“I think Zer0 should put more energy into curbing gangland activity.”
Best analysis I’ve read in a long time, and as you point out, the government, at all levels, seems ineffective ( or more probably unwilling ) to tackle the problem because it involves hard work and huge pressure on the AA “community.” They need to go at this problem like Elliot Ness did nearly a century ago.
Thank you. The amount of gangland turf shootings does not account for the drug addled criminal mind that shoots his girl friend or decides to shoot someone in a bar because of a loss of self control these individuals seem to acquire. In my neck of the woods, we have a bus driver get shot because he demanded bus fare from a man with substance-abuse problems and a history of 71 arrests.
Another man who was convicted for the beating death of Seattle’s famed Tuba Man was arrested for the Mirror Lounge at Munchbar shooting death of another man last New Years Eve. Ja’mari Alexander Jones had recently served only 72 weeks in juvenile detention for the Tuba Man killing before his arrest for the Munchbar shooting. He and two other teens involved in the Tuba Man killing have been involved in gang activities.
The light sentences, even after numerous arrests, shows a problem in the legal system that fails to take these criminals out of circulation once they are arrested.