Order defended to control gangs

While it would be one of the largest gang injunction areas in the city, Los Angeles law enforcement officials on Thursday insisted the court order they are seeking against the San Fers is the only way to crack down on one of the oldest and biggest street gangs in the city. Daily News.

At the same time, officials said they are trying to balance the terrorism of street crime with sensitivity to a community that has the highest homeownership level in the area and where 5,000 people turned out for the start of the Little League season.

The 9.5-square-mile gang-injunction area in the Northeast Valley - including the city of San Fernando, in a joint operation - is designed to break a gang that has been operating since the 1920s and that police believe has ties to the Mexican Mafia prison gang.