Compton, California City of Compton Compton martin luther king HSY- Los Angeles Metro, Compton, Platform V Compton High School Entering King Memorial, Compton train platform, Compton obelisk, Compton High School Official seal of City of Compton Location of Compton in Los Angeles County, California Location of Compton in Los Angeles County, California City of Compton is positioned in the US City of Compton - City of Compton Compton is a town/city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated south of downtown Los Angeles.
Compton is one of the earliest metros/cities in the county and on May 11, 1888, was the eighth town/city to incorporate.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the town/city had a total populace of 96,455. It is known as the "Hub City" due to its geographic centrality in Los Angeles County. Neighborhoods in Compton include Sunny Cove, Leland, Downtown Compton, and Richland Farms.
The town/city is generally a working class town/city with some middle-class neighborhoods, and is home to a mostly young community, at an average 25 years of age, compared to the American median age of 35 (2010 data).
Dominguez's name was later applied to the Dominguez Hills improve south of Compton.
However, to avoid confusion with the Comptonville positioned in Yuba County, the name was shortened to Compton. Compton's earliest pioneer were faced with terrible hardships as they farmed the territory in bleak weather to get by with just the barest subsistence.
Many in the Compton party wanted to relocate to a friendlier climate and settle down, but as there were two general stores inside traveling distance one in the pueblo of Los Angeles, the other in Wilmington they eventually decided to stay put. Compton donated his territory to incorporate and problematic the town/city of Compton in 1889, but he did stipulate that a certain acreage be zoned solely for agriculture and titled Richland Farms. In January 1888, a petition supporting the incorporation of Compton was forwarded to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, who in turn forwarded the petition to the State Legislature.
On May 11, 1888 the town/city of Compton was incorporated with a populace of 500 citizens .
Compton Junior College was established and town/city officials moved to a new City Hall on Alameda Street. On March 10, 1933, a destructive earthquake caused many casualties: schools were finished and there was primary damage to the central company district. While it would eventually be home to a large black population, in 1930 there was only one black resident. In the late 1940s, middle class blacks began moving into the area, mostly on the west side.
One reason for this was Compton was close to Watts, where there was an established black community.
Kraemer, the first black families moved to the area. Compton's burgeoning black populace was still largely ignored and neglected by the city's propel officials.
Centennial High School was finally assembled to accommodate a burgeoning student population. At one time, the City Council even discussed dismantling the Compton Police Department in favor of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in an attempt to exclude blacks from law enforcement jobs.
In 1969, Douglas Dollarhide became the mayor, the first black man propel mayor of any urbane town/city in California. Two blacks and one Mexican-American were also propel to the small-town school board. Four years later, in 1973, Doris A.
By the early 1970s, the town/city had one of the biggest concentrations of blacks in the nation with over ninety percent. In 2013, Aja Brown, age 31, became the city's youngest mayor to date.
For many years, Compton was a much sought-after suburb for the black middle class of Los Angeles.
Some were unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County such as Ladera Heights, View Park and Windsor Hills, and the rest were metros/cities such as Inglewood and, particularly, Carson.
The town/city opted instead for incorporation in 1968, which is notable because its black populace was actually more well-to-do than its white population.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.1 square miles (26 km2).
It is bordered by the unincorporated Willowbrook on the north and northwest, the unincorporated West Compton on the west, the town/city of Carson on the southwest, the unincorporated Rancho Dominguez on the south, the town/city of Long Beach on the southeast, the town/city of Paramount and the unincorporated East Compton on the east, and by the town/city of Lynwood on the northeast.
East Compton, also known as East Rancho Dominguez, is a mostly industrialized unincorporated improve and census-designated place (CDP).
The populace was 15,135 as stated to the 2010 Census. East Rancho Dominguez is an accepted town/city name as stated to the USPS, and shares the 90221 ZIP Code with Compton. Its sphere of influence is the town/city of Compton, which has tried to annex East Rancho Dominguez, but company and property owners in the region have opposed the annexation. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Compton had a populace of 96,455.
The age distribution of the populace was as follows: 31,945 citizens (33.1%) under the age of 18, 11,901 citizens (12.3%) aged 18 to 24, 26,573 citizens (27.5%) aged 25 to 44, 18,838 citizens (19.5%) aged 45 to 64, and 7,198 citizens (7.5%) who were 65 years of age or older.
During 2009 2013, Compton has a median homehold income of $42,953, with 26.3% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Three years later, the city, with a populace of just under 80,000 residents, recorded 46 murders, making it the highest per-capita murder rate in the United States.
Compton's violent reputation reached the nationwide spotlight in the late 1980s with the prominent rise of small-town gangsta rap groups Compton's Most Wanted and N.W.A, who released the album Straight Outta Compton in 1988.
The town/city became notorious for gang violence, primarily caused by the Bloods and Crips, but they are presently in a truce. In 2013, the homicide rate was 36.8, a decline from the 1990s peak. Guns are used in the vast majority of homicides in Compton.
News & World Report did not list Compton in the 2011 "11 Most Dangerous Cities" for overall crime rates in the United States, it contrasts the CQ Press, using data from the FBI's annual report of crime statistics "Crime in the United States 2010," which ranked Compton as having the eighth highest crime rate in the country. Compton experienced a drop in homicide in the late 1990s and 2000s. Crime has stabilized overall in the 2010s. The decline in homicides has been attributed to various factors, including faster response times by police (reducing shots fired) and better medical care (increasing survival rates).
