Say it ain't so Janice, say your posture as an anti-gang crusader who wants yet another tax on the law-abiding people of L.A. isn't the delusion of someone who doesn't have a clue about what she's doing?
Fox News last night tattooed the San Pedro councilwoman with the political pedigree with a devastating report, months in the works, about how Hahn screwed over two tough good cops and made a hero of Betty Day, the mother of a notorious family of members of the Grape Street Crips.
The cops, Ryan Moreno and Chuck Garcia, are suing the city, claiming Hahn in collusion with LAPD brass forced them off the gang beat in Watts because of their aggressive attack on hoodlums and drug dealers.
Fox reporter Chris Blatchford suggested the information that led to pulling Moreno and Garcia off the street came from the gangs in an orchestrated effort to undermine their crackdown on the criminals.
The devastating report adds political pressure for City Hall to stop coddling criminal illegal immigrant gang members.
Passions already are running high over the murder of Jamiel Shaw II and mayoral candidate Walter Moore's campaign for a tough law forcing the cops to turn over all illegal immigrants identified in state law enforcement records as gang members to federal immigration authorities for deportation
The debate has locked up over Special Order 40, under which police have a longstanding don't ask, don't tell policy on immigration status, but there's a lot that can be done immediately that I don't see how anyone can question.
I've talked to a lot of cops over the years and most of them question just how effective the city's 30 or so injunctions are against gangs. But they do believe the quickest and surest way to weaken the gangs is to go after the thousands of gang members named in the injunctions who are in this country illegally.
These are not just your everyday gang members. They are specifically identified as criminals by name in the injunctions issued by the courts so it doesn't take a federal task force or any changes in Special Order 40 to get them out of the country.
And it certainly doesn't take the gang tax proposed by the naive Ms. Hahn.
It just takes the political will at City Hall to protect the law-abiding, instead of the criminals.
Ron Kaye