La is a shithole. I'm born and raised here... The downtown area is all mexican, then there is the chinese who run the whole garmet center with fucking tons of bootleg everything, clothing,shoes,designer bags,jewelry,perfumes, ect.. They make a killing off selling that garbage in bulk.. All of south la, south of downtown is all blacks, south central la is fucking down right disgusting shit hole.. The hipsters are pretty much taking over everywhere..the whole area surrounding dodger stadium is all hipsters, echo park, silverlake, los feliz,ect..
As far as crime goes honestly.. The mexicans run the street drug trade out of boyle heights/ east la. Blacks and mexicans run it it south central..
Chinatown they got all the bootleg shit I talked about earlier plus a ton of gambling dens and warehouse weed grow operations, but they stick to their own kind heavily..
Personally I can tell you besides the typical mexican connected cartel drug pushers, the people who make the real money illegally are the armenians and other middle easterners (lebanese,syrian,persian) they are masters of all sorts of fraud from medicaid-medicare, to typical credit/debit card, stolen identities, any fake documents you could ever need (I used to get all my fake employment/pay stubs ect. From them to rent apartments/ cars). The amount of fraud they're capable of is staggering. They also love to gamble, mostly on backgammon. I've seen 1 game where 150k was on the line, in cash. Every hookah lounge in the valley is a front for their fraud.. They sit there all day smoking that shit and drinking tea with their 100k cars parked out front.. They also are huge in the pharmaceutical game. Can literally get everything from painkillers and benzos to steroids and viagra and cialis.. I was shocked when I learned how huge the black market demand for viagra and cialis was.. From a young crowd also. Fucking strange.
Well that was my shitty rant about los angeles.. The city itself and the surrounding areas are dogshit. Hollywood included.. The more north west the better.. Some really really nice suburbs 20mins north of la.. Calabasas where pretty much every celebrity lives from the kardashians to drake, justin bieber, pretty much everyone. Then there's malibu and westlake village. Ha the last boss of the la family lived in westlake before he died a couple years ago.