-The Glove-":iq291g77 said:
All I'm gonna say is throwing up the "C" isn't simply repping your neighborhood. Throwing up the other sign he often throws up is repping The Neighborhood though
Yeah it is. I don't know a single LA gang who uses the C anymore. That was an early 80's thang. By the mid-80's, real gangs started realizing that the cops were studying their hand signs and colors, and mapping those to affiliation/membership. Most of the gangs in my 'hood dropped the "flags" by the early 90's. If you live on the block, you know who's who. Tattoos and clothing brands became personal "trademarks", and gang affiliations aren't advertised. Everyone knows the only people who care about your set are cops and your enemies. Only the young bangers fly colors, throw up hand signs, and rep out. They do that while they're earning. Once they get the respect, or have been working for a while, they drop the outward signs.
If you were to walk into Compton right now, go to a park where crack is being sold by gangbangers and a high-level dealer happens to pull up to check on things - you would never even know unless you lived there. The hardest and most notorious gang members from my 'hood drove Toyota Camry's and wore generic clothes - no colors, no gang signs, and they often hid the tats. Further, they don't carry (drugs or guns), and they don't assault anyone. That's what the young buck soldiers are for.
Most hilarious to me is the idiot cop that was interviewed for the story. I'll let you in on a well-known fact about the LA Gang Unit:
In Los Angeles, the Gang Unit is the most corrupt and clueless bunch of idiots on the street. They are hilariously out of touch, completely stupid. I've literally watched Gang Unit cops arrest a kid for wearing Bulls gear after they decided that one gang in my neighborhood had chosen Bulls clothing (black and red) as their official "colors". So this idiot white cop is harassing some innocent kid who was trying to shoot some ball, meanwhile one of the most notorious dealers in the area was making a pickup about 50 yards away. Everyone in the park is laughing at the cop because we all see the skinny crackhead in mormon clothes walk across the b-ball court with his sack of cash, hand it to the dealer who is standing there dressed like a K-mark clerk, the dealer casually gets back into his Toyota and drives away - and the whole time, Mr Gang Unit is yelling at this kid, accusing him of a shooting that was related to the dealer that just left, and then hauls the kid off. Just hilarious. I have a few dozen stories about the LA Gang Unit and their cluelessness, and how deeply they have harmed more than helped.
Like I said, everyone in LA knows the Gang Unit is entirely corrupt, full of thick-skulled trigger-happy idiots who do more damage than good, and who couldn't find their ass if they were sitting on it.
Meanwhile, ex-gang members who are often harassed by the Gang Unit are out on the streets trying to get kids to stay off the drugs, stay out of the gangs, and get their diplomas.
It's actually hilarious to me how absolutely clueless most of America is about gangs in Los Angeles. Just totally 100% clueless. But they're more than happy to open their yapper and tell you all about the gang problem.
