Problem Assessment:

Most gangs are not 'nationally' affiliated. Most small neighborhood groups of 6-10 youth are geographically linked for mutual protection, and then to co-support each other while selling pot (initially), and then they normally branch out to cocaine.

However, some groups are historic and very entrenched, as they have a generational link to fathers and uncles who sifted them in. Those LARGE citywide groups have multiple neighborhood teams. Those have one main leadership team that is linked to multiple sites, to distribute out of. As they usually buy in quantity, they will hold and dominate an area, for life. Along with this norm is included the desire to move up and move out to connect with larger and more substantial teams. They perceive that this gives them clout and respect, if they could get affiliated, as part of a national drug distribution network. Many of these same national teams are being prospected by the international teams. 

The U.S. Gov. has been exceedingly successful in arresting the South American heads of cartels. Through these arrests, in essence, we have seen these home grown International giant Cartels, be decapitated, and they have been broken up in to more regional cartel-ets. As many have no longer have a continuum of organization, that situation has given an opportunity for the Russian Mafia to move in.  Where the Communist invasion couldn't work, capitalism, works fine.  The Russian Mafia is running the Mexican Mafia, right over our porous boarders. There is a 70 mile legal extension of interstate delivery to cities near the Mexican Boarder, by foreign trucking companies. With the NAFTA Treaty, they taken to driving drug laden tractor trucks over the boarder, of which only a small percentage are intercepted. Much of this is written off as expectable losses by these teams.

Many state wide, and even regional legs, of national gangs, are noticeably increasing lately. It seems to be all about the money to these gangsters, and America is a big target with lots of possible holes. Our nations home security is focused on the difficulty the gangs represent as possible couriers of dirty bombs, as they are so well linked and selfish enough, not to care about society at large.

We need the community in partnership to address the needs of youth so they don't burn down their own community because they have no grid to measure what they are doing, and a limited vision for options. Civic leagues partnerships with weed and seed programs, haven’t been able to fill the gaps between federal task forces, and local police units. The State Attorney Generals office and the Sec. of Public

Safety have been focusing on this situation, and the need for Freedom Core kind of neighborhood network type activities, has been increasingly evident.

Added to this “ripe for gang scenario”, are two additional challenging factors. A. our own personal city demographic financial picture, and B.) the Housing community that these families are routinely finding affordable and available.
 

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