[Americanwolf]

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.

[MisterRepublican]

Quick, call the ACLU! I'm sure the violent gang-bangers rights were violated somehow.

[SittinYonder]

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. :-)

[joesnuffy]

If they could only get drivers licenses they wouldnt be a problemo

[skeeter]

Hey, nothing to see here gangs are as American as apple pie why are you posting this stuff? /sarcasm

[jocon307]

More illegal aliens please!

[libs_kma]

"...which was terrorizing the residents of the Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts."

Watts...35 years later and nothing much has changed....imagine that.

[JustAnotherSavage]

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.

[7.62 x 51mm]

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.

[gubamyster]

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

[Gritty]

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!

[ApesForEvolution]

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.

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!Hay, carumba!

[FierceDraka]

But shouldn't the LAPD try to be more compassionate and and understanding with these poor, underprivileged youngsters? Initiate a dialogue with them, send them flowers, or something? Maybe invite them on camping trips where they can bang drums and bond together?

/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.