There is no way you can neatly squeeze in a single report what female gang life posses. What I am giving is highlights and statistics staffed with local information. There is no such thing as a typical gang each possess a history that reflects the community they grew up in. The research is in Los Angeles and smaller California communities San Antonio, Texas, and Chicago, Ill.. Most research has been done in L.A. where female gangs have achieved a greater notoriety more than anywhere else but no matter where the gang is each are similar in nature.

The history of gangs is a history of fear-the fear of the outsiders. Although their skin was darker, their faith was catholic, Latino gangs grew in Los Angeles for reasons that most street gangs do everywhere, including the white Italian and Irish gangs of Chicago and New York in the mid 1800's and later the German and Jewish gangs as a result of swift demographic change. In the 1920's thousand of Hispanics streamed into California to answer the need for cheap labor, looking for a "better life". It was here the term Barrio, a Hispanic settlement in unincorporated terrain's left over from the Italians and Irish Yo

Not all girls are from poverty-stricken families, some are in it just for the kicks. Bad boys have a certain charm and charisma with young women.

Angeles were the "Goodlows," "Kelleys," "Magnificents," "Driver Brothers," the "Boozies," and the "Blodgettes" which hung out in an area off the Imperial Freeway known as the "Blodgette Track," where the 105 Freeway is today.

These girls are no less loyal, but are more of your wanna-be-a girl associated with gangs through a boyfriend, family member, or best friends. Some gang counselors dismissed them, while others believed they had the most to gain if society focused on them and the most to lose if neglected. But most of these girls have choices and don't last long, for them it's a phase.

The mother may cry with her daughter because they've all been victimized, but the sad story is men are men." Most gang kids don't receive any kind of professional help. Often their parents, if not abusing them, were oblivious to the pain their daughters were in.

On the East Side, poor black kids, mimicking L.A., called themselves the Crips and Bloods. On the West Side, Chicanos formed the Kings and their female counterpart, the Queens, which eventually exploded into the city's largest gang. San Antonio hods the distinction of being the drive-by capital of Texas, averaging 3.5 shootings a day.

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