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Gangs: Small-town America's big-city battle
Rocky Mountain News ^ | June 7, 2007 | Bianca Prieto

Posted on 06/08/2007 8:23:54 AM PDT by george76

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To: george76

Once again, ICE is nowhere to be found.


21 posted on 06/08/2007 9:52:54 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: george76

Recent history reminder: Greeley CO was the site of the ICE bust/roundup at a local meat-packing plant that led to much gnashing of teeth about the “break-up of families”. Looks to me like they missed one that needed a southbound bus ticket...


22 posted on 06/08/2007 9:53:31 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: eleni121

sad but true :

..it’s a lot of spoiled brats


23 posted on 06/08/2007 9:54:32 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Travis McGee; Eaker; wardaddy
He was "jumped" in by other gang members and began "flying a rag" from his back pocket while he was still in elementary school, he says. Suddenly, the codes of the street were as important, or more, than spelling and long division.

So all these hispanic gangs are using the homo hanky code of flying a rag.....ROTFLMAO !! Well ain't that ssspecial......

24 posted on 06/08/2007 9:55:38 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: george76

Fairbanks City Council was greatly perflummoxed to get this award, although in all honesty no one was surprised. Since it might hurt tourism they got Fairbanks reclassified as not metropolitan which took it off the list altogether. Whatever works.


25 posted on 06/08/2007 10:00:41 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: RightWhale

So who are the perps up there in Fairbanks?I would assume white off the top but you also have a significant Native American population.
I am presuming that black and Hispanic criminals are few and far between because of your demographics.


26 posted on 06/08/2007 10:05:06 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: wideawake
"They tell me not to do it because it's going to get me killed," Rodriguez says. "But it's my choice."

Forget the ethnicity, as the article says, most of these gang thugs are citizens meaning they were born here. They could just as easy be black thugs from Detroit's inner city or York.

Gangster punks are gangster punk and the most alarming fact is that most of them, if not all of them have the same sociopathic attitude _ "It's my choice". How can you effectively deal with that other than just throwing them in prison?

I hate saying it but calling these punks gangsters gives a bad name to the real gangsters of the past - John Gotti, Al Capone........Those guys were gangsters.

27 posted on 06/08/2007 10:39:14 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (......)
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To: Riverman94610

The State Troopers are riding around in a Cadillac SUV they took from a gang that imports substances.


28 posted on 06/08/2007 10:44:03 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: RightWhale

I had always heard that the long Alaska winters were a breeding ground for alcohol and drug abuse.
Does the Fairbanks population have more of a problem in this area than normal?


29 posted on 06/08/2007 10:54:19 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: Riverman94610

Yeah, and lots of money sloshing around. Also a ratio of single males to single wimmen of 20:1. You know some boys will get bored. Just on my little street the Troopers showed up half a dozen times last winter, and dragged off maybe 3-4 total. It’s all sweetness and brushed with sundew here in the North.


30 posted on 06/08/2007 11:01:49 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: Hot Tabasco

They were criminals.


31 posted on 06/08/2007 11:03:14 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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They were criminals.

I know but at least they had a "code".......

32 posted on 06/08/2007 11:08:31 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (......)
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To: RightWhale

Twenty to ONE male to female ratio???Thats a major discrepancy!
I guess the local gay population is ecstatic!


33 posted on 06/08/2007 11:13:39 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: Riverman94610

Don’t know, but it is kept way below visibility if it exists. OTOH, the incidence of stud complex is very high.


34 posted on 06/08/2007 11:18:01 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: RightWhale

I just looked up Fairbanks in Citydata.com.I was surprised that 11% of Fairbanks is black and 13% Indian.Also surprised that the city doesn’t warm up much in the summer,barely getting over 70 on the average in July and August.


35 posted on 06/08/2007 11:26:18 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: Hot Tabasco

I know but at least they had a “code”.......


Morse? There are far better men in the world and in history.


36 posted on 06/08/2007 11:28:30 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: Riverman94610

Yes, we have over 20 hours actual daylight now and it hasn’t been actually dark for a month. Daily temperature ranges from 40-70 this time of year. Some people go nuts with all the daylight all the time and think they have to be up until they pass out at 3 AM. In winter when there is maybe 5 hours of actual daylight and it is kind of rosy like dawn at local noon, they also go crazy from lack of light. Alcohol doesn’t actually help, but a lot try it. Although a small city, it is city-like rather than town-like.


37 posted on 06/08/2007 11:33:00 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: george76

I just visited my family on eastern LI for the first time in 5 years ( I am in Japan ) ...and was informed that there are Mexican gangs in the relatively small town of Riverhead which is just a couple of miles from my folks home in South Jamesport . Unreal .


38 posted on 06/08/2007 2:44:01 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: george76

Funny how the media can always find these violent low lives for a human interest story but the cops can’t put them away. Maybe if they spent less time writing speeding tickets.


39 posted on 06/08/2007 2:50:03 PM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: sushiman

It will be even worse soon.

The illegals have no fear.


40 posted on 06/08/2007 3:12:38 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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