West Side Rollin' 20s NeighborHood Blood
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Brief History: In the 1950s there was a gang in this area called Blood Alley on Cordova Street near the Santa Monica Freeway. In the early 1970s when black gangs resurged, the youth continued the Blood identity.
They identified as Neighborhood, then Neighborhood Blood, then Neighborhood Rollin 20s Blood. They eventually developed in 5 subsets, 25th, 27th, 29th, 2nd Avenues (SAG), and Black Demon Soldiers (BDS).
This neighborhood is briefly mentioned in Chapter 6 of Eight Tray Gangster Crip (83rd GC) member, Sanyika Shakur's (Kody Scott) book, Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, 1993. Shakur recalls a night taking the bus from downtown Los Angeles to his neighborhood in South LA where he discusses neighborhoods that he traveled through.
In Chapter 5 of Steve Herbert's, Policing Space, 1997 he recalls this neighborhood as he was researching the LAPD for eight months in Los Angeles and
in City of Quartz, 1990 by Mike Davis, he mentions in Chapter 5, how an unarmed innocent affiliate of this neighborhood was shot on Adams Boulevard by the LAPD on April 5, 1988.
Journalist Kathy Braidhill wrote Where the Boyz Are for "Los Angeles Magazine" in January 1998 where she mentions this neighborhood and others.
The NHood 20s have the largest territory of any Blood gang in Los Angeles County, and have the 3rd largest neighborhood of black gangs in LA County.
They were once closely associated with Hoover Family, a neighborhood by Hoover Park on Adams and Hoover, but they faded out around 1978.
Photo of 18th Street crossing out 20s Blood on Adams Blvd. You can see a list of the 5 clicks of the 20s. (photo taken 1996)
- Home of the Body Bags is published by gang member Terrell Wright, April 9, 2005, Street Gangs Magazine
- Neighbors March Against Crime and Drugs, Aug 8, 2004, Van Buren Place Community Restoration Association
- Public Safety and Land Use: On to Real Projects in the Community, Dec 8, 2003, Van Buren Place Community Restoration Association
- 1 of 3 Killings Tied to Gangs; Sweeps Net 1,300 Arrests, April 11, 1988, LA Times
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