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Can Los Angeles be Saved?
American Thinker ^ | 01/20/2022 | Patricia Jay

Posted on 01/20/2022 10:00:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind

On Monday, off-duty LAPD officer Fernando Arroyos and his girlfriend were out in South L.A. looking at houses, in anticipation of getting married and settling down there. Sure, it was after dark, and most Angelenos do not venture out at night these days, but Fernando was LAPD, highly trained in police work and educated at U.C. Berkeley, and thought he had it all down. Then four gangbangers from the local crime organization (too highly advanced to be called a gang), Florencia 13, saw the silver chains around his neck and decided to rob him. Arroyos told his girlfriend to run. Shots rang out, at least one hit Arroyos, and he died on the way to the hospital.

On Thursday, a 70-year-old nurse was attacked by a transient, right in front of Union Station, as she was waiting for a bus. (Public transport is often dangerous for people who work in downtown L.A.) She died in the hospital four days later.

Later that day, in a fashionable neighborhood in L.A. — in fact, the location of the mayor's mansion — a lovely young woman and recent college grad, Brianna Kupfer, was working in a design store on the busy main street, when a man walked in and for some inexplicable reason stabbed her to death. Just a fluke, the usual reassuring lie?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: crime; decline; letsgolosangeles; losangeles; luckfosangeles
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To: SeekAndFind

Some countries are just best left avoided. Two of those, for me, are Turkey and California.


21 posted on 01/20/2022 10:14:47 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The key to saving LA is to teach gang bangers to target white liberal elites where they shop, where they live and where they party.

As long as 'the elites' think it's only working class, middle class and powerless people being hurt they'll cry tears FOR THE CRIMINALS. But if they're being hit, damaged, robbed or killed they'll wake up and help STOP CRIMINALS.

So, outlaw private 'security' and let stupid gang members know they need sledge hammers... not little hammers with short handles to rob upscale jewelry stores...

22 posted on 01/20/2022 10:15:18 AM PST by GOPJ (Who will Biden blame for his problems today? What commie thuggery will Biden impose on Americans?)
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To: frank ballenger

As I’ve said for five years, we are in a cold civil war. I have no doubt it will get hot. But it won’t be anything like the other one. No generals. Just privates.


23 posted on 01/20/2022 10:16:16 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think it’s one of The Laws of Thermodynamics that everybody has to be somewhere.

Turns out, low IQ people and criminals enjoy places with nice weather and lots of people.

So, trouble making people have to occupy space somewhere.

Prisons and mental institutions cost money.

We tend to feel sorry for people who are forced to live in institutions.

Where can we put our troubling troublemakers?


24 posted on 01/20/2022 10:16:37 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: RayChuang88

Who knew that Escape from LA was prophecy?


25 posted on 01/20/2022 10:16:57 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Follow those billions for the homeless and you won’t find a single cent getting past the bureaucracy salaries and NGO staffs.


26 posted on 01/20/2022 10:17:17 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SeekAndFind

Why would anyone want to?....................


27 posted on 01/20/2022 10:17:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: cuban leaf
No generals. Just privates.

Pete Buttigieg, Brian Stelter and Don Lemon: "Don't much about war stuff but we're gonna see more privates? Sounds exciting. Ooooooooooo."

28 posted on 01/20/2022 10:19:49 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: blueunicorn6

The answer, of course, is Cuba.

Great climate and a government that likes to control people.


29 posted on 01/20/2022 10:21:44 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: SeekAndFind

NOT JUST LA, but all Blue States, and Blue cities throughout the country need the cure, and that cure simply put is politically a killer. Only for real Americans focused on returning order to our beloved country.

Tough Love will bring the country around. Get rid of all vestiges of the left in our judicial system, our academia, government in general. Eliminate Blue workers paid to do nothing but vote for Democrats. Roust the Democrat party. Make them pay for all the misery they caused.

“Tough Love” is the answer.


30 posted on 01/20/2022 10:22:00 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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To: mass55th

31 posted on 01/20/2022 10:22:41 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SeekAndFind

Is there any place in LA are which is safe?


32 posted on 01/20/2022 10:24:33 AM PST by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: mass55th

Neutron bomb. There’s still some nice architecture in LA we could save.


33 posted on 01/20/2022 10:33:02 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: SeekAndFind

The people of LA are going to rise up and take back the streets.

It already at the first stages with the people in LA screaming their heads off about the crime and homeless.

People even liberals will only stand for so much.

The ultra liberal mayor of Boston just cleaned up a mile of homeless camps with CAT front end loaders and dumped all their possesions into dumpsters headed off to the local landfill.


34 posted on 01/20/2022 10:36:31 AM PST by setter
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To: blueunicorn6
Where can we put our troubling troublemakers?

LA. What's a several millions more?

35 posted on 01/20/2022 10:38:46 AM PST by null and void (81 million votes ≠ 81 million voters)
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To: alternatives?

They were silver chains, according to the article.

Which begs the question, why kill someone over silver?


36 posted on 01/20/2022 10:39:06 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Time travel back to 1960?
Maybe.


37 posted on 01/20/2022 10:41:25 AM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I don’t ever wear jewelry so I don’t understand either side.


38 posted on 01/20/2022 10:42:27 AM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: mass55th

Neutron bomb.
We might want to re-inhabtate before a thousand years.


39 posted on 01/20/2022 10:44:47 AM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mexico called, they don’t want it back.


40 posted on 01/20/2022 10:46:24 AM PST by bigbob
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