I know it's a serious article and all but I'm giggling at the thought of a hardcore con with a tattoo that says "salad bowl"

Yeah! California is farking crazy! Do yourself a favor and don't move here!

"Salad Bowl" - you keep tattooing that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Let's see...peaceful evenings in the midwest or gangland violence on the west coast.

Nope, I'll stay. Good luck to the police out there...the ones that aren't as corrupt as the gangs that is.

Let me guess, Mexican gangbangers have something to do with this.

SeamusFerrell: Let me guess, Mexican gangbangers have something to do with this.

Ya think?

When the people can't trust the police or they don't agree with the laws, this will happen.

It's the American spirit at its best.

Was this article even edited? There is no cohesion to this story at all.

at what point is a systemic problem by a clear demographic not racial profiling & just necessary procedure?

But Fetherolf, who took office this year, also blamed a tradition of police officers who "love the chase. They get into this business to kick ass and take names, by and large. We're at odds with ourselves because of the people we hire."

Obviously he never saw Colors

Bigdogdaddy: SeamusFerrell: Let me guess, Mexican gangbangers have something to do with this.

Ya think?

Both of you make me sick.

/salad summit?
//talk it out?
///all I got, not a good troll

HowDareYouCallMeAHoser: Bigdogdaddy: SeamusFerrell: Let me guess, Mexican gangbangers have something to do with this.

Ya think?

Both of you make me sick.

/salad summit?
//talk it out?
///all I got, not a good troll

Looks like you're doing fine to me.

at80eighty: at what point is a systemic problem by a clear demographic not racial profiling & just necessary procedure?

You also make me sick! The next time an ethnic person is pointing a gun in your face, just try talking to him/her, you would be surprised just how scared they really are.

Caveman!

So that's why people drive like complete oblivious idiots in their late-90's Suburbans and Silverados with new rims on that area of the 101.

Wait, did I say Iraq? I meant Salinas Charming, California



/hot like Kyle's back.

10 to 15% of families contain a gang member.... that's not very many for a problem this size. Me thinks he underestimates.

If the problem is as big as it sounds then call in the National Guard, put the city under martial law, get a declaration that these gangs are an organized insurgence and thus traitors to the nation, throw the word "terrorist" in there anywhere, declare them KOS. Anyone who does not cooperate is charged with hindering and collaboration.

The reason that kids join gangs is because they see the gangs as the best option for their livelyhood. Make the cost of being in a gang too high and people won't want to be in them anymore.

The voters of Salinas rejected a 1-cent sales tax to help fight it. Salinas voters value a penny in saved taxes over not getting shot by a gang member and being able to go outside at night.

Now, I know some of you don't like taxes, but you gotta agree with me that that was a bullshiat decision by the voters of Salinas.

fireandashes36: Yeah! California is farking crazy! Do yourself a favor and don't move here!

Particularly the area from Santa Barbara to the Oregon border. It's an utter wasteland there, a shiathole if you will. An unlivable hell scape. Here be dragons, folks. Stay away.

We depend on the Middle East for oil and the Central Valley for food. Biggest waste I've seen is a Barnes and Noble in Fresno.

Since February, combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have been advising Salinas police on counterinsurgency strategy, bringing lessons from the battlefield to the meanest streets in an American city.

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

People are stupid and will believe what their local 'news' tells them.

police are a paramilitary occupying force, there and everywhere else.

HowDareYouCallMeAHoser: at80eighty: at what point is a systemic problem by a clear demographic not racial profiling & just necessary procedure?

You also make me sick! The next time an ethnic person is pointing a gun in your face, just try talking to him/her, you would be surprised just how scared they really are.

Caveman!

I've had an ethnic person point a gun in my face, so I got a kick out of this reply.

/He only got about $50 bucks off of me
//Glad that I walked away with no unnatural holes in my body.

Weaver95: Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.


huh?? even on an advisory basis?

Aevum: Make the cost of being in a gang too high and people won't want to be in them anymore.

Lou Dobbs mystery solved.

Gosling: The voters of Salinas rejected a 1-cent sales tax to help fight it. Salinas voters value a penny in saved taxes over not getting shot by a gang member and being able to go outside at night.

They're smart!
The people knows all those pennies will just end up in the politician pocket, not toward making their community safer.

Weaver95: Since February, combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have been advising Salinas police on counterinsurgency strategy, bringing lessons from the battlefield to the meanest streets in an American city.

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

Yeah but a lot of cops are guards and reservists and therefore most likely combat veterans anyways. Plus it never says that they are actively enforcing the law just advising the police on strategies.

at80eighty: Weaver95: Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.


huh?? even on an advisory basis?

depends on how you want to read it. A strict interpretation forbids the military to advise local police within US borders...but I honestly don't know if any US court has weighed in on the issue. Frankly, given our culture of fear I think the courts are willing to let this one slide if it'll keep the masses content.

Gosling
Now, I know some of you don't like taxes, but you gotta agree with me that that was a bullshiat decision by the voters of Salinas.

The voters of Salinas are the gangs.

RanDomino: police are a paramilitary occupying force, there and everywhere else.

But not the gangs, right? Only the responsible white people with government power, right? Smash the state and the problem will be solved, right?

Drive-by Chomskyism by someone who put as much effort into reading him as he did into that comment, gotta love it.

FTA: ""Obviously, there are restrictions," said Salinas Deputy Police Chief Kelly McMillin. "Not only the constitutional part of it, but just the idea we are going to have choppers fast-roping onto Alisal Street."

Um, those aren't two separate ideas. But, of course, that's how most authorities think.

HowDareYouCallMeAHoser: You also make me sick! The next time an ethnic person is pointing a gun in your face, just try talking to him/her, you would be surprised just how scared they really are.

