Friday, April 25, 2008

CM PRESS # 343


MORE GRAFFITI IN MESA DEL MAR

There was more gang graffiti in Snow Bunny Katrina Foley's Mesa del Mar neighborhood this morning. No, we're not going to tell you where it is. Whenever we do that, the City rushes out and covers it up. Then, the FOFs (Friends of Foley) say "Graffiti? What graffiti? Why, we don't have graffiti and we certainly don't have gangs."

Perhaps the next time Foley feels like attending a City Council meeting, she can talk about how to get rid of the gangs. You know our idea: get rid of the slums--the habitat of the gangs.

Maybe Foley will suggest we collect more cans of food for the folks who live near the Great Park in South County. Or, maybe she'll suggest that she and her pals will go out and plant more flowers in front of the slums in her neighborhood and have a group hug as they did last year. Funny, those flowers and the group hug don't seem to have helped with the gang problem.

More than likely, if Foley does speak about the issue, she'll suggest the usual liberal appeasement plan of sending so-called at risk youths to a couple of the local Return to Reason charities whose officials support Foley and Return to Reason candidates and who can ask for more money from the city if they get more clients.

Some of these charities have been around for decades, yet the gang problems that they're supposed to solve aren't being solved. Wonder why? Because they don't have the right answer to the problems here in Costa Mesa and they have a vested interest in staying in business to give life long employment to the charity bosses. So long as Costa Mesa has gang problems, the charities remain good businesses for the bosses. Stop the problems, and they'll have to find real jobs.

Folks, Costa Mesa is not Santa Ana or Los Angeles. Our gang problems aren't the same as in those cities, and we shouldn't try to rely on those cities' non-working appeasement solutions to solve our unique problems.

As we've written many times before, even a casual study of Costa Mesa's gang problems will suggest the way to solve our problems.

Here's the anatomy of our problem by the numbers:

1. Most of Costa Mesa's gang members are Latino.
2. Most have some connection with illegal aliens and the illegal alien infrastructure and support groups that have developed in this city.
3. Latino gangs are mostly territorial. That is, they are neighborhood oriented. Their neighborhoods are their habitats and safe harbors.
4. Costa Mesa only has a few very intense gang habitats and they're mostly where there are barracks style apartments: Shalimar, Mission-Mendoza, Fillmore-Coolidge, and an area around Rea School.

So, what's the solution suggested by the above?
A. Stop being an illegal alien sanctuary city with magnets that draw illegal aliens here.
B. Destroy the gang habitats. Remove or thin out the barracks style apartments and replace them with modern affordable housing units more spread out around the city instead of being concentrated in some areas.

By spreading out the affordable housing, it will be difficult to form and maintain gangs. This is so, because the critical mass of people needed to form and maintain gangs in a given neighborhood won't be reached. A gang of one or two is not much of a gang.
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SPEAKING OF ILLEGAL ALIENS

The Daily Pilot reports that three people have been arrested on drug charges and are now on ICE holds because they're in the country illegally. What? You mean there are illegal aliens in Costa Mesa? Who'd a thunk it? LINK
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COLLEGE FOR THE WESTSIDE

The CM PRESS continues to talk it up about encouraging a college to open a campus on the Westside. Perhaps a college with a heavy emphasis on medical professions would be appropriate because of the closeness of Hoag Hospital. Perhaps some of the Hoag folks could even be encouraged to help with getting such a college in their area (but, on the Costa Mesa side of the border, please).
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