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I already knew this was going to HAPPEN !! ONCE I Saw G.T.A. KNOWING FULL WELL THAT THESE GAMES, A ND PROGRAMS WHOSE ENTERTAINMENT IS VIOLENCE ,YES.ADDICTING VIOLENCE. YOU CANNOT FEED SOCIETY WITH GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE AND NOT HAVE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES
My great grandmother who will be 91 this year have been living in the imperial courts since the beginning raised 4 generations here tho she doesn’t live inside the projects no more she stays right across the street she seen so much there she didn’t want to leave after being in the projects already for 40+ years although all her kids moved away In the imperial courts we are a family we are a tribe my grandma is the oldest living person in tht neighborhood and everyone cares and showers her with love
That's all you have to say about what was written? Funny thing, I understood everything that was conveyed. I detected a sense of pride. Thank you @DbShermm for sharing with us. I know who your grandmother is. I love her too.
Ryan, this was a great watch, lots of information and vintage photos to help tell the story. As my high school history teacher would say "Learn from the past for a better future."
I’m from the Nickerson Gardens and I was forced to go to Jordan High school, it was the school easiest for my grandma to get to if anything were to happen, she opposed me going to Locke which might have been closer just because I knew too many people. I used to get jumped everyday like crazy, a few of them even ended with me having a concussion. I mind you I don’t gang bang at all and even through all of that every day I still graduated thank God 🙏🏽
I am from the Jordan down projects. I moved to Arizona in 2011. I went back in 2013 to visit my grandmother who had moved in the imperial courts by then. I was with my family and my 8 month old daughter when I went to visit them, A dude approached me with my fkn 8 month old daughter asking me where I am from. Another dude had to get him away from me telling him that "No his grandmother stays in here right next to me, hes good" Mind you, I HAD MY FKN 8 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER IN MY HAND!!!
I grew up in the greater Los Angeles area. There are different levels of "hood-iness" in what's referred to as south central Los Angeles. The area mentioned in this video, the quadrant north east of the 110/105 junction, ~Imperial Hwy, is the scariest neighborhood, as opposed to the area around USC and the Coliseum, which I refer to as "the Hood, light", though not the safest, is not nearly as dangerous. I was a small child when the Watts riots happened (1965), which my father called the LA riots, as it expanded well outside Watts. Later repeated in 1992, after the acquittal, of the cops that beat Rodney King, sparked that riot. The 1992 riot centered around Florence & Normandy, a couple of miles north west of Watts. That one expanded all the way up into Hollywood, where I was working at the time. The Northridge Earthquake was in 1994, and had no relation to the riot, other than the freeway (210 Lakeview Terrace area), on which Rodney King was beat, was near a connecting bridge that was collapsed by that quake.
USC has terrible statistics, the areas around it are super dangerous. Maybe USC campus is "hood light" but immediately outside the security patrolled area is worse than Compton
I never knew the Watt's riots started over a drunk driving arrest. I was a baby when it happened and we live far away. There was no internet back then, or even a public library where I lived. Even though I wondered what happened, even as a kid I knew nothing happens in a vacuum, there wasn't a way for me to find out. Now there is and I'm able to do research in my extra hours. I keep thinking, there has to be a way to break the hate that built up before the riots and has infected our country like a cancer since. Answer's to the present and future are written in the events of the past. MLK asked: "What has Watt's gotten us?" It has created a chasm. If all the energy, money, time, and effort each person used to create the chaos of that riot and used it to improve and fix the problems they community was facing, where would we be now? How much better would the world be if people chose not to be violent?
"Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness" by Robert Conot is a detailed and thorough book about the Watts riots and the circumstances that created this perfect storm of rage and destruction.
When I was still into politics, my main interest was in city development. Over here in Sweden, 1/3 of citizens live in their own houses, 1/3 in condos and 1/3 in rented apartments. Most of cities and towns are built with these three cathegories divided, however where the various housings are more integrated, schools in that area shows fewer drop-outs, the area is socially more stabile than more segregated areas. However in our town, a newly built area with 5-600 apartments, city planners have managed to mix the various types. As always, very interesting and I cannot but think of the similar area in C Chicago.
Chicago is pretty damn segregated. The only “mixed” are I can think of the old Cabrini Green site. Although, I’m not sure how mixed it ended up being…that was a whole ago
I definitely had fam in the imperial courts back in the day before I was born and then they moved to the Nickersons… not much of an upgrade either lol! But all eventually moved out of that area
@@freetolook3727 you are correct that if a train ran over the incomplete rail that they'd derail. The switch that we're referring to is an offset and doesn't effect thru traffic unless needed. It's basically a boarding or loading byway
The photo was taken at a "switch track" What you see may be a "wing rail," "guide rail" or a "check rail." Hard to tell as there is so little of the switch in the photo.
This was the worse place my aunt lived around the block from Imperial Gardens you hear gun shots and police could never get people to stop Shooting down fall
Subsidized housing, like all forms of welfare, is modern day slavery. It is a way of artificially depressing wages, allowing corporations to underpay their workers and passing the difference along to taxpayers. In a free market wages and housing are tied together. If lots of new workers move to your city, and the price of housing increases, then wages must increase accordingly, or else they will go somewhere else. But, if you offer them substandard pay, and subsidized housing, then they will stay and be your wage slaves (as long as some other hardworking taxpayer pays the difference.) Every do-good program that liberals invent turns to shit.
It's not the location, it's not the police, it's not people outside their area, it is the people who live there. Their lifestyle is different than most Americans. Their kids form or join gangs, sell drugs, commit various crimes, vandalize their own community, while kids in other areas are out playing sports, games, or doing their homework. Most homes are single mothers on welfare with no work ethic and no desire to raise their children with values of hard work and honesty. They teach their kids how to hate, be selfish, live off other people, the world of alcohol and drugs, and all of the other inner city teachings that differ from most of America. They blame the system for not getting their free stuff and see cops as the enemy because they are the criminals. This is who they are.
Preach it. There's kids out there turnin music 🎵 into gold but also into tribal drums of hate. It's what sets them a part from the squares or Uncle Tom's or whatever you call them now. Fn thugs rule the street and that's that. Peace out Portobello.
Yeah. It's a whole different mentality. If you are outside in that area, you feel it immediately. Your sense of awareness spikes and you feel vulnerable. Because you're not up to speed like the people who live there.
Imperial courts and Watts area is amazing place, I got to visit last year through this organization called the dream Center, which is a huge impact on the communities in LA just giving them life and love and opportunities and connections to live a good life.
Huh, I know the Dream Center. People forget to give credit to the money and efforts put in for decades to improve safety in places like Watts. I mean, what is the govt really supposed to do? Public Art and museums about Watt's history is supposed to incite pride for one's own hometown, home city. I've met decent people from Watts, but the norm is crime and it shows in things even like the medical care given. People hate the govt, but they forget that things cost money for the govt to do things also, and that for nearly half a century, politicians have been working to dampen crime and open new perspectives and opportunities for more dangerous neighborhoods. People blindly blame everything on the govt, but even increased cops, parks, museums, schools, the once non-existent food banks, art, opportunity are all efforts made by "the govt" for nearly half a century to "never the playing field" for our more poorer and crime filled neighborhoods. It's like that kids that don't realize that their parents have to WORK to buy food and clothes and pay rent. The govt DOES care, it's why money and man power are spent to mitigate as much violence as possible while giving children and parents new perspectives and opportunities. When gangs and gang affiliates got jobs in county jobs, it was hopeful, then corruption spread. It costs money for the govt to "help" also. In the hood I started off in, we kids would simply be killed, sold or thrown out when we started costing too much money.
