GANG CLEANSING REQUIRED IN CRIME INFESTED URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS

Inner city black ghettos and Latino barrios will never be safe and will not have crime rates similar to those in white neighborhoods until they are cleansed of gangs

Chicago, a city with some of the most severe gun restrictions in the nation, experienced its bloodiest month in 20 years. This August there were 90 murders, 384 shootings and 472 total shooting victims in the windy city. Most of the shootings occurred in minority neighborhoods and most of the shooters were gangbangers.

Police blame gang members for the shootings and complain that many of them are still on the streets despite having a record of repeat offenses with guns. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson says that about 1,400 Chicagoans, many of them gang members, are driving 85 percent of the city's gun violence.

Johnson emphasizes that “The historical cycle of violence we have seen in some communities must come to an end. Repeat gun offenders who drive the violence on our streets should not be there in the first place and it is time to changes the laws to ensure these violent offenders are held accountable for their crimes.”

Over the years there have been numerous attempts to bring an end to gang violence in Los Angeles. Efforts by black preachers to establish peace between the Bloods and the Crips failed and programs designed by academics to stop the violence among warring black, Latino and Vietnamese gang factions have been unsuccessful as well. So, is there a solution to the gangbanger violence?

The term ‘ethnic cleansing’ arose out of the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s. Here at home, ‘gang cleansing’ is needed in today’s crime infested urban neighborhoods.

The spate of shootings in black ghettos and Latino neighborhoods across the nation will not end until the street gangs are completely gone. Those neighborhoods will never be safe, nor will they experience crime rates similar to those in white neighborhoods, without gang cleansing.

Unfortunately – civil libertarians would say fortunately – our constitution does not allow us to throw the hoodlums that make up our nation’s street gangs into concentration camps, but that is exactly what is needed.

Chicago’s police commissioner is correct when he says that violent offenders must be locked up. But what about those gang members that have not yet been caught or have not yet committed an offense with a gun? It is only a matter of time before those hoodlums too will leave their deadly mark on the streets of our inner city neighborhoods.

Believe me, it is not easy for me to advocate gang cleansing because of what Germany’s Jews experienced under the Nazis. My family was fortunate to escape Hitler’s concentration camps and the Nazi death camps in Poland. But reality tells me that America’s black ghettos and Latino barrios will never experience peace and some measure of prosperity without gang cleansing.