The treaty applied to four of the main gangs in Watts: the Grape Street Crips, PJ Watts Crips, Bounty Hunter Bloods and Hacienda Village Bloods. On April 26, 1992, the Watts treaty entered into force.

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the L.A. riots, but the anniversary of a truce between black street gangs in Watts is getting much less media coverage.

But the neighborhood has also given rise to the Watts Gang Task Force, a volunteer group of residents, police officers, community leaders, elected officials and representatives from local schools ...

The primary indictment centers on Damion "Fatts" Baker, 43, and Tony "T-Bone" Carr, 49, both documented Watts-based gang members, according to prosecutors.

So, in honor of that sentiment, here are the latest updates on a growing gang feud in the heart of Watts: “Another Shooting last nite 106/Wilmington,” he Tweeted this morning.

Leaders have now called on Watts residents not to congregate in large groups for the rest of 2023. A resident approaches the entrance of the Imperial Courts housing project, site of recent ...

Even before a pair of shootings nearby drew attention in late July, the Imperial Courts public housing project in Watts had seen a lot of death. News Today's news ...

In April 1992, Blood and Crip gangs from the Watts neighbourhood finally came together to negotiate a peace. Four gangs had significant involvement in the truce — the Bounty Hunters Bloods from ...

A year after the Watts Riots in 1965, ... of a community struggling to save itself from drugs, gangs, guns, idleness and an enduring, corrosive despair. ...

Sure enough, Watts gang crime fell the next year. One of the young men there that early spring evening was Aqeela Sherrills. He said some of the OGs — the original gangsters, the guys who ...

Violence in Watts prompts calls for unity in the community as gang interventionists partner with law enforcement and faith leaders. Watts leaders, shaken by shootings, tell residents to avoid ...