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A shift in gang tactics means drive-bys are giving way to walk-ups, observers say
LA Times ^ | 3/27/15

Posted on 04/05/2015 3:01:09 PM PDT by Libloather

Ricardo Nunez was trimming a tree outside his Echo Park home on a Sunday morning last month when a white truck pulled up and a person inside opened fire, killing the 35-year-old father.

Ray Martinez, the LAPD detective investigating the case, is seeing fewer such fatal drive-by shootings. When Martinez goes behind the yellow tape, he's more commonly working on cases where a gunman has walked straight up to the victim — a walk-up shooting.

As gang culture has become less overt, the killings have become more targeted — and at the same time more chilling.

"They get to see the whole reaction," Martinez said. "It seems more daring."

Jorja Leap, a UCLA anthropologist who studies gang culture, agreed. "In a walk-up, you see who you're killing," Leap said. "You're going to listen to what they say as you shoot them."

(Excerpt) Read more at homicide.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; echopark; gang; jorjaleap; obamavoters; perps; raymartinez; ricardonunez; tactics; ucla
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All the rage.
1 posted on 04/05/2015 3:01:09 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
Block off and clear a 6 square block area of South Central LA, arm both sides and make the blocked off area a free-fire zone.

There problem fixed.....

Do the same in Detroit

2 posted on 04/05/2015 3:03:47 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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To: Libloather

You can leave the gang life but the gang always finds you.

Its like Cosa Nostra. Once you join, you can never leave.


3 posted on 04/05/2015 3:04:55 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Ben Mugged

Send all gangbangers to Gitmo.


4 posted on 04/05/2015 3:05:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Libloather

Diversity is our strength


5 posted on 04/05/2015 3:06:01 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: goldstategop
Welcome to the hotel California
You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave
6 posted on 04/05/2015 3:06:52 PM PDT by Fungi (Evolution: no science, no truth, no nothing. Full of faith, faith in the "god" of chance.)
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To: 2banana

Its not like you can leave your past behind you.


7 posted on 04/05/2015 3:07:10 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 2banana

>>Diversity is our strength

Islam is the religion of peace.
The check is in the mail.
I promise I won’t...ummm...nevermind.


8 posted on 04/05/2015 3:07:22 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Libloather

They need the exersize ?


9 posted on 04/05/2015 3:09:37 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Libloather

Remember, according to the Bushes, these people are here out of love of family, jobs Americans won’t do and they are what WE should be emulating.


10 posted on 04/05/2015 3:11:49 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel.)
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To: Libloather

Ricardo Nunez gets killed by Jorge Lopez and the investigator is Det. Martinez.

The Americans.

Right.


11 posted on 04/05/2015 3:14:08 PM PDT by Regulator (The Russians Are Quaking in Their Boots)
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To: Libloather

The Left is getting what it asked for.


12 posted on 04/05/2015 3:15:08 PM PDT by Savage Beast (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Savage Beast

Summer of Love,


13 posted on 04/05/2015 3:18:40 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Libloather

#blacklivesmatter except when killed by a black.

Pray America is waking


14 posted on 04/05/2015 3:22:45 PM PDT by bray (Cruz to the WH)
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To: Libloather

Less collateral damage.


15 posted on 04/05/2015 3:22:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Libloather

Sure am glad we’re getting rid of those Christian values in this country. Being bound by those 10 Commandments and following the teachings of the Catholic Church was just asking too much.

How can we possibly have a civilized society with that kind of ball and chain?


16 posted on 04/05/2015 3:24:39 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Libloather

Keep the guns. Outlaw the gangs. Make gang members register as a group, and every time a gang banger kills someone, or commits another crime, punish the group. Gang membership should be punished with mandatory castration. Random gangs, like thugs playing the knockout game, should receive the same treatment. Anytime a group of thugs, male or female, gang up on someone, for whatever the reason, the offending thugs should be treated as gang members, sterilized, imprisoned, and fed goop. Larger gangs should be considered assault gangs, and given worse punishment.


17 posted on 04/05/2015 3:28:14 PM PDT by pallis
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Just think America - had Obama The Peacemaker - not been elected it would have been much worst (heavy buttery sarcasm)


18 posted on 04/05/2015 3:28:24 PM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: MichaelCorleone

“Christian values” go nowhere without a worship of the Lord.


19 posted on 04/05/2015 3:28:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: BCW

Not sure how much better it would have been either, with a lukewarm regard to the Lord.


20 posted on 04/05/2015 3:29:23 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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