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Patricia Seals stands against a fence that divides her from a house next door where gangs have been known to congregate. Seals complains of guns being fired, loud music and trash.

A resident of an area called the 'Bottoms' prepares to put his car in a garage that is covered with gang graffiti. The area is one of the hardest hit by crime.

Robert Jones and his son, Eastin, 2, do some trimming together with their lawnmowers on a warm summer day.

Joe Kammerer, owner of R.J. Electrical, installs a light at the Days Inn Hotel on Pacific Coast Highway.

A boy who was abused by a drug-addicted mother plays with a balloon in his bedroom at a foster home in South-Central Los Angeles.

Crystal Cervantes, 4, swings from a laundry line in her backyard in Inglewood. With no parks in the immediate area, children have to find their own playthings and ways of amusing themselves.

Sheriff's officer Bruce Yoell holds a gun behind his back as they talk to Angel Velez, a former inmate who was convicted of assaulting another gang member with a firearm, for illegal parking a the Harbor Hills projects.

Karla Hebbard, daughter of murder victim Madolyn Smink, gives comfort to niece Megan, 6, at a candlelight vigil at Glen Anderson Park in Redondo Beach.

Armando Abril gets a hug from his son, Armando Jr., and mother-in-law Maria Briceno, after a five-day hunger strike ended in Los Angeles City Hall.

San Pedro High School student Matt Hogler reads a poem he wrote before placing it on the so-called diving board in Rancho Palos Verdes where to teens leaped to their deaths.