CRASH units, xxvii, 81–82, 155–156, 170

Crazy Riders, 156

Credit Union League of the U.S., 208

Creswell, John, 233

crime, viii, xxvii, 6, 18, 27, 81–82, 86, 125, 153–155, 160, 163–165, 167–170, 172–173, 175, 202, 223

critical case study, 252

Dardia, Michael, 18, 37

blight, 18

redevelopment, 37

tax increment financing, 37

Darifunas, 180

day laborers, xiii, xxvii, 2, 45, 100, 104, 111–116, 118–125, 143, 145, 148–150, 190, 221–223, 256, 259–260

Abel Valenzuela, 114, 116

benefits of labor to business, 114–116

informality of, 111, 121

worker centers, 111–112, 114, 116–117, 124, 150, 171, 240, 256

The Day Labor Worker Center, viii, xiii–xiv, 104, 111–124, 145, 149–150, 170, 223, 240, 256, 260

facilitates cheap labor for contractors, 111–112, 114–115

increase wages and legitimacy of laborers, 115–116

labor is regulated, 111–112, 114–116, 121, 124

protective space, xiv, 112–114, 117

death squads, 158–159

density, 3, 57, 59–61, 67, 88, 90, 258

Department of Public Health, 231

Department of Parks and Recreation, 164

dependent variable, 230–232

Diamond Street, 156

diasporic economy, 49, 231

Diaz, David, 23

Direct Marketing, 144

displacement, xix, xxi, xxix, 8, 11, 32, 41, 45, 67, 105, 199, 220, 225–228, 232, 252

diversity, xxiii, xxix, 37, 46, 141, 151, 163, 165, 189, 191–192, 209, 220, 225–226, 232, 256

Dodger Stadium, 32

Chavez Ravin, 32

displacement, 32

Dotson, David D., 162

drugs, viii, 2, 10, 102, 123, 125–127, 132, 153–154, 162, 164, 223

earthquake, 75–76

Northridge, 75–76

Red Cross, 75

Echo Park, 75, 156

Edison Lighting Credit Union, 208

El Pollo Campero, xiv, 185–186

El Rescate, 57, 185, 207–209, 240, 258

El Salvador, 2, 13, 56–57, 75, 87, 117, 120, 133, 157–158, 179–180, 185–186, 201, 212–214, 216, 232, 254–255, 257–258, 261

elections, 70

Eliot, T. S., 1

elites, xix, xxi–xxii, xxiv–xxv, xxviii, 8, 15–18, 23, 25, 29, 32, 41, 44, 52, 81, 103, 145–146, 172, 217, 255