11 ALIVE NEWS: Gangs are infiltrating Atlanta, targeting its children - and they're doing in plain sight (LaGrange: crime, most dