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East Grove Piru

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PUBLISHED August, 20, 2018
Det. Wallace
Gangs and Narcotics Unit(G&D), Los Santos Police
Contact number: 987 673​



Significant upturn of homicides in southern Los Santos.
The rise of homicides in Los Santos has primarily happened in the 43rd district(Ganton) of Los Santos.

Homicide reports show that in the past 24 months, there have been well over 1000 shootings within the city, and the vast majority of these shootings have occurred throughout South Los Santos, parts of Eastern South Los Santos and the eastern and central halves of the Las Colinas Valley.

Most (80%) of these 1000 shootings result from street gang and organized crime violence. (15%) result from interpersonal issues which revolve around dating violence, intimate partner violence and domestic violence. The remainder (3%) and (2%) are due to issues such as school/workplace violence and firearm misuse/accidents, respectively.

Homicides in the South Central district have dropped by about one-third since 2009, according to a Los Santos Times analysis of Los Santos Coroner's Office records over the past 8 years. Throughout the rest of Los Santos, homicides over the exact same 8 year period decreased by nearly 30%.

Violent crime in Los Santos overall has reached its lowest levels in decades. In many respects, that downturn has spread evenly across districts and their respective neighborhoods, a Los Santos Times analysis discovered. But, depending on which district you reside in, violence may be an everyday fact of life or so rare that it still shocks.
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Young men account for nearly 70% of all homicide victims due to gun violence. 1 of every 3 young men who are killed by firearms are between the ages of 18 and 30. Latino Americans and Latin American immigrants, who when combined represent roughly half (48%) of the entire population of Los Santos, also make up around half (46%) of the homicide victims. African Americans are also largely disproportionally affeccted: despite only making up around a quarter (32%) of the population of Los Santos, they comprise nearly half (44%) of all homicide victims. Caucasian Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islander Americans and other unspecified races and ethnic groups, all put together, make up the remaining 8% of all homicide victims within the city.

Within South Los Santos, Idlewood is of highest interest to Los Santos Police Department. This indicates that more frequent patrols and harsher criminal crackdowns in the neighborhood are of upmost necessity in order to curb the upturn in shootings across the neighborhood.

More organized and sophisticated street gangs are largely to blame for this huge upturn, along with independent dealers of narcotics and firearms.

Special target interests of the Los Santos Police Department include:

Harvard Gangster Crips (HGC).
East Idlewood Gangster Bloods (EIGB).
Pat Nixon Gangster Crips (PNGC).
Almeda Downs Gangster Crips (ADGC).
East Grove Piru (EGP)
Idlewood Piru Gang (IPG).
52 Neighborhood Crips (52NHC).
Idlewood 13 (I13).
18th Street Mid Valley Gangsters (18ST MVGS).

Most, if not all of these street gangs throughout roughly the past 20 years have tremendously suffered due to bouts of inactivity which were caused by street wars, infighting, drop outs, police turncoats, lengthy incarcerations of their upper echelons and heavy police crackdowns through injunctions and casefiles. However, many of their individual members, a considerable amount of whom have been already incarcerated in state prisons, continue to reside within and be criminally active throughout the neighborhood. Their physical presence and active participation in Ganton's street gang world continues to inspire children, teenagers and young adults, almost all of whom come from broken homes and dysfunctional families, to adopt criminality and "gang banging" as a way of life.


Idlewood Piru Gang (IPG)
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The W/S Idlewood Piru Gang (IPG) or alternatively known as Idlewood Piru are a street gang which aligns itself under the Piru banner of Blood street gangs throughout Los Santos and elsewhere in Southern San Andreas.

According to a now deceased police informant, the Idlewood Piru were structured by around 13 disaffected members of several dozen Piru and Blood street gang members in Idlewood circa 1998, as an offshoot of the Neighborhood Piru Gang (NPG) which lies in unincorporated Idlewood. The Idlewood Piru Gang (IPG) allegedly has links to the Neighborhood Piru Gang (NPG), Front Line Piru (FLP) (defunct) and the East Idlewood Gangster Bloods (EIGB), according to 1 of 13 disaffected members that were responsible for the structure of the Idlewood Piru Gang (IPG).

The police informant who disclosed this information to the Los Santos Police Department's Gang and Narcotics Division, named Curtis Snow, was discharged from witness protection upon his re-incarceration in the San Andreas state prison system for non-violent drug felonies in 2012. Shortly after arriving in the San Andreas State Prison circa mid 2012, he was transferred to the Los Santos Correctional Facility later on in the year, after spending only around 5 months in the former. While in the San Andreas Correctional Facility, he was placed in the general population instead of protective custody due to administrative fault. On August 8, 2013 he was brutally stabbed to death, nearly mutilated in fact, on the level 4 prison's only yard by a "bone crusher shank" during a race riot between Aryan Brotherhood aligned prison gangs and prison gangs which declared loyalty to the Black Guerrilla Family. The man who stabbed Snow to death was not in fact white; he was an African American man who was a past member of a Blood street gang in Eastside Los Santos. This grisly incident has led state prison authorities and Los Santos police to formally conclude that his murder was a hired hit placed from outside of prison walls.

While a link to Curtis Snow's hired murder to the Idlewood Piru Gang has not been concretely established, it certainly exposes the extensive connections to prison gangs that Blood and Piru street gangs, which likely include the IPG, have throughout South Central Los Santos and even other parts of the state.

As of 2018, the street gang has seen steady growth of new members and even some sympathy and open support from residents of East Idlewood, reaching out to Ganton. Most new members of the street gang who have became known to the police through surveillance and arrests are between the ages of 16 and 20. The street gang, unlike many others within the neighborhood, seems to have a higher interest in recruiting young men and young women who are in their late teens and early 20s rather than youths who are still in childhood or early adolescence. It stands to reason that the street gang, through recruiting this relatively older age cohort, are looking for more experienced and hardened criminals to join their rank.
 
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