[freepatriot32]

Rickey Prince, a 17-year-old who witnessed a gang murder and agreed to testify against the killer, was shot in the back of the head a few days after a prosecutor read Mr. Prince's name aloud in a packed courtroom.

Hmm I wonder if this same prosecutor came into a large grocery sack of non sequential and unmarked 100 dollar bills right afterwords

[goldstategop]

I'd never testify to a gang hit. They can threaten me with prison but I wouldn't testify. There's no way the authorities can protect you and the accused has the right to confront his accuser in court. Its even worse than the mob. These guys play for keeps.

[JFK_Lib]

Our pop culture sympathizes way too much with criminals that have long personal histories involved in crime. If a felon has more than three convictions, he or she is irrecoverable for society and should be locked up for life (but it should only be *real* felonies, not equivalent misdemeaners).

Execution of any lethal crime while a member of a gang should carry the death penalty automatically.

We must get serious about enforcing and respecting the law and stop this culture of tolerating deception that stems from the use of drugs and other illicit activities.

Untill then, we are merely sticking our fingers and toes into the over-stressed dike of law that barely holds back an ocean of crime.

[tkathy]

This area needs a Guiliani type in there. He'd clean them out.

I would bet dollars to doughnuts that the place is a democrat area, run by democrats.

[ex-Texan]

The entire legal system in the U.S. is broken. Time to face facts. The system is broken beyond repair, lawyers are mostly corrupt and judges are worse than Roy Bean. Getting involved with the legal system today is like getting selected to be ground into rotten sausage. As people once said in Russia, "The fish rots from the head."

Just my humble personal opinion. In these days of free self-expression and cyber-communication, I have as much right as anyone to express my own personal opinion. Feel free to flame away, I wear asbestos underware.

[Gritty]

These gangs need to be rooted out, hunted down and killed like Fallujah terrorists. If the police won't do it, the military should. If the military won't do it, the civilian population should.

Our legal system is almost useless when pitted against these gangs. All they do is play it like a fine violin.

[freepatriot32]

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[sandydipper]

The bad guys are going to win until we (the law) fights them like they fight each other. Shoot on sight - no questions asked.