COPS BEGIN 4-DAY ANTI-GANG SWEEP.Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Staff Writer LANCASTER -- Responding to public outcry for beefed-up patrols, dozens of 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. County sheriff's deputies launched a four-day sweep Tuesday that officials vowed is just the beginning of a long-term crime-fighting effort. During a news conference at the Lancaster sheriff's station, officials announced that 40 deputies from the Community Oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. Policing (COP) and High Impact Team (HIT) joined a dozen local deputies in a sweep of central Lancaster in an effort to reduce burglaries, robberies and gang activity. The COP and HIT teams will saturate sat·u·rate v. Abbr. sat. 1. To imbue or impregnate thoroughly. 2. To soak, fill, or load to capacity. 3. To cause a substance to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance. a 3 1/2-square-mile region from Avenues H to J-8 between 20th Streets East and West, Capt. Carl Deeley said. The unprecedented deployment comes just three weeks after an overflow crowd of more than 3,000 packed Lancaster Baptist Church for the newly formed Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley War on Gangs and Crime's first public meeting. And the timing is no coincidence, Deeley said. "There's no doubt that this is a direct answer" to the community meeting, Deeley said. He noted that the deployment had already been planned, but was expedited and expanded. "(Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. ) came here for the War on Gangs and Crime meeting and promised he was going to help with the effort and this is a direct result of his promise," Deeley said. "(Baca) told me last week that this was coming and that it wasn't going to stop anytime soon." The Sheriff's Department will boost its COP and HIT team presence in the Antelope Valley for the foreseeable future, Deeley said, noting that similar sweeps are planned for Palmdale and surrounding unincorporated areas In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality. To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, i.e., a city or town with its own government. . COP and HIT teams are trained to pursue crime more aggressively than patrol deputies who typically respond to calls. Law enforcement and public officials are facing growing pressure from an electorate that has become dissatisfied with Antelope Valley crime-fighting efforts in recent years, particularly in Lancaster, which has seen an unabated un·a·bat·ed adj. Sustaining an original intensity or maintaining full force with no decrease: an unabated windstorm; a battle fought with unabated violence. spike in serious crime. "I don't think we look at it as pressure. Our job is to do a saturation saturation, of an organic compound saturation, of an organic compound, condition occurring when its molecules contain no double or triple bonds and thus cannot undergo addition reactions. patrol and do the best job we can and try to arrest people for crimes," said Sgt. Steve Kenny, who was summoned to Lancaster from Century station. "It's an inconvenience, but I don't think any of them mind doing it. That's the nature of what we do." gideon.rubin@dailynews.com (661) 267-7802 |
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