11 Arrested in Anti-Gang Raid at Housing Project
A law enforcement task force targeting violent, hard-core gang members descended before dawn Thursday on a Watts housing project and arrested 11 people, including a murder suspect, officials said.
The multi-agency raid by 250 officers on the Jordan Downs Housing Project was the latest foray in a January campaign against what Police Chief Daryl F. Gates called a “finite group” of gang members responsible for a disproportionate number of violent crimes in South-Central Los Angeles.
The raids have produced 36 arrests in the last seven days and about 80 arrests since the first of the month. Jordan Downs residents have been terrorized by two gangs involved in six murders since last May and more than 75 street robberies in the last three months, police said.
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