California Conservative

The Daily News reports that Spider was arrested with a pound of methamphetamine. Spider, also known as Mario Corona, is a paid by LA City officials to help gang members go legit as part of LA’s $3.7 million dollar gang intervention programs.

Critics say the arrest reveals the inherent problems of hiring former gangsters to mentor current ones - with many of them keeping one foot in the old lifestyle.

How do you spell, DUHHHHH?

Civil rights attorney Connie Rice, whose $500,000 study earlier this year on the city’s ability to fight gangs found the efforts piecemeal, inefficient and lacking oversight, described the arrest of Corona as one bad apple.

“I think this was a case of somebody living a double life,” said Rice, who called Communities in Schools one of the best such programs in L.A. And though Corona was not an intervention worker, she said many of the programs need former gang members.

Uh, no Connie – gang members must be removed from society completely. Juvenile offenders should be placed in highly disciplined boarding schools far from other gang members and the gang lifestyle and influence.

The LAPD reports that Arash Semerome Safaie has been added to LAPD’s top ten list, which got me thinking:

Assuming that 1) LA’s 40,000 gang members do not gain ANY new members after today AND 2) the LAPD arrests one of the top ten each week AND, 3) one gang member kills another every day, the City of LA will shut down gangs by 2203 (96 years).

I figure that will probably happen about the time that LA liberals will fix LA’s air and water pollution, failing public schools, gridlock, crime, and stop raising taxes.

I’ve marked my calendar.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 at 7:09 pm and is filed under Author: Clark Baker, Crime, Liberals, Los Angeles. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.