Friday, February 1, 2008

cm press # 291


CONGRATULATIONS COSTA MESA, YOU'RE A HISPANIC GANG HUB!

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM?

Here's a portion of an article appearing in the OC REGISTER today about gangs.

"According to the District Attorney's Office, Orange County has 306 gangs, mostly Hispanic, with 92 of them in 350,000-resident Santa Ana. Other hubs for gangs are Garden Grove, Fullerton and Costa Mesa, authorities say."

Here's the LINK.

Why has Costa Mesa become a gang hub?

1. The lefties have made our city an illegal alien sanctuary. We've had poor leadership for many years.

2. Some in the CMPD and the local establishment apparently can't seem to admit that the real problem is Hispanic gangs. Thus, they're wasting our time and money and endangering citizens by not being effective against Hispanic gangs and gang members who they seem to want to coddle.

If you want to solve a problem, you first have to correctly identify the problem.

Trust us folks, if you have a hangnail and you think the problem is that you have dandruff, you'll never fix your hangnail.

Hispanic gangs have certain characteristics that can be used to rid the city of them. That's why we have to correctly identify the problem and not hide it.

The primary characteristic of Hispanic gangs is that they are turf oriented. This means that they stake out a certain neighborhood or part of a neighborhood and claim it as theirs. Hispanic gangs need a specific habitat as much as motorcycle gangs need motorcycles.

That's what most of the gang graffiti is about, especially the graffiti where you'll see a gang name and an arrow, usually pointing down. That tells other gangs that this is turf owned by this particular gang.

Such gangs often continue in certain neighborhoods--usually where there are slum apartments--for many, many years, even generations.

The best way to remove such gangs is to destroy their habitats. This means you remove the slum buildings. With the habitats gone, the gang members will drift apart and leave all on their own steam.

Don't tell us that if we remove the habitats for gangs, we're just pushing the problem someplace else.

That's not our problem. We need to selfishly guard the health and safety of the citizens of OUR city. Costa Mesa can't solve all of the world's problems, folks. It's up to us to make OUR city a safe and desirable place for our citizens. Other cities can do as they wish for their citizens. That's why we have cities in the first place.

Some cities are nice and some are not so nice. In both cases, look to the leaders in those cities and you'll see why they are the way they are. Nice cities have leaders who insist that their cities be nice, bad cities have leaders who don't care.

By doing the right things, we can improve Costa Mesa so that WE can live the American dream and not fear for the safety of our kids and so we can have schools that are first class and so we can have a high quality of life.

Let those in other cities solve similar problems as they see fit. That's their responsibility.

One of the first things the Costa Mesa City Council should do is to make sure that the right people in the CMPD are fighting gangs. If we have people in charge who don't really understand the problem or who have biases and prejudices that blind them to the real nature of the problem, then we're going to see more and more gang violence and we're going to start seeing innocent people being killed by stray bullets.

We have to make sure that we have the right culture and mindset within the CMPD to handle this. Many citizens believe we do not now have that right culture or mindset.

We also seem to have some in the CMPD who have contempt for citizens of this city. That has to change.
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