Huh, I know the Dream Center. People forget to give credit to the money and efforts put in for decades to improve safety in places like Watts. I mean, what is the govt really supposed to do? Public Art and museums about Watt's history is supposed to incite pride for one's own hometown, home city. I've met decent people from Watts, but the norm is crime and it shows in things even like the medical care given. People hate the govt, but they forget that things cost money for the govt to do things also, and that for nearly half a century, politicians have been working to dampen crime and open new perspectives and opportunities for more dangerous neighborhoods. People blindly blame everything on the govt, but even increased cops, parks, museums, schools, the once non-existent food banks, art, opportunity are all efforts made by "the govt" for nearly half a century to "level the playing field" for our more poorer and crime filled neighborhoods. It's like kids that don't realize that their parents have to WORK to buy food and clothes and pay rent. The govt DOES care, it's why money and man power are spent to mitigate as much violence as possible while giving children and parents new perspectives and opportunities. When gangs and gang affiliates got jobs in county jobs, it was hopeful, then corruption spread. It costs money for the govt to "help" also. In the hood I started off in, we kids would simply be killed, sold or thrown out when we started costing too much money.
Another major factor to the unrest was LA Police Chief Parker. While Parker did indeed cut down on the rampant corruption of the LAPD, he also initiated a lot of policies that were overly racist as he admittedly was. He militarized the LAPD by removing the foot patrols and bringing in call response squad cars, thus leaving a huge gap between the police and the public. He also recruited police from the south eastern US he knew were going to be brutal the general public. Basically he tried to bully down anyone and everyone of color and keep them in their neighborhood and angry.
All housing projects across the country are failures. Until the residents develop a culture that respects law and order, they will suffer the consequence of their poor judgement.
justin bieber car broke down there. I wonder why he even drive over to this neighborhood?? i live down thw street i missed out on them making Bieber sing and do push ups lol
People in gangs have no respect for you as well, they don’t respect anyone or anything outside of their circles. So, you not having respect for them is not a factor.
@@ShadowWizard123There could an unknown factor at play - one example is just that: an exception. An outlier. Also, stop liking your own comments - it makes you look weak.
@@ShadowWizard123 There's that tribe off India (?) - you know, the one that attacks even helicopters when approached - they've never had a mass shooting. Or a single shooting. Ever. Is it fair to say that this is a safe place to visit or migrate to? Yea.....
West west !! To live and die in LA born and raised Yea I grew up in the Hollywood area we had a gang prob too I never went to the courts now that I’m a service tech I drive by pretty much on a weekly basis and tbh everything looks chill but that’s during the day can’t say for at night time
I was raised in Maywood Ca In thr 80's we would score weed at Imperial Courts No sweat You would hear those Uzi's go off constantly but no different than Maywood so basically we felt right at home
Are you serious? You must not have seen the video back then. It clearly showed the Late Mr. Rodney King getting beat by those coward Police officers.For them too be found not guilty was BS and they knew that.
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"What could cause, this, WW2 housing project...."
Datz RAZIST, yo!
You don't no about my city or my neighborhood😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hit me up if you want tour of my city 💪🏿
@@day1complete785 Both your comments exemplify what befell a once beautiful neighborhood.
I already knew this was going to HAPPEN !! ONCE I Saw G.T.A. KNOWING FULL WELL THAT THESE GAMES, A ND PROGRAMS WHOSE ENTERTAINMENT IS VIOLENCE ,YES.ADDICTING VIOLENCE. YOU CANNOT FEED SOCIETY WITH GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE AND NOT HAVE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES
My great grandmother who will be 91 this year have been living in the imperial courts since the beginning raised 4 generations here tho she doesn’t live inside the projects no more she stays right across the street she seen so much there she didn’t want to leave after being in the projects already for 40+ years although all her kids moved away In the imperial courts we are a family we are a tribe my grandma is the oldest living person in tht neighborhood and everyone cares and showers her with love
blacks are born lazy
@@DbShermm that's good for her but I would would kidnap my GMA and never come back..
Please consider using punctuation.
That's all you have to say about what was written? Funny thing, I understood everything that was conveyed. I detected a sense of pride. Thank you @DbShermm for sharing with us. I know who your grandmother is. I love her too.
Thank you for sharing ❤
Thank you for covering these types of stories and all your other stories. You cover things that most people simply can't appreciate.
Couldn’t have said it better
Ryan, this was a great watch, lots of information and vintage photos to help tell the story.
As my high school history teacher would say "Learn from the past for a better future."
@karlwithak. I'm sure his teacher meant it in a personal sense...not "learn history and go stop the next war from happening"
I’m from the Nickerson Gardens and I was forced to go to Jordan High school, it was the school easiest for my grandma to get to if anything were to happen, she opposed me going to Locke which might have been closer just because I knew too many people. I used to get jumped everyday like crazy, a few of them even ended with me having a concussion. I mind you I don’t gang bang at all and even through all of that every day I still graduated thank God 🙏🏽
I am from the Jordan down projects. I moved to Arizona in 2011. I went back in 2013 to visit my grandmother who had moved in the imperial courts by then. I was with my family and my 8 month old daughter when I went to visit them, A dude approached me with my fkn 8 month old daughter asking me where I am from. Another dude had to get him away from me telling him that "No his grandmother stays in here right next to me, hes good"
Mind you, I HAD MY FKN 8 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER IN MY HAND!!!
Should've went to visit her dressed in all 🍇🍇🍇
*Month
Nothing but Feral animals in there. Grandma can't afford something better?
@@giggiddy Ferrell lol
@@Robotdad474 ok.ok. I fixed it. But you get the idea. 😆
GPS tried to send me through there on my ebike yesterday I was like fuck that and cut around. Google will set you up 😂
I grew up in the greater Los Angeles area. There are different levels of "hood-iness" in what's referred to as south central Los Angeles. The area mentioned in this video, the quadrant north east of the 110/105 junction, ~Imperial Hwy, is the scariest neighborhood, as opposed to the area around USC and the Coliseum, which I refer to as "the Hood, light", though not the safest, is not nearly as dangerous.
I was a small child when the Watts riots happened (1965), which my father called the LA riots, as it expanded well outside Watts. Later repeated in 1992, after the acquittal, of the cops that beat Rodney King, sparked that riot. The 1992 riot centered around Florence & Normandy, a couple of miles north west of Watts. That one expanded all the way up into Hollywood, where I was working at the time.
The Northridge Earthquake was in 1994, and had no relation to the riot, other than the freeway (210 Lakeview Terrace area), on which Rodney King was beat, was near a connecting bridge that was collapsed by that quake.
USC has terrible statistics, the areas around it are super dangerous. Maybe USC campus is "hood light" but immediately outside the security patrolled area is worse than Compton
Every government inspired housing project eventually turns into a crime ridden slum.
Nope. Other countries built huge housing projects and don't look like this. The people living there turned it ugly.
@@diegoflores9237
Name them.
redlining, blockbusting and racist restrictive covenants put in place by US gov/FHA and VA. Racist country from the beginning.
Every country in the former Soviet Union, even after its collapse.
@@paulgithens635 look at singapore
You should do a sub series on Los Angeles Housing Projects and historical neighborhoods. Id be happy to assist and actually take you to these sites.
Grew up in the San Fernando Valley, (Born 1965). Not until you get older, do you learn the history of L.A.
I almost didn't watch this because the RUclips thumbnail has a red border, which looks like the red progress bar in watched videos...
I never knew the Watt's riots started over a drunk driving arrest.
I was a baby when it happened and we live far away. There was no internet back then, or even a public library where I lived. Even though I wondered what happened, even as a kid I knew nothing happens in a vacuum, there wasn't a way for me to find out.
Now there is and I'm able to do research in my extra hours. I keep thinking, there has to be a way to break the hate that built up before the riots and has infected our country like a cancer since. Answer's to the present and future are written in the events of the past.
MLK asked: "What has Watt's gotten us?"
It has created a chasm.
