LA Gang Tours is a bit pricey at $65, but it's certainly the most unique tour in the history of the city. A few of the highlights:
LOS ANGELES COUNTY JAIL, the unofficial jail to over 120,000 gang members! There are over 20,000 inmates housed in the world’s largest jail at any given time. It is staffed by the world’s largest Sheriff’s Department.
Famous inmates include:
•Football star turned actor O.J. Simpson
•Actor Robert Blake (My Gang the Little Rascals; Beretta)
•Actor Robert Downey Jr. (Soloist;)
•Recording artist Rick James (well known for his 70's top ten hit Super Freak)
•The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez
•Producer Surge Knight (produced such stars as Snoop Doggy Dog, Tupac Shukur and Dr. Dre.)
•Socialite Paris Hilton is a registered visitor of the LACO jail system
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THE LOS ANGELES RIVER BED, home to some of Los Angeles most prolific tagging crews. See the world’s largest and costliest tag ever. Over 2,000 ft. long and 3 stories high with an estimated cleanup cost $3.7 million! A brief tagging class on the origin and different style of tagging and L.A. graffiti will be given. Experience and see a town (Art District) that made graffiti part of their landscape by legalizing tagging and graffiti.
Home to such film locations as:
•Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
•The Fast and the Furious
•Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
•Transformers
•and more!
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METROPOLOLITAN DETENTION CENTER. Los Angeles is the bank robbery capital of the world. Visit the infamous Metropolitan Dentention Center, which houses the many convicted bank robbers. The Metropolitan detention Center is managed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the very agency that housed the notorious gang lord Al Capone.
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SKID ROW. Out of approximately 90,000 homeless people in Los Angeles, 15,000-20,000 spend each night on Skid Row. Skid Row is a ten square block at the center of downtown Los Angeles and has been featured in the movie The Soloist, starring Oscar nominated actors Robert Downy Jr. and Jamie Foxx.
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PUEBLOS HOUSING PROJECT is the first all-black housing project of Los Angeles and is birthplace to one of the oldest blood gangs in Los Angeles — the Pueblos Bishop Bloods.
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THE SYMBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY SHOOT OUT is one of the largest gun battles in American history. Six people were killed when over 10,000 bullets were fired.
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FLORENCIA 13 is one of the oldest and most notorious gangs in South Central and was involved in the Zoot Suit Riots of the 1940's.
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BLACK PANTHER PARTY. Birthplace of the LA Chapter of the Black Panther Party of the 60's and 70's — recruited heavily from a street gang called the Slausons.
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FLORENCE DISTRICT. Lay witness to an area where two of the largest and most notorious gangs of Los Angeles engaged in a gang war that escalated into what many say became a race war. The media used sensationalized words like “ethnic cleansing” giving it one of the highest murder rates in the nation during that period.
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FLORENCE AVE is the street that led to the site of the costliest riot and civil disturbance outside of the Civil War — The LA Riots.
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FIRESTONE SHERIFF STATION. Visit the infamous Firestone Sheriff Station that was the command center for the National Guard during the Watts Riots.
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JORDAN DOWNS HOUSING PROJECT is home to the notorious Grape Street Watts Crip Gang, featured in the film Concrete Jungle; the movie Colors, starring Robert Duval and Sean Penn, and the award winning film Crips and Bloods Made In America.
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HALL OF JUSTICE JAIL was built in 1925 and a has housed some of Americas most notorious gangsters.
•Bugsy Siegel, mobster who built the flamingo hotel of Las Vegas
•Mickey Cohen, flamboyant Los Angeles gangster who worked with Al Capone and his brother in Chicago before making Los Angeles his home
•Awarding winning actor Robert Mitchum
•Convicted serial killer, Charles Manson
•Charles Manson and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy assassinator
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•Autopsies preformed at the Hall of justice include actress Marilyn Monroe and presidential nominee Robert Kennedy
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PICO UNION GRAFF LAB (Graffiti Lab) – Here you will see all kinds of incredible graffiti artists painting and displaying their work. Each week is different with many kinds of styles and artists. Lunch will also be offered here and customers will have a chance to interact with those in the community. Special guests may include: gang intervention workers, former gang members, etc. who have all experienced the inner-city life of LA.
And, finally:
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