Jim Mork wrote:
Regarding the recent bystander homicide, myWM: The Bloods are always a threat if you live near them. Last week, one member got shot in the butt just five houses south of me. An uncle to this bunch was murdered at 31st and Eliot in May or June this year. Another was shot at the corner of Park and Lake on Monday. We 911 shots fired on a regular basis.
question would be, when was the last time this
happened in THIS neighborhood? I'm aware of a young boy who was shot on the northside. But the
other case I really remember happened at
University and Hamline in St Paul. And back in
the middle 90's, a black man became the victim of
a shooting while waiting for a bus on East 38th
Street across from Sabathani Center.
The reason I bring this up is that several list
participants are talking as if this is an ongoing
problem. As if the Rolling 30s have been a
constant threat. Yet my observation is that the
Rolling 30s have been doing whatever they do
without harm to bystanders for quite a few years.
WM: The Detroit Boys are what's left over from the Chambers Brothers Gang in Detroit. The joint police powers of Detroit rounded up a huge number of this 400 person gang which was tearing Detroit apart. (Your public library has a book on the Chambers Brothers Gang and their take down by Detroit police, et.al.) They seem to have nested most strongly into the east Phillips area.So it seem to me that there has been a change in the last couple of years. Has the DEA turned violent again, because a nationwide crime surge followed the declaration of all-out war by Reagan in 1986. There was a very striking increase in violent crime from 1986 to 1992. And Minneapolis became "Murderapolis" during that countrywide surge. In fact, the Gary and Detroit gangs arrived in some numbers and violence between the homegrown and import gangs generated a lot of our "local" violence.
WM: Intergang warfare is pretty unpredictable. Much of it results from turf battles, though revenge for slights or other causes is another gang motivator.The police would have to supply the real data to explain this outburst, and they don't overdose the public with what they know. Which may be why we can't help very much till it is too late. I'm asking the city to change that. Until they do, we can only guess why THIS outbreak came. One can only hope Tyesha's murder wasn't due to a public left in the dark. I notice that AFTER she was dead, they found the suspects very quickly.
WM: The media would have to devote reporters to covering gang activity exclusively 24/7 to keep track of all of it. There are several Asian gangs, there are Latino gangs, home grown gangs, and gangs imported from other cities gangs.They SWARM to report a bystander killing, but they fail utterly to give us objective accounts of the state of society which causes the breach of peace.
WM: Al Austin, once the I Team guy, spent a lot of time watching from a house on Fourth Av. when it was known as crack alley. He missed getting drilled by an inch when some jerk sprayed the front of the house with bullets. I don't know how much the press could ferret out which would mean anything other than a vicarious look at gang behavior. Police Dept. ability to crack cases usually means playing if very close to the chest so that no news gets back to the gang players. I'm more interested in police catching these thugs than in reading about it in the paper. Besides, police have been very forthcoming with information they can afford to impart here in the 3rd precinct. Also, when you live where gangs are nested in, it's best not to be too knowledgeable about some things.But now that Minneapolis residents feel much more vulnerable, maybe the "I teams" will be turned on this matter and will tell us what our law enforcement at local and national levels are doing.
WizardMarks, Central
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