Today’s blog entry is dedicated to Tommy_Jules.
I am so glad I don’t live in Calgary anymore, and I am sure there are a few Calgarians who are glad I don’t live there either, but if I could be police chief for a few weeks I would return to Calgary and take on the gangs that are making Calgary a very unsafe community to live in. There would be no excuses coming out of my mouth, I would just deal with it and face the consequences of my actions later.
Just so everybody knows, where I live in Australia there is a serious gang problem, in fact gangs congregate at the park at the end of the street I live on, and their tags (graffiti) are all over the bridge my wife and I have to cross to take our kids to school everyday.
It is not safe for anybody to cross that bridge after dark, even less safe for me because I’m the type of guy to take them on if I think somebody or myself is in danger while crossing that bridge. It’s a rare occasion that I have to cross that bridge after dark, but sometimes I have to.
If I was back in Calgary and was police chief I’d go “cowboy” on those motherf**kers, and by the time I was finished with them there wouldn’t be a gang member in Canada who would want to f**k around in Calgary.
Solving the gang problem in Calgary isn’t as big of a problem as the police are making it out to be, and if they would grow some balls, the gang problem in Calgary would be gone as fast as a jail cell door closes.
Make no mistake about it, I would come down on the gangs fast and hard, starting with a complete sweep of the city to arrest all gang leaders and their seconds in command.
I would have a “f**k their constitutional rights” attitude and put the safety of the community first.
The only way to get the gang problem under control is to take gang members off the street and lock them up without bail until they appear before a judge. There is no law that says somebody HAS to be granted bail, it’s only a protocol.
After arresting and jailing their leaders, the next step I would be taking is picking up any gang members who are currently on bail, and throwing them back in jail until their court appearance. By the way, don’t anybody tell me that gang members who are currently on bail can’t be re-arrested if they haven’t breached bail conditions because I have no doubt in my mind those gang members are communicating with other gang members, and if the prosecution and the judge were doing their jobs properly when said gang members were arrested in the first place, a bail condition that strictly prohibits gang members from communicating with other gang members would have been put in place.
You will never convince me that a gang member who has such a condition hasn’t violated that condition. Since when do gang members obey the law, or the conditions of their bail? Get f**king real people!
If ever there was proof that the Calgary Police Services has to stop making excuses as to why they can’t get the gang problem under control when they know they can with the limited resources they have, the shooting death of a known Crips member from Ottawa in Radisson Heights should be proof enough.
The question the Calgary cops should be asking is why Abdalla Ali Hussein was really in the city in the first place. Sure, he has family in Calgary, but lets be real about it, he was using a family visit to Calgary for something other than just family.
He was here because his associates back in Ottawa have big plans for the Crips in Calgary and Hussein was their go-to-guy to put their plan in motion.
Hussein’s having family in Calgary was merely a convenience, something the Crips and Hussein could hide behind if he was ever asked what he was doing in Calgary.
As for the shooting, gangs in Calgary aren’t going to tolerate somebody encroaching on what they call “their territory” and whoever ordered that Hussein be taken out did a smart thing by taking him out. The Crips will definitely be thinking twice about setting up shop in Calgary now.
That said; since I can’t be the top cop in Calgary for one day I would suggest to Calgarians (at least those brave enough to do so) to start taking matters into their own hands. There are lots of things they can do from the fringes.
I remember hearing a long time ago, and when Calgary was dealing with the outlaw motorcycle gang problem in the late Eighties and early Nineties, that if the bikers were allowed to stay, the gang problem (although not on a scale like it is today in Calgary) would be virtually non-existent, that the bikers would have dealt with them. It was old folks in Bowness who were saying that, the very people who were living in the same community as the bikers when Alderman Dale Hodges was taking the bikers on, at his own peril no less.
I don’t know what the biker gang situation is in Calgary now, but they would be a great resource to shut down and scare gangs out of the city. Of course, what I’m suggesting is a violent means to a quick end to the gang problem, but once the bikers were finished dealing with the gangs, the community would be a lot safer. I have no doubt about it. I’m not a big fan of biker gangs, but the communities they reside in are generally much safer (Montreal aside).
Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t
Calgary’s gang problem can be solved, and quickly, but as long as the Calgary Police Service continues to make excuses for not being able to get the problem under control, the longer the problem will exist. It has been a problem for far too long already.
The simple solution is this; strike fast and hard, catch the gangs off guard and not give them enough time to re-group. Ensure that when the sentences are handed down, they are the maximum sentences, and that young-offenders are given the maximum sentences available to them too. Remove them from their environment and put them in an environment where they, and they alone (not the entire population of Calgary) have to be looking over the shoulder.
To wrap this blog entry up I would just like to say that the Hussein family is full of shit when they claim that Abdalla Ali Hussein wasn’t involved with gangs, that he wasn’t a gang member. They need to pull their heads out of their asses and see the dead man for what he was, a f**king low-life gang banger who fooled them into believing something he was not, a good boy.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Tommy_Jules // Sep 11, 2008 at 11:30 AM
why dedicated to me? You thik I condone gangs and gang violence? I was surprised, this is the first time I’ve checked crookedincanada other than to check on the Villanueva case. I made a comment on there that I’d like you to see.
In regards to this story that I have never heard about untill now. I only have two questions.
Are we to beleive that this person was a a gang member just because the police say so?
And do you really think that just attacking the gangs and arresting them without charges, in my opinion, stooping to their level, is going to help matters? Or perhaps start a war that will leave
re’s what I think Tommyinnocents caught up in the middle.
Your approach seems a little bit simplistic and idealist to me. The real problem is our education, which goes hand in hand with poverty, which in turn goes hand in hand with crime and gangs.
Many young poverty-affected children are performing poorly in school because they lack role models, alternatives to a criminal lifestyle, and aren’t being properly motivated by many public school teachers who for the most part live in virtually different world from where these kids grew up.
You want less gangs and gang members on the street? put more money into our disgraceful public schools and have them teach and make kids aware that you can make a living even if university is unaffordable to you or just not your thing. Public schools in my experience make it seem like you need a degree or you’re going to be a criminal, no talk of trades or more outside the box employment.
What do you think of that?
CG
Here’s what I think Tommy, pay attention and read carefully.
Tommy I have better things to do than reading your incessant whining and complaining in here about what you believe to be the truth, and what you think about cops, and me. In fact it is getting pretty boring.
Today’s blog was dedictated to you for the simple fact that I felt like pushing your buttons. I knew I could, and obviously it has worked, otherwise you wouldn’t have responded in first place. You are so predictable Tommy.
Yes I believe that you are sympathetic to gang, especially ethnic gangs, you just know better than to admit in here or in public.
I believe you’re go out of your way to find reasons to hate cops.
I think your hatred towards them is brought on by the fact that there was a time you had one or perhaps several run-ins with the police, or that maybe they didn’t help you out when you needed them to. I think you are using Freddy’s death as an excuse to bash cops period. I really don’t think you care that Freddy was shot by a cop, that you are using his death for the sole purpose of bashing cops. If they had beat him over the head with a billy club you would have reacted the same way. If Freddy had been killed while scuffling with a cop where upon he fell and cracked his skull open on the ground, you would have blamed the cop then. You likely go out of your way to blame cops for everything and truth has no bearing on what you believe. You’re a fake whoever you are, and I don’t have time for fake people, let alone ones that can’t think rationally or lack common sense.
I bet you are an Omar Khadr sympathizer too. A supporter of gang members is a supporter of terrorists right?
I think you choose to obey the law when it suits you.
I think your employer has his hands full, and I also think that education was wasted on you. I think your morals and values are skewed, that you have to work at showing others that you have good morals and values. That’s got to suck for you, especially if you have to fake it.
I also think that your hatred towards police is saturated in resentments you have towards them. You have likely had a few run-ins with police yourself, perhaps as a young offender. Maybe the police let you down personally, that maybe there was a time you needed them to believe you and they didn’t.
What ever the reason, your hatred for the police has clouded your judgement and good common sense (that is if you have any) in this case.
By the way, your hatred for police is something you have in common with another person I know. Last I heard he was living in British Columbia. He used to go by the name Mrs.Brigand, and I can’t tell you enough how uncanny the similarities are between the the two of you. Maybe you know him, he used to live up around Salmon Arm, BC, and spends alot of time in the Canoenews forum. How about you, do you visit that forum, I bet you do?
