Late Christmas Eve 2005, Demond Whiting and a friend left the recreation center at Nickerson Gardens and turned right down Compton Avenue. Whiting was 32 and an original gangster in the Bounty Hunter Bloods. The Bounty Hunters control and terrorize Nickerson Gardens, the sprawling housing development in Watts, and use it as a base for a nationwide drug-trafficking network. Whiting, who was fresh from a long stretch in prison for armed robbery, was chatting about his new life as a civilian, when someone stuck an AK-47 out the window of a passing car and fired two rounds. One hit Whiting in the back, severing his spine and paralyzing him.
Early the next morning — Christmas morning — a Bounty Hunter named Antoine Staffer, a.k.a. Pig, left Nickerson Gardens, walked about a half mile to the edge of the dusty, treeless Jordan Downs housing project, strolled up to a car and shot the driver in the face. The victim was Brandon “B.L.” Bullard, a key player in the Grape Street Crips, the gang that controls Jordan Downs. Ten minutes later, a Bounty Hunter heading into Jordan Downs for a Christmas visit with cousins was ambushed and shot seven times. Two more Bounty Hunters were murdered in quick succession. The cycle of retribution — in the form of drive-bys with AK-47s, Uzis, MAC-10s and 9mm semiautomatic handguns — lasted six weeks, left 26 people wounded, nine dead, the local schools largely empty of students, and a large swath of Watts under siege.
What triggered all this depends on whom you talk to. Some say it was an argument at a mall over a young woman, others say it was a yanked necklace. Whatever it was, it wouldn’t have taken much. This was just the latest spasm in a long-running vendetta between the Grape Street Crips and Bounty Hunter Bloods, just one of hundreds of hair-trigger blood feuds that disrupt or terrorize neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles, the most gang-saturated city in the world. No one I spoke to could explain why the Grape Street Crips and Bounty Hunter Bloods revile each other so; they only know that they do.
Even the gang members were feeling trapped. “I remember us thinking, how long is this going to go, how much is this going to trigger, how bad is this going to get, how many people are going to die?” a former Bounty Hunter named Damien Hartfield told me during the height of the conflict.
In March, I visited Demond Whiting at a rehabilitation hospital outside Watts. I drove with James (not his real name), a serious, powerfully built 30-something O.G. Bounty Hunter from Nickerson Gardens. James didn’t say much, only that he’d spent his 20s in prison for a variety of things, including armed robbery and involuntary manslaughter, and now was struggling to keep his gangbanging behind him.
We found Whiting, a lean man with a wisp of a beard and prominent cheekbones, lying in a darkened room, his legs already heavily atrophied beneath the blankets. He was eager for visitors, and was strangely sanguine about his plight. “The only sense of direction [in the neighborhood] is to follow the negative,” he said with a shrug. “I never knew the walk of being a good guy.”
Now, of course, he’ll never walk again. But there was little sense of catastrophe about him; his paralysis was merely a possible consequence of the life he’d led. I asked him how he felt about the Christmas Day retaliation against the Grape Street Crips, and the war it set off, and he said, simply, “They knew they had to do that.”
James and I drove back to Nickerson Gardens and parked outside the recreation center. He didn’t move to get out, and we sat in silence for a time. It began to rain, lightly at first, then heavily. We faced the long front wall of the recreation center that had been turned into a memorial for Nickerson Gardens residents killed in gang violence. The names were listed in neat columns. There were 300 of them.
Eventually, James started talking. He told me he’d started gangbanging when he was 12. “I got shot when I was 15, and that’s when it got bad,” he said softly. “I got extreme after I got shot.” James started teaching youngsters from Nickerson how to gangbang. Using rival gangbangers for practice, he taught his students how to hunt and kill. “You teach a person how not to take losses, how to be gladiators, run them down, gun them down,” he explained.
James wasn’t remorseful, but he was far from proud. In truth, he seemed numb; his life of crime and death hung about him in a static haze. There is a personal demilitarized zone in the advanced lives of former hardcore gang members, should they survive their 20s, where they live as neither soldier nor citizen. James said he struggles to keep a gun out of his own hands every day, but that in January he was tempted to join the battle with the Grape Street Crips after a young Bounty Hunter he knew was killed.
I am the mother of the 17,year old who was murder,whom this article is focusing on.what happened at my son funeral had anything todo with mr,lances story .he totally wrote this artical falsefied every inch of this story.the people of america falls for the medias bullshit once again. anything these people right you people believe it.i am totally outrage at the commemt that are being written about myself and child,such nasty and mindless comment that you really dont even have a say in,you werent there you see no prove in what the writer say happen at the burial of my beautyful son.sen then and now as i write this comment my live has not been the same.it has cost me privacy,my respect as a mourning mother disrespect to where i have to have fist altercation with people on the street.who do now me where i have drive,live in oder to take care of my little son and self.and for those who didrnt fall for the bull crape thank you my god bless you and your family so that you would never have to go thourgh what i have had to the last couple of years .thank MR LANCE. for makeing my life so fuck UP.aoyj
"I am equally disturbed by the hatred and racism being spewed in the comments section in response to this article. Who are you people? I have a bi-racial son, and if you were to ever come near him and if he were to ever hear what you are saying, I would fucking kill your diseased, racist piece of shit asses. Why is it that on nearly every comments section of an article that deals with race, all of these assholes come out of the woodwork? Do they live in our neighborhoods? The horrors described in this article are beyond reason. L.A. and America have a monumental problem that needs to be addressed. But the scourge of racist morons is destructive and should be fought as well. Seriously, who are you people? Can we just say that all the racist fucks go back to your holes and let the normal people work on the problems of our country? And for all the people who read their comments and let them slide: shame! So to all the racists who posted and to those who are thinking about it: GO FUCK YOURSELVES." AMEN!! Some of these idiots are more destructive than anything !
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I think the people in Washington should read this article and watch some of the documentaries that are out there on these gangs! America can NOT keep turning it's back on these problems that plague our inner-city neighborhoods accross the country!!!
Not the sharpest tools in the shed, most of these people simply aren't intelligent enough to realize there can be more to life than killing each other over turf in a neighborhood that is utter and complete crap anyway. Bottom line is government and the police can only do so much. If people don't want to behave like civilized humans, best thing to do is just let them do their thing and stay out of the way and crack down hard if they bring their act to areas where people actually know how to live.
