Gang injunctions soon to be 20% of city

By next month, almost 20 percent of Los Angeles could be covered by gang injunctions, making it by far the most restrictive city nationwide for gang members and their associates.Rachel Uranga in the Daily News.

A judge is expected to approve City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's request for a 131/2-square-mile injunction against six South L.A. gangs, which has renewed debate over a tool police call essential, but one that civil-rights attorneys and gang experts say goes too far.

"It's an integral part of the city's anti-gang strategy," said Bruce Riordan, a director of anti-gang operations in the City Attorney's Office. "It's not going to be the prosecutors who blink. It has to be the gang members."