This is a list of notable criminal gangs in Los Angeles, California.

The County and the City of Los Angeles has been nicknamed the "Gang Capital of America," with an estimated 450 active gangs with a combined membership of more than 45,000.

Gangs

Armenian mafia Armenian Power Asian Boyz Bahala Na Gang Biker gangs Chosen Few Diablos Devils Disciples Hells Angels Hessians Mongols Vagos Galloping Goose Black Vanguard Bloods Black P. Stones Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods Crenshaw Mafia Gangster Bloods Crips Sons of Samoa Tongan Crip Gang Grape Street Watts Crips Kelly Park Compton Crips Nutty Blocc Compton Crips Rollin' 30s Harlem Crips Rollin' 60s Neighborhood Crips Rollin' 90s Neighborhood Crips South Side Compton Crips Venice Shoreline Crips Deputy gangs Compton Executioners Lynwood Vikings Hoover Criminals Jamaican posse Shower Posse Juggalos Peckerwood Aryan Brotherhood Nazi Lowriders Public Enemy No. 1 Israeli mafia Abergil Crime Family Italian-American Mafia Los Angeles crime family Kkangpae Menace of Destruction Mexican Mafia Russian mafia Satanas Sinaloa Cartel Pirus Cedar Block Piru Elm Street Piru Fruit Town Piru Mob Piru Tree Top Piru Sureños 18th Street gang 38th Street gang Avenues Azusa 13 Barriox13 Culver City Boys El Monte Flores Florencia 13 Logan Heights Gang MS-13 Ontario Varrio Sur Playboys Puente 13 Santa Monica 13 Temple Street Toonerville Rifa 13 Varrio Nuevo Estrada Venice 13 Vineland Boys Westside Locos White Fence Wilmas 13 Lopers 13 Tiny Rascal Gang Triad 14K Bamboo Union Big Circle Gang Black Dragons Four Seas Gang Wah Ching Wo Hop To Xã Hội Đen Yakuza

See also

List of gangs in the United States List of LASD deputy gangs Crips–Blood gang war

References

Further reading Chang, Cindy. "Crips make peace on the softball field." Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2017, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-crips-softball-20171231-htmlstory.html. Accessed 11 Apr. 2019.