It's not happening outside your door... or to your businesses.
Too funny. You folks do not really know much about me, but I have told the stories for years on the PNJ. 15 years ago on a cold January I was in the office on a Monday morning and found out a kid I know was murdered in gang retaliation over the weekend. He was a lost white kid wannabee who got into the drug trade, got to gang banging and got shot. So I am depressed after getting the call from his mother who was broken, as both of us tried to extract him from the drug business where these kids make big money quick, but I failed.
I decide to shovel the office driveway which had a light dusting of snow when two hispanic 15 year old kids who should have been in school stop at the base of the driveway and sarcastically say "hey I would like a job shoveling snow". I lifted my head from the shoveling and looked at their young faces and their silly moustaches which had irregular hair and give one of my usual cold stares, but for some reason I did not say anything. They walked about twenty feet on the sidewalk onto a gas station property, and I had an urge to spout off something stupid and confrontational......but for some reason the loss of the 19 year old just had me silent and not very aggressive.......they crossed the gas station property, and then went in front of our local board of realtors building and a black kid who served in the navy was crossing the street. They said something stupid to him, and he smarted off and both pulled hand guns and filled him with bullets as he was dead before he hit the street. Police arrive, we go over the video at the gas station, and the bank drive in , and I give my descriptions and sadly the videos only gave body shots of the perps..........two dead people in one weekend a direct result of the gangs and the drug war. The Latin Kings were initiating members on random kills, quiet guy shoveling snow, young black guy smarting off......they made their choice, and never were prosecuted. Don't tell me about my world, and how isolated my life has been......too funny. I have had a knife to my neck and I have been jumped by three people from behind, and I have never once lived my life so fricking scared and afraid. I had a corrupt cop connected to the Latin Kings threaten my life, after a hit on a daughter of friends where they came to the window of the house and fired 29 bullets into a bed they thought the women was sleeping. I told him to F off. My daughter has the gangbangers asking how my daughter's pregnancy was doing when she was prosecuting murders and gangs.......you folks have no idea how the real world effects some of us.........yep, loved my country club time......I can talk about that.....some things you will never know until I am dead.