LA got a firsthand look at a gang bust last week with the takedown of the 18th Street gang, or the “Barrio 18.”
In the bust, police arrested Keiko Gonzalez, or “Moms,” who is wanted for murder and racketeering.
She runs the gang while her husband, Mexican Mafia boss Jorge Gonzalez, a.k.a Huero Caballo, is in state prison.
Police also arresteda variety of gang leaders and enforcers.
The bad news: this sort of takedown is all too rare.
LAPD officerstell The California Postthat they are no longer allowed to use CalGang, their own intelligence database on gang membership.
Some 80,000 alleged gang members are in the database. But police can’t use it.
That’s because of changes adopted at the height of the hysteria of the Black Lives Matter riots by former Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Garcetti had tried to appease the mob, even kneeling with them at one point. (They targeted his house for months anyway.)
In a speech during the riots in June 2020, Garcetti announced a moratorium on new names being added to CalGang.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
