00:00Police tell the California Post that rival gangs like MS-13 and 18th Street have put aside
00:05decades of violence and are now working together. LAPD detectives say rumors of a truce first began
00:11circulating shortly after the COVID pandemic ended in 2022 when word spread that the Mexican
00:16Mafia had ordered gangs to stop fighting. Why? Because violence isn't good for business. LA's
00:22notorious gangs are abandoning traditional tit-for-tat street warfare in favor of profit,
00:27coordination and expansion operating under one umbrella. While drugs, human trafficking and
00:32extortion remain lucrative, it's a new business model that has slowly taken hold in LA. Underground
00:37casinos, known as casitas, different gangs now handle different roles. Security, cash, logistics,
00:43all working together. Police say the surge in coordination and cash has made gangs more powerful
00:48and law enforcement's job harder. As one detective put it, we're not losing yet, but we're barely
00:54keeping our heads above water.
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