Caveman!


AHEM I'm a brownie - if I wanted darn ethnics with guns pointin at me I'd hang out at a KKK rally thankyouverymuch

Yay! Give them food stamps and health care and call anyone a xenophobe who mentions this in an attempt to demonstrate how sympathetic our government is towards illegal immigrants!

damn beaners need to integrate into society. I'm from that area, and those punks just don't want to play nice.

It's not the hardworking parents who came here originally; good luck to them, they are just trying to live the American Dream(TM).

It's the punk ass kids who drive around in Mustangs with shiatty paint jobs and unfinished body kits with the words "Hecho en Mexico" blazed across the back.

If Mexico is so great, get on back!

1) wall of cali
2) dump all the federal prisoners into cali
3) ????
4) PROFIT! Off a real life Escape from LA


/got nothing
//any where is better than Kaleefournia

ZipSplat
But not the gangs, right? Only the responsible white people with government power, right? Smash the state and the problem will be solved, right?

people join gangs because they don't have any viable economic options. the job of the police is to prevent people from taking back what's rightfully theirs. so it should be no surprise that people turn to gangs as their economic situation gets worse and worse. but rather than let us take what we need from the rich (entire productive enterprises, not taxes), the pigs and politicians are always inventing new ways to crush us.

Weaver95: depends on how you want to read it. A strict interpretation forbids the military to advise local police within US borders...but I honestly don't know if any US court has weighed in on the issue. Frankly, given our culture of fear I think the courts are willing to let this one slide if it'll keep the masses content.

yeah but this is a problem that the cops are

a) unable to control, and
b) as Gosling pointed out, the residents cant give a damn enough to spare a penny to fix it either

so where is the point someone does something, even it means asking for tips on counter tactics?

That Guy...From That Show!: FTA: ""Obviously, there are restrictions," said Salinas Deputy Police Chief Kelly McMillin. "Not only the constitutional part of it, but just the idea we are going to have choppers fast-roping onto Alisal Street."

Um, those aren't two separate ideas. But, of course, that's how most authorities think.

Fast-roping is unconstitutional?

Gosling, last year they increased the sales tax by a penny to save the city libraries. Instead it went to planting trees and renovating the parks, and now the libraries have cut hours. No where in the the Measure did it say the tax was guaranteed to go to public safety.

cduke23: "Salad Bowl" - you keep tattooing that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Well, they are gang members. Presumably some have tossed their fair share of it in prison.

RanDomino: the job of the police is to prevent people from taking back what's rightfully theirs.

What color is the sun on your planet?

HowDareYouCallMeAHoser: You also make me sick! The next time an ethnic person is pointing a gun in your face, just try talking to him/her, you would be surprised just how scared they really are.

Caveman!

I am hispanic and the only person who has ever put a gun to my face was white paranoid tweaker. Personally I hope that if I ever have a gun pointed at my face again no matter what the situation that I or someone I trust has a gun pointed at them. Screw talking about their issues. By the way when someone has a gun in your face I doubt they are more scared of you.

Well you have to admit...

Both Muslims and Hispanics are brown, smelly, and stupid. Explains why every Muslim and Hispanic country is a backwards arse country ruled buy dictators. Some people are just too stupid to rule themselves.

The Mexican Mafia is a serious problem both in Mexico and in the U.S. Yes, I do think that's who is behind this.

ZipSplat: That Guy...From That Show!: FTA: ""Obviously, there are restrictions," said Salinas Deputy Police Chief Kelly McMillin. "Not only the constitutional part of it, but just the idea we are going to have choppers fast-roping onto Alisal Street."

Um, those aren't two separate ideas. But, of course, that's how most authorities think.

Fast-roping is unconstitutional?

I'm pretty sure it won't be strippers fast-roping onto Alisal Street.

at80eighty: Weaver95: depends on how you want to read it. A strict interpretation forbids the military to advise local police within US borders...but I honestly don't know if any US court has weighed in on the issue. Frankly, given our culture of fear I think the courts are willing to let this one slide if it'll keep the masses content.

yeah but this is a problem that the cops are

a) unable to control, and
b) as Gosling pointed out, the residents cant give a damn enough to spare a penny to fix it either

so where is the point someone does something, even it means asking for tips on counter tactics?

Are we a society of laws or not? The law says we're not permitted to have the military involved with local law enforcement. If local cops can't or won't get the job done...then there's the state police or federal cops who can step in for the assist. There isn't any reason or cause for military forces to be acting as advisers to domestic law enforcement. The job of the military is to kill people and break stuff. the job of a cop is to serve and protect the people of their community. their missions are incompatible.

Team Nemesis:


1) wall of cali
2) dump all the federal prisoners into cali
3) ????
4) PROFIT! Off a real life Escape from LA _Starring Paul Walker & Vin Diesel

RanDomino: people join gangs because they don't have any viable economic options. the job of the police is to prevent people from taking back what's rightfully theirs. so it should be no surprise that people turn to gangs as their economic situation gets worse and worse. but rather than let us take what we need from the rich (entire productive enterprises, not taxes), the pigs and politicians are always inventing new ways to crush us.

I give it a 7/10 kind of has that rage against the machine feel.

at80eighty: HowDareYouCallMeAHoser: You also make me sick! The next time an ethnic person is pointing a gun in your face, just try talking to him/her, you would be surprised just how scared they really are.

Caveman!


AHEM I'm a brownie - if I wanted darn ethnics with guns pointin at me I'd hang out at a KKK rally thankyouverymuch

Love your cookies. Should you be hanging out on FARK at this hour, or any hour?

/Why do you hate Latin Americans, little girl?