<P> The Venice Shoreline Crips and the Latino Venice 13 (V - 13) were the two main gangs active in Venice . V13 dates back to the 1950s, while the Shoreline Crips were founded in the early 1970s, making them one of the first Crip sets in Los Angeles . In the early 1990s V - 13 and the Shoreline Crips were involved in a bloody, brutal war over crack cocaine sales territories . </P> <P> By 2002, numbers of gang members in Venice were reduced due to gentrification and increased police presence . According to a Los Angeles City Beat article, by 2003, many Los Angeles Westside gang members resettled in the city of Inglewood . </P> <P> According to the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, Venice is adjoined on the northwest by Santa Monica, on the northeast by Mar Vista, on the southeast by Culver City, Del Rey and Marina Del Rey, on the south by Ballona Creek and on the west by the Pacific Ocean . </P> <P> Venice is bounded on the northwest by the Santa Monica city line . The northern apex of the Venice neighborhood is at Walgrove Avenue and Rose Avenue abutting the Santa Monica Airport . On the east the boundary runs north - south on Walgrove Avenue to the neighborhood's eastern apex at Zanja Street, thus including the Penmar Golf Course but excluding Venice High School . The boundary runs on Lincoln Boulevard to Admiralty Way, excluding all of Marina del Rey, south to Ballona Creek . </P>

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