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Invite illegals and Mexicans into your neighbourhoods.

Be ready for gangs/guns/knives/violence/Mexican flags and more!

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/060106dnmetgangsonline.1cf19395.html

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Teen gangs find voice on Web 

Parents, officials worry social networking sites could convert wannabes 

11:42 PM CDT on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 

By KATHERINE LEAL UNMUTH / The Dallas Morning News 

Teen gang members and wannabes are finding a platform in cyberspace to
brag, bully and blog about their exploits. 

Social networking sites feature Dallas-area youths dressed up
gangster-style and flashing gang signs, holding guns and knives, getting
tattooed or partying with marijuana. Common images include pit bulls, gang
pledges and rivals' colored flags on fire. 

Many of the Web postings come from kids who merely want to imitate the
gangster image, which is not illegal, investigators say. But they add that
they have to take the sites seriously because some of the postings come
from serious gang members and many of the "wannabes" can become real
dangers. 

Irving's Nimitz High School Resource Officer Ken Richardson says parents
need to take the words and photos posted by their children seriously, too.

"A lot of times they're shocked," he said of the images he's shown to
parents. "To me if they're already acting out, taking pictures and
throwing gang signs, the parents should be looking at that and talking
with their kids." 

Gang-related postings come from teens all over, with screen names such as
"oakcliff-crip" in Dallas and "bloodthuglife213" in Grand Prairie. The
sites include MySpace and MiGente.com as well as a new site, Bebo.com. 

Bebo officials say membership among schools spreads through word of mouth
and note that Irving high school students are "very active," with 1,200 to
1,500 users per school. That may be because the school district provides
every high school student with a laptop and wireless Internet access. 

Most of the postings on Bebo are not gang-themed. But a feature on the
home page for each school allows users to design online graffiti bricks on
what's called "The Wall." 

In Irving, the bricks include prominent references to the mostly Hispanic
gangs "South Side 13" in blue scrawl or "West Side 12" in red. Screen
names include "lil salvatrucho13," for the infamous Salvadoran gang MS-13;
"2800bloc," referring to a block of Pioneer Drive where police have noted
gang activity; "surcrips;" and "wssidegangster." 

These cyber-gangsters conduct online polls asking what color or gang teens
represent. They arrange fights in person and rehash past victories. 

One young user, who calls himself Jose, pledges his allegiance to the
Sure�os 13 gang: click click bang bang. In a blurry photo he stands
holding what appears to be a rifle in front of a Mexican flag. "I
represent that southside," he writes. "So don't run up and try all that
wack [expletive] cuz I will shoot ... " 

"Get strapped quik!!!" another teen writes. "I aint playin!!!" 

Several teens responded to a reporter's inquiry about their postings with 
profanity and threats. One wrote "duh we in a gang," before bragging he
was in an FBI book of pictures of West Side 12 gang members. 

"I do this cus im proud of my family, my friends and mostly the hood,"
wrote a 15-year-old who goes by the screen name "wstwix." "it's a promise
that u keep 4 the futer generation how to protect ur neighbors show every
body that were not punks that we are willing to die 4 la raza u know take
a bullet 4 each other." 

Monitoring use 

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For its part, the Irving school district already blocks access to social 
networking Web sites. But students get around the filters and are often
online during school hours. 

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He and other educators call for more parental supervision. 

Maria de la luz Flores, whose children attend Nimitz High, said Latino
parents may be at a disadvantage because of language barriers or a lack of
education. 

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"Right now we see most school districts banning these sites but not
addressing how they should be dealt with," he said. "This is a
conversation everybody should be having." 

Police tool 

Irving and Dallas police say the sites help them keep tabs on gangs: which
ones are active, details about recent incidents, new trends in dress and
language. Some members even post photos of themselves creating graffiti. 

...

Irving police say they have no specific numbers on gang-related arrests or
assaults and haven't seen other evidence of a growing threat. "While we
have gang activity, it's not reached a level that our officers are looking
at an increase or decrease," Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said. 

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"On a civic level, I don't think they're ready to admit how severe their
gang problem is," he said. "You've got this urban ideal matched with
suburban money. You've got the Las Colinas business community side of the
world saying we are not Dallas and the kids saying we are."