Los Angeles Gangs, and establishing new projects
Jill Stewart says it better than I could: click here.
Reading the ballot choices, if I were registered in Los Angeles I would vote against this measure.
1. As an alum from a public high school and recent graduate myself (Class of 2006) I can say firsthand that if someone wants to be in a gang, the Government cannot stop them. No matter what the cost or the effort, after school programs are a waste of money. The only benefit that I received were tutoring programs for those who are challenged in certain subjects. For me: that was math. I encountered some pretty strange misfits in my last year of high school. There was the girl who was obsessed with Alice in Wonderland and would proudly recount her sexual proclivities during math class. Then there was a girl who loved to talk about penis cakes and how much she loved dope. Then there was the time someone 'shanked' another in the eye. Then the time my English teacher (if hes reading this, Mr. _______, greetings!) chased down a panicked teenager who was smoking marijuana on school grounds.
My point is there will always be gangs but there will always be after school programs. I personally detested after school programs because that was when I was the most miserable. That is when most mischief happened and adolescents got their rowdiest. In elementary school, I was picked on. In kindergarten, jr high school students massacred the class's mascot pets: baby guinea pigs and rabbits. Once a kid starts early at something like that I feel it is not the peoples' responsibility to rehab them. It is up to the individual. The criminal himself.
Regarding the second proposition: establishing low-rent projects. I can only foresee a disaster. More to be posted later.
Reading the ballot choices, if I were registered in Los Angeles I would vote against this measure.
1. As an alum from a public high school and recent graduate myself (Class of 2006) I can say firsthand that if someone wants to be in a gang, the Government cannot stop them. No matter what the cost or the effort, after school programs are a waste of money. The only benefit that I received were tutoring programs for those who are challenged in certain subjects. For me: that was math. I encountered some pretty strange misfits in my last year of high school. There was the girl who was obsessed with Alice in Wonderland and would proudly recount her sexual proclivities during math class. Then there was a girl who loved to talk about penis cakes and how much she loved dope. Then there was the time someone 'shanked' another in the eye. Then the time my English teacher (if hes reading this, Mr. _______, greetings!) chased down a panicked teenager who was smoking marijuana on school grounds.
My point is there will always be gangs but there will always be after school programs. I personally detested after school programs because that was when I was the most miserable. That is when most mischief happened and adolescents got their rowdiest. In elementary school, I was picked on. In kindergarten, jr high school students massacred the class's mascot pets: baby guinea pigs and rabbits. Once a kid starts early at something like that I feel it is not the peoples' responsibility to rehab them. It is up to the individual. The criminal himself.
Regarding the second proposition: establishing low-rent projects. I can only foresee a disaster. More to be posted later.
Posted by M Lazar @ 10/20/2008 07:13:00 PM
8 Comments:
Agree on the last post, about subsidized low income projects being forced into every hood is crazy. In council on Friday discussing Prop 5 -- letting dope addicts and such out of jail and into "rehab" programs even when they've committed felonies like carjacking and drug dealing, robbery and more as long as they didn't use a weapon and make it armed felony. which Cardenas and Reyes were for and many others against, T J in the Hills Reyes uttered another of his remarks that are so scary you have to wonder why the media isn't pouncing on them. Not even Jill Stewart. Ron Kaye and his rightwing old people and various groups who hate Reyes and the rest are going after the wrong people and targets, seeing the world from the view of their own suburban blinders. Ron himself is obsessed with one neighbor turning his house into a few apparent rentals, which is a lowering of quality and value in the hood.
He said that with 40% of the people in his and some other council districts below the poverty line, they HAVE TO deal drugs to make ends meet, that's a way of life in this city, maybe in this country."
And Reyes is the one pushing hardest in his dangerous capacity as head of PLUM for the projects, the extra percentage required in every development everywhere for these very poor drug dealers. (He's pushing to require 20% mandatory low-low income housing in every building even the poshest condo anywhere, vs. the 10% that's becoming required now.)
By Reyes' own admission these people are dealing drugs. And we're supposed to subsidize them and their multitudes of kids to live in our neighborhoods with our kids. Our kids already can't go to public school because those very kids are the large majority.
