History of the Playboy Gangsta Crips 3X

[yoda100]

"The Playboy Gangsta Crips gang was founded in an alley near the corner of Corning St & Cadillac Ave in 1979 in West Los Angeles, California. Initially it was a merger of rival break-dancing groups. As crack cocaine hit the drug market in the 1980's, the gang used Corning street nicknamed "C Street" to sell the drugs, often to clients from the affluent, predominantly white adjacent areas. The distribution system involved pagers, hand signals, and lookouts posted on bicycles and perched on rooftops. When the cops showed up, the crews would disappear into the alleys to evade arrest. In 1986 Jeremy Steven Heading, a white 16-year-old, was killed on C Street in a drug deal gone wrong. The neighborhood, known back then as “Cadillac-Corning” for its most dangerous corner, was not the worst in Los Angeles at the time — violent-crime statistics were much higher in several pockets of South Central. But its proximity to white, upper-class areas garnered Cadillac-Corning special attention.

When Ferber first took the case, the gang, whose name was shorthanded as the PBGs, had taken over the neighborhood. A gas station on Cadillac and La Cienega was robbed so many times it closed. Landlords had ceased collecting rent entirely. Even police officers had to call into the station before driving down Corning. And while most of the drug trade occurred on C Street, home break-ins, car theft and muggings were commonplace on the surrounding blocks. No matter how many gang leaders were thrown in jail, there was always another person ready to take their place. Ferber had faced a similar conundrum in the vice unit, where he was charged with cracking down on street prostitution. The only way he’d managed to make a dent was by filing nuisance abatements against the motels where sex workers brought clientele.

“We jokingly talked about, what we need to do is abate the gang,” Ferber said. “We ended up filing a lawsuit that was considered the wackiest thing in the court system.” Ferber sued on behalf of community members, claiming the PBGs were a public nuisance and asking the court to stop the gang from doing things that helped it operate. People identified by residents and police as gang members (a dozen or so on the original list, which eventually grew to about 40) were summarily banned from a range of activities — carrying pagers, wearing blue, standing on rooftops, approaching vehicles, and congregating in public in groups of two or more. Instead of handing out hefty sentences for dealing drugs, the longest jail sentence one could get for violating the injunction was five days, Ferber said. Still, if your name was on the list, you could go to jail for carrying a pager in Cadillac-Corning.

But Ferber admitted the injunction failed to keep the crime or the gang out of Cadillac-Corning for long. A case-study available online shows another police crackdown on the Playboy Gangster Crips in the neighborhood beginning in 1997. Gina Cardarella said that when she moved to Corning Street in 2001, a driver delivering her pizza would not leave his car to drop off her order. Another resident recalled drive-by shootings on Corning in the same period. The Cadillac-Corning injunction, the first served to an entire gang, opened a Pandora’s box of surveillance, policing, and criminalization. Injunctions were spirited through courts, and became bigger, broader, and more punitive. The Cadillac-Corning injunction spanned 26 square blocks. A 2011 injunction east of Downtown Los Angeles spanned 16 square miles — more than 60 times the size of the original. Whereas residents worked with law enforcement to identify the gang members on Ferber’s injunction, later injunctions listed John Does, enabling cops to decide afterward who warranted the restrictions. From 2000 to 2018, the city of L.A. added 8,900 people from 79 gangs to injunctions, according to the city attorney’s office."

[yoda100]

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[alexalonso]

Who is Ferber?

[alexalonso]

Big Spider from Play Boy Gangster crips gives some history.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 04dPR1g0FZ

[WLA PALMS]

Who is Ferber?

He was a police detective with LAPD, I believe and more than likely from West L.A. division, or Pacific Division, but the La-Cienega Heights which is what the neighborhood is officially called now, is policed by WLA division LAPD.

[LAResident]

Who is Ferber?

He was a police detective with LAPD, I believe and more than likely from West L.A. division, or Pacific Division, but the La-Cienega Heights which is what the neighborhood is officially called now, is policed by WLA division LAPD.

You should know you a snitch. ass lame