If all the energy, money, time, and effort each person used to create the chaos of that riot and used it to improve and fix the problems they community was facing, where would we be now? How much better would the world be if people chose not to be violent?
If you're from L.A., you should know this.
"Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness" by Robert Conot is a detailed and thorough book about the Watts riots and the circumstances that created this perfect storm of rage and destruction.
Ryan Socash is an amazing Historian. Thanks for sharing all this crap we woudl never ever have know about otherwise. Its an amazing thing! Love it!
The projects are not the problem, it is the people who live there.
@@davidparker9676 how racist are you?
Is ur neighborhood to blame?
Yes. There are bigger projects in other countries and the people don't act like this
@ have you been to other countries?
@@francoz4316 My neighborhood? No the people know how to act in my neighborhood.
What is your excuse?
Visited the watts tower about 10 years ago. Was interesting visit, all quit so.
When I was still into politics, my main interest was in city development. Over here in Sweden, 1/3 of citizens live in their own houses, 1/3 in condos and 1/3 in rented apartments. Most of cities and towns are built with these three cathegories divided, however where the various housings are more integrated, schools in that area shows fewer drop-outs, the area is socially more stabile than more segregated areas.
However in our town, a newly built area with 5-600 apartments, city planners have managed to mix the various types.
As always, very interesting and I cannot but think of the similar area in C Chicago.
Yes but the country is 100% white. You forgot to mention that
Chicago is a mess. It has huge chasms of economic stratification. City mis management for decades by the democratic party machine.
Chicago is pretty damn segregated. The only “mixed” are I can think of the old Cabrini Green site. Although, I’m not sure how mixed it ended up being…that was a whole ago
@ I think that area is closed off and what is left will be torn down. Our daughter lived next to that area and it was fenced in to keep people out.
history repeats itself and especially in the USA over and over again .
Wasn't the outcome of an eartquake in LA pretty much the same in the 90s ?
redlining, blockbusting and racist restrictive covenants put in place by US gov/FHA and VA. Racist country from the beginning.
The Imperial courts remind me of the one in the TV series "Snowfall".
I think it was suppose to be the PJs but the projects they were actually in is in pacoima hood vlogs did a vlog there
President JOHNSON, not President JOHNSTON. Just for future reference. 😊
I definitely had fam in the imperial courts back in the day before I was born and then they moved to the Nickersons… not much of an upgrade either lol! But all eventually moved out of that area
Yikes, what a tasteless segue. I assume the insurance companies suggested that.
You kidding; the Watts "Community" refuses to even work for a living; so they sure as Hell can't afford Life Insurance!🤣
Awesome video!!! I learned something I didn’t know about this place and i live 3 miles away!!! Great job bro
It looks like a prison camp.
It’s more of a crab bucket.
Not exactly Mr. Rogers neighborhood
I only knew this from TV and GTA. Very interesting to learn about its history!
@@MatthewCaban that's the nickerson gardens in GTA
Housing Authority for the City of Los Angeles. HACLA When you pronounce HACLA you have to do it like a cat coughing up a fur ball.
@@reddog-ex4dx 🤣🐱
In Detroit we leveled ours, nice big fenced in field now... Maybe they will level the entire city next 😂
Well your gonna get that after the fires happening right now.
Man, Jacksonville Florida is old Watts
redlining, blockbusting and racist restrictive covenants put in place by US gov/FHA and VA. Racist country from the beginning.
Why do you comment the same thing in every comment? Youre a weirdo. Take responsibility, if you burn down your own neighborhood it’s your damn fault.
Great historical account of my city. I am from Watts and will forever love my city.
Why destroy your own community??? And then cry when theres no grocery stores or businesses left?
Life insurance is a no-brained if you move to Imperial/Watts.
I'll never understand why my people destroy their own neighborhoods when they get upset.
@@mellosunflower I used to have a habit of throwing my cell phone when angry. Then phones started getting more expensive so I turned to yelling.
So how do we turn Detroit around. What'd they do.
