06 January 2008
Florencia 13 gang members indicted in Los Angeles
A very confused article about a Los Angeles gang called Florencia 13 in the Washington Post, the central part of which looks like a prosecutor's department press release. George Tita,a criminologist, is quoted towards the end of the piece denying the central theme of racially motivated violence between gangs. The case has presumably still to come to court. 102 people charged. Someone will already be writing the book.
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I've googled Florencia 13 and come up with a 2004 working paper by George Tita et al. at http://www.streetgangs.com/academic/2004_77homicides.pdf
This is in the RAND Public Safety and Justice Working Paper Series
This appears to be the relevant DEA news release of October 2007
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/la101607.html
Googling threw up a website for Jared Lewis:
http://www.knowgangs.com/aboutus.php
This contains quite a bit of basic information about gangs in the US
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