ANTONIO'S GANG PLAN: PHASE ONE CZAR FOR LAPD PROGRAMS, MOST WANTED LIST SOUGHT.Byline: RICK ORLOV Staff Writer The LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. would get a gang czar and the city its own Most Wanted Most Wanted may refer to:
The first step in what Villaraigosa has pledged will be a comprehensive citywide gang intervention and prevention campaign will be unveiled at an afternoon news conference in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , where gang-related homicides soared 30 percent last year. ``Suppression of violence is the first goal of the mayor,'' Deputy Mayor Arif Alikhan said Wednesday in a briefing for reporters. ``He also knows that intervention and prevention are important, and those will be the next phases of his coordinated approach in dealing with gangs.'' The initial phase focuses on nearly a dozen crime-suppression efforts by the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . , including the naming today of a gang coordinator to oversee the agency's various programs. The LAPD also has created a Most Wanted list that publicly identifies gangs and their members -- a change in the department's long-standing reluctance about giving the gangsters notoriety. Additionally, at least one Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. gang member will be included among the FBI's Most Wanted fugitives -- a list that currently includes Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. . The LAPD also is expected to detail its plan for dealing with the 204th Street Gang, which has been blamed for a number of high-profile homicides in the Harbor-Gateway area. And a separate gang homicide unit will also be created in the South Bureau, which patrols the area of the city hardest hit by gang violence. ``This effort is a comprehensive, multifaceted approach that navigates the entire criminal-justice continuum,'' Police Chief William Bratton said. ``(The steps) are designed to reduce the incidence of gang crime.'' There was no price tag for the LAPD campaign, details of which are to be released today. Some of the initiatives are already in place, such as increasing collaboration with the FBI, county Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. and other agencies. Other proposals -- such as identifying gangs and their leaders by name -- bucks traditional thinking. Police have worried in the past that identifying gangs increases their notoriety and influence rather than deterring their activities. The suspects on the LAPD's initial 10 Most Wanted list are all wanted on murder charges, including two from the San Fers gang that operates in the Valley's Foothill Division. The Valley's Canoga Park Alabama gang The Alabama Gang was the nickname for a group of NASCAR drivers who set up shop and operated out of Hueytown, Alabama, near Birmingham, Alabama.[1] In the late 1950s, young auto racer Bobby Allison left Miami, Florida, looking for an area that had more also was named among the 10 worst in L.A. ``This new strategy abandons the early posture and challenges these menaces by exposing their corrosive behavior to the scrutiny of a more informed and confident community,'' a briefing paper said. Los Angeles is home to an estimated 40,000 gang members, whom officials blame for half of the city's crime. Bratton has targeted gang violence as his top priority since he was hired five years ago, and Villaraigosa has homed in on the crisis, as well. He hired noted civil-rights attorney Connie Rice to conduct a $500,000 study on the city's gangs. Her report questioned the effectiveness of the city's current anti-gang programs and called for the appointment of a powerful gang czar who could coordinate intervention and prevention services among myriad agencies. There was no indication Wednesday whether the mayor would seek to name a citywide gang coordinator, apart from the LAPD position, to oversee the dozens of anti-gang programs now operated by public and private agencies. While officials were preparing for the release of the mayor's plan, relatives and friends were mourning 17-year-old Daniel Martinez, who became the Valley's fifth gang-related homicide victim this year when he was gunned down Jan. 31 as he walked home from Einstein High School Einstein High School could refer to
``It's been getting worse,'' mourner Jesus Reyes said of the recent gang activity. ``The violence, everything that happens; the kids don't want to say anything to the cops.'' And experts said the crisis is severe and requires a multifaceted approach. ``You don't eradicate gangs; they are built into the community, they are spawned,'' said Malcolm Klein, an expert on L.A. street gangs at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . Still, some said recent efforts to combat gangs could already be paying off. Law enforcement officials from around the world are attending a three-day summit in Los Angeles, discussing the migration of gang violence and terror from Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, to their own countries. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Rockard John "Rocky" Delgadillo (born July 15 1960) is the current City Attorney of Los Angeles, California. Career
Earlier this year, Villaraigosa and county officials announced a program in which county probation officers are assigned to police stations to work with gang members. ``The mayor and the police chief speaking out about it, and all the community members involved, it is filtering down,'' said Commander Valentino Paniccia of the Valley Bureau. ``If this is going to work, it should be coordinated at the city level by someone with authority to make decisions, someone coordinating all the city agencies in how we deal with gang problems, violent gangs and family problem and the issues that breed these problems,'' said Paniccia, a 30-plus-year veteran of the department. The City Council's ad hoc Committee ad hoc committee A committee formed with the purpose of addressing a specific issue or issues, which theoretically is disbanded once its raison d'etre is finished on Youth and Gang Violence estimated Wednesday that it would cost Los Angeles at least $2 billion a year to combat gang crime by putting gang-prevention and outreach workers at each school in the city. Councilman Tony Cardenas Tony Cardenas served in the California State Assembly. In the Assembly, he had the powerful position of chair of the Budget Committee. He is now a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 6th district, which includes parts of the San Fernando Valley. , who chairs the panel, said that would be just the start of the costs when the LAPD and other agencies' expenses are included. ``That is just an example of the scope of the problem,'' Cardenas said. ``We are not going to find $2 billion between now and the start of the city budget cycle this year. ``Yet that's what we need to deal with this problem. '' Staff Writer Rachel Uranga contributed to this report. rick.orlov(at)dailynews.com (213) 978-0390 Gang enforcement initiatives Designate LAPD gang coordinator. Implement Community Safety Operations Center The facility or location on an installation, base, or facility used by the commander to command, control, and coordinate all crisis activities. See also base defense operations center; command center. in the San Fernando Valley. Launch South Bureau Criminal Gang Homicide Group. Place local gang member among the FBI's 10 Most Wanted. Publicize L.A.'s Top Targeted Street Gangs. Target 204th Street Gang in the Gateway-Harbor area. Collaborate with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). . Hold community meetings on gangs. Issue community-awareness bulletins. Most Wanted These two men are among the LAPD's 10 Most Wanted gang members Oscar Enriques Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the aka Kali San Fers gang Wanted for murder Following an argument, suspect beat the victim to death. Steve Garcia aka Big Steve, Loco Steve San Fers gang Wanted for murder Following an argument, suspect returned with a gun and fatally shot the victim. CAPTION(S): 2 photos, 2 boxes Photo: (1) Oscar Enriques Flores (2) Steve Garcia Box: (1) Gang enforcement initiatives (see text) (2) Most Wanted (see text) |
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