Black Gangs (Blood, Crips, Piru, Hoovas, Treys, and all the subsets, cliques, crews, and other gangs) UNITE!!! YOUR COMMUNITIES NEED YOU!!!
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I've been doing some research on all the most convicted killers of Los Angeles hispanic street gangs, and all the data shows that the same gang shows up. For it's size, the Eastside Playboys have about 350-400 active members since 2004, but data shows since 1986 there have been 62 murders commited by the Eastside Playboys street gang.
wo i am amazed on the violonce in compton
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the poem crazy bunch barbeque at jefferson park,is a good poem,i like the way he was add soome rythm to the poem,he really talks about how he is thankful that he is like this instead because some other families or individuals have it hareder then him,some other people have a harder time and i liked how willie perdermo described how he was poor but he rather be like that instead of being like some other people.
i like how the comments section of this article is filled with comments by random fire breathing pitchfork wielding satanic ass crackers talking about "blacks are the scum of the earth!!" like white people had no hand whatsoever on how black america is shaped today... go fuck yourselves.
thank you for sheering this with the public
This article is filled with so much falsified information to say the least. NEVER in the history of San Bernardino city area gangs has the ever been any damn Bounty Hunters Watts "San Bernardino chapter". This article is poorly written and filled with questionable statements that you as the original writer should have taken time to see if there was actual facts and truth behind the ignorant statements you made. For your information San Bernardino city is 45 minutes to an hour outside Los Angeles and has been a community in dispair, anguish, violence and poverty many years before your so called statement of being just another "one of LA's bedroom communities". San Bernardino gangs have fought in coming Los Angeles gangs for years and years, and welcome no outside gangs whatsoever. The gang culture in SB dates back generations. Next time try to get your facts correct before you write these ignorant statements and ideas out of thin air.
It seems to me that your not a mexican nor black.You should of not gone there with the 2 mexican grave diggers, when you could of said just 2 workers.You just want to see more violence in our streets or what? I guess because I'am in the buisnes of saving life's not killing. Havent you heard of only GOD can judge? GOD BLESS YOU.
I deplore the anti-black comments found above. One wonders how widespread such attitudes are. I suspect that groups spouting such beliefs will find growing support among frustrated law-abiding folks, just as we see growing support for neo-Nazis in Europe, who are the most visible (if not the only) groups opposing to the growing Muslim immigration with its attendant problems. If mainstream politics won't address the central issue in people's lives (and the lack of security caused by these groups is central to anyone in contact with them) those people will turn to the fringes.
Peter Landesmans article is an exceptionally fine example of field reporting. Without exaggeration, it is Pulitzer quality journalism. Please give us more from Mr. Landesman.
This shows that negroes don't belong in white countries. For God's sake, give them a part of the US for their own country. This is how the NWO wins, divide and conquer with minorities as their terroristic footsoldiers.
When in Congressional hearings about changing our immigration laws in the 40s and 50s the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress both testifed that "DIVERSITY IS OUR GREATEST STRENGTH" Well I think they were wrong. Brazil with NUKES. EVERYBODY is going to have to be in some gang or other in another 10 years
excellent journalism. thanks.
in the name of allah-the beneficent-the merciful:say:he,allah is one.allah is he on whom all depend.he begets not,nor is he begoten.and none is like him.[qur'an:112]" anything that happens in politics you can rest assured that it was planned." [president franklin d,roosevelt].inherent in the political,social and political structure of american society is genocide for non european people.in the " black scholar " in 1989 it was reported "by the year 2000 705 of all black males will be incarcerated."in the "fresno bee " in august 1985 it was reported " that black children are guaranteed poverty." how can you guarantee someone poverty unless it and you planned it ? dr.carter g.woodson wrote in the 1930's the book "the miseducation of the negro." as comrade george jackson said in his book " soledad brother" or " blood in my eye." some of these negroes fate is of their own choosing." allah ta ala say's in the qur'an: " he will not change the condition of a people until they first change the condition of themselves in their heart."the prophet muhammad ibn abdullah [pbuh]said:" none of you truly believe until you love for your brother and sister what you love for yourself."whatever i can do to make a positive chane to help anyone i am available 24/7.taif'tul'islam-p.o.box 338-compton,ca.90223
Can't stop Won't Stop.
I work in Watts. I believe that Watts many flaws that don't make it the safest place in the world. However, Watts also has a rich community of families, stakeholders, and other people that sincerely care about and invest in the city. Someone should write an article about that.
To Editors of Conscience, I was completely stunned to see the cover of the latest weekly, and could hardly believe my eyes. What a directly inciteful and racially polarizing cover this is: seemingly intended to create fear and distrust of our black neighbors. What could your intention possibly be here? I can't think how you could possibly undo this appalling harm, but could possibly mitigate it by publishing a cover story about the pervasive, consistent, imbalance of justice and sentencing as well as exclusion that has been the daily reality of our black friends, while millions and billions are bilked from citizens by white collar criminals who go unpunished, or are are minimally curtailed...or any other article that highlights the daily contributions made by so many caring black people despite the ongoing systemic bias against them. Please take this heart and retrieve some semblance of fairness, to say nothing of kindness and inclusion this holiday season. Sincerely, Dela Erickson 323 938-8573
I agree with the last comments by HMan , we have to start somewhere and that place for the last 45 years is Verbum Dei High School www.verbumdei.us
Los Angeles simply has to become involved in shaping its future and not leaving it up to others or out-of-towners. That will not happen. You need to be in South and East LA or problems spots in the Valley running after-school programs and interventions if you really care. We've allowed impoverished, racially-isolated ghettos to flourish in skid row and South Angeles, keeping them invisible for too long and we now struggle to understand 'how we let this happen?' In reality, there seems to be no concern, just sensation. South Los Angeles is simply ignored by the mainstream in Los Angeles and very few above the Pico line knows what it even looks like. It would be nice to read encouraging articles about the people who are running recovery programs on Skid Row or are having success with at-risk youth in L.A. I've taught in some of LA's most violent gang neighborhoods, and the communities are full of concerned, honest families and great kids doing their best to escape the pressures of gang life and the surrounding violence and chaos. I don't imagine that any of the readers beating their chests about water-boarding these kids understand what it is to be 12-years old and take the bus home every night to a group of thugs surrounding you and demanding to know where you live and wanting to beat your ass for giving or not giving an answer. I'd probably form a crew or pack a pistol for protection eventually too. The answer lies in connecting these kids to Los Angeles so they feel part of it, so they feel open to its wealth and opportunities. One of the U.S.' richest cities in its richest state should not be ignoring its future generation--whether it be for class, race or culture issues. So many bright kids in impoverished neighborhoods tell me they envision a life selling drugs and dying before they're adults. The solution to the gang problem is not torturing these hopeless kids, but giving them alternatives they can thrive in.
