Headline = WIN!

Zing!

Killing a gang member is a $15 fine. You can just mail it in.

/Naked Gun

OK, nice headline.
That being said, why don't I totally trust those numbers? You can easily redefine what a "gang killing" actually is. These guys might just be trying to justify their paychecks.

LA's PD is broke. They want to reduce/hike an exuberant phone tax to pay for it.

Wait this just in/ Whole state is broke due to whole-sale mismanagement of Gov't funds. Can't pay for squat now.

This headline is full of win. +1

some_beer_drinker: all the gang members are getting their legs and arms blown off in the iraq?

Yes.

I've always found criminal organizations to be interesting, especially youth gangs. They have their own symbols, they divide up territory, craft the local economy to fit their desires, and sometimes even use their own cant to communicate.

Gangs are kinda like the PvP guilds of real life...

/shoots self for extreme nerdity

Actually, Onager, PvP guilds are like the pixelized versions of gangs.

Rethorn: Actually, Onager, PvP guilds are like the pixelized versions of gangs.

Secretly, we've replaced Rethorn's pixels with Folger's Polygons. He hasn't noticed.

randomtrollsays: Whole state is broke due to whole-sale mismanagement of Gov't funds. Can't pay for squat now.

Nope, the state is broke due to the Repuglikkkan Governator reducing taxes and the Repuglikkkan President destroying the economy. How about instead of a 10% cut across the board, we finally start making the rich pay their fair share?

I call bunk! They are obviously hiding the bodies in the row houses.

all the gang members got recruited

When the gangs of LA actually cease to exist and are effectively made impotent, I'll jump for joy. These numbers are meaningless to me. They don't tell me I can go for a nice midnight stroll around Boyle heights.

It's because gang violence is being outsourced to Detroit.

/I can say that because I used to live in Detroit.
//Ya RLY.

Recall all Repuglikkkans: Nope, the state is broke due to the Repuglikkkan Governator reducing taxes and the Repuglikkkan President destroying the economy. How about instead of a 10% cut across the board, we finally start making the rich pay their fair share?

You are part of the problem. Please do the gene pool a favor and do not swim in it.

that headline is full of

I'm sure that most gangs have probably gone to more of a jazz dance solution to solve their altercations with each other.

TheFatManCometh: I call bunk! They are obviously hiding the bodies in the row houses.

Nice reference.

/The Wire.

Well no shiat, the adjustable-rate mortgages on all of the crackhouses are going upside-down.

This headline is incredibly awesome.

They're fighting amongst each other here, so they'll stop fighting back there.

/Seriously, the amount of gang tagging on military bases sucks

I don't even get the headline. Are we talking about short lived green sodas from the mid 90s?

randomtrollsays: exuberant phone tax

At first, I thought you meant exorbitant phone tax; but the image of a "lavishly abundant" tax kinda works too.

It's cuz they are all in Watts and Compton


/Duh

It's down 25% for one year, and it's a funky metric.

What is the statistic like from a 10-15 year perspective, and is it possible that the LAPD is taking credit for what's really a benefit of reducing lead exposure in youth.

See, executing Tookie really DID make the world a better place!

Wrong. Gang killings are down because of Roe v. Wade. Just ask Freakonomics.

starsrift: Secretly, we've replaced Rethorn's pixels with Folger's Polygons. He hasn't noticed.

Folgers Polygons. The nerdity level is extreme, but I'm ROFLMAO at that one.

/I admit I was a Pov-Ray handcoder in the early 90s. I handcoded a Japanese house, every freakin shoji screen was located in calculated X,Y,Z coordinates and vectors. When the modelers like Bryce came along I cried in my pillow, it just wasn't fun anymore...

Recall all Repuglikkkans: randomtrollsays: Whole state is broke due to whole-sale mismanagement of Gov't funds. Can't pay for squat now.

Nope, the state is broke due to the Repuglikkkan Governator reducing taxes and the Repuglikkkan President destroying the economy. How about instead of a 10% cut across the board, we finally start making the rich pay their fair share?

You know, with a handle like that and the cutesy way you implement it into your posts, it's going to be difficult for the for the average independent thinker to consider any republican criticism you make as anything more than partisan asshattery and shilling for the Democrats, regardless if the argument has any merit or not. Just my 2 pennies.

The killings are going down because the gang members are mostly killing each other. Eventually, one will remain, and we can just toss him in the ocean and be done with it.

aar0on
The killings are going down because the gang members are mostly killing each other. Eventually, one will remain, and we can just toss him in the ocean let him die of an infected neck tattoo and be done with it.

FTFY

Mission Accomplished

Kids are all playing WoW these days. They kill each other online, then go to virtual parties afterwards to nail some virtual punani.

This is false. Look at public records, there are more killings but less pinned 'gang related'. This is just the city trying to look good by moving numbers around.

People are still getting murdered and killed and it is gang related.

Gravitholus, you know, I was waiting for that ;D

+2 Subby!

Ash
Killing a gang member is a $15 fine. You can just mail it in.
/Naked Gun Obscure?

FTFY

Phillip_Marlowe: Ash
Killing a gang member is a $15 fine. You can just mail it in.
/Naked Gun Obscure?

FTFY

Unfortunately I didn't think it was particularly obscure. Apparently I was incorrect!