chris98251":o38sv33y said:
Time to take a squad of Seals or Rangers and have them go in and clean up stuff, they want to play Thug well deal with how the professionals handle things. It's Natioanla security if you ask me when the populance is threatened by a organized group. Hell they went after David Karesh, why not these gangs.
Ehh, it's the latent effect of that strategy that inadvertently exploded this problem out into civil society to begin with.
Likewise, if we've learned anything, it's that it's not the general population that's threatened by these groups (at least in the case of the Latino and Black prison gangs -- the white ones are a bit of a different story simply because of how they've organized themselves).
These are prison fights and prison beefs that 15-20 years out are now happening on the street, and in the line for the bathroom. Those guys don't give a rat about you or me.
EDIT: a quote that really stood out to me from some research on these guys that REALLY drives the point home:
(paraphrasing the quote, but 95% sure this was it): "If you think it hurts to get raped [i.e. - you've never been to prison] you're a ******. You don't know ******. You can't do ****** for me or against me. I don't give a ****** about you."