And lastly I would like to say "Peace on Earth, goodwill to men" It's the season and I think this is what we all need including the gangsters written of in this story,as montrous as they are reported to act they are still our fellow humans who dwell on this planet with us and frankly I think is their (and our) only hope.
Elizabeth, You wrote “As a Black person, I beg America to please stop supporting the things that allow my community to rationalize their actions. Please stop supporting Hip Hop and entertainment that Highlights these activities. Though these perpetrators use a barrier of drugs and alcohol to numb their actions, as the article stated their actions are becoming even more "bold", because they are being idolized through this culture.” You are absolutely right and I really cannot believe some of the things that have been celebrated in the Hip Hop world and other areas of entertainment. Who would have thought that it would suddenly become hip to glorify random murder, using women as sex slaves (“Hos“), etc. When you think about it is really outrageous. Even worse is that the black community had been fighting for so may years to be treated with respect and moral dignity in this country and then you had these amoral people promoting this? How could this have happened? I agree with you the ones supporting this sort of entertainment are every bit as bad and perhaps in many cases worse (as they may have had a more privileged life so they are even without any excuse). But as far as such media causing problems through emulation and pride in gang life and criminality, it has not just set a bad example for the youth in America. This lifestyle is being glorified and copied by youth around the world - you hear of gangs or rebels in Africa idolizing American rap stars or just the other day I was looking at a picture of Namache bazaar (an area near the base camp of Everest in Nepal) with a Sherpa wearing a Tupak shirt (not that everything Tupak wrote was celebrating gang life but I think you get my point). In a place as isolated as Nepal you have pop rap stars waving American gang hand symbols in their own homegrown rap videos. Amazing! Around the world we have youth emulating this gangster life. It is truly sad!!
JP, Of course it is not all "illegals" committing these crimes but as we already have plenty of our own homegrown gangsters and criminals why not make sure we don't have more coming over? Send those that are illegal residents back to their own home countries as soon as they are caught committing such crimes and for that matter we can also send legal resident immigrants (greencard holders) back (ASAP) if they are caught committing such serious crimes (we already have laws on the books that enable us to do this and they should be followed every time when we are considering such criminality) . I think this is what concerns people. We don’t need to import more criminals - we already have an extremely large criminal problem.
Yes, I agree these gangs are homegrown terrorists. I have said for a long time. However why does this have to be a race issue - this is a people issue - people terrorizing and killing each other and for those that are on this forum that think that "whites" don't display such horrific behavior please do read your history books again - lets start with the most recent events in Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Europe during the two World Wars, massive rapes by the Russian army in WW2, aside from slavery in the US how about just some of the sufferings in the Civil War such as Sherman's march through Atlanta, How about the Congo under rein of King Leopold - the chopping off of one's hands for those not so keen to work as a virtual slave. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3516965.stm Look brutality is not limited to anyone race. Why focus on race? Let us focus on behavior and this behavior must be stopped or it will take over the whole country. Yes we do have our own homegrown terrorists and for every gang member that is terrorizing these neighborhoods I am sure there are plenty of poor innocent people that have to live under their thumb. It has come to the point where an individual in a neighborhood cannot stand up to them alone - they will just end up murdered most likely (as one Pico Rivera lady recently did who had the "audacity" to honk her horn ,at a tagger demanding him to stop his graffiti.) No, it is time our government put a stop to these "terrorists" otherwise someday we will have a situation like Afghanistan where the warlords ruled over everything.
The rise of gang violence in L.A. can be attributed to the trafficking of drugs. That was one of the issues in the Iran/Contra scandal of the 80s. The money to fund the Contras was raised through the sale of drugs here, in the U.S. via Freeway Rick and his association with the CIA. I propose that the CIA step in and clean up the mess that they made. Stop believing that if you're white or if you live in a suburb that the problem won't have an impact on you. It does and your children are attracted to the "lifestyle" that they believe is associated with urban living via television. Plus, if there's money to made from drugs or killing people you will never ever get me to believe that black people love money more than any other race in this country. It is already happening with meth labs in suburbia. To address the other issues raised. No, I don't want these thugs in the U.S. armed forces! Have you lost your mind?! Do you want them to become more proficient assasins and dealers?? My only issue with the article though is that not every African American has a family member who is a part of a gang. I grew up in South Central L.A. and so did my cousins who are a few years older than me. They are a part of the blue collar middle class or have a college education (including me) but none of them have sent their children to the schools that we attended. My cousins' children attend private school or they live outside of L.A. and San Bernandino counties. I'll write it again. The CIA started this mess, they need to clean it up!
It is not hopeless, Verbum Dei High School, which shares a property line with Nickerson Gardens, is a place to start to make a difference in the community. If you want to help here is the school website. verbumdei.us
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Send Them back to Africa Send Them back to Latin America Send them Back to Asia "Hell" I need to "Send my ASS back to where ever the "F#ck" I'm from also... Only the Native Americans belong here...
Imagine if we used All those billions of dollars we r wasting in the war to help our kids here in the US. that would make a big change. Tax payer money going to waste...
My people are lost. Our fathers are gone. This is inner genocide...we have failed ourselves
Welcome to America...Wow! All you racists should show ur faces... Look at the mirror. We r all at fault, America started with invasion, immagration, slavery, suppression, ignorance, scapegoating etc... The FACT is this, the problem is not going no where, so deal with it... either we all help our brothers and sisters (regardless of race or economic status), in order to get people educated, jobs, proactive in our country or we turn or cheek the other way until the problem come knocking at ur door.
As a child of the '80's, growing up the L.A area when the gangs were really growing and the violence taking off, I am still astoundend every day by what we are seeing now. I have been working in Watts for the past ten years with many of the people living in the Nickersons,the J Downs, Pueblos ect...My heart is there being from the neighborhood. It's sad and "we" (those that made it out, went to school, got jobs and know a better way of life) have to do more.
The author should read 'Folk Devils and Moral Panics' by Stanley Cohen, or anything by Stuart Hall to understand the violent youth narrative he is perpetuating. No doubt the gang issue is serious and complex, but whenever I hear MTV & rap music blamed for violence or the claim that it is more dangerous now than it has ever been, I know the author needs some background. Its a shame because their seems to be some excellent work done here, its just framed in panic.
