Always Running: The Setting Today.

The setting of classic gang filled L.A book  Always Running by Luis Rodriguez is a very interesting one and fills the whole book with its own emotion it really is what ties the whole book together.The book was set in the ghettos of East L.A it seemed like this part of L.A in the book was ridden with hate and discrimination gangs and violence. seeing this in the book has filled me with thoughts of how East L.A is today compared to the harshness of it in the late 60’s and the 70’s to

first see that we have to first understand the economic state of East L.A. Most of east La makes less than 15 thousand dollars which is 17 percent of the population just for comparison poverty level is about 24,000 dollars a year for a family of four that means 17% of the population makes significantly less than poverty level income I couldn’t find any statistic for 1970 and 60 but i did find several things saying that East L.A has certainly grown since that time which is astounding so just imagine a majority of people being poor and having no where to belong people were probably quick to join a gang if they had opportunity to have a community I personally suspect that nothing will be different in our day and age and according to this map data       As this Map indicates there seems to be still mass gang violence in the area covering  almost all of L.A which is now clear to me that East L.A or L.A as a whole for that fact has not changed much through the years.