Los Angeles began imposing injunctions in the 1980s. Echo Park has a history of gangs dating back at least to the 1920s, and in more recent decades six gangs were involved in violence, ...

A Los Angeles County court last week granted a permanent injunction against six gangs in Echo Park and its surrounding neighborhoods, according to the city attorney’s office. The injunction ...

A Los Angeles judge denied a request by some residents to intervene and challenge the city on its gang injunction for Echo Park. As mentioned, some times neighborhoods in LA change - a lot. Take ...

Los Angeles police have officially begun serving suspected gang members in the Echo Park neighborhood with injunction papers that prohibit them from hanging out together in the area.

A collision between two vehicles and a pedestrian in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on Saturday left six people ...

Unlike the other gangs on this list, The Crazys have a large gang history throughout the city of Los Angeles. Their Echo Park connection includes some initiation assaults on Sunset and Alvarado ...

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily barred Los Angeles police and prosecutors from enforcing a gang injunction against an Echo Park man, saying she believed he would likely prove his rights ...

Echo Park is, depending on your ... a 40,455-person working-class burg full of diversity and a wee bit of gang ... But perhaps the greatest historic gem in Los Angeles is Echo Park's Victorian-era ...

Los Angeles residents are up in arms about a Democratic city councilman's decision to remove a fence erected to prevent homeless encampments. The fence, which was put around Echo Park in March ...

A man was killed in an overnight gang-related shooting near Echo Park, authorities said. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m. Friday evening.

Echo Park students are served by the Los Angeles Unified School District, the largest public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States, with more than 700,000 students.