Tour of Fullerton: Gang Neighborhood

By Paul Mason

While on the tour, I learned that the gang in Fullerton was actually connected to a larger organization called the Mexican Mafia (which according to NOC speaker, Tommy Nixon, is run just like a business) I was amazed to hear that the gang had such ties to a larger entity such as this Mexican Mafia. My perspective definitely changed about how wide the gang issue actually reaches.

In the few areas of Fullerton we went by, there was also the juxtaposition of old run-down fourplexes (where 12-18 people lived in each) on one side of the street while there were new "low income" houses being built on the other side of the street. However these new low-income houses were still going to be unaffordable by the people who had lived in the fourplexes that had been bulldozed to make way for the new housing. I haven't made any decisions yet, but it started the wheel in my head. Well, what about those people who were in the fourplexes? Where do they go to live? Why is this happening?

I recommend anyone who has had any curiosity even just about the Fullerton community to go on a tour like this, so that your eyes may be opened up to some of the things that are going on right in our back yard.