California Law Forces Parents of Gang Members to Attend Training Classes

Los Angeles is a complex city. Interwoven with mountains and beaches, unrelenting sunshine and unrepentant earthquakes, the wealthiest and poorest residents in America all flock here for the myriad opportunities that can only be found in the City of Angels.In the 1920s and 1930s, African American clubs were formed to dabble in prostitution and the rare robbery. By the 1960s, many blacks migrated to Los Angeles during World War II, and the clubs shifted their focus to protect themselves from the racist and often violent actions of the white clubs, which were unhappy about the influx of 'colored' people. It was in the '60s, during the Watts Rebellion that a shift occurred in political awareness and the LAPD began referring to black clubs as radical 'gangs.' - BV Black Spin