Welcome to the Ultimate Urban Experience!

LA GANG TOURS scheduled stops include:

1. The Los Angeles County Jail
2. The Los Angeles River Bed
3. The Metropolitan Detention Center
4. The Symbionese Liberation Army Shoot Out
5. Florencia 13
6. Birthplace of Black Panther Party
7. Florence District
8. Florence Avenue
9. Firestone Sheriff Station
10. Hall of Justice Jail
11. Pico Union Graff Lab (Graffiti Lab)
12. Birthplace to Crips Gang
13. Watts Arts Gallery

THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY JAIL, the unofficial jail to over 120,000 gang members! There are over 20,000 inmates housed in the world’s largest jail at any given time. It is staffed by the world’s largest Sheriff’s Department. 

Famous inmates include:

• Football star turned actor O.J. Simpson
• Actor Robert Blake (My Gang the Little Rascals; Beretta)
• Actor Robert Downey Jr. (Soloist;)
• Recording artist Rick James (well known for his 70's top ten hit Super Freak)
• The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez
• Producer Suge Knight (produced such stars as Snoop Doggy Dog, Tupac Shukur and Dr. Dre.)
• Socialite Paris Hilton is a registered visitor of the LACO jail system

THE LOS ANGELES RIVER BED, THE LOS ANGELES RIVER BED, home to some of Los Angeles most prolific tagging crews. See the site where the world’s largest and costliest tag ever was made. Over 2,000 ft. long and 3 stories high with an estimated cleanup cost $3.7 million!  A brief tagging class on the origin and different style of tagging and L.A. graffiti will be given. Experience and see a town (Art District) that made graffiti part of their landscape by legalizing tagging and graffiti.

Home to such film locations as:

• Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• The Fast and the Furious
• Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
• Transformers
• and more!

METROPOLOLITAN DETENTION CENTER.  Los Angeles is the bank robbery capital of the world. Visit the infamous Metropolitan Dentention Center, which houses the many convicted bank robbers. The Metropolitan detention Center is managed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the very agency that housed the notorious gang lord Al Capone.

THE SYMBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY SHOOT OUT is one of the largest gun battles in American history. Six people were killed when over 10,000 bullets were fired.

FLORENCIA 13 is one of the oldest and most notorious gangs in South Central and was involved in the Zoot Suit Riots of the 1940's gaining notoriety in the 1950's and continues to grow in the mist of massive incarceration efforts.

BLACK PANTHER PARTY. Birthplace of the LA Chapter of the Black Panther Party of the 60's and 70's — recruited heavily from a street gang called the Slausons.

FLORENCE DISTRICT. Lay witness to an area where two of the largest and most notorious gangs of Los Angeles engaged in a gang war that escalated into what many say became a race war. The media used sensationalized words like “ethnic cleansing” giving it one of the highest murder rates in the nation during that period.

FLORENCE AVE is the street that led to the site of the costliest riot and civil disturbance outside of the Civil War — The LA Riots.

FIRESTONE SHERIFF STATION. Visit the infamous Firestone Sheriff Station that was the command center for the National Guard during the Watts Riots.

HALL OF JUSTICE JAIL was built in 1925 and a has housed some of Americas most notorious gangsters.

• Bugsy Siegel, mobster who built the flamingo hotel of Las Vegas
• Mickey Cohen, flamboyant Los Angeles gangster who worked with Al Capone and his brother in Chicago before making Los Angeles his home
• Awarding winning actor Robert Mitchum
• Convicted serial killer, Charles Manson
• Charles Manson and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy's assassin
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• Autopsies preformed at the Hall of justice include actress Marilyn Monroe and presidential nominee Robert Kennedy

PICO UNION GRAFF LAB (Graffiti Lab) – Here you will see all kinds of incredible graffiti artists painting and displaying their work. Each week is different with many kinds of styles and artists and customers will have a chance to interact with those in the community. Special guests may include: gang intervention workers, former gang members, etc. who have all experienced the inner-city life of LA.

BIRTHPLACE TO CRIPS GANG – Raymond Washington's East Side Crips. Hear first-hand accounts from reformed members of the East Coast Crips (59), Grape St. Watts and learn about their participation in Safe Passage. Grape St. Watts Crips are featured in the award winning documentary, Crips and Blood Made in America, Colors, Concrete Hell and many other films.

Meet and speak with these reformed gang members who have dedicated their lives to ending gang violence in South Central and Watts. These men are now making a stand to help a future generation of children see a better tomorrow.

WATTS ARTS GALLERY – Using art (rituals) as a means for healing the wounds of war. Enjoy graffiti art and other original artwork at the Watts Arts Gallery, a one-stop source for unique urban art! Here you will meet Aqeela Sherrills who is one of the original architects of the 1992 Watts "Gang Truce".