HAHN SAYS FUNDING KEY TO GANG FIGHT; ORION STREET TOP PRIORITY FOR INJUNCTIONS.Byline: Yvette Cabrera Daily News Staff Writer The Orion Street area is Los Angeles City Attorney The Los Angeles City Attorney is an elected official whose job is to prosecute all of the misdemeanor criminal offenses within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. James Hahn's first priority citywide to expand his use of injunctions against gangs, his spokesman said Monday. But Hahn said he cannot seek such an injunction without more money. Today, City Councilman Richard Alarcon is expected to ask his colleagues to approve $1.18 million to expand Hahn's gang unit so that its seven attorneys can focus solely on new injunctions and prosecutions of arrested gang members. Hahn's spokesman said prosecutors cannot ask a judge to approve the injunctions, including one on Orion Street and another in the Oakwood section of Venice, unless it gets more money. ``The first out of the barrel will be the North Hills area and right behind it will be the Oakwood/Venice/Mar Vista area,'' said the spokesman, Ted Goldstein. ``The funding for the expansion of the gang unit is critical to accomplish what needs to be done in the North Hills area, the Oakwood area and other Los Angeles areas,'' Goldstein said. The North Hills injunction would cover the area south of Nordhoff Street and north of Parthenia Street, with west-east boundaries of the San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. and Sepulveda Boulevard. Alarcon is also seeking a gang injunction for Pacoima's Hubert Humphrey Park, which has been plagued by violence, including the fatal shooting of a high school football player this summer. He could not be reached for comment Monday. Since the mid-1980s, the City Attorney's Office has successfully wielded the injunction as a tool against gangs in East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. , the Cadillac-Corning area of West Los Angeles
Officially, the City Attorney's Office has not completed a study on whether an injunction is needed on Orion Street. But, Goldstein said, ``there appears to be sufficient indications that a gang injunction could assist the area in North Hills to reclaim the streets Reclaim the Streets (RTS) is a collective with a shared ideal of community ownership of public spaces. Participants characterize the collective as a resistance movement opposed to the dominance of corporate forces in globalisation, and to the car as the dominant mode of for the inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. .'' Already, however, some residents, community leaders and the American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. have expressed misgivings about the possible gang injunction. The Rev. Jim Hamilton, whose United Methodist Church United Methodist Church, in the United States, religious body formed by the union in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church (see Methodism). is on the corner of Langdon Avenue and Rayon rayon, synthetic fibers made from cellulose or textiles woven from such fibers; more rayon is manufactured than any other synthetic fiber. The name was adopted (1924), in preference to "artificial silk," by the U.S. Dept. Street, said parents feel the injunction is overkill in an area already heavily patrolled by police. ``Parents are just saying it's overwhelming,'' Hamilton said. ``There was a time three years ago when it was imperative to have a police presence because the gangs controlled the streets, but now you're lucky to see anyone on the streets.'' Members of the North Hills Community Coordinating Council also had competing feelings about the need and appropriateness of an injunction, said Tony Swan, vice president of the council. ``The concern was that we had more drug sales problems than gang problems, but certainly we would be in support of any method of controlling the gangs,'' Swan said. CAPTION(S): Map Map: Targeted area for gang injunction (Orion Street) Daily News |
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