Meanwhile, on the Other Side of the River… August 21, 2008
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Tonight’s installment of “Shared St. Louis” on Channel 4 focused on the growing Hispanic population (and, predictably, Hispanic gangs) over on the East Side, specifically, Fairmont City and State Park.
That part of the Metro East has been a great draw for Hispanics for about ten years, for two main reasons: (1) Farmhands for the farms in the river bottoms, and (2) The racetrack, as stable workers, and jockeys in some cases.
Nevertheless, tonight’s installment, like most of the others, tried to overdramatize the number and presence of white gangs. At one point, they interviewed a Hispanic woman who said that she has been repeatedly been attacked by white thugs. I know she’s not telling the truth, because if it were, the FBI, and the Politically Correct Illinois State law enforcement authorities, plus the local media, and might I add the ADL and the SPLC, would have been all over it to the point that a cave-dwelling retard halfway around the world would know about it.
They also showed some proto-evidence of white gangs by showing a split second image of a stop sign that had a lot of graffiti on it, one of the items appeared to be a swastika. If it really was, I bet some dorkey white kid put it up, but there’s certainly nothing close to an organized gang around that mentality.
One trailer whose owner flies a Confederate Battle Flag was shown, along with the owner of both. First off, that flag doesn’t appear too sun-bleached or weather-beaten, so he probably doesn’t fly it frequently. Second, what does the Confederate Battle Flag have to do with Hispanics? I mean, I could rationalize it if it were blacks in his trailer park, because of the long-standing hostility that blacks have toward things Confederate and Southern White, but I am not aware that Hispanics share this animosity. My guess is that he’s doing the only thing he think he can do, which is to grasp at straws.
Also, the Mexican-American owner of a Hispanic-themed grocery and restaurant was shown. He said that he “moved” here because he appreciated America’s lower cost of living and higher wages. Which won’t be one of America’s feature for much longer as more and more of his compatriots “move” here.
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Channel 4 also did a story tonight about the International Association of Black Police Officers, who are holding their convention in St. Louis at this time. Conventioneers, so we are told, are upset about the lack of diversity in police departments. This after years and years and decades of affirmative/positive action in recruitment and promotion. However, the one thing that always hurts their cause is that way too many blacks have a disqualifying criminal record. A felony conviction, in America, and whatever the Canadian and British equivalent is, in those situations.
Keith Jarrett was also interviewed, and essentially stated that the problem in London with the Met is no different. Mr. Jarrett, almost a year ago, and on his way out as the President of England’s black police officers association, said that blacks should be racially profiled. This is probably something he didn’t brag about while he was here in St. Louis.
The FBI and Interpol Can’t Do It, So Obviously the Solution is a Lawsuit Brought by the Los Angeles City Attorney August 19, 2008
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L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, in the L.A.tino Times:
Finally, gangs evolve. So must our methods and our laws. This year, for instance, I sponsored statewide legislation, which the governor recently signed into law, to allow prosecutors to sue gang members in civil court for damages. Now gang leaders, or “shot callers,” can be held accountable for the full spectrum of damage their foot soldiers cause — from graffiti vandalism to the costs associated with violent crime. This tool should prove particularly effective against gang leaders who direct criminal activities from behind bars, a problem Sheriff Lee Baca and Police Chief William J. Bratton have discussed in recent months.
MS-13 and the 18th Streeters don’t seem to fear American criminal law, or the prospect of decades in prison either in America or El Salvador. I don’t think a dinkey little lawsuit over graffiti is going to scare them much.
Most of the rest of the article opines how “law enforcement should go global” to fight what are now international gangs. The same law enforcement here and in El Salvador that is working so well should be expanded everywhere else.
Really, the solution is to deport the international gangs. They might still be international, but they won’t be any of our concern.
Who Are You Going to Believe? A “Gang Ethnographer” in an Ivory Tower, Or Your Own Eyes? August 13, 2008
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Part 2 of Channel 4’s “Shared St. Louis” was tonight. From the transcript:
In St. Louis, gang activity has had the most devastating impact on black families. That’s because more than 90% of the gangs identified by police are African American and nearly all of their victims are also African American.
Have an impact? As if “gangs” are an ethereal force that just “devastates” people out of the blue? “Gang activity…devastates…black families” because nearly all of St. Louis’s gang bangers are black.
Police have also identified Vietnamese and Bosnian gangs in south St. Louis and Hispanic gangs in south St. Louis City, St. Louis County and Fairmont City among other areas. Many of these gang members have criminal records.
But the Vietnamese and Bosnian gangs are far more tame than the black gangs. And if the Hispanic gangs are growing, it’s because the Hispanic population is growing. Still, in the St. Louis area, it’s barely a blip.
In St. Louis, gang activity has had the most devastating impact on black families. That’s because more than 90% of the gangs identified by police are African American and nearly all of their victims are also African American.
Again, like last night, they’re engaging in statistical sophistry. “More than 90%” could mean anywhere between 90.1% and 99.9%. Really, it’s closer to the latter figure, but they’re just saying “over 90%” (emphasis on “90%”) to make you think that there are more non-black gangs than there actually are, with the implication that those non-black gangs are victimizing blacks.
Scott Decker is widely recognized as one of the leading gang experts in the country.
Although, we rarely hear about white gangs, Decker believes white supremacists who are active in south St. Louis, south St. Louis County and Madison County, can be particularly difficult to combat.
The TV version said that those supposed “white supremacist gangs” have generally older members that operate mafia-like. Where’s the evidence? Where’s the mug shots? There would be a lot of mug shots if this was the case. TV showed blurred out mug shots while they were talking about these “white supremacists,” but they were mug shots of mostly black ‘bangers. KMOV could show no white mug shots (and you know they would have if there were any) — for good reason: According to the St. Louis City Police Department’s gang intelligence unit, a “white supremacist gang” in St. Louis is more rare than a tooth on a hen.
Not only that, this blogmeister, advocating the ideology that he does, for the organization that he does, is in a good position to hear the panoply of right-wing gossip. Trust me, there is not a peep about anything that Craig Cheatham and Scott Decker allege.
No, their only evidence was this creep Scott Decker, a so-called “gang expert” and “gang ethnographer,” who interviewed maybe a dozen self-styled gang members from the safety of a Professorial office at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, and probably a few issues of the SPLC’s “Intelligence Report,” and writes books like he knows everything, and knows more than the actual cops that deal with gangs. Other gang ethnographers, IMHO, actually serve to illicit sympathy for gangs and gang members. One example is one who, at the time, was at the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana, who wrote a gang ethnography book based on the time he spent embedded in a gang in Kansas City. I don’t recall his name offhand. His name is Mark S. Fleisher, and the book is Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know
Incidentally, Scott Decker is now at Arizona State University in Tempe, where I’m sure he’s glossing over Hispanic gangs and trying to sound the alarm bell about all the “white supremacist gangs” in the Valley of the Sun, which surely will be “linked at the hip” with the “violent vigilante anti-immigration movement.” Get real.
Also:
Rayford and her two sons moved back into a troubled neighborhood to try to help it heal.
But her oldest son William, nicknamed Mikey, wanted something else. He became a member of the Geraldine Street Crips.
Two months ago Mikey was murdered.
Wanted to help “at-risk kids,” but somehow missed her own “at-risk” son as he “risked” his way into the Crips.
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Tomorrow night, “Shared St. Louis” will be about guns. I can imagine that the NRA will be to blame, and how the guns are the cause of all the evils. To join single parents and abandoned buildings. And white supremacists.
On a Day Like This, I’m Glad I’m a St. Louisan August 12, 2008
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Department of Justice Announces New Anti-Gang Funding to Chicago and Detroit
WASHINGTON, Aug 11, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip today announced the intent to award $2 million to both Chicago and Detroit as part of an expansion of the Department of Justice’s Comprehensive Anti-Gang Initiative. The awards are designed to help law enforcement develop plans to combat gang violence in these cities and surrounding suburbs, and to implement their own anti-gang strategies using three components of prevention, enforcement, and prisoner re-entry.
The local MSM stuck a camera and microphone in front of the snoot of U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway, of the Eastern District of Missouri, to ask why St. Louis City didn’t bag any of this loot. She said that Chicago and Detroit are bigger cities, with more gangs, bigger gangs, and better organized gangs, ones that tend to cooperate with gangs within their city, and with similar gangs in other cities. She said that while St. Louis has Bloods, Crips, MS-13, etc., that they’re more disorganized and disconnected from the national ‘banging scene than Chicago and Detroit.
I think she is telling the truth, but the reasons are taboo. If you think St. Louis is a liberal city, you’re right if you’re comparing it to the rest of the state, but it’s right-wing when compared to Chicago and Detroit. So, Chi and Det start out with a more liberal political base. Add to it very substantial black populations, multiple times more than St. Louis, and city leaders and civic elites that engage in racial pandering even worse than St. Louis, and it’s not hard to see that gangs can coalesce and become relatively powerful.
Chicago’s situation is compounded by a significant Afro-Caribbean Hispanic and (increasingly) Chicano Hispanic population, meaning that they have to contend with Latin Kings, MS-13, the 18th Streeters, and so on. Detroit has a big Middle Eastern population, and while there don’t seem to be classic “street gangs” associated with them, one has to think that some of these “gang funds” will be used to scuttlebutt the possible AQ, Hamas, Hezbollah, Taliban, PLO, etc. cells that could well be sleeping there.
Besides, Miss Hanaway, I wouldn’t be too quick to look this gift horse in the mouth. Wherever there is Federal money, there is Federal control. Mark me, ths loot dumped on Chicago and Detroit will have a lot of those strings attached, and knowing that the subject matter is non-white criminality, that those strings will entail mandates about civil rights, racial pandering, racial sensitivites, pandering to the multitude of civil rights groups and welfare dependent “community activists” of Chicago and Detroit, making sure that some of this money amounts to fungible contributions to left-wing agitators, plus making sure that any coincidental enforcement action against gangs and gang bangers doesn’t violate the civil rights or hurt the feelings of such individuals.
Truth and Consequences March 4, 2008
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Pasty white valley girl makes up a story about her being part Indian, being a foster child, raised in a black family, and running dope for the Bloods in the basin.
Why was the book’s publisher so gullible as not to do any basic fact-checking? My guess is that they ran blindly with this supposedly non-fiction book because they were in tune with the author’s socio-political bias.
Now that the book has been pulled, finding a copy and reading it is going to be a tall order. But if it is anything like the books written by formal academic gang ethnographers, such as Scott Decker of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, or Mark Fleisher of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, then it tells the “truth” (even though in the case of LaC, it’s literally not the truth) about gang activity, but it casts those truths in light of white racism, that which we are made to think is the fundamental perfidy that leads to black and Hispanic gang activity. Therefore, this is probably why the PC book reviewer crowd fawned over LaC.
