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> http://www.halturnershow.com/
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> BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER SAYS LOS ANGELES IS BECOMING "MOGADISHU"
> In many neighborhoods, particularly near public housing projects,
> black and hispanic street gangs pillage, burn, rob, rape and murder
> at-will.  No one, (not even cops) is safe. Once again, minorities
> prove they are savage beasts.  In many cases, they are totally unfit
> to be in an advanced society like ours.  You may say I'm racist, but
I
> don't care.  The truth is ugly and it is long overdue that someone -
> me - tells it like it is.
>                                               - Hal Turner

It amuses me no end to read of blight hitting multicultarists centers
like Los Angeles. I only with the assored third-worlders would start an
uprising that would culminate in LA's total destruction. But they are
probably overfed on welfare and the spoils of crime.

Jay
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rice23dec23,0,332575.story
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> December 23, 2004
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> COMMENTARY
> L.A.'s Budding Mogadishus
> Nearly feral areas need urgent help.
>
> By Constance L. Rice, Constance L. Rice is a civil rights attorney
>      in Los Angeles.
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>
> In Brazil's favelas, murder is the leading cause of death for
> 10-year-olds. In these urban hyper-barrios, police patrol in
> helicopter gunships. Any delusion of crime prevention gave way to
> containment and suppression long ago. At night, black children hide
> from both rogue cops and gang members; the rich venture from their
> fortress homes nearby only in armored vehicles or private planes. In
> the midst of Rio de Janeiro's splendor, favelas are at a tipping
point
> - on the way to joining Mogadishu as wholly failed "feral" cities,
> engulfed by gangs, black markets, rapacious crime and dysfunction.
>
> Could Los Angeles be headed down this road? No, not anytime soon, at
> least for the vast majority of the city. But the hot spots of
> underclass Los Angeles are well on the way. If ignored, they will
> metastasize, and eventually pose a real danger to the larger region.
>
> L.A.'s hot zones are tiny, intensely dangerous areas where nothing
> works, where law has broken down and mainstream institutions simply
> fail. Places where mail carriers and meter readers balk when the
> bullets fly. Where paramedics and firefighters are hesitant to enter
> because of the crossfire. Where police officers go in only heavily
> reinforced or with helicopters; in the LAPD's South Bureau there was
> an 80% increase in sniper fire on police in 2004, according to a
> report by LAPD Chief William Bratton.
>
> These zones are often found in and near public housing projects,
> although the worst privately owned slums - like the gang-ridden
> apartment complex at 69th and Main that was recently ordered
evacuated
> by the city - mirror the conditions.
>
> In Jordan Downs, for instance, one of three gang-dominated housing
> projects in Watts, the predominantly African American Grape Street
> Crips routinely beat Latinos (among others), engage in regular
> home-invasion robberies and have been known to murder residents who
> dare report their activities. When the LAPD set up a police kiosk in
> Jordan to quell rising crime, the gangs blew it up; the LAPD left and
> did not return for more than a decade. In the Ramona Gardens housing
> project, the last three black families didn't survive long enough to
> suffer the perpetual abuse that residents of Jordan have endured:
> Latino gangsters firebombed them out of their units.
>
> Schools near these complexes boast 70% dropout rates,
violence-related
> lockdowns and children with post-traumatic stress disorder levels as
> high as those seen in civil wars. The neighborhoods host hundreds of
> prison-brutalized men wed to cults of destruction and the
> hyper-masculinity of the powerless. Ex-cons who try to change must
> defy a dehumanizing dragnet that draws 70% of them back into prison.
> All face relentless search-and-destroy policing. With job prospects
> virtually nonexistent and few other exit ramps from the prison-parole
> hamster wheel, escape is rare.
>
> Years ago I asked gang members what happened to kids who "just said
> no" to the Bloods or V-18s. They brought me a videotape other gang
> members had made for a 14-year-old boy who had refused to join them.
> The tape showed gang members raping his 13-year-old sister. The boy
> joined the gang so that its members wouldn't return to kill her.
>
> Is there no one in this city to protect these children? A city that
> leaves its children to predators is on the road to Mogadishu.
>
> But what is to be done? Though violence and gangs pose a terrible
> menace to residents and cops, it is deadly error to confuse them with
> the root cause. They are merely the toxic byproducts of malignant
> poverty and deprivation that we apparently do not have the will to
end.
>
>
>
> Until recently, our leaders either ignored this uglier L.A. - the
City
> Council, for example, focused last year not on Jordan or Ramona but
on
> forcing the LAPD to waste time responding to thousands of false home
> alarms in middle-class neighborhoods - or enacted small and isolated
> test programs. That's the equivalent of flossing when a root canal is
> needed instead.
>
> Lately, a few L.A. leaders appear to have recognized that smarter
> solutions are way overdue. Councilman Martin Ludlow has proposed an
> urban affairs department to coordinate and elevate the city's
> scattershot programs into more sophisticated and aggressive gang
> intervention strategies. Bratton and county Sheriff Lee Baca are
> calling for more cops - but they also agree that cops must switch to
> problem-solving policing, and they champion restoration of the $1
> billion a year in prevention funds lost since Proposition 13 passed
in
> 1978. Equally critical, Rob Reiner led voters to back universal
> preschool, and all-day kindergarten is now on the drawing board.
>
> On a more controversial track, City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo has
stepped
> up the use of collective neighborhood strategies like injunctions and
> mass evictions. Last week, a judge ordered the eviction of all the
> tenants from a complex that gang members had used as a headquarters
> for 20 years.
>
> Though eviction of the innocent is rarely defensible, the instinct to
> check virulent violence with vigorous remedies is right. Eviction, if
> it is done, must be a last resort, and it must include full
> compensation, including money for relocation to an available
apartment
> in the same neighborhood for all evictees.
>
>
>
> But these smarter strategies, however welcome, will not be enough.
> L.A.'s danger zones require radical vision, scaled-up remedies,
> sustained and strategic investment, and a level of leadership and
will
> that currently do not exist. In the end, remedies that attack
symptoms
> but leave root causes intact do nothing but create future blowback.
>
> We must build a city where gangs can't get near a single kid under 16
> and where any gang member who wants out can exit la vida loca - and
> live. Then let's get really radical and actually end the malignant
> poverty that drives the violent dysfunction. Choose this road or join
> Rio's trajectory toward Mogadishu.
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> 2005 Los Angeles Times