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Terror on the streets
U.S.News & World Report ^
| 12/13/04
| Chitra Ragavan and Monika Guttman
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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: New York; US: North Carolina; US: Vermont; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aliens; fbi; gangs; immigration; marasalvatrucha
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posted on
12/14/2004 2:23:57 PM PST
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
yeah, it is gangs like MS-18 an other gangs that have member that are former military from south and central america that are the majority of the problem.
2
posted on
12/14/2004 2:26:31 PM PST
by
Americanwolf
(Democratic Underground... Digital Crack for the the loony left.....Hey troll! Put the pipe down!)
To: neverdem
Quick, call the ACLU! I'm sure the violent gang-bangers rights were violated somehow.
3
posted on
12/14/2004 2:27:35 PM PST
by
MisterRepublican
("I must go. I must be elusive.")
To: neverdem
Reclassify gangs from "violent criminal offenders" to "criminal organizations and enterprises," placing them on a par with the traditional organized crime families
I'm shocked that this wasn't done many years ago. I think when "Colors" starring Sean Penn was released in the late 1980s we all knew gangs were criminal organizations. :-)
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posted on
12/14/2004 2:29:59 PM PST
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
To: neverdem
If they could only get drivers licenses they wouldnt be a problemo
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posted on
12/14/2004 2:30:01 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: neverdem
Hey, nothing to see here gangs are as American as apple pie why are you posting this stuff? /sarcasm
6
posted on
12/14/2004 2:32:42 PM PST
by
skeeter
(OBL "Americans" won't honor any law that interferes with their pocketbooks)
To: joesnuffy
Well if they could get driver's licenses they could drive to work and support their families. We all know that they only come here to work and have a better life because... "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande".
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posted on
12/14/2004 2:34:23 PM PST
by
sheana
To: neverdem
More illegal aliens please!
8
posted on
12/14/2004 2:37:13 PM PST
by
jocon307
(Jihad is world wide. Jihad is serious business. We ignore global jihad at our peril.)
To: MisterRepublican
Quick, call the ACLU! I'm sure the violent gang-bangers rights were violated somehow.
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Shut up, fool. Loose ships split lips !!! ;-))
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posted on
12/14/2004 2:38:07 PM PST
by
GeekDejure
( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
To: neverdem
"...which was terrorizing the residents of the Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts." Watts...35 years later and nothing much has changed....imagine that.
10
posted on
12/14/2004 2:43:46 PM PST
by
libs_kma
(USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
To: neverdem; FITZ; Joe Hadenuf
More from the article:
"Create a national gang task force to decimate one major gang--Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, a Latin gang that is "spreading like a virus" up and down both coasts, says FBI gang intelligence analyst Don Lyddane." I can't believe someone finally said it! It's even further inland than the coasts. Ask the county commissioner ( a hispanic American) about the hispanic gang that is terrorizing little Canyon county, Idaho.
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posted on
12/14/2004 3:00:08 PM PST
by
JustAnotherSavage
("As frightening as terrorism is, it's the weapon of losers." P.J. O'Rourke)
To: neverdem; JustAnotherSavage
Use The Patriot Act to track them down, arrest, try by military tribunal and summarily execute them. Clean-up the streets. Sanitize the cities of such subhuman, murderous filth. They're as bad or worse than muslim terrorist garbage.
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posted on
12/14/2004 3:01:52 PM PST
by
7.62 x 51mm
(• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
To: 7.62 x 51mm
" They're as bad or worse than muslim terrorist garbage."
I would like to see the numbers of people killed and injured by these gangs. With all the hispanics in jail, about 33% of the prison population, it's got to be a bigger number than we lost on 9/11/01.
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posted on
12/14/2004 3:06:20 PM PST
by
JustAnotherSavage
("As frightening as terrorism is, it's the weapon of losers." P.J. O'Rourke)
To: JustAnotherSavage
It's huge, I'm sure, and surely dwarfs what happened on 9-11, and probably before that, too.
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posted on
12/14/2004 3:14:42 PM PST
by
7.62 x 51mm
(• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 4.1O dana super trac pak; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...
But FBI officials say a group like MS-13--now their biggest target--shows why a coordinated national strategy is necessary. MS-13 was created in Los Angeles by the children of immigrants who fled the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s, to protect themselves against a rival Mexican-American gang. As MS-13 members were convicted of crimes, they were deported from the United States, taking their violent gang culture deep into El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. As those governments began cracking down, MS-13 members illegally re-entered the United States and proliferated along the U.S. coasts. MS-13 is now a major problem even in southern cities like Charlotte and Durham, N.C., where Hispanics are the fastest-growing minority. "Anytime there's an increase in a demographic," says Lt. Mark Bridgeman, president of the North Carolina Gang Investigators Association, "we have a negative portion of the population that goes with it."El Salvador Comes to Grips With Gangs
ping
To: libs_kma
"Watts...35 years later and nothing much has changed....imagine that." Watts. Another name for plantation.
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posted on
12/14/2004 3:27:00 PM PST
by
sinclair
(If you don't stop and think, then it doesn't matter whether you are a genius or a moron.)
To: SittinYonder
Colors?
We knew the Dead End Kids were violent, too! :)
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posted on
12/14/2004 4:06:53 PM PST
by
RaceBannon
(Arab Media pulled out of Fallujah; Could we get the MSM to pull out of America??)
To: neverdem
The Justice Department estimates there are 21,400 gangs nationwide with 731,500 members who are engaged in drug and weapons trafficking, prostitution, alien smuggling, counterfeiting, burglary, forgery, welfare fraud, arson, motorcycle thefts, money laundering through tattoo parlor operations, bank robberies, and murder. That's some big-time criminal army. It's larger than the US Army!
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posted on
12/14/2004 4:17:50 PM PST
by
Gritty
("I am so old that I can remember when we called illegal aliens illegal aliens"-Thomas Sowell)
To: gubamyster
As those governments began cracking down, MS-13 members illegally re-entered the United States and proliferated along the U.S. coasts. MS-13 is now a major problem even in southern cities like Charlotte and Durham, N.C.
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FTAA is on the way!!! (sigh)
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posted on
12/14/2004 4:48:11 PM PST
by
ApesForEvolution
(You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
To: neverdem
The Justice Department estimates there are 21,400 gangs nationwide with 731,500 members who are engaged in drug and weapons trafficking, prostitution, alien smuggling, counterfeiting, burglary, forgery, welfare fraud, arson, motorcycle thefts, money laundering through tattoo parlor operations, bank robberies, and murder.
>>>
!Hay, carumba!
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posted on
12/14/2004 4:49:20 PM PST
by
ApesForEvolution
(You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
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