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Back in NY we had street gangs but nowhere near as bad as LA. It's primarily due to the fact that we had one-big-ass street gang called:
THE MAFIA
They took care of everything. Had a sense of honor and tradition and did not tolerate 'infamnias' meaning things that killed children.
I remember growing up and there were gangs from the bronx like the 'Savage Skulls' and they were no joke. You would rather them shoot you than get into a fist fight with these guys. They were hardbit two-fisted kids but they did have a sense of honor.
What you have here in Los Angeles is generations of people who've been robbed and humiliated by local and state government. Even the CIA came into town and armed these people and tried to deny it. I can see the gangmember's point of view because if you grow up knowing the cops nor the government care about you, then you can't care about them.
It's the ultimate collapse in trust of government.
We used to look at the history of gangs in Los Angeles. There were like 5 generations of people in gangs. How could it have gone on so long? Why no consolidation under a commission?
Normally gangs consolidate and move to legitimize but I guess in this region the fact that so many family structures are destroyed you have kids training kids to kill.
The government won't do shit til a rich famous white celebrity gets bumped off. Then they'll send in the 5th Battalion and make a lot of noise and act like they're doing something.
Just the thought that a kid, a KID, would gun down a decorated officer in BROAD FUCKING DAYLIGHT coming out of THE COURT HOUSE is enough to establish martial law. But nooOOOOoo, they buried the cop, locked up the kid and turned on the Rush Limbaugh Show and blamed the liberals, democrats and Clinton.
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