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.

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 ...

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.

Watts Gang Task Force member Donny Joubert talks to LAPD Officer John Coughlin at the scene of a boy's arrest. David Ketterling for "On Assignment" / On Assignment. But, slowly, ...

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 ...

Watts has been struggling for decades--it was declining economically in the 1960s when the Watts Riots broke out, and since then it's a long, sad tale of drugs, violence, and war with the police.

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. ...

Authorities were investigating a gang-related shooting that left one man dead and two others wounded in Watts early Thursday morning. 24/7 Live Los Angeles Orange County Inland Empire Ventura ...

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 ...