It's not even making the local news. A pitched gun battle broke out in North East Los Angeles, yesterday. Hundreds of shots were fired. Spent brass littered the streets. The police cordoned off a couple of square miles, from noon 'til well after dark but they had no control over what was going on. They don't even really know what was going on or who was doing it. The gang that controls this particular area of the city is called "The Avenues". It can be assumed that the gang was engaged in activities related to consolidating power within their Turf.
The Avenues gang isn't the oldest, biggest or most violent gang in the City, although they were probably the busiest, yesterday. It's true that the gangs in LA have been active in criminal activities for generations. Drugs, stolen goods, prostitution, smuggling, gambling, loan sharking, are all tied to the gangs. These guys have learned what all organized crime eventually learn. If you supplant the civil authority, then you become the civil authority. Taxation pays better and is less work, than crime.
The Angeleno police want big salaries and bigger benefits. The people don't want to pay high taxes, so they don't hire very many policemen. LA has the smallest police force, per ca pita, of any city in America. For decades, the police have been backing out of the poor areas of the city. They protect the affluent areas. When they had to deal with the gangs, they did so harshly but eventually a system of rules and boundaries were established. The problem is that the police are an institution. The feudal gang states are not. They ebb and flow and mutate along with the fortunes of the neighborhoods they dominate. Why should they be constrained by rules and boundaries, when the police no longer have the power to hurt them.
There will be no escalating war between the gangs of LA and the police, only continuing war between the gangs themselves, as the balance of power shifts around among them. The police are no longer players in this game.
Some mutant retard despoils a little blond girl and it's all over the cable channels for months. Spoiled Saudi boys with box cutters crash a few planes and we spend trillions crashing around through Mesopotamia. We lose control of our cities, Detroit, DC, Baltimore, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, nobody says or does, a damned thing. Just pretend it didn't happen.
Are we doomed? Who knows. Perhaps in some subterranean culvert feeding into the San Gabriel River, a deranged coyote bitch suckles a pair of orphan boys. Drink up boys, empire awaits!
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