Los Angeles Chinese Massacre of 1871

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Los Angeles in 1871 was a dirty, violent city of nearly 6,000 people. Though the city had a higher homicide rate than New York or Chicago, it employed only six police officers to maintain law and order. Lynchings and mob justice were commonplace.
https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/chinese-massacre-1871

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The Location of Calle de los Negros is now a park that can be seen to the SE from the gazebo in the Plaza at Olivera Street. It was the roughest, most dangerous street in US history. A few hundred feet of brothels, gambling hells and saloons. It saw dozens if not a few hundred killings over the course of its years.  The Chinese Massacre was an international event that eventually led to the obliteration of the "wickedest street in the west" altogether.

I'm glad the history guy covered this.  According to FBI statistics and Bossecker's studies, Los Angeles in the 1850s had a higher homicide rate than any other place at any time in  American history. To steal his tag-line, events like the existence of Calle de los Negros, the Nicaraguan Filibuster War, or the Baja/Sonora Filibustering expeditions are lost chapters of American history that deserve to be remembered.

-Dave

[Fox Creek Kid]

They didn't need a wall.