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The poor and working poor in this ghetto is a reflection of the bigger issues facing our nation. Those of you who want to blame "illegals" for gangs and violence are ignorant and uninformed. Also, Los Angeles is the largest city in the USA and what we see and hear of here will and is happening (or will increase) in other communites throughout the USA as they grow-cities need the working poor to work at McDonalds, Starbucks Subway, etc.) who live in the barrios and ghettos. The poor are, are due (for the most part) to the system. Furhtermore, there are very few who truely "care" about those less fortunate in our country. In regards to caring: I don't mean just donating $ to your charities and/or local church either. Many say they care but just give lip service.
good article
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The Comments section in response to this article is far scarier than the article itself. What does that mean? Maybe it's the nature of "Comments" sections generally to attract the most emotional, irrational and vitriolic responses conceivable. Sad. Presumably, hopefully, cooler heads will prevail. Isn't that, maybe, ultimately, the moral here?
$1 1/2 trillion wasted on these animals since the 1960's and they are worse off than ever! Blacks are subhuman animals and should not be allowed to breed! Welfare should be stopped immediately as well. Bring back the good old fashioned lynching and things will calm down after enough of these apes become strange fruit! It's the only thing the beasts understand!
years ago the mexicans scare people in my neighborhood by lighting match and say if we report them to police they set fire. they are like, 'what you going to do about it' i wish there was secret police make them disappear! take them in a van and throw them in the garbage. They do not deserve to be free on the street to hurt people who try to do business honestly. It is this type of people that deserve to be put in slave. even the smart ones that try to be more white want to get more there people like that into america. I think only road for whites is like Nazi party and only path of blacks is nation of Islam] If they do not organize like that and become strong against mexicans they destroy this beautiful country
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As a Black person, I beg America to please stop supporting the things that allow my community to rationalize their actions. Please stop supporting Hip Hop and entertainment that Highlights these activities. Though these perpetrators use a barrier of drugs and alcohol to numb their actions, as the article stated their actions are becoming even more "bold", because they are being idolized through this culture. They feel a sense of being represented by the "rich" and "powerful", due to the sucesses of those that make a fortune highlighting this lifestyle, in turn they do not shy away from openly adhering to this lifestyle. It becomes a badge of honor. Print this story and allow your children to read it and make sure they understand that their being supportive in this culture will eventually grip and penetrate their communities, lives, and families. You cannot support NEGATIVITY, I am always shocked and appalled when I think of how White America, has welcomed the negativity of our culture. It will touch you in the end I promise you.
I am equally disturbed by the hatred and racism being spewed in the comments section in response to this article. Who are you people? I have a bi-racial son, and if you were to ever come near him and if he were to ever hear what you are saying, I would fucking kill your diseased, racist piece of shit asses. Why is it that on nearly every comments section of an article that deals with race, all of these assholes come out of the woodwork? Do they live in our neighborhoods? The horrors described in this article are beyond reason. L.A. and America have a monumental problem that needs to be addressed. But the scourge of racist morons is destructive and should be fought as well. Seriously, who are you people? Can we just say that all the racist fucks go back to your holes and let the normal people work on the problems of our country? And for all the people who read their comments and let them slide: shame! So to all the racists who posted and to those who are thinking about it: GO FUCK YOURSELVES.
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We need to save Watts before we save Darfur.
That's why they call it Niggers and Gardens.
That article was extremely sad, scary, and most of all enraging. It makes me ashamed of the United States, it makes me want to never set foot in Los Angeles again, and it makes me wish these nihilistic, amoral, violent fools would be wiped out. They are, as parts of the article suggested, terror cells within the United States, and as another part alluded to, rebel armies like one sees in parts of Africa. Nothing will solve this problem except elimination--elimination of the projects, the ethical system (or lack thereof), and those who are too deeply ingrained in that lifestyle to change.
I sure as hell hope it's not tax money or any sort of public money paying for Whiting's hospitalization, but I'll bet it is.
Great reporting. Makes me scared, glad I don't live in L.A., and now will keep an eye out in my neighborhood, too. There don't seem to be any good answers. Perhaps if people just stopped using drugs, it would cut off a huge source of income and rational the gangs have for existing.
There is an answer in science for what is happening here. We know that this kind of behavior cannot be fixed. It is a result of a mean intelligence level too low to maintain civil society, and we have created this situation by providing an economic incentive for women of very low ability to have children in the form of ADFC. Ironically, affirmative action has efficiently extracted brigher blacks out of black neighborhoods, leaving none but the least capable behind to victimize each other and anyone unlucky enough to fall in their path. Blacks commit violent crime on whites approximately forty times more often than the reverse. I refuse to be categorized as the victimizer anymore when I am both the physically victimized group, and the group footing the bill financially for all this failure. Point at another group of people other than white American males who have created laws that deliberately handicap themselves with respect to another group. We are not victimizers, we're practically saints by any real-world measure (which means comparing us to anybody else who actually exists or has existed). We need to start paying people who have very low ability to NOT have children, to create the opposite pressure that we have been creating for the last fifty plus years. It is a depressing step to have to take, but it's preferable to what we are doing now, which is locking up the majority of the men in a demographic group to keep them from tearing our civilization apart, while simultaneously paying the females to have more kids to live miserable, pointless lives. It is soft-hearted (and soft-headed) "reformers" who have caused this horrible disaster and though they lack the moral and intellectual courage to own that fact, the rest of us need to seize the reigns from them and begin to rectify this problem before it is too late. What we are doing now is unconscionable, and the level of violence and misery that is created simply to avoid disabusing the sensibilities of wealthy liberals is sick beyond words.
This story is full of mis statements. These gangs have been at war since the late 60's and early 70's. This new generation is just repeating the cycle and it will continue as long as you keep the projects alive. Kill the projects and the gangs are eliminated. Simple solution to a complex problem.
Well, look on the bright side; we are spending billions to help the Iraqis. This is what many sociologists call "re-primitivisation" of man. It results from breakdown of (particularly) black society, the breakdown is caused by the realisation that they can never truly integrate into "white" society because they have very low IQ (black average-85). We have to buildmore prisons and incarcerate these people permanently. Congratulations to George Bush, he is the "illegal immigration" president and as such is the man most responsible for the destruction of civilised American society.
