Shining the light on L.A.’s blind spot on illegal immigrant gangsters, talk show host Doug McIntyre is bringing together the Bologna family from San Francisco and the Shaw family from L.A. on Thursday — families that lost loved ones to senseless murders by illegal immigrant gangsters.
Their grief over the loss of Anthony Bologna and his two sons and Jamiel Shaw Jr. has
prompted them to lead in the fight to end “sanctuary city” policies that they — and many others — believe have allowed criminals who should have been deported long ago to terrorize San Francisco and L.A.
After talking to the families on his KABC 790AM morning show, McIntyre is going with them to the office of Councilman Jack Weiss — the wannabe City Attorney who has pigeon-holed Jamiel’s Law in committee and refused to allow a public discussion of efforts to get tough on illegal immigrant gangsters — some 25 percent or so of the total gang population in LA The protest is from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 at 822 S. Robertson Boulevard, Suite 102,
Imagine if we got rid of those gangsters and started dealing with the rest with intervention programs that sorted out those who need education, training or jobs — and those who belonged in prison.
We might have a chance to do something about the gang problem that has ruined so much of the city and its reputation for decades.
A gang tax won’t fix the city’s lack of will to enforce the law or even to follow Special Order 40 which was adopted 29 years ago as a middle ground that recognized there were a lot of illegal immigrants who worked hard and lived in fear of reporting crimes against them or testifying against others who committed crimes.
Hard-nosed Chief Daryl Gates issued Special Order 40 and for a time the LAPD enforced it as it was intended which was to bar cops from initiating investigations solely to find out someone’s immigration status.
It wasn’t soft on illegal immigrant criminals; stating clearly that anyone arrested for
“multiple misdemeanors, a high-grade misdemeanor or felony
or has been previously arrested” for those crimes should have their files marked “undocumented alien” and immigration authorities should be notified.
But over time, the widespread practice by LAPD officers became to totally ignore immigration status and officers who obeyed the actual policy often found themselves getting heat from their superiors.
As the Rampart Independent Review Panel reported
in 2000 immigration authorities are no longer routiniely notified by
LAPD notify of arrests of illegal immigrants and there are “no
proedures in police manual to guide officers” in this regard.
It’s simply left to the haphazard procedures of the Sheriff’s Department jailers whether to notify immigration authorities.
No one is protecting the public, particularly the people most victimized by gangs.
That’s
where McIntyre and mayoral candidate Walter Moore come in. They and
others have championed Jamiel’s Law to require the LAPD to crack down
on criminals who are in the country illegally.
The goal at this point is simply to get Weiss to hold public hearings and send the measure to the full council.
Of
course, that’s a trap. Do the mayor and council really want to go on
the record as saying they care more about illegal immigrant gangsters
and criminals than the law-abiding and taxpayng citizens?
Better to
gutlessly squelch the public discussion just as they do about every
other issue and then raise millions of dollars from special interests
to sell voters on new taxes that will be squandered just as the old
taxes were.
Ron, you’ve turned into a rightwing rabblerouser, disseminating misinformation and lies from Doug McIntyre and his ilk.
You are fully aware that it’s the DA’s office that released Pedro Espinoza onto the streets, since your friend Steve Cooley is the DA which is in charge of felonies and especially as they’re in the prison population. His dept. along with Baca’s Sheriff’s dept., which runs the prisons, are supposed to jointly ID illegals and deal with them accordingly — but they didn’t, just taking Espinoza’s word that he was born in the US, never attempting to verify it. Even Council loose cannon Zine knows that much, although as a politically- motivated Republican, he’ll finger Baca but not his wanna-be buddy Cooley.
You are also fully aware that Cooley’s got way more investigators for this job than he deserves and 1000 attorneys to deal with the legalities, while the LAPD is struggling to get funded to come upto even a minimally sufficient force. But as you admit in an earlier post, you prefer to deny the facts for political reasons. Now, you’re promoting that shameless idiot McIntyre’s even pinning the San Francisco Balogna case on Jack Weiss – for shame, Ron, because you’re not an idiot like him and the KKFI babblers, and have had a responsible position educating people about the facts, not blind rabble-rousing. What you’re doing is ensuring a deep political fissure that won’t get results — no way can Weiss let you and Doug McIntyre’s utterly and intentionally politically biased rabble-rousing lead his agenda. You know darned well that Weiss’s office isn’t the place to address all your gripes about illegal immigration that you attack to the Shaws.
Too bad for the Shaws, Balognas and any “honest” discussion of the issues, or finding out how Espinoza got out (as he’s done before, as do others like him every day) of Baca/Cooley’s jails. Too bad you’ve totally lost any cred when it comes to purporting to lead the city in a better direction. (Yes, the same people will write in to object with their usual misinformation and naivity — so it goes around.)
Hello again Susan.
I think that the fight to deport criminal illegal aliens has be with the City, the D.A.’s Office and Baca’s jails. You are right in holding Baca and Cooley’s feet to the fire here. And we are all justified in holding Congress and the President (current and future) to their duty of protecting us from foreign TERRORISTS of all kinds. But, Ron and Doug McInyre are also right as are John and Ken on KFI AM 640. For staying on top of the City of Los Angeles.
By the way, I don’t listen to the liberal “bobble heads” do you? What do they say about the Shaw’s loss? How would they prevent future murders by criminal illegal’s? I hear John and Ken fighting for a safer city as Doug McIntyre does. Without their spotlight on the problem who would lead the charge?
Why are you so eager to defend the City and Jack Weiss?
While we are at it, THANK YOU for a post that does not accuse someone of being provincal.
1:02: “Why?” Like Ron, I was trained as a reporter, in my case for a mid-sized, very old and respected east-coast paper. As he’ll tell you, the salary isn’t good, right up/ down there with teaching, and I had to leave for personal reasons: but I’d always had and will have a mighty respect for the ability of media to educate and inform the public when it takes its job seriously — and from McIntyre, Jon/Ken etc., the power to do the opposite, to inspire and lead a crowd of misinformed sheep following their leader. I’ve made it clear, I think, why that’s the case and won’t repeat myself.
2:00, as opposed to the, as you say, blind, idiotic, politically-motivated, utterly biased, rightwing, Republican, rabblerousing sheep-herders, what would you suggest people actually DO to help improve the problem of illegal alien criminals (and mass illegal immigration itself)? We, and I’m sure Ron, are open to practical suggestions you may have.