Just as I thought. And as the gap between rich and poor grows, poverty
increases, and immigration increases we will see this just get worse.
To the point where the National Guard starts doing 6 month deployment
rotations in these parts. No longer confined to the schools anymore.
You fucking assholes need to read Revelation 18. ***** you.
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***** AMERICA. ***** THE WH*RE OF B*BYL*N!!!
THE TRIPLE SEVEN SWATSTIKA. THIS IS THE SYMBOL OF GOD'S WRATH. WE
WITNESSED THE PASSING OF THE SEVEN SEALS, THE SEVEN TRUMPETS, AND NOW
WE SHAL BEAR WITNESS TO THE SEVENTH BOWL!!!!
***** AMERICA. IT WILL SOON LOOK LIKE THE OPENING SCENE OF PREDATOR 2.
L.A. County Targets Racial Gang War
A sheriff's task force working between Florence Avenue and Firestone
Boulevard has made 230 arrests and seized 130 weapons.
By Megan Garvey, Times Staff Writer
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies working to end a deadly racial
gang war in an unincorporated neighborhood just north of Watts have
made 230 felony arrests and seized 130 weapons since April, Sheriff Lee
Baca announced Friday.
The law enforcement push was made possible by a 57-member task force
assembled to saturate a 3 1/2 -square-mile area between Florence Avenue
and Firestone Boulevard where gang shootings had left more than 40
people dead and 200 wounded during an 18-month period.
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Gang name -An article in Saturday's California section gave the name
of the East Coast Crips, a street gang operating in the
Florence-Firestone area, as the Eastside Crips.
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The rise in violence, authorities said, dates to the beginning of last
year, when a dispute over drugs between the Eastside Crips, a
predominantly black gang, and Florencia 13, a Latino gang, escalated.
The Sheriff's Department funded the task force with $1 million provided
by county Supervisors Yvonne Brathwaite Burke and Gloria Molina, each
of whom represents part of the area.
That money, which made it possible to shift deputies into the troubled
area, has now run out, and the task force was disbanded at the
beginning of the month. But sheriff's officials said they believed that
their efforts had defused racial tensions. More than 50 targeted gang
members have been charged with murder, attempted murder or assault with
a deadly weapon, authorities said.
Cmdr. Ralph Martin, chief of field operations for the area, said
homicides were markedly down.
"We were having one every 48 hours; now it's every 10 to 12 days," he
said, acknowledging that that number was still too high.
The effort must now be maintained by deputies assigned to regular
patrol of the area, officials said.
Baca said a similar effort is planned for unincorporated areas near
Compton, a city that has seen a 60% rise in homicides this year. It was
unclear, however, whether money was available.
Martin said he had been in talks with Compton officials about
increasing efforts there, but the cash-strapped city has said it has no
money to add to the 72 deputies already under contract.
Areas of the county patrolled by the sheriff have seen a 30% increase
in gang killings this year, compared with the same period a year ago.
At the same time, both the gang and homicide units have remained
chronically understaffed, each about 10% under authorized budget
levels, according to their captains.
The increase in homicides has been concentrated in three small areas of
the county: Compton; Century Station, which includes the area where the
gang war was targeted; and East Los Angeles.
From January 2004 through June of this year, Baca said, warring gang
members in the Florence-Firestone area killed 44 people. About half of
those killed had no gang affiliation, he said.
"Violence took a certain turn and became racial war," Baca said at a
news conference at sheriff's headquarters, where he was flanked by
confiscated weapons and photos of arrested gang members.
"They were going back and forth and killing innocent people on the
street," he said. "People were killed only because they were black or
they were brown."
Among bystanders killed, Martin said, "One was a 17-year-old boy on his
way to work.... Two Hispanics were shot to death because they had a
brown sticker on their car, and so they were executed."
In the back of the room where the news conference was held, the wife
and children of Gabino Lopez, 52, shot to death in February on his way
home from a liquor store, sat quietly. Baca asked them to hold up
Lopez's picture - noting that investigators believed that he was
"targeted only because he was Hispanic."
Last weekend, on the same street where Lopez was shot, a triple
shooting claimed the lives of two teenagers, Pedro Gonzalez, 15, and
Anthony Chairez, 17. Another person was wounded. The suspect in that
incident was described as Hispanic, according to the sheriff's
officials.
Molina called the continuing violence in many communities
"intolerable."
"We've just begun," she said of efforts to eradicate gang violence.
"Gang wars are going to continue for some time because gangs are so
deeply ingrained in some families."
Underscoring her point: On display at the front of the room were
oversize depictions of baby items found by deputies for sale on the
Internet.
A bib read: "SouthSide Florencia PeeWee In Training."
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