinaloa Cartel (, , after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the ''CDS'', the ''Guzmán-Loera Organization'', the ''Federation'', the ''Sinaloa Cartel'', or the Pacific Cartel, is a large, drug trafficking transnational organized cri ...

* Mexican Mafia ** Sureños ** Indiana Street Dukes 13 **

18th Street gang The 18th Street Gang, also known as , , , or simply in North America, is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Culture of Mexico, Mexican) street gang in Los Angeles. It is one of the largest street gangs in Los Angeles, with around 30 ...

** 38th Street gang ** The Avenues ** Armenian Power ** Azusa 13 ** Barriox13 ** Culver City Boys 13 ** El Monte Flores 13 ** Florencia 13 **

Logan Heights Gang The Logan Heights Gang, also known as Varrio Logan Heights or LH, is a Sureño street gang based in Southeast San Diego. History The Logan Heights Gang was established in Southeast San Diego, when several individual Mexican-American street g ...

** MS-13 ** OVS ** Playboys ** Puente 13 ** Santa Monica 13 ** Temple Street ** Toonerville Rifa 13 ** Varrio Nuevo Estrada ** Venice 13 ** Vineland Boys Gang ** Westside Locos 13 **

White Fence White Fence (also known by the acronym WF) is a predominantly Mexican American street gang in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Eastside Los Angeles, East Los Angeles. History White Fence is one of the oldest gangs in Los Angeles. The gang its ...

** Wilmas 13 * Tiny Rascal Gang * Triad **

14K Triad The 14K (, ) is a Triad (organized crime), triad group based in Hong Kong but active internationally. It is the second largest triad group in the world with around 20,000 members split into thirty subgroups. They are the main rival of the Sun Y ...

** Bamboo Union ** Big Circle Gang ** Black Dragons ** Four Seas Gang ** Wah Ching ** Wo Hop To *

Yakuza , also known as , are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media (by request of the police) call them , while the yakuza call themselves . The English equivalent for the term ''yak ...

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