The Gangs of Los Angeles: Where Are McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on this Issue?
Perhaps it is easier to solve the problems in Iraq, than on the streets of Los Angeles, and that is why our presidential candidates and the reporters, who follow them, never bring up the issue of murderous gang violence all over this country...and ask the most obvious question to the candidates: What are you going to do about it?
The Los Angeles Times ran a story on gang violence in the northeast section of the city(Feb 22nd, 2008:www.latimes.com)...here is a sample of what was reported :
"Gangs that have been here for generations have been going at each
other," Bratton said during a news conference, referring to the Avenues
and Cypress Park gangs.
Since the beginning of the year, authorities said Avenues gang members
are suspected in at least six homicides. Northeast Division, typically
far from the most violent in the city, already has eight homicides this
year, more than any other, police said. At that rate, the division
would far eclipse last year's total of 18.
Photo GalleryDeputy Chief Sergio Diaz said that while the area has gang problems, the level of violence in the last few weeks is "unheard of."
The following journalists compiled this story:
richard.winton@latimes.com
andrew.blankstein@latimes.com
susannah.rosenblatt@latimes.com
Times staff writers Jack Leonard and Paloma Esquivel contributed to this report.
We all know that poverty, and drug abuse and territorial control, are all a major part of the problem, but after identifying the problem for the last 30 years, you would think there would be a national effort to solve it.
It's much easier for the candidates to offer their solutions to the economy and the war in Iraq, than telling us exactly what they would do to solve this nasty underbelly of America, which destroys thousands of lives, each year.
Thanks for reading:
Bob Kholos
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