{"id":68736,"date":"2016-11-03T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68736"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:14:33","slug":"lapd-and-batfe-target-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68736","title":{"rendered":"LAPD and BATFE target criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to NBC Los Angeles<\/a> the Los Angeles Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives teamed up for a six month investigation that led to seventeen arrests in San Bernadino Valley in a series of pre-dawn raids targeting illegal guns in the hands of known criminals. Some of the criminals are looking at 5 to 10 years mandatory sentences;<\/p>\n

From February to July, ATF and LAPD personnel conducted a joint investigation,” working the streets and targeting violent offenders, the criminal activity of gang members, shooters and multi-convicted felons,” according to an ATF statement.<\/p>\n

“These individuals were involved in illegal firearm possession\/sales, narcotics distribution and shootings within the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County,” the ATF said.<\/p>\n

Investigators used confidential informants to introduce an ATF undercover agent, who made controlled purchases of contraband from the suspects resulting in the seizure of 30 weapons, including restricted firearms such as short-barrel rifles and silencers, and about 18 pounds of methamphetamine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Three felons of the group targeted are still on the run. <\/p>\n

This seems like a much more productive way to get guns of the streets of LA rather than LAPD’s gun buy-back programs. More cities should move towards this kind of enforcement and away from the staged media events. However, the work\/productivity bar seems light. I’m pretty sure that these seventeen arrests won’t even put a dent in Los Angeles County’s gun problems. <\/p>\n

So this is just a good start.<\/p>\n

“Removing even one gun from the streets means one less Angeleno robbed, shot or murdered,” [LAPD Chief Charlie] Beck said. “Nearly 950 people have been shot in Los Angeles this year; 169 have been murdered with a firearm. Removing illegal guns is one of the LAPD’s highest priorities and working with our federal partners will help make our communities safer.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not about getting guns off the street, Chief, it’s about getting criminals off the street. The guns by themselves don’t commit crimes.<\/p>\n

Washington, DC banned guns forty years ago and they still take two thousand off the street every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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