Lieutenant Sullivan, the intelligence analyst for the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, has started to track a demoralizing parallel between the way street gangs are changing in the United States and the inception of home-grown terror cells in Pakistan and the United Kingdom, as well as child soldiers in Africa.
“There is debate as to whether gang members are child soldiers because they are not in a declared war. But I think functionally it is the same thing. Whether you declare war or not, we are in a societal conflict.”
The murderous kids in the Congo were called “The Terrible Ones”. Sharpened bycycle chains were their weapon of choice when they couldn’t get AKs. My wife was threatened by a preteen swinging a bike chain in Oakland in the early ‘70s.
MS 13 animals like machetes. There’s no difference worth mentioning.
Michael Frazier