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LMPD chief defends changes to department, says he asked mayor for more officers

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RE: LMPD chief defends changes to department, says he asked mayor...

May 13th, 2017 @ 8:20PM (7 years ago)

The department doesn't admit that, but the same thing is admitted to be happening all over the midwest. This isn't a vacuum.

RE: LMPD chief defends changes to department, says he asked mayor...

May 17th, 2017 @ 9:11PM (7 years ago)

The New York Times reported the same thing today. Gangs are more violent today because they've divided and are now killing each other.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/nyregion/bronx-gang-violence-murders.html

Gangs are not as top-down and regimented as they once were, or unified any longer by a vision of racial solidarity and rivalries with opposing gangs. Rather, the Bloods are fighting increasingly among themselves, sometimes to fill leadership vacuums as older leaders are locked up through federal prosecutions. As a result, sets -- subgroups of national gangs -- are splitting up and losing influence to separate, younger crews more loyal to their local housing projects. And profit-making, long central to gang life, is occasionally uniting Bloods and Crips -- red and blue, bitter enemies for decades -- in narcotics or car-stealing schemes. Gang life is as chaotic and unpredictable as ever. "There is no doubt that over the past decade, the idea of one Blood nation is gone," said Todd Blanche, former chief of the violent crime unit at the United States attorney's office in Manhattan.