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TAKING OUT URBAN GANG HEADQUARTERS (TOUGH)

The City Attorney’s Office’s TOUGH program focuses on abating nuisance properties involving extensive gang activity. Working with LAPD and other law enforcement agencies, the TOUGH program files lawsuits seeking aggressive and specifically tailored injunctive relief against property owners and gang members, including stay away orders, closure of properties, hiring of security guards, installation of video camera systems and other remedial improvements to the properties.

Since January 2007, the TOUGH program has targeted the Avenues gang in Northeast Los Angeles, shutting down its headquarters and working on several other hangouts. TOUGH has also targeted the Black P Stones gang in Baldwin Village and the Front Street Crips in Pacoima.

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