Wednesday,
August 06,
The
ANNOTICO Report
If
only the
I
would also like to feel some Security against the ACTIVE
Gang Bangers in the
There
were at least 30,000 gangs and 800,000
gang members active across the
The
While , according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), victims
perceived perpetrators to be gang members in about 6% of violent victimizations
between 1998 and 2003. On average for each year, gang members committed about 373,000 of the 6.6 million
violent crimes.. In 1994 it had reached a peak of
about 1.1 million violent victimizations.
Nonfatal
violent acts measured include rape/sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault,
and simple assault.Victims believed that perpetrators
were gang members in 45% of all nonfatal violent crimes between 1998 and 2003.
The greatest share of these violent crimes were
committed by Illegal Aliens.http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/vgm03.pdf
Does
ANYBODY Care?????
Rather
than criticizing Italy's efforts, if US Politicians were well intended they
would be REALLY PROTECTING America, and following Italy's lead rather than
going on Colonialistic, Imperialistic PHONY Invasions
and Wars, and Protecting us against Cave Dwellers half way around the
world, that as the World's Super Power the US haven't caught in 7
years !!!!!!! I'm embarrassed !!!!!
International
Herald Tribune
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
By the time it is
fully effective next week, the effort will flank regular police officers and
the military police with 3,000 troops, a visible signal to citizens that the
government "has responded to their demands for greater security,"
Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa
said in an interview on the Italian Sky News channel.
The conservative
government of Silvio Berlusconi won elections in
April while promising to crack down on petty crime and illegal immigrants. The
new patrols of soldiers, who are not empowered to make arrests, do not seem
aimed only at illegal immigrants, though the patrols were deployed to centers
where illegal immigrants are housed.
"Security is
something concrete," La Russa said on Monday.
The troops, he said, will be a "deterrent to criminals."
Critics of the
government have condemned the deployment as a superfluous measure that could
prove counterproductive.
"Putting
troops on the street sends a dramatic message that the situation is more
serious than it is in reality," said Marco Minniti,
the shadow interior minister of the center-left Democratic Party, the largest
opposition party.
Television news
stations showed military officials searching immigrants' suitcases at subway
stations. Potential terrorist targets were also under greater scrutiny. In
In the capital,
troops are to be stationed around embassies, consulates and centers for illegal
immigrants in outlying neighborhoods where they live. They will not be securing
the city's historic monuments because local officials fretted that the military
presence could scare off tourists.
"They will
only be in areas where they have no impact on normal citizens,"
Critics of the
effort, which was part of a larger anticrime package pushed through Parliament
last month, also object to the use of troops rather than the police, saying the
military is better suited for emergencies in
"You need to
be specially trained to carry out some kinds of controls," Nicola Tanzi, the secretary of a trade union that represents
Italian police officers. "Soldiers just aren't qualified."
He also
questioned whether the $93.6 million that will be spent for the extra
deployment, called Operation Safe Streets, might not have been better used to
increase the budgets for
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