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Dragnet2, I’m assuming you are a cop in Los Angeles

From March 8, 2006 in the Los Angeles Daily News
8,325 hit-and-runs in the San Fernando Valley

We don’t get statistics like that every year, so I keep this one.

Today, Tampa was closed off with police tape. This is an everyday occurrence and we will never know why because it is so common. This is a major street.

I had a friend, Holly, may she rest in peace. Another car in the left turn lane going the same way as Holly, decided to turn right instead.

Not a violent crime.

If you live in the Los Angeles area, keep your camera ready because license plates don’t mean a thing. We had a televised car pursuit tonight because the license plate didn’t match the car.

I live in the middle of the block, yet my tree still shows the scars of an illegal driver.

My wife and I have found it amusing to point out how many block walls and fences of corner homes have been blown out by drunk drivers. We notice that they put up retaining walls and concrete filled 6 inch pipe.

My neighbor knocked on my door and told me my truck was hit. It was pushed up into the next door neighbors yard. But nobody saw a thing.

Some guy was lying in a pool of blood across the street. He was hit by a car and all my Mexican neighbors saw it but nobody reported it until I walked out and called 911.

I’m yelling at some ahole parked in the middle of the street to move his damn truck. Honking my horn, yelling at his girlfriend still in his truck and shouting at the guy, he gets in his truck and leaves.

He was talking to some girl in a car parked at the curb. As I drive by I notice she is distressed. I ask her if she is ok, she says that some guy in a road rage chased her through the entire valley and had his knife out and was ready to stab her.

A drunk knocks over my canvas sun screen. Turns out he was having some kind of shock due to low blood sugar. I call 911 and they come over. They can’t do a thing and tell my wife to give him a sugary drink.

A friend of mine has a scar at the base of his neck. It is from a bullet hole fired in retaliation to his being too forceful in a soccer game. It is also a symbol of honor.

My neighbor, an American, was testifying as a witness to a commercial theft. Every time there was a recess and he went into the hallway, the thief’s gangbanger friends would sit next to him trying to intimidate him.

I took photographs of kids spraying graffiti, about 13 years old. They told me I didn’t know who I was dealing with. So, I take the photographs to the police and that night my truck window is broken out and a Gotti DVD is lying next to it.

I’ve got to admit, there are some very good cops out there. The first cop that came to my house had read the report, contacted me and said he would take care of it. It has probably been 3 years now and those punks have never shown up again.

This is why nobody in my neighborhood ever reports anything, they are living in fear, not of the police but of the gang bangers.

How much harder is it going to be for us to deal with the cartels than we deal with gangbangers?

The only purpose of Special Order 40 was to get the illegal aliens to report crimes.

It hasn’t worked.

I’m a simple guy, I don’t work anymore, there are no jobs. I just sit at my bar in the front yard and watch the word go by. And this is what I see.

There is low income housing going up just 1 block away. More Mexicans, my house goes up for sale in March.