In 2005 the town/city experienced an almost 45% increase in murders, although the annual numbers had dropped decidedly in the before three years. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department began the annual "Gifts for Guns" program inside that same year where the people of Compton were given the option to turn in firearms and receive a $50 $100 check for various goods in an accomplishment to combat gun violence. People have turned in about 7,000 guns over the last several years, KABC-TV reported.
Compton made the nationwide list for best places to start and expanded a business, and ranked #2 in Los Angeles County out of a field of 88 cities. The city's Planning and Economic Development department provides a company assistance program consisting of a elected mix of resources to small company owners and entrepreneurs.
Compton is surrounded by multiple freeways which furnish access to destinations throughout the region. The Long Beach and Los Angeles Ports are less than 20 minutes from downtown Compton, providing access to global destinations for customers and suppliers.
Some episodes of the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air took place in Compton because Will Smith's friend, DJ Jazzy Jeff lived there. Many rap artists' careers started in Compton, including N.W.A (Eazy-E, MC Ren, Dr.
Arron Afflalo attended Centennial High School; De - Mar De - Rozan attended Compton High School; and Tayshaun Prince, Tyson Chandler, Brandon Jennings, Cedric Ceballos and the late Dennis Johnson attended Dominguez High.
Although Compton was formerly thought of as a primarily black community, this has greatly changed over the years and now Latinos are the biggest ethnic group in the city.
A possible reason for this misconception is, despite the shift in population, that many black experienced athletes and rappers are originally from Compton.
Although an inner suburb of Los Angeles, Compton has seen an increase of middle-class inhabitants in the last several years, due to its affordable housing despite the portrayals of Compton in the media, which are typically exaggerated.
West Compton and unincorporated Willowbrook have more middle class blacks than the central town/city (west of Alameda St.) and unincorporated East Compton, the latter of which has a higher number of Hispanics and working-class blacks.
(see list List of citizens from Compton, California#Arts and entertainment) Compton has evolved into a younger community; the median age of citizens living in Compton was 25 at the time of the last full census survey in 2010; the United States average at the time was 35.3. Compton is home to the Compton Cricket Club, the only all American-born exhibition cricket team.
It is surrounded by the Civic Center, Compton Court House, Compton City Hall, and Compton Public Library. However, with the passage of the property tax cutting initiative Proposition 13 by California voters, Compton was one of the metros/cities hardest hit, since it had already eliminated most of the fat from its budget. Compton's policing needs are presently served by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Perrodin, the city's former mayor, was investigated in 2007 by the California State Bar for threatening to violate a small-town newspaper's First Amendment rights after the paper printed an investigative report relative to a contract granted to one of Perrodin's associates.
Following the report, Perrodin threatened to yank the city's advertising contract with the paper A Times review of town/city records shows Perrodin was absent from town/city board and commission meetings nearly two-thirds of the time between July 2009 and July 2010. Notices of intent to circulate recall petitions against four Compton town/city officials are expected to be filed in August 2010, by a group of people who claim corruption in Compton is being ignored by the same authorities who were shocked by the recent full time pay controversy in the town/city of Bell. Compton has discharged its town/city manager for the second time in three years.
The Los Angeles Times says the City Council voted in a closed meeting, September 9, 2010, to fire Charles Evans.
In the United States House of Representatives, Compton is in California's 44th congressional district, represented by Democrat Nanette Barragan. The town/city is served by Compton Unified School District. The precinct is a participant of the FOCUS program conducted by the University of California, Irvine.
The three high schools of the CUSD are Centennial High School, Dominguez High School, and Compton High School. The town/city is also served by El Camino College Compton Education Center, which offers improve college courses for those planning to enter a four-year degree program, as well as those seeking further education in specific trade fields. The Compton Library offers adult, children's and Spanish language materials; reference services; a Literacy Center and a Homework Center; enhance computers with Internet access and word refining capabilities; enhance typewriters; and a bilingual story time every Saturday at 12:00 noon. Occidental's Center for Food and Justice and its Compton Farm-to-School universal were featured in a segment of Life and Times, a half-hour news program on enhance television's KCET in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the South Health Center in Watts, Los Angeles, serving Compton. The United States Postal Service operates the Compton Post Office at 701 South Santa Fe Avenue the Hub City Post Office at 101 South Willowbrook Avenue, and the Fashion Square Post Office at 2100 North Long Beach Boulevard. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department operates the Compton Station in Compton. When the LASD replaced the Compton Police Department in 2000, they increased patrol service hours from 127,410 to 141,692.
Compton Station is centrally positioned in the Los Angeles area.
Diane Walker, a 30-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, was promoted to the project of Captain by Sheriff Lee Baca, and is now Commander of Compton Station. There is also a LASD substation positioned in the Gateway Towne Center. The Metro Blue Line light rail runs north south through the city; Compton Station is in the heart of the city, adjoining to the Renaissance Shopping Center.
The Blue Line joins Compton to downtown Los Angeles and downtown Long Beach.
List of citizens from Compton, California On January 19, 2010, the Compton City Council passed a resolution creating a sister metros/cities program to be managed as a chapter of the Compton Chamber of Commerce.
The town/city has established partnerships with three cities: List of citizens from Compton, California City of Compton.
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