Week of March 16, 1992
In a chilling look into gangland, TIME interviews Leon Bing, a former fashion model turned Crip and Blood confidante and documentarian. Summing up her four years with L.A.'s gangs, Bing says, "Their lives are so desolate, they have so little hope, and they are taking it out on people like themselves."
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