They euphemistically call it cultural enrichment. The same mess is developing in Fargo North Dakota.
I lived in area away from there for two years and as a young woman I'm afraid to walk there alone
Oh yeah there bud.
@2:22 Do you see a problem with those train tracks?
Look close at the bottom center of the photo.
It's a switch, kiddo. They are in use all over the world every day thousands of times 😅
Doesn't look like one.
If a train were to run over that "switch", it would derail.
@@freetolook3727 you are correct that if a train ran over the incomplete rail that they'd derail.
The switch that we're referring to is an offset and doesn't effect thru traffic unless needed. It's basically a boarding or loading byway
The photo was taken at a "switch track" What you see may be a "wing rail," "guide rail" or a "check rail." Hard to tell as there is so little of the switch in the photo.
I wonder how long that recording studio lasted
PJ Watts Crips and Southside Watts 13 is from these projects.
I recognized the buildings as an asset you can download of the Steam Workshop for Cities: Skylines
We got those where I live we call them ,💩 holes
This was the worse place my aunt lived around the block from Imperial Gardens you hear gun shots and police could never get people to stop Shooting down fall
Why just last week I burned down my neighborhood because I heard of someone who got arrested for DUI. Doesn't everybody?
@@floycewhite6991 it’s kind of rude not to…
You left out the '92 riot.
The 92 riot didnt start in Watts. It started in southvla
15 children. Wow.
Make a Compton video !
I think he already did
Who is president Johnston? 😅
The president after Klennedy and before Nixston!
😂😂😂
Pure Ebonix . 😆😅🤣
Maybe a nice dude from Okinawa can teach you karate?
Damn LA looks rough
It looks beautiful compared to New Orleans, Baltimore, or Camden NJ...
and in 2024, not a damn thing has changed.
No better then the warlords of Bosnia or Africa.......and it is allowed! Cali what a loving, peaceful, and understanding state!
It shall be handled. The twees are on it.
Subsidized housing, like all forms of welfare, is modern day slavery. It is a way of artificially depressing wages, allowing corporations to underpay their workers and passing the difference along to taxpayers. In a free market wages and housing are tied together. If lots of new workers move to your city, and the price of housing increases, then wages must increase accordingly, or else they will go somewhere else. But, if you offer them substandard pay, and subsidized housing, then they will stay and be your wage slaves (as long as some other hardworking taxpayer pays the difference.) Every do-good program that liberals invent turns to shit.
It's not the location, it's not the police, it's not people outside their area, it is the people who live there. Their lifestyle is different than most Americans. Their kids form or join gangs, sell drugs, commit various crimes, vandalize their own community, while kids in other areas are out playing sports, games, or doing their homework. Most homes are single mothers on welfare with no work ethic and no desire to raise their children with values of hard work and honesty. They teach their kids how to hate, be selfish, live off other people, the world of alcohol and drugs, and all of the other inner city teachings that differ from most of America. They blame the system for not getting their free stuff and see cops as the enemy because they are the criminals. This is who they are.
Spot on. But the hypocrite posers dont accept that as the fact that it is.
Lmao I laugh at these types of comments because It shows me just how delusional and uneducated people like you are
Preach it. There's kids out there turnin music 🎵 into gold but also into tribal drums of hate. It's what sets them a part from the squares or Uncle Tom's or whatever you call them now. Fn thugs rule the street and that's that. Peace out Portobello.
Yeah. It's a whole different mentality. If you are outside in that area, you feel it immediately. Your sense of awareness spikes and you feel vulnerable. Because you're not up to speed like the people who live there.
redlining, blockbusting and racist restrictive covenants put in place by US gov/FHA and VA. Racist country from the beginning.
Lo's of tip-toeing by Ryan through this video. Grow a set and tell it like it is!
For real, can't blame Whitey for this one 😂
Ladies and gentlemen: I present dumb and dumber ^^^
He cannot, the gangs have spread.
Imperial courts and Watts area is amazing place, I got to visit last year through this organization called the dream Center, which is a huge impact on the communities in LA just giving them life and love and opportunities and connections to live a good life.