How come the race pimps Sharpton and Jackson never visit these hoods? As one poster stated: "we shoulda picked our own cotton."
Here's how to fix this. Tell the nigs that they got some free money but have to pick up the check on the Sarangeti Plain. Give them a one-way ticket and call it Reparation and Repatriation! Off to the motherland to find they roots and shit. PS: Nigs, tell us how it works out for ya.
We need to come to terms with the fact that they are not human, their vermin. Like they did in Malaysia, they went hourse to house, street to street, block by block and shot them down. Exterminate them all, shoot them on sight, no exceptions.
The people have no answer to the problem or understand why they do what they do. THE ANSWER IS SPIRITUAL.
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I have sympathy for the trees that try to grow in those neighborhoods. Trees are far more human.
I keep waiting for some nigs to post here defending their scumbaggery but then I remembered that they drop out of school in the 3rd grade to sell crack and kill people.
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What really sucks is that Marcus Garvey wanted to take ALL of the niggers back to Africa after the Civil War but whites failed to donate enough cash. Is it too late to donate now? How much will it cost per nigger? Count me in for a 1000 bucks.
joemash, you forgot to include the Dhimmicratis induced War on Poverty that has spent TEN TRILLION dollars and created MORE lazy niggers than it EVER sent to work!
Grape Street Crip Ronny Pugh has it right, but is limited in his scope. I wish someone could take an even bigger can of "roach-spray" (an appropriate metaphor) and use it on every gangbanger in the USA.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. They know what they are doing, wall it off and let them kill each other off...
Can anyone explain how the Dummycrats have helped blacks since 1865? Yet blacks SLAVISHLY vote for them. Blacks will continue to blame anything and everyone but themselves and instead, turn to race pimps like Sharpton and Jackson instead of getting a life.
This is what I learned. If I’m wrong correct me. Negroes came here as slaves with all that that entails – slavery. They became ‘free’ but still were marginalized, mistreated, hung. Ku Klux Klan. The great industrialization of the North brought them there to live in separate neighborhoods. Blamed for taking away jobs from the Whites of European ancestry. Throughout all this, they remained a strong family unit guided by the women – mothers and wives, hard working husbands and fathers. Then came welfare. The projects. Special Ed. Bad schooling. Loss of industrial manual labor as our economy changed. The destruction of the family unit. And then came Crack cocaine. Crack was invented because powder cocaine was too expensive for the masses, Black ghettos. Money. Women. Power. Guns. Then came the never-ending War on Drugs. In the article you read about the drug warriors and how they acted like gangs themselves. Nothing starts from nothing. Read about the Mena Airport, Iran-Contra, cocaine imported and sold for money to buy guns. San Jose Mercury News “Dark Alliance”: The newspaper asserted that members of the CIA's army in Nicaragua helped spark a crack cocaine explosion in urban America in the 1980s. The report said two Nicaraguans, Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses, sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles drug dealer Ricky Ross. The articles said Blandon and Meneses funneled millions of dollars in profits to CIA-backed rebels fighting the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. And the crack cocaine ‘epidemic’ was born. And we are still reaping the results as identified in this article.
Dear white people of America. Sorry for inflicting the nigger virus on you. America would have been a paradise on Earth if we just would have picked our own cotton. Signed Damn Sorry
I be's lubbin dat rap musik n I be's toting my gat to make me a bad ass mofacker. Please don sens me bak to afrikka! They gots way two many niggas der. Shubba Lumba Mubba Ba Big an.
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"How many more whites must die before our "leaders" start to broach the topic of forced deportation of these beasts to Africa?. I curse our forefathers who brought these animals over every single day!" Absolutely correct. You can take the nigger out of the jungle but you can't take the jungle out of the nigger. NUKE LA!
I live in a relatively small city in the Northeast, close to Boston. We now have a gang problem, something that not in our wildest dreams would our city have even thought would happen to us. Drugs and guns are periodically shown in pictures of our local paper, confiscated by our police force. I've finally stopped believing that all these criminal people need to do is belong to the Girls and Boys Club and their lives will turn out normal. What is the saying> a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. Well, my city is being mugged and I'm now a conservative.
Sad that US citizens have to put up with this! A direct result from turning one's back on the laws of our land, too many times!
Nigs killing Nigs? Where's the downside?
I left the L.A. area to retire after working 15 years at U.C.L.A. The fellow at the rental place where I got my trailer said for the first time he was seeing more trailers going east than coming west. Good people will continue to evacuate the gang-infested areas until the only ones left are the 'bangers.
This story is very, very sad. Clearly the gang members deserve the blame for what they are doing. That having been said, however, it seems like a lot of these problems could be fixed by changes in federal policy. (i) The gang members are spreading out of LA due to pressure from Latino immigrants. Could the government be doing anything more to secure the borders? (ii) The gangs are fueled by the drug business. Why not end the war on drugs as Ron Paul has suggested? There was a time when you could buy cocaine over-the-counter in drug stores and there was no such violence. And finally, (iii) I can't help but bring up Gary Webb's much-maligned but never-debunked research showing that the crack epidemic was actually started by the CIA as it sought to find new sources of funding for its dirty business.
who cares...let them all kill each other.they are the scum of the earth.
I posted earlier and it never made it. This is like Lord of the Rings, and the Orks are out of control. To summarize what I posted earlier, the 1 trillion George spent in Iraq could have better spent in America. Let them show us how well Gun Control works in LA first before they ask the rest of us to be victims. Its not just black gangs that are a disease in America. Someone posted here earlier about Marshall Law, this kinda crap will surely bring it about! Please don't be idiots here folks, the Koreans showed us how to protect their own in LA. Citizens that banded together in New Orleans showed us how to protect themselves. Don't expect the law to save our sorry asses!
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'Agrippa', above, speaks the truth. This article describes the lower element employed in the Pincers Strategy. But the upper element, pouffie Elites who direct this evil charade, are worthy of yet closer scrutiny. Elites create pressure from above by legislating chaos - the pressure from below, as Communists describe the Pincers Strategy. We know the bottom half of the equation. To better understand where matters are headed, study the upper half. Many of us well remember these Elites from the 60's. They were all over the student lounges and campus quadrangles - like dog doot. Fanning their halitosis at anyone within earshot, preaching revolution, while awaiting a ride home in the family limousine. Fake, phoney revolutionaries then, today they're our BigBiz/BigGov cheaszes - and revolutionaries still. Yeah, they love their Revolution. They may yet discover, to their chagrin, the Revolution does not love them. Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino Manasota Key, Florida 15 December, 2007
And what is the NAACP's position on all the drugs and violence??? They've been busy fighting to REDUCE the penalties for dealing CRACK, and to make the new reduced penalties retroactive, so that 19,500 drug dealers and users can be released early from prison and returned to their communities. You see, this article is shining light on a non-problem. It's not gangs,drugs, or violence that are the problem in the black community. It's RACISM by the white man, that is the only problem facing blacks. Just keep repeating that, you'll catch on eventually!
