Not without another fight.
Posted on 12/14/2004 2:23:56 PM PST by neverdem
The FBI prepares to help beleaguered police chiefs fight a new brand of gang violence that's spreading like wildfire
The thunderous show of force shattered the quiet dawn: Flash-bang grenades exploded, doors were battered down, and dozens of men were taken into custody. But the setting wasn't Fallujah or Ramadi; it was Southern California, where last January 400 armed Los Angeles police officers and FBI agents targeted the ultraviolent Bounty Hunters gang, which was terrorizing the residents of the Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts.
The LAPD-FBI collaboration--which included federal indictments of 15 people--was at the leading edge of a quiet sea change inside the FBI: Three years after the September 11 terrorist attacks made counterterrorism the FBI's top priority, the bureau is slowly returning in part to its traditional roots: crime fighting. The FBI is preparing a broad new attack against gangs, U.S. News has learned, based on frightening intelligence assessments of the changing face of the problem. FBI Director Robert Mueller will soon unveil the strategy and the reasoning behind it in "A Report to the American People on Gangs." The bureau, Mueller told U.S. News, is obligated to respond to the growing "barbarity and the willingness to utilize homicide, torture, and assaults in furtherance of violent gang activities."
Sleeping tigers. Mueller's decision to step into the fray stems in part from the entreaties of police chiefs like the LAPD's William Bratton, who described gangs as a "sleeping tiger" to Mueller in a conversation last year. "Outside of New York, al Qaeda isn't killing people [in the United States]; gang violence is," Bratton told his old friend. After dropping dramatically in the late 1990s, gang-related killings have again reached alarming levels (chart, Page 23). And not just in cities like Los Angeles that long have had gang problems.
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Bienvenidos a Aztlan.
Not without another fight.
Our government has about thrown the flag in for us. Current administration ain't helping either.
The Republicans need to get these people to vote for them. Then we would become equal to the Democrats.
¿Aztlan? ¿El infierno, que tal los estados unidos de las Américas con 10 años después que el FTAA se pasa? Eso es lo que AMBOS partidos HACEN.. ¡AHORA!
LOL...(sigh)
Flag-throwing notwithstanding, I'm going to fight when the time comes.
The tricky part is knowing when the time has come.
I depend a lot on my friends for the knowing of it.
I'm just an humble gunner, after all.
There will be another fight --- at some point American taxpayers won't be able to afford more of these people moving in --- we won't be able to afford more luxury prisons for them, free health care, food stamps for their mamas and their 18 kids.
The day the handouts are slow in coming, or they see their government checks reduced --- be ready. They won't be returning home ---- it's going to be all chaos breaking out here.
/SARCASM
The above paragraph made me want to retch while I was writing it.
Go in there, like the Marines in Fallujah, and flatten the place to its foundations. If they wish to behave like the Islamist dogs in the Middle East, then they should receive the same treatment as said Islamist dogs.
Our federal govt will sell out "Aztlan" in a Mexican minute.
I've got to write my damn Aztlan novel (Domestic Enemies) faster. I hope that it will lay out a view of the future that folks get easily grasp.
35 more years and we should win that war on drugs and take away the gang's main source of income. Can't wait.
We see groups of these little punk gangbangers with their shaved heads and baggy clothes, hanging around doing nothing, and we know that we're paying their bills. It's sickening.
Give me a ping when your book is completed. I want to read it.
You and me both!!
I'll be looking forward to it!!!
Now, that tricky part of writing it....
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