Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas/Los Santos

Los Santos, San Andreas is a fictional city within the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, based off Los Angeles. It is filled with references to famous landmarks, including the Walk of Fame, the Watts Towers, the Capitol Tower, the U.S. Bank Tower and the Santa Monica Pier among many others.

It is the hometown of Carl Johnson, who returns after five years from Liberty City after his brother informs him of his mothers death. The game starts here, and the story revolves around a lengthy Gang War between CJ's own Grove Street Families and the Ballas. Hispanic gang rivals the Varrios Los Aztecas and Vagos are also present. Los Santos is the capital of San Andreas and is located in the Southern part of San Andreas. It is a bustling city filled with many kinds of people and diverse districts. Ganton in the west and Los Flores in the Southwest are the slums of the city, whilst Mulholland is the wealthy part of Los Santos. Rodeo caters to the rich, while the poor have to shop in cheap stores in Jefferson and Little Mexico.

The city is torn apart over the issue of gang warfare. The Grove Street Families and Front Yard Ballas constantly spar over total dominance in West Los Santos. In 1992, police officer Frank Tenpenny and Eddie Pulaski of C.R.A.S.H were convicted of murder and sexual assault. Earlier, Pulaski was murdered by Carl Johnson in the Arco Del Oeste {West Arch in Spanish} after he and Tenpenny decided there was no more use for C.J. At a court hearing, Tenpenny was released when his lawyer dropped all charges. The entire city, outraged that Tenpenny walked free after horrendously heinous charges, erupted in riots all over. Grove Street gang member Carl Johnson stopped the riots by killing Tenpenny and former Grove Street gang member and cocaine drug lord Big Smoke. The city riots came to a stop and C.R.A.S.H was disbanded after it failed in its goal to stop gang warfare. Carl Johnson settled in Mulholland along with famous rapper Madd Dogg, with whom he had a record contract. The citizens of Los Santos are proud of their city and its police force, the LSPD, and their now discontinued branch, C.R.A.S.H. (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums). The San Andreas SWAT is also centered in Los Santos. If you look carefully on the SWAT team vans, you can see the LSPD writing on the back.