One serious and major drawback of illegal immigration! What are the Demcorats and Amnesty (aka guest worker program) idiots thinking about? Nothing, apparently.Close th eborders now. Expel all the thugs and potantial criminals. Imprison the rest. Put gang memebrs away for good. Eventually we will get our country back.
Fence the city in and let 'em go at it. Lock up whoever remains.
How many more whites must die before our "leaders" start to broach the topic of forced deportation of these beasts to Africa?. I curse our forefathers who brought these animals over every single day!.
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The primary problem with gangbangers is that they are not killing each other fast enough. They are like rabid dogs and need to be destroyed. There are kids who come out of those same neighborhoods who do not become gangbangers. It is all about making choices and accepting consequences.
The black gangs are so stupid! While they are busy killing each other, the Mexicans are taking over the whole area.
***And unlike other categories of crime, gangs and gang-related crime are spreading to formerly safe middle-class communities, or, “to a neighborhood near you,” says the report’s author, civil rights attorney Constance Rice. **** Well the above statement makes this problem sound like a mysterious wind that blows from where no-one knows. Section 8 welfare black relocation programs through the subprime loan market has enabled these people to borrow government back money to move into our neighborhoods. They neither deserve or belong in middle class neighborhoods because they didn't earn the right to be there. The ghetto isn't a place folks...the ghetto is people, and they carry it around with them wherever they go. The lousy politicians keep feeding and breeding the most worthless segment of our society to do exactly this. The elites want anarchy and civil strife in America, so thet eventually they can declare a state of emergency and drop our collective rights into the dustbin of history. There has never been a communist government that has come into power without a civil war. Never, and the Harvard, Princeton, Kennedy School of Government crowd know that rule. They have excellent educations unlike most of the unwashed masses in America. This is intentional and it is not the only front American citizens are being attacked from. If one thing doesn't get their desired state of emergency then another will. It is time for everyone to start paying attention and educate themselves. I suggest reading Tsun Tzu's "Art of War", and "The Prince" by Machiavelli to begin your education in real politik.
I guess to be in the Crips you have to get Cripled ?
Simply unbelievable
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Great article.
A perfect argument for the abolition of drug prohibition - I don't approve drug abuse but I also don't like drug armies making life unsafe no matter where you are, just as with alcohol prohibition once the profit is gone so are the majority of the criminals
Where are the so called "black Leaders"? Young black men are being murdered; but by other young blacks. If whites were shooting blacks, Sharpton and Jackson would leading marches. But because it is black on black they don't care, so why should we?
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That's what you get for subsidizing illegitimacy. Now militarize the border and deport illegal aliens.
Maybe slavery was not such a bad idea. Although a Retired Chicago Cop friend of mine said the solution would be to assign a policeman to each one that is born.THE WHITE KNEEJERK LIBERAL IS RESONSIBLE FOR THIS GROWING CANCER.
Let's see. Now we get to pay for all this mess as the state goes bankrupt. Maybe it's time for a new kind of war. Imagine a city without welfare and the whole group dieing choked in their own blood.
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DeShaun maybe you and yours need to quit your whining and get a life. It is only where you find a large population of blacks and hispanics that have this enormous amout of crime and death. You do not see this in poor white communities. It's not racist, it's REALITY! It is the LAW ABIDING people that are oppressed by gangbanders!
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Who says assault weapons have no sporting purpose? You use them to cut down any pack of Mestizos whoare coming to ethnicaly cleanse your city! The open borders crowd should be the first against the wall They shipped the factory jobs over seas & let the predators in: Labor arbitrage! The best place for the most violent gangmembers is the front door of the globalists' homes in their gated communities! The corprate controlled goverment doesnt care about us! We are on our own! And they want to take away the working class's ability to defend ourselves against these animals? If they're not obligated to handle the situation, why should people be obligated to pay taxes or recognize corporate property?
Grape street and Bounty Hunters have been fighting since the 60's. This story has been written before....read the old Herald Examiner stories... It will never, ever end....we were warned and we ignored the warnings and now hell is alive and well. You are not safe...even in Santa Monica
If and when there's another riot like in '92, it will make the Fall of Yugoslavia look like a pinic. It should be apparent by now that to the corporatocracy, this is just "urbanized terrain" with no economic viability. If the communities that surround are not OF you, get out while you can because they will not show you mercy. If you choose to stand your ground, get to know Mr. Kalashnikov. He will be the most important friend you have when the time comes. Trying to "get along" only makes La Reconquista that much easier.
Bounty Hunter Bloods were established back in the 70's when I was teaching in Watts in a junior high school that received many students from Jordan Downs and Nickerson Gardens. There is absolutely no way that Whiting was an original member of this Blood gang. This error makes me wonder about the credibility of the rest of your article.
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http://www.whofailedtoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=81953&p=1 Oh, PUHLEEZE, Deshawn. Grow a brain, or do you need some govt. handout to GET YOU ONE?
Both the black community and the hispanic community need to ask themselves what it is about their culture and genes that make them unable to rise above animalistic behavior. Deport all the illegal immigrants NOW. That would take care of a big part of the problem. If any racism exist, it is well earned!
If these young men where not oppressed their whole life this wouldn't be happening. Shame on you rascist America.
How sad.
Sounds a lot like Somalia. Now why would that be?
Wait, I thought California was a gun-controlled utopia where no one ever commits violent crimes with firearms. This must be Las Angeles, Montana where you can carry a concealed handgun without contributing huge sums to a politicians reelection campaigns.
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I grew up in Huntington Park, across the tracks from Watts in the late 50's and early 60's. Father was on the police Dept there> I left for the military in '64 and never returned there. It was a mess then and I've been back and glad I didn't move back. For those who state sealing the borders is the cure, no it is not. Not even the big earthquake. That would really turn the gangs on. The cure is what the federal govt has been doing, raids on the gangs and locking them up for good.
