Source: Oakland Tribune
Contact:  Thu, 13 Aug 1998

FBI SHOULD CONTROL GANGS

Am I the only one who objects to the FBI spending millions of dollars to
convict one reputed gangster on the word of an admitted murderer? It will
cost millions of dollars to support John Gotti in protective custody.

Gotti may have has his fingers in many things, but not in my eye or a gun
pointed at me.  Why doesn't the FBI use the RICO Act, to control the youth
gangs that are terrorizing California cities?  They are the ones who
burglarize and mug us.

South America is said to be the source of the drugs that give these street
gangs power and money.

Why is it some elderly, gray haired black lady in East Oakland, who tries
to save her neighborhood from these gangs for the future generation,
usually dies for her efforts and everyone feels terrible, but the
resistance dies with her?

We don't have enough police or prosecutors to do an effective
de-infestation of our cities; we need FBI assistance, no matter what their
mission regulations are.

The Mafia shoots business partners, business partners have hunting
accidents, in California, they O.D. Its a self-contained world we need
never enter. But we do have to enter our streets. The drive-by shootings
that kill us and our children have to be stopped. We shouldn't be prisoners
in our own homes.

Sandi Singer
Oakland

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