So Los Angeles are now as the gang capital of the nation. They have 450 active gangs in the city many of the gangs have been existence for over 50 years. They are groups that may or may not claim control over territory in the community and engage. They are combined with membership of over 45,000 individuals. Every group of the gang has a leader and that leader gets to tell the other people in the group what to do and when to do it. They gang membership has continued to increase over the past five years there have been periodic crime decreases. The last three years were over 16,398 verified violent gang crimes. These include 491 homicides, nearly 7,047 felony assaults, 5,518 robberies and just nearly 98 rapes. CDC homicide the second leading