San Antonio Gangs
This the story and the map of the San Antonio gangs and hoods, from the historic black community of the East Side to the numerous Hispanic hoods across the city.
Map of San Antonio Hoods
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The East Side
The East Side of San Antonio has always been historically known as the side of town for the city’s black population, going as far back as the late 1800s with people moving from small rural towns across Texas.
Over the years, the East Side would become well known for neighborhoods like Denver Heights, East Terrace, Wheatley Courts, Croccett Blocc, the Stixx, a small neighborhood that is officially known as Wheatley Heights, and a few other communities.
Denver Heights was an historic black community on the East Side that was one of the city’s first location for black families, once serving as the center for the city’s black culture. With segregation, not until the 1940s and 1950s did the black community began to move out of the Denver Heights neighborhood.
Eventually the population grew as far as the Northeast Side, areas like Camelot, Converse or Sunrise beginning around the 1980s and 90s. Gentrification has been occurring in parts of the East Side, with the rebuilding of the former housing complexes of Wheatley Courts, Sutton Homes and East Terrace as an influx of newcomers into the East Side.
San Antonio’s Hispanic Hoods
Obviously, with the state of Texas neighboring the country of Mexico there has always been a large Hispanic community in the city, especially on the West Side and South Side. The West Side, has been been considered as the original community and the largest, home to a bulk of the city’s housing projects like Menchaca Courts, Cassiano Homes and the Apache Courts.
The South Side is like the West Side as far as the community’s demographics with the San Antonio Hispanic population being the majority other than diverse neighborhoods of southwest San Antonio in places like Valley Hi or Five Palms.
San Antonio Gangs
San Antonio gangs like the Mexican Mafia, the Bloods and Crips and number of other Mexican gangs have roamed the city for decades, during and after the days of racial tension between the city’s Mexican and white populations.
With instances like the Klik vs. Klan rivalry, gangs during the 1980s and 1990s gained a reputation throughout the state of Texas as this era was one of the most vicious times for the city.
As street activity was escalating, San Antonio’s urban neighborhoods slowly began to embrace and somewhat adopt the Los Angeles and California culture, whether it was the arrival of Bloods and Crips or the embracement of the Chicano gang culture.
On the East Side there has been moments of rivalries between certain neighborhoods and certain housing projects as the affiliations of the Bloods and Crips had once escalated the tension on the city’s East Side, but as gentrification removed communities and their people gang and street activity has calmed.
Even though the East Side is mostly the city’s black community, there were are also East Side Hispanic gangs that were formerly located around Fort Sam Houston, a much smaller area compared to the other section of the East Side.
On the West Side within the Hispanic ‘hoods and among the Hispanic gangs, a wave that pioneered the true streets of San Antonio as the West Side is the largest urban area and it holds the majority of the city’s housing projects.
As the city claims that there is a gang problem in San Antonio, especially on the East Side, they increased efforts to combat the problem with harsher sentences and tougher laws have led to indictments and arrests on multiple neighborhoods.
Similar to California, gang injunctions have targeted entire neighborhoods, while authorities may say it helps with the violence in the area, but they target violent offenders and non-violent offenders, meaning people who are not a threat at times fall victim to arrests.
Before today’s affiliations, violence and street activity reached its peak during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s as old school San Antonio gangs like Damage INC, Suicidal Locos, Young Country, PowerHeads, WSV Kings and many more roamed the city.
What should be noted is that Hispanic gangs have been around for generations, generations that can be dated back to the 1950s, if not earlier with former gangs like the Los Cocos as the majority were based on the West Side.
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Mexicans and Black PPL is damn near one
in most of Texas