courts jordan downs nickerson gardens long gardens and. the largest ones over are going to be jordan downs nickerson and imperial courts basically there's a different gang in each one of them nickerson gardens has bounty hunter bloods it's a it's a really large gang a couple 1000 members i'm sure in imperial they've got some some pretty good names they've got i think funny side hill side i'm not sure where all these names come from the great street which is in jordan downs you're going to have things like pita roll and different games are in there different subsets of the same game they're all creature eclipse and that there's a lot of conflict within the gangs and. in between the games most of the conflict i would say revolves around money and most of that money is made through dope sales they do have other activities but that's that's the main source of most of their income. and that's what drives a lot of the violence that's out here we have we're way down in murders historically for this area but we're still i think we're up to 40 for t

wanted to ask you if in fact being located right adjacent to, and surrounded by nickerson guaardens and the jordan downs d the imperial court and a number of the public housing project, and so have you witnessed those who have been evicted from public housing because of a failed policy that we have in federal government that evicts families sometimes because of one member of the family may have gotten into the problem of some kind and trying to return back maybe from incarceration, et cetera, and are you familiar with that policy? >> absolutely. and to my chagrin, sometimes families in multiple are evicted summarily, and there is not any clear explanation. there is an article in either popular science or popular mechanics, but i believe it is "popular science" where with some of the writers went with lapd one night to witness the effectiveness of shock and awe tactics. they used the explosive devices and bright light to awake families in the middle of the night, and summary ri eviily ev families in nickerson gardens. the only source of news i was able to find on that was in the article. that is one exam