So what's the problem? Arm all the gangs and pull the police out. After the carnage ends, send in the coroner.
curious, how many of these criminal gangs are illegal aliens.
Question,what gang controls a mile east,a mile west,a mile south,a mile north,of your report?
I just posted the above and realize that I sounded like a liberal. Your article really shook me up. Government is a large part of the problem. We need to close our borders for starters. We cannot allow these gangs to spread and we need to deal with the ones starting new gangs. This has to stop. Current government, liberals and conservatives, apparently sweep this problem under the rug and can do so because main stream America does not see this evil. I don't know the answer but it has to stop!
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How can this be happening in America? How can so many people live without hope? This article blows my mind! I read the entire article and I am kind of at a lost for words. Where are our politicians? Why isn't this in the Sacramento Bee and all the major news papers and on all the t.v. station? Thanks for this piece. I have to tell you it has left me feeling very sad for these people without hope, very sad for our country and very disgusted with our government that can't find solutions. Yes, they are hard to find but for crying out loud, there has to be solutions. Thanks for your well written article.
This sort of crap is the new 'black plague.' I'm tired of underwriting this sort of 'culture' by way of subsidized housing, and other forms of 'entitlement' payouts, let alone the impact these bottom-feeders have on me in terms of my auto & homeowners insurance. "Lock 'em all up & throw away the key" is really starting to sound much more attractive than the continued effort of dumping billions of dollars into welfare programs, and the politically-correct, color-blind approach that's been a miserable failure for many decades now.
Are prosecutors applying the same RICO statutes used to decimate the Italian Mafia? If I were on a jury, I'd certainly lessen my standards for "reasonable doubt" if I were judging some gangbanger. All in all, this reinforces my belief that our nation is sliding down a path toward nihilism and sheer brutality. And we can thank political correctness for marking that path.
Peter, This is an extraordinary article. Thank you so much for undertaking what had to be a challenge on so many levels to enlighten the community.
you can thank jews for this......they attack whites by importing, subsidizing, brainwashing and endorsiny the violent 80 iq negroes and mexcrement......this country will have a race war in the next 20 years, then it will split and completely balkanize......america is gone.....it's been wrecked by the scum of odessa and krakow just as russia and germany before it.
Everyone who reads this should send a copy of this article to the corporte management at MTV. They are completely responsible for glamorizing gangs and selling this violent and unsustainable crap American dream to young black people. They will sit in their hi rise offices sipping their martinis and tell you it is "just entertainment" and 'we're just giving people what they want." They know exactly what they are doing. A violent and fearful society is easier for corporations to control. Keep them busy and scared in gangs and they'll never vote or pull any kind of political movement together. It works because they relentlessly sell the gang lifestyle and nothing else - can't give young blacks the idea that there might be alternatives. Congratulations all you "entertainment" corporate types. You've managed to destroy multiple generations with your garbage. Now that the violence is spreading closer to where your sweet little daughters live, I predict we'll start seeing MTV doing all kinds of programming about the gang problem as if they just discovered it. Suddenly, promoting violence and drugs and stripping and prostitution won't be cool no more. There is a special place in hell for every suit that greenlit another high budget gang video and made sure it got lots of airplay. What you did is despicable.
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either shoot or lock up all these scumbags
any thoughts on what it will be like when the ex military return from irag/afgan. with all the means to secure and use state-of-the-art fire power and mini-wmd. with i'm sure a percent seeing oppurtunity to profit by getting into the biz themselves or offering protection to existing biz folks from the competition police and otherwise. i'm ancient italian/american. the best soliders for organized crime in europe after ww2 to about 25 years ago we're ex europe service men. the best enforcers here after viet were the ex military and with the recent military generation training and spoon fed blood lust from the cradle. mr./ms. reporters of the usa you've got pleanty of hair raising writing to do.
When is America going to address this problem. Looking these individuals up is not the only solution. That is not working.
I live in Oregon. Last week I asked my Daughter what she wanted for her 18th birthday. She told me she wanted a concealed carry permit for a hand gun. At the time, I thought it was a joke. After reading this article and hearing of the attacks in Malls and churches in the past week, I realize she is more "in tune" then I am and she needs and will get her CTC permit as well as the self-defense weapon of her choice.
Great, let them keep the killings in the hood. I say free rounds - both 40's and amunition.
And some people actually try to push the lie that blacks are no more likely to commit crimes than whites. Black American culture is as barbaric as any culture in any third world country. Race pimps like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson need to be shut up, apoligists and users like the Clintons and Pelosi need to shut up, and People like Bill Cosby need to be listened to.
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How depressing
Start killing these hoodlums instead of releasing these rats back unto the streets. These people are a cancer to the nation and must be removed.
Second Thought. I'm sure that with just a little effort, anyone can prove that the situation in LA is a direct result of our government's unending pandering to the minorities in this country. Setting bar lower for them, telling them that they are inferior to all others. Every government program--War on Poverty, War on Drugs, No Child Left Behind--has subtle messages to minorities that they are inferior, and can't help themselves. It is time that the government get out of social engineering, and disciplining those who violate our laws. We need to stop pampering the thugs, and treat them like the criminals they are. Turn them over to that sheriff in Arizona. He'll fix the maggots.
It would be a good idea to round up all these thugs and put them through Marine boot camp, and waterboard those who don't participate. If this country doesn't get this bunch of maggots cured of their evil ways, grab your bonnets. It will be a rough ride.
Too bad this gangsta loser didn't lose his life and save the taxpayers the costs of his SSI. My suggestion for the gangstas.. just put them all on an island isolated from the rest of society, and let them kill each other off. They are worthlessn then and more worthless now.
No soul. No eyes. No way out.
This is a problem that will take many years to solve. However a good start would be to seal the border immediatly. For Bush and Congress to refuse to do this is a criminal offense and for this Bush should be impeached.
It would be a good idea to round up all these thugs and put them through Marine boot camp, and waterboard those who don't participate. If this country doesn't get this bunch of maggots cured of their evil ways, grab your bonnets. It will be a rough ride.