Huh, I know the Dream Center.
People forget to give credit to the money and efforts put in for decades to improve safety in places like Watts.
I mean, what is the govt really supposed to do? Public Art and museums about Watt's history is supposed to incite pride for one's own hometown, home city.
I've met decent people from Watts, but the norm is crime and it shows in things even like the medical care given.
People hate the govt, but they forget that things cost money for the govt to do things also, and that for nearly half a century, politicians have been working to dampen crime and open new perspectives and opportunities for more dangerous neighborhoods.
People blindly blame everything on the govt, but even increased cops, parks, museums, schools, the once non-existent food banks, art, opportunity are all efforts made by "the govt" for nearly half a century to "never the playing field" for our more poorer and crime filled neighborhoods.
It's like that kids that don't realize that their parents have to WORK to buy food and clothes and pay rent.
The govt DOES care, it's why money and man power are spent to mitigate as much violence as possible while giving children and parents new perspectives and opportunities.
When gangs and gang affiliates got jobs in county jobs, it was hopeful, then corruption spread.
It costs money for the govt to "help" also.
In the hood I started off in, we kids would simply be killed, sold or thrown out when we started costing too much money.
Huh, I know the Dream Center.
People forget to give credit to the money and efforts put in for decades to improve safety in places like Watts.
I mean, what is the govt really supposed to do? Public Art and museums about Watt's history is supposed to incite pride for one's own hometown, home city.
I've met decent people from Watts, but the norm is crime and it shows in things even like the medical care given.
People hate the govt, but they forget that things cost money for the govt to do things also, and that for nearly half a century, politicians have been working to dampen crime and open new perspectives and opportunities for more dangerous neighborhoods.
People blindly blame everything on the govt, but even increased cops, parks, museums, schools, the once non-existent food banks, art, opportunity are all efforts made by "the govt" for nearly half a century to "level the playing field" for our more poorer and crime filled neighborhoods.
It's like kids that don't realize that their parents have to WORK to buy food and clothes and pay rent.
The govt DOES care, it's why money and man power are spent to mitigate as much violence as possible while giving children and parents new perspectives and opportunities.
When gangs and gang affiliates got jobs in county jobs, it was hopeful, then corruption spread.
It costs money for the govt to "help" also.
In the hood I started off in, we kids would simply be killed, sold or thrown out when we started costing too much money.
i literally live like 3 mins away from it😭
Another major factor to the unrest was LA Police Chief Parker. While Parker did indeed cut down on the rampant corruption of the LAPD, he also initiated a lot of policies that were overly racist as he admittedly was. He militarized the LAPD by removing the foot patrols and bringing in call response squad cars, thus leaving a huge gap between the police and the public. He also recruited police from the south eastern US he knew were going to be brutal the general public. Basically he tried to bully down anyone and everyone of color and keep them in their neighborhood and angry.
See how people will respond to the return of foot patrols
Any chance to rob a liquor store or steal some televisions . So much class . 😒
I worked on alameda and imperial right by these PJs there is a police station right by the rosa parks metro station like a block away too.
I grew up in different hoods around LA county. Watts is the only place I've had problems, and to this day, I wouldn't consider going back
I saw this in gta
We all know what caused it.
Freeway Ricky and the CIA.
It’s own citizens?
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All housing projects across the country are failures. Until the residents develop a culture that respects law and order, they will suffer the consequence of their poor judgement.
very true, but this is also a direct outcome of the Feminist Agenda as well.
No worries, it has since probably burned down this week 😢😢😢😢
justin bieber car broke down there. I wonder why he even drive over to this neighborhood?? i live down thw street i missed out on them making Bieber sing and do push ups lol
Los Angeles is no joke.
“One of the largest” like man it’s not a huge effort to find out precisely
Didn’t it used to be called Maravilla?🤷🏽♀️
They need to condemn that place
And some things never change. Now the entire LA area looks/acts just like the Watts section of LA.
