Yeah, the area is pretty bad. The sad thing to me is that I can tell it used to be a nice neighborhood (this is true of a lot of L.A.) Its actually a great setting, geographically speaking, with a lot of hills, and is just about 10 minutes from downtown. I drove around it a little bit today and noticed some of the old guard (70+ years old, maybe 2% of the current population) out in their yards. These people were probably living there back in the late 60's, before things went to hell.