Los Santos' police are corrupt and the politicians avoid the streets like the plague. Grove Street is home to the Grove Street Families gang, a once powerful gang whose influence faded due to highly successful drug trafficking by the rival Ballas gang.
The most infamous street in the city is Grove Street, located in Ganton, southeast of downtown Los Santos, and just minutes south of East Los Santos, which contains a predominantly Hispanic population. Numerous roads and a central rail line connect Los Santos to San Fierro and Las Venturas. The population of over 3 million people is divided into 32 districts, which are home to movie and television studios, multi-million dollar estates, crack-ridden ghettos, and a busy international airport. Like Los Angeles, Los Santos is a huge, sprawling co-mingling of cultures and perspectives, full of two-bit hoodlums and small-time actors. This also applies two of the cities' nicknames - 'The City of Saints' and 'City of Angels'. The name 'Los Santos' translates to 'The Saints', a play on Los Angeles, meaning 'The Angels'. Los Santos is based on Los Angeles, California.
Los Santos is both the biggest city, and the largest populated city in the state. Los Santos is a fictional city located in San Andreas, and it is the first city encountered in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
