You probably won’t see this in the paper but we had another gang fight between the Bloods and the Crips last weekend.  One of the participants was injured enough that he had to be flown to FFX hospital.  Last I heard he was in a coma.  This is the second incident between those two gangs in about the last month.  Let’s hope that it doesn’t escalate to gun violence.

We also had a failed drug deal on Monday afternoon where the guy on the losing end wound up being shot twice.  Evidently the guy got robbed by his dealer.  My friends on Facebook are having a field day with this one.  They’re the ones who titled it “Welcome to the Jungle”.  They opening stanza of that song is becoming more and more accurate:

“Welcome to the jungle, we got fun ‘n’ games
We got everything you want, honey we know the names
We are the people that you find, whatever you may need
If you got the money, honey we got your disease”

See this earlier post about the first gang-fight.

In a bit of mixed news, one of the gang-bangers who killed an OHS student last year in a gang-hit-gone-wrong is currently on trial.  According to the paper, he has admitted that he stabbed the kid.  Let’s hope the Commonweath’s Attorney gets this one right and doesn’t cut a sweetheart deal as they have done with other high-profile cases lately.

Does anyone still believe we have too many police officers and need to face the problems as they lay or am I just cranky today?