And lastly and to put your mind at ease; absolutely, I do believe that gangs should get what they give, and that the police and the community should do whatever it takes to take them down. They are killers, drug dealers, thiefs, vandals, etc., etc., etc., and gang members should get what they give. I’ve made that quite obvious in here before as you already know. You have been paying attention haven’t you?
Speaking of not responding to your questions, I suggest that you return to HubPages and respond to the comment you left behind there. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. By the way, if you read my responses, and are capable of reading between the lines, interpreting what I said and in what context I delivered my responses, this paragraph would have to exist. Go back and read, and perhaps you might even learn that I answered your questions in a subtle way, in some instances before they were even asked.
Don’t worry about responding to my questions in this response to you however as you won’t be able to post in here any longer. Comments are now closed on this post.
You should have taken the hint that I was no longer interested in having this conversation with you when I said we will never agree, but instead you insisted on dragging this debate out when it was obvious we would never agree.
I must tell you that I was amused by your subtle inference that people become gang members because they can’t find jobs or lack proper education, or was the antecedent that lead to Freddy’s death.
That said, you can believe the version of events a bunch of hoods are telling, but at the end of the day, the cop was found to justifiable force. Neither you or I can prove otherwise since we actually weren’t witnesses to the shooting. It boils down to who one believes, and I can tell you I will believe a cop before I believe a bunch of hoods hell bent on challenging armed officers. I don’t care if there were 6 gang members or 20 gang members. They went out of their way to take on cops on one paid with his life.
A gang member or associate has no credibility with me, none, zilch, nada. Have I made myself clear on that, or like you, do I have to keep repeating the same thing over and over and over again?
You are one naive individual if you truly think that a bunch of hoods is anymore trustworthy than cops.
Say and think what you will when it comes to the circumstances about Freddy’s death, and the fact that I believe that the only good gang member is a dead one, but your opinion has done nothing to change my point of view. There are a lot of Canadians who feel the same way as I do when it comes to gangs and their associates. I am one of many, trust me on that.
It has been a real slice Tommy_Jules, Tom Leger or whoever you are. Try and stay out of trouble, and don’t put yourself in a position where you might have to be taken down by a cop with a gun who is afraid for his or her own life.
You have a good life and good luck with whatever cause you are championing in here.
Best regards mate.
P.S. I accidentally deleted you comment to today’s blog entry. You can re-submit if you like, but until you address the issue you brought forth in HubPages, it will not be approved. Sorry about that mate, but you should back up that bigotry statement with some facts, more specifically with proof that there was anything bigoted in the post you left your comment in.
Don’t play games with mate, back up your mouth or shut the f**k up. I can’t make it any plainer than that for you.
2 Tommy_Jules // Sep 13, 2008 at 10:19 AM
If there’s one pattern I’ve noticed in your posts gypsy, it’s that you seem to enjoy passing judgement on people you’ve never met, but you make good points.
You’ve just attacked my personal character, and I don’t appreciate it, but thats what I get for attacking yours first.
I hate people like you, and if I want to talk shit there isn’t anything you can do about it.
“Don’t play games with mate, back up your mouth or shut the f**k up. I can’t make it any plainer than that for you.”
Please, how old are you?
I know I sound like a 14 year old kid with too many hormones that I don’t know how to deal with, but thats just me. Pricks like you are the reason this country and this world is so messed up, with your sweeping judgements, generalizations and self- righteous attitudes, always looking for a reason to shit on everyone, but old pricks like you bring out the better in us.
By the way, what’s HubPages? I’ve never been on here before our debate.
CG Response:
Like I said mate, “Don’t play f**king games with me.”
Let me refresh your memory about HubPages:
TommyJules says:
10 days ago
Pure BS, you sound like an old irrelevant biggot.
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Here’s the link buddy:
http://hubpages.com/hub/sarahpalin
Jog your memory a little bit?
Lol, you’re an idiot buddy.
From this moment on don’t bothering commenting as your comments will no longer be approved on this site.
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