Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Los Angeles crime family, Black Mafia Family, Mara Salvatrucha, Los Zetas Cartel, Wonderland Gang, Crips, Venice 13, Bloods, 18th Street gang, Clanton 14, Surenos, Armenian Power, 14K Triad, Nazi Lowriders, Culver City Boys 13, 38th Street gang, Venice Shoreline Crips, Operation Hammer, Black Dragons, Friends Stand United, Tooner Ville Rifa 13, Asian Boyz, The Avenues, FFF, Maras, Pirus, Black P. Stones, Santa Monica 13, White Fence, Watts Truce, Varrio Nuevo Estrada, Spook Hunters. Excerpt: The Los Angeles crime family is an Italian American criminal organization based in Los Angeles, as part of the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). Since its inception in the early 1900s, it has spread throughout Southern California. Like most Mafia families in the United States, the L.A. family gained power bootlegging during the Prohibition Era. The L.A. family reached its peak in the 1940s and early 1950s under Jack Dragna, who was on The Commission, although the L.A. family was never bigger than the New York or Chicago families. Since his death the crime family has been on a gradual decline, with the Chicago Outfit representing them on The Commission. In the late 1970s, Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno became the second member in American Mafia history to testify against the Mafia. In 1981 a biography of Fratianno was published, The Last Mafioso by Ovid Demaris, which along with his court testimonies is the source for a lot of information on the history of the family. Since the 1980s, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) became a highly effective law in convicting mobsters and shrinking the American Mafia. Like all families in the United States, the L.A. Mafia only holds a fraction of its former power. The current boss of the family is Peter Milano. The current family is small compared to other...