Posted on 01/29/2023 6:10:01 AM PST by Libloather
A gang task force group in northern Virginia that targeted MS-13, the largest gang in the area, was shuttered at the start of the year, leaving a potentially dangerous void in its absence.
The Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force’s most recent executive director, Jay Lanham, told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that the 20-year task force had been suddenly disbanded Jan. 1, a dissolution he blamed on anti-police sentiment.
“The task force dissolved as of January 1,” Lanham wrote in an email. “Certainly I'm disappointed, but I also understand the challenges facing law enforcement these days, especially with staffing. With the demonizing of law enforcement over the last few years, agencies are struggling with hiring and filling voids with those who have retired or left. And funding has always been a struggle.”
There was no formal announcement, Lanham said, after the task force's steering committee chose to dissolve it in 2022. The steering committee comprised more than a dozen county and city law enforcement representatives from northern Virginia.
The shutdown of the task force comes in the midst of a homicide investigation involving an MS-13 gang member in the small town of Aberdeen, Maryland.
A 20-year-old autistic resident, Kayla Hamilton, was raped and strangled to death in July 2022. Local police have identified a 17-year-old Hispanic male from El Salvador who belongs to MS-13 as the primary suspect in the incident.
MS-13, short for Mara Salvatrucha, is known for extreme violence. In 2012, the Treasury Department declared it a transnational criminal organization for smuggling people, drugs, and guns between Central America and the United States.
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“... anti-police sentiment....” Oh, and no guns for you common people either.
I understand there are “bad” cops, but defunding, reforming, shrinking, and disbanding police forces is and has led to some very bad results...It’s probably going to get worse...
The members of the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force Steering Board, by their action, have given aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
I hope the “War on Gangs” ends better than the “War on Drugs”...
Yeah, that went over well, didn’t it???
Biden won the War on Drugs remember? He closed the border and instantly the supply of fentanyl on the streets dried up. . . . Yeah, I don’t remember that either.
It was
Gang task force disbanded
Think there might be bad in the service too?
Always a bad egg in everything, ya know.
Guess the commie’s will try harder to disband our military.
When you look into it the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force was just a voluntary association of law enforcement agencies that had enough funding for two dedicated staff members.
From what I read it was mostly focused on New York City and DC and it drew resources from outside of those areas while providing very little benefit to most of their members.
It was great if you were in NYC or DC. Not so much for everyone else.
Wouldn’t it be easier to prevent the import of that terrorist gang to be begin with?,
Common Sense 101. Highly underrated
They’re doing a bang-up job in Washington DC now about disbanding or neuturing our military...
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