Issues Faced by Black and Latino/a Populations in South L.A.

INTRODUCTION
This report is based on the premise that while the predominately Black and Latino/a
population living in South L.A. experience disproportionate rates of violence, low levels of
education, poverty, homelessness, and incarceration, there exists too few public spaces and tools
that allow for discussions of why things are the way they are. They experience a lot of violence
due to which their overall moral is reduced.
Thesis Statement
To analyse the various issues like crimes, lack of effective education, intimate partner
violence etc. which are faced by the people belonging to Black and Latino/a populations in South
L.A.
Viewpoint on the interview
On reading the interview as well as the view point of a college student living in South
L.A., it was analysed that there are not a lot of options available for young adults. This is because
all there were liquor stores over the streets. It was also analysed that in his twenties, the more he
looked into the community, there were more things that he found. He says that he has gained a
lot from this community, be it with the elder people or playing basketball with the young adults.
Ethnically Transforming Neighbourhoods and Violent Crime Among and Between
African-Americans and Latinos: A Study of South Los Angeles
John R. Hipp and George E. Tita, Co-PIs
Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell, Research Assistants
Department of Criminology, Law and Society
University of California
Summary of the article
In South Los Angeles, this research thesis explores the phenomena of interracial crime. We use
the area known as South Bureau" by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to identify our
study limits and explicitly focus on several communities for more comprehensive analysis under

this broader designation. Given the present demographic change in which Latinos are replacing
African Americans as the different white population,
We see no evidence that cross - racial crime is a prevalent theme in South LA, contrary to
mainstream media portrayals of an imminent "race war" between these two groups. Instead, both
lethal and non-lethal violence tends to concentrate between racial/ethnic groups: Latinos
predominantly victimise Latinos and blacks primarily victimise blacks. Much intra-racial
violence continues to be clustered by African Americans in South LA. Homicide teams
collaborate closely with drug units in gang homicide cases and intelligence sharing. We claim
that this has the power to add to the over-attribution of murder to gang motivations (Hallsworth
& Young, 2008). Any murder involving a gang member or associate, either as a witness or
suspect, by customary or unspoken mandate. This also refers to unexplained murders of unclear
reasons happening in "gang land," a particularly controversial term, insofar as gangs with
differing degrees of control have basically asserted as their territory the entirety of South Los
Angeles. While the "gang-motivated" term is officially reserved for situations where the crime
was perpetrated to further the interests of the gang, i.e. murders committed for the intent of
extending the territories of drugs or cartels or internal disciplinary purposes, we experience
substantial murders. In its use, lippage. Where the implementation of these words is extremely
doubtful, we have tried to rely on them.