the height of the Gang & Drug epidemic... I was only 5 at the time living in Torrance, just outside of Compton, but got damn these numbers are worse than Iraq & Afghanistan combined
Los Angeles Murders 1992 | Homicides in 1992 Set Record for L.A. County : Violence: 2,589 killings in 1992 represent an 8% rise over previous year. Cultural changes and accessibility of guns cited as factors. - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Murders 1992 | Homicides in 1992 Set Record for L.A. County : Violence: 2,589 killings in 1992 represent an 8% rise over previous year. Cultural changes and accessibility of guns cited as factors. - Los Angeles Times
Rocked by gang violence, civil unrest and a proliferation of lethal weapons, 1992 was the deadliest year in Los Angeles County history, officials said Monday.
Last year's 2,589 homicides, based on a tally by the Los Angeles County coroner's office, was up about 8% from the year before and represented enough slain people to fill the downtown Ahmanson Theatre to more than capacity.
Authorities, however, were not entirely surprised by the numbers, which had been foreshadowed by a summer so bloody it set records of its own, with 517 murders in July and August alone.
I would have HATED to have been 18-25 then
"where you from??" 
