L.A. police aggressively target hard-core gangs

By Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

HeraldNet The gang cop rolls through the Jungle, a warren of apartment buildings in Southwest Los Angeles notorious for violence.

"Wassup, Spidey," he calls out, cruising past a man he identifies as a crack dealer.

"Yo, White Man," Spidey replies.

Then the Los Angeles Police Department officer, Ryan Whiteman, turns down an alley where a gray-haired man in a maroon velour tracksuit is standing in a carport.

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