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" According to the Department of Justice, today America has at least 30,000 gangs, with 800,000 members, in 2,500 communities across the United States. (Gang experts at the University of Southern California claim the number of American jurisdictions with gang problems has reached 4,000.) Federal, state and local law enforcement across the country agree that street gangs connected to or mimicking the L.A. model have become a national epidemic.

On New Year’s Eve so much automatic weapons fire pours into Watts’ airspace that LAX air traffic control must divert the flight path of incoming planes.

The U.S. military sends its medics to train at local trauma hospitals because the conditions in their trauma units so resemble live warfare...

Originally, L.A.’s street gangs were social and support organizations for immigrants and packs of neighborhood pals. Mostly their crimes were petty, and scores were settled with fists. Latinos and blacks generally stayed out of each other’s way.

All that changed forever in the late 1980s, when crack cocaine hit Los Angeles and neighborhood affiliation became secondary to what all the gangs now really wanted: a piece of the drug business...

By 2000, 65 percent of black male high school dropouts in their 20s were jobless — unable to find work, not seeking it or in jail.

By 2004, the number had climbed to 72 percent (compared with 34 percent of white and 19 percent of Hispanic dropouts). Today, 75 percent of Watts’ adult black male population will at some point go to jail or prison...

Recently, in Jordan Downs, a Grape Street clique rebuffed by a 14-year-old boy who refused to join gang-raped his 12-year-old sister, taped the attack, and showed the video to the boy. The boy gave in and joined.

Older gang members and veteran police say the neighborhoods are code-less and anarchic...a former Grape Street Crip. “So how do we deal with it? We don’t. Alcohol, sex, marijuana. People are totally numb.”... the projects are federal property.

But Colomey’s unit has only 16 officers on duty at any given time. (One evening last year, three of his officers found themselves in a running gun battle with more than 300 armed gang-bangers who had collected in a park.) When I spoke with Chief Bratton, he admitted he had little idea what he was getting into when he took this job. The entire LAPD force has roughly 9,000 officers serving about 3.8 million residents, while New York City has about 38,000 policemen serving a city of 8 million: roughly one cop for every 422 Angelenos * vs. one for every 210 New Yorkers."

The L.A.P.D claims there are 100K gang-members in L.A. And the last F.B.I. report I read, MS-13 is in 42 states and expanding. So anyone thinking that eliminating jobs for illegals will force them to return to their home country has another thought coming. MS-13 is looking for members and they don't speak English!

Solutions: Martial Law, National Guard in the projects which are federal property, curfews, deport MS-13 & ALL illegals after BOTH borders are secured and double the L.A.P.D. They better start building more prisons on those vacant military bases.