These anchor babies come here and force the middle class out of their schools and even the city, being replaced mostly with childless singles trying to make it in Hollwood, gay couples, and older people remaining. (Who'll have a smaller pie of that subsidized housing than currently.) Half drop out of school, join gangs, and you're right Maia, no way is some scheme to tax property owners again like Hahn's cooked up with Cardenas going to solve that problem. Then these drug pushers and toughs will just prevent kids in Brentwood and Topanga from going out on their own streets but hey, that's justice and fairness, right? (Maybe when this hits Topanga even old lefte hippies like Rosendahl and Celeste Fremon of Witness LA will stop pandering to the gangbangers so much.)
I read a while back in the San Diego reader that the same thing happened here in San Diego. That basically once projects start moving into once safe neighborhoods, crime rates dramatically increased. It is quite troubling to think about if the prop passes!
I agree with previous posters that once low-rent projects full of people who admittedly thrive on a second economy of drug dealing no less move into a hood, the crime rate soars and the character changes forever. Plus then there's panic selling and moving, developers will have to raise rates for the remaining people who pay market rate IF they can get anyone to move in.
Sadly I see no viable candidate for Mayor. Moore is a flyweight no one can take seriously, Caruso a pompous jerk who boasts that he'll turn all of LA into his phony malls (to profit himself and his developer friends) if given a chance. We all agree with him that LAUSD suck and should be dissolved, and let people take the money to form charters as allowed and required by law. But he's got no viable solution to the city's problem other than intensifying it with this non-solution crazy solution while he becomes even richer than Eli Broad.
I wish someone would build the damn projects where they belong, where there's nothing but blight now and it's an improvement -- there is NO "right" for anyone of any means and illegal status to move into any neighborhood they want and have those whose homes and neighborhoods they're devaluing pay for it. That's the kind of crazy peasant socialism that has the Latino upper classes south of the border laughing at us in amazement.
Does Tony Villar still make music with his armpits and play "La Cucaracha" like he did when he was 10 years old?
There is a reason why people who live in the projects go on television shows and are profiled on other shows where they've worked like crazy and crawled up out of the projects and into a nice home in the suburbs. Should someone have to work that hard to get out? It seems kind of pointless. If they have kids involved, by the time they're able to work their way out of the projects, the gang bangers have already gotten a grip on their kids or else they live in fear, which can't possibly be good for a child's psyche.
What is the answer?
Keeping in mind that the majority of people don't want gang bangers or small-time drug dealers in their neighborhoods, how do you separate out the poor people who deserve to live in a neighborhood better than the projects but keep out the poor people who just happen to sell crack?
I would love to hear some opinions on or solutions to this issue.
Read "THE BLACK HAND" by Chris Latchford and Rene "Boxer" Enriquez, a former Mexican Mafia chieftain!!!!!
Enriquez is in an undisclosed prison in CA, and turned informant in 2002! He and Latchford were on John & Ken last week. Enriquez the gang prevention programs ARE A JOKE...A TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY!!!
HE SAID THE ONLY WAY TO STOP GANGS IS TO ISOLATE THE MEXICAN MAFIA IN THE PRISON SYSTEM. DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO HAVE VISITORS, PHONE CALLS, EMAILS, OR CONTRACT WITH ANYONE!!!! THEY MUST BE SILENCED!
Anon. 8:59 pm....
You hit the nail on the head. Reyes is the most dangerous person in LA, and must be eradicated.
The thought of having ONE single low income Mexican gangbanger/drug dealer in my neighborhood sends 'chills down my spine'!
Where do these Mexican retards think they are going to get upper middle class buyers for these condos that allow even 10% subsidized housing??? I wouldn't give you a nickel for one!
All I can say is...READ THE BOOK...THE BLACK HAND!!! It will scare the hell out of you! And it's ALL factual! You won't believe it!!!
I'm ready to throw in the towel after living in LA my entire life! It's that bad! And it will only get worse because the Mexican Mafia and drug cartels are running LA!!!
Look no further than the schools! The schools are being run by the Mexican Mafia from prisons! They are recruiting as young as 9 years old!
We have to start by getting rid of every Mexican on City Council...and their White aiders and abettors...Wendy Gruel, Weiss, ALL OF THEM!
No way supporot a gang tax. Not when the non profits in this city are just as corrupt as Wall Street. The executive directors all drive nice cars, make over
$80K a year plus staff and that's where all the money is going.
DON'T WASTE MONEY ON THIS BAD GANG TAX WE NEED TO ACTIVATE EXSISTING PROGRAMS DONE ON DONATIONS LIKE NEWMAN'S OWN THESE TYPE PROGRAMS WORK AT THE SCHOOLS. MAKE EXAMPLES OF THE FELON GANG MEMBERS SIGN JAMIELS LAW.
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