OUR OPINION; LICENSE TO STEAL.L.A.'s most notorious gang - the Spring Street CCC CCC A very speculative grade assigned to a debt obligation by a rating agency. Such a rating indicates default or considerable doubt that interest will be paid or principal repaid. Also called Caa. - is having a tough time setting boundaries. No boundaries, no rules, no policy for dealing with kids with a remote chance of success and staying out of gangs. The City Council Club's gang of 15 can't focus on any one problem long enough to develop a coherent plan, or even offer useful suggestions. So much money to waste. So little time. City Controller Rick Tuttle Rick Tuttle (born 1940) was Los Angeles City Controller from 1985 to 2001. He stressed the importance of creating a strong democratic influence at UCLA, which was in his words "the best large public university in a major city. last week called for a halt in future funding of the $10 million anti-gang L.A. Bridges program, saying it was expanded for political purposes and there's no way to tell how it's working. In short, Tuttle said the city has no overall strategy to deal with the tens of thousands of gang members who destroy our communities - except, of course, to unleash Rampart Division cops on them with a license to commit mayhem. The CCC came up with the Bridges program a few years ago after it kicked out the Catholic Archdiocese's anti-gang program so it could channel the $10 million to completely ineffective programs that provided more patronage for its own self-aggrandizement. And like everything else it does, the CCC wanted to look good without really committing good, worthwhile acts and programs. So it developed the Bridges program in 1997, didn't fund it until 1998, and then squandered squan·der tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders 1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste. 2. the money without providing coordination with the 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 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 . .
Lack of coordination, lack of management, lack of specific goals - typical of City Hall's method of operation - all added up to letting gang members run wild. Now the vigilante vigilante n. someone who takes the law into his/her own hands by trying and/or punishing another person without any legal authority. In the 1800s groups of vigilantes dispensed "frontier justice" by holding trials of accused horse-thieves, rustlers and shooters, and cops of Rampart are handcuffed as they should be and the Bridges program is likely to be mercifully killed. So the city has no anti-gang program. Perhaps they can put warning signs all over 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. : Due to incompetent government, this turf is controlled by thugs, drug dealers and gangsters. Unarmed citizens beware! And what about those kids who just want a little help to stay out of gangs, get a good education and live a good life? This is L.A., where it's every man, woman and child for him or herself, unless you're lucky enough to know someone with influence down on Spring Street. |
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