How Bad Could Of The 90’s LA Gang Wars Get

So I was looking over some old documentaries on 90’s LA gangs like the crips and the bloods and was wondering how much worse could of had it gotten both in body count and just general violent crime along with the Crack epidemic. Could of the gang wars become something like we see in Mexico or South America?
 
The worst thing that could have happened would be a decrease in demand for drugs.
Profits would be down, rather than downsize the gangs would try to downsize their competition.
 

Khanzeer

Banned
We call in the national guard and raid ghettos leading to mass arrests and killings of thugs/ gang members
This could have repercussions for generations
 
didn't one of the predator movies have some LA cop referring to his shift as "the war"?

maybe that level. Reagan in '76, scrapes by in 1980. Rumsfeld in 84, 88 with some religious nut in 92. worse US economic decline, combined with more consie "tough on crime" stuff and a US going to shit the same time the soviet union falls.

you want a world liek 80s action movies well...
 
What about having some ex military join the gangs
Kinda like the Los Zetas or have some ex special forces lead one of the larger gang.
 
Maybe you could the Crips and Bloods ally with opposing Mexican and/or Colombian cartels leading to a proxy war in LA.
 
The GTA developers would have a lot of inspiration from this.
Would give whole new meaning to "low-speed chase", tho...:openedeyewink: I can just see the live news coverage from KTLA's chopper: "Bill, there's a...a tank driving through an East Los Angeles mall. Right through the mall!" (Cue Jake & Elwood.:openedeyewink: )
 
Oh it could have gone worse, but for that to happen you needed a harder drug than crack or as hard a drug. By which I mean, dirt cheap to make and with low street price, high addiction rate and an upper. My best pal went to high school right after the crack epidemic was dying down, though things were still dangerous, in Jordan High School (which is not in Watts, because it is deliberately just on the outside of Watts so people running it can say it's not in Watts) and as he eloquently put it, "Nobody wants to get killed over weed, man."

As how bad it could have gotten? Parts of the city would have been no-go areas to present day. But please note I said parts. That's the one thing about failed states and horrible towns, even in the middle of all the chaos, there are 'safe' spots where police are concentrated and people of privilege are allowed to live their lives as if nothing is happening. Even during the height of the crack years, most of Los Angeles was actually safe, provided you were white and not poor.
 
Ok what about the city falling into a semi drug funded insurgency after the riots let’s say crack is even more addictive and cheap and the gangs get hold of some military weapons from China or parts of eastern Europe pulse some ex military joining/working they way up to the leader ship of major gangs and after the Riots the gangs call a peace and ended up united creating a larger gang that the city and the state would have to deal with. The government in this TL would be a lot harder on the cracked down think Easter rising creating a semi insurgency paid for by drug money.
 

WILDGEESE

Gone Fishin'
didn't one of the predator movies have some LA cop referring to his shift as "the war"?

maybe that level. Reagan in '76, scrapes by in 1980. Rumsfeld in 84, 88 with some religious nut in 92. worse US economic decline, combined with more consie "tough on crime" stuff and a US going to shit the same time the soviet union falls.

you want a world liek 80s action movies well...

Damn it! . . . you beat me to it.

Here's Danny boy in the opening shootout between two gangs

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