Remember that time in 1985 when Philadelphia fire bombed that neighborhood full of crime?... 🤔 Remember?... Seems like it worked too
Again! Same people, same problems and same historys.
It's disappointing to see how many racist comments there are.
I know :/
Free speech..
@@mygolfballsannoy cool keep that same energy 👍
@@fredrickjohnson9473 best way, that’s what makes America great
@@mygolfballsannoy yes sir
I have no respect for gangs or people in gangs.
People in gangs have no respect for you as well, they don’t respect anyone or anything outside of their circles. So, you not having respect for them is not a factor.
@@steveschu i agree. Imagine fighting, selling drugs and killing eachotger of city blocks they don't own 😂 they are a bunch of clowns
People in gangs don’t even have self respect.
@@-114.JDog_C they respect the elderly
Why would you want to live there?
Back in the '50s?? When it was co-op/integrated? Sure! Why not!
Demographics...it's bc demographics.
The homicide and rape rates in Stockholm V. Mogadishu look different because the people are different.
If that's true, explain Wakanda
@@ShadowWizard123There could an unknown factor at play - one example is just that: an exception. An outlier.
Also, stop liking your own comments - it makes you look weak.
@@ShadowWizard123 you mean that fictional country created by a Jewish writer?
You're comparing a rich country with law & order to a country with anarchy. Apples to oranges comparison.
@@ShadowWizard123 There's that tribe off India (?) - you know, the one that attacks even helicopters when approached - they've never had a mass shooting. Or a single shooting. Ever.
Is it fair to say that this is a safe place to visit or migrate to?
Yea.....
Deadly areas.
Iz that THE ZAPATOTATAES ???
Dope south la finally
West west !! To live and die in LA born and raised
Yea I grew up in the Hollywood area we had a gang prob too I never went to the courts now that I’m a service tech I drive by pretty much on a weekly basis and tbh everything looks chill but that’s during the day can’t say for at night time
Furious Fade watch dis
President Johnston?
LA is the most segregated & racist city on the West Coast. That's Facts!
Community led
I would say nickerson gardens is more dangerous
@@bibabutzemann4640 lies
Lies
I was raised in Maywood Ca In thr 80's we would score weed at Imperial Courts No sweat You would hear those Uzi's go off constantly but no different than Maywood so basically we felt right at home
All of these sketchy areas have a color in common with each other...
And blame everyone but themselves
@@throttleblip1 And riot, loot and then get government money handed to them because everything is burned down
Gee I wonder why these areas are so segregated and purposefully lack funding other areas that lack color get. 🤔
We should have picked our own cotton.
AMEN DEAR GOD ALMIGHTY NOW AND FOREVER MORE AMEN 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
Isn't it strange how they rioted when the cops were found not guilty in the King beating but nobody rioted bc of the OJ Simpson case?
This comment would lead one to believe that you have zero critical thinking skills. Maybe you do, but being daft on purpose is never a good look..
Are you serious? You must not have seen the video back then. It clearly showed the Late Mr. Rodney King getting beat by those coward Police officers.For them too be found not guilty was BS and they knew that.
What ever happened to OJ Simpson ?
@JamesPilkenton-se5cx I think he died a while back.
Here! This is my hood lol
Thanks for watching! Expect many more California videos soon!
My condolences
I see have plenty of racist fans of your content. Keep up the good work tho!
A recording studio will definitely stop the violence 😂
Excessive Mansions?
Enter 2025
When you arent held accountable for your own human failures , become a Democrat
When you want to control the lives of others but do what YOU want, become a Republican.
Scott Adams is right!
7:00 ahh, mostly peaceful protesting!
It's not the most Dangerous
The pandering to and excusing making for the "Diversity Residents" is disgusting in this video.
It's got to pretty embarrassing to have to resort to pushing lame life insurance to make your way in this u tube world.
Dude it's not like you're paying anything for his videos
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What is the common denominator between all dangerous areas?
Its such a gross city