Community Quote by Richard Cabral

Gangs are a part of living in Los Angeles, but you can exist in Inglewood or Culver City or anywhere else, without joining one.

— Rick Famuyiwa

In this society, you have to belong to something, I feel, and all we have in the neighborhood is a gang.

— Richard Cabral

In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.

— Greg Boyle

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

— Greg Boyle

Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

— Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in…

— Ross Kemp

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.

— Jack Bowman

I'm not actually a gang member. I know that's kind of like a joke on the Internet.

— Rubi Rose

Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.

— Paul Pierce

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and…

— Dave Reichert

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been…

— Bob Filner