This is a huge problem here in the US. I posted this on my site in Sept. By Russell M. Scott Sept, 30 2007 The Armed Insurgents 850,000 Strong The insurgents have evolved into a massive community problem. Insurgents have been identified in every state in the United States. The California Department of Justice estimates there are as many as 400,000 insurgent’s members in California alone. These Members are in the US Military also and taking there skills back to the streets of America, do you think this may be big problem. They have encountered gang members throughout the Army, Navy, Air Force and so on. It has been said that over 70% are Muslim and growing. Hell, I’m going to let you fill in the blanks. The following are some startling facts that prove the need for awareness, prevention, intervention, and suppression programs regarding armed insurgents. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), in 2006 California had 6,120 street gangs with approximately 300,000 members. DOJ research shows that of the 300,000 gang members in California, 60 percent are Hispanic, 30 percent African-American, 6 percent Asian, and 4 percent White Research concludes that the typical age range of gang members is approximately 14-24 years of age although there are reports of gang members as young as 8 and as old as 30 Research estimates that 75-80 percent of gang members are actually adults. Conservative estimates are that there are over 23,000 youth gangs with almost 665,000 members in the U.S. (National Institute of Justice, 2005). Gang members can come from any socio-economic or ethnic background Gang migration has resulted in the representation of gangs in foreign countries Gang members are now using more sophisticated weapons There is an influence of prison gangs on street gang activity Gang involvement is happening at younger ages and for longer periods Tagger crews have become more violent over the years There is greater organization among street gangs than previously thought and if you think Iraq and al Qaeda, bin’s boys were tuff, you best think again. Although females are committing more violent crimes also, they only represent between four to ten percent of the gang membership population. Why is it that the Republican candidates and the Democrat candidates are not talking about this problem? What the hell up with that. May be they don’t think this a problem right now. If you think IRAQ was tuff,think agian.Just a question I thought needed to be asked.
They got the wherewithal to commit crimes and murders, but not to get their asses out of there? F@*k 'em. Idiots.
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geez LA is like a ugly virus threatening to infect the rest of the country. Please please please now is the time for that big earthquake.
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No hope. Used to be we blamed these conditions on the obscene level of illegitimacy. Now, "these conditions" are beyond comprehension. The poverty aspect of it still applies, but the violence? Even if daddy did stay home with junior, junior would simply learn and mimic daddy's behavior. The role model aspect of the father would be a replication of what already exists in his absence. I really appreciate all that the welfare state has done to better the lives of American families - thank you, thank you for marginalizing parenthood. This problem has now become intractable. The saddest thing is that I believe many people think while reading the article, "well, if they keep shooting each other, less chance there will be one that will shoot me"
I must say that Peter Landesman's piece on L.A. Gangs spreading to America's suburbs was quite informative and frightening. However, I must take issue with his description of San Bernardino. As a native of "Berdoo" I can attest that the city has been on a path of self-destruction for years. While it started primarily as a railroad and industrial powerhouse, the last 4 or 5 decades has seen the entire city fall into a cycle of violence, poverty and decay. The part of town I was born and lived in was horrific even in the '60s. So much so, that I was sent to Catholic School instead of a public school literally across our street. (In hindsight, I'm not sure which institution would have been safer) Your piece alludes that L.A. gangs have relocated to San Bernardino and changed it for the worst, when in actuality, it is more of a case of them going from "out of the frying pan and into the fire." Recently, Rodney King, the infamous 1992 L.A. Riots catalyst, was blasted in the back with shotgun pellets when he refused to hand over his bicycle to a pair of San Bernardino area-thugs. Berdoo may be part of the "Inland Empire," but it more resembles a fallen one.
Pathetic, truly. These people can only blame themselves. Enough with excuses. These communities have been sh*t for decades and will continue to be so. There actually was hope two generations ago. However all hope must be gone. Like Pruitt-Igo in Chicago, these neighborhoods need to be destroyed and their people systematically seperated from the outside world. It is not fair to hard working civilized people (of all color) to have such savages in their backyards. Sorry, but it is the harsh truth. F#@k 'em
Make all the excuses you want, but these gangs are the same as terrorists. Allow poeple to hunt them as sport, and let them get what they deserve. haha at the guy who is paralyzed for life. you mess with the bull you get the horn
“I wish I could just take a big-ass can of roach spray and spray it all over the whole place and kill everybody. Mamas, children and all,” he said. “Fuck them and anything that can grow from there.”
It didn't mention in the article what LA neighborhoods that the extreme level of gang activity talked about is likely to spread to, although it talked a lot about other parts of the US and the Inland Empire, what areas do Landsman and Connie Rice think are going to suffer from that extreme level of violence that dont right now?
We'll get rid of these parasites only when we 1) secure the border and 2) lock em up for the rest of their wortheless lives.
This could be one of the saddest stories I've ever read. Perhaps the only way to get out of this is to make the entire neighborhood sterile so that no offspring can be created. There seems no other way out.
Reader: Thank you for pointing out the statistics error. We have corrected it in the story.
Peter I must commend you for describing the bleak, no way out, world of gang bangers in Watts and Compton. I have to caution you and your readers of believing the same old adage that blacks are wild uncontrollable savages and they will soon destroy themselves. If you spend time with Father Boyle and speak to the families of thousands of murdered Latino children killed at he hands of El "Eme" and at the hands of the number of growing Latino gangs from other Latino countries outside of the U.S. and Mexico; you will find that gang death has no code of honor, nor civility and that young bangers kill and don't give a F&&k who the "Eme"OG is sitting in Prison supposedly controlling it all. The other reality is that yes, they don't know about Bounty Hunters in Santa Monica, but they know about Westside Playboys and the 18th street gangs. The point here is, as Malcome X said; "The rooster will come home to rest." This bleak story in Watts is problem for all of us, because those without hope will cross boundry lines. Those without hope will kill blacks, whites, Asians and browns. One last thing. I believe that if workers the funeral of yours or your readers' son's funeral cracked the coffin in front of you, you would go off too. You might not do a "beat down", but I believe revenge would be sought at least by way of a lawsuit.
God Bless Watts,
great article, sad story, just thought i'd mention that per your stat's, LA would have 1 officer per ever 422 citizen, not 1 for every 42,000.
This is the saddest thing I've ever read. I can't believe this is happening inside the US. Kids in this location have no chance of survival. WOW. Please forward this to Discovery Channel-Ted Koppel or something. Get it out there in the mainstream. This is very well done. Well done Peter.
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The level of racism and sick ignorance in so many of these comments is shocking, it shows a brutality that is much more scary, disturbing and disgusting than anything written about in this article. the 'blacks' in these gangs want to kill out of their rage, hopelessness and despair. Out of your rage, hopelessness and despair at what you've read about in this article, you want to kill all black people... You are no better than 'they' are. take a look in the mirror.