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But the level of violence remains high. Authorities attribute the neighborhood's gang troubles in large part to the huge demographic shift that occurred in this economically depressed community over the last 20 years, tipping the balance of power from black to Latino and turning it into a tinderbox of racial tensions. That kind of demographic shift has occurred in many parts of Southern California, but Florence-Firestone is one of the places where it has turned violent string cheese incident setlist . The violence threatens an economic revival that has begun to revitalize the neighborhood. --Mexican Mafia strategyFor years, the two rival gangs resisted outside pressures to go to war, according to those active in Florencia in the 1990s. Like many black and Latino gangs, they ignored each other during the worst gang years of the late '80s and early '90s string cheese jellyfish . Instead, they focused on attacking rivals of their own race. But during the mid-'90s, the Mexican Mafia prison gang began directing Latino gangs to stop fighting each other, to "tax" drug dealers and to push blacks from their neighborhoods, according to numerous gang members and law enforcement officers. Florencia, in particular, had warred for years with 38th Street, a Latino gang to the north. But under the new rules, Florencia was forced to get along with rival Latino gangs and once even played a pickup football game with 38th Street, said one Florencia gang member who requested anonymity out of fear for his safety. The Mexican Mafia "didn't understand how it worked," he said "I hate 38th Street string cheese sirens . I didn't have no problem with the guys from East Coast because I grew up with them It's kind of hard to say, 'Now I'm going to string cheese barstool . kill this black guy just because he's black. ' But that's how they wanted to do it. "In 1996 tensions erupted when members of a gang associated with East Coast Crips, known as the 6-5 Hustlers, killed a Florencia member. After some retaliation, the gangs held a peace summit at Parmelee Elementary School one night, and that "kind of squashed everything," the gang member said. But the fighting resumed when word, perhaps mythical, spread about the East Coast Crips' drug rip-off of Florencia 13 String Cheese Incident - stringcheeseincident . Race, gang rivalry and drugs have become impossibly tangled as motives in killings and assaults in the neighborhood, authorities and residents say. The result: a gangland version of racial profiling. "They just see a young man of the opposite race and they shoot," said Olivia Rosales, a former hate-crime prosecutor, who prosecuted all the East Coast-Florencia murder cases for the last two years. "They don't stop to question whether or not they are a member of the gang. "Of the 20 cases she prosecuted, said Rosales, who now runs the district attorney's Whittier office, "most of the victims have not been members of the rival gang. "Demetrius Perry, 22, was shot to death by Latinos yelling a gang epithet as he played basketball in January at Drew Middle School, witnesses said. "We used to kick it with" Latinos, said Perry's father, Benny, who is black and grew up in the area.

"Now you constantly hear about it: This is their land first and they've come to take it back. "Timothy Slack, who lives a few blocks from Great Hope Fellowship church, said Latino gang members often drive by shooting at blacks . He doesn't allow his kids to go to the store and he never uses alleys anymore. Slack grew up in Florence-Firestone when it was mostly black and had few Latinos. Back then, "they were timid," he said friendsofcheese . "But as their numbers started getting bigger, then they started trying to be tougher phantasy tour wiki . They started thinking they could demand stuff. "But non-gang-affiliated Latinos have also been killed. In 2005, Alejandro Barrales was on his way to work at his family's restaurant when he was shot to death allegedly by Crips while in his car at a stop sign. Gabino Lopez, 52, was killed that year while walking to a mini-market for a beer after work . A youth who reportedly wanted to join the Crips is charged with his killing. In the neighborhood where Lopez was killed, people no longer sit outside in the evening, said his daughter, Mayra Lopez. "You never know when you're going to be the next target," she said. --Economy looking upAll of this comes as Florence-Firestone is beginning to rebound from a prolonged economic depression that began with the Watts riots in 1965. For years after, say longtime residents, no new housing or commercial development was built. Today, a new shopping center is going in at Alameda Street and Florence Avenue, and rows of town houses are rising on Gage Avenue. But "the gang war puts a damper on everything that you do here," said Joe Titus, 79, who was born in Florence-Firestone and volunteers with several community organizations. "You don't want to go out at night. String Cheese Incident tickets "Fewer people ride bikes; fewer children play outside after school.