Why can't (minorities) Just Get Along?

That or the fact they don't belong in the society in the first place - aka "illegal" aliens. Can you say MS13?

Please excuse my "PC exuberance" but white gangs are BIG in the Northwest and they account for a LOT of crime.

Quote:

http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/dcj/insidedcj041806.shtml#tracking

I think this report makes an interesting distinction: that the white gangs tend to be more ideological than criminal.

However, its activity in the community has tended to be more criminal than ideological or overtly racist - the gang is heavily involved in weapons and drug trafficking.

Sheriff traces guns' crooked paths to Compton's streets

By Megan Garvey, Times Staff Writer
January 23, 2007

To crack down on gangs and stem soaring violence in Compton, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca asked his deputies and detectives not just to investigate crime but to also probe where gang members were getting their guns.

So sheriff's officials embarked on an unprecedented census to track down the origins of nearly 900 weapons confiscated there last year.

The results, released Monday, offer a glimpse into the complex and unexpected ways guns get into the hands of gang members.

Sixteen guns recovered in or near Compton were traced to a single store in Sparks, Nev., through databases of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

That same location, officials said, accounted for more than 350 weapons recovered nationwide by law enforcement officials last year, including 65 in the Los Angeles area.

The bureau is investigating the store, and law enforcement officials declined to identify it, Baca said.

The bulk of the weapons confiscated in Compton were originally sold in California. But scores of others came from Arizona, Nevada and Colorado. Nine weapons were registered in Connecticut and a few others were registered in Ohio.

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Thank you, sunrock. I think about the same thing every time it becomes national news that a white girl got lost or abducted while on some exotic vacation.

Right now there's a story being ignored nationally about an apparent murder of a newly elected Black Louisiana mayor, that was made to look like a suicide.

Perspective is a tricky thing.

McG, the title was provocative... probably intentionally so.

Ask any cop in any major U.S. city who the biggest, most problematic gangs are. If any of those you posted are mentioned, I'd be floored.

So, one can never discuss minority violence then without first commenting on non-moniority violence? Is this now the case?

On a lighter note, was thrilled by the president's State o' the Union address. Perhaps he ran out of time begging to send more troops into Iraq and had to cut the section on Katrina? That must've been the case, as Katrina has always been a top priority for him.

McGentrix wrote:

So, one can never discuss minority violence then without first commenting on non-moniority violence? Is this now the case?

No, this is not now the case.

One would hope that one would not be so affected as to separate one's self from other posters. "Minorities" (said with a curled lip).

On a lighter note, was thrilled by the president's State o' the Union address. Perhaps he ran out of time begging to send more troops into Iraq and had to cut the section on Katrina? That must've been the case, as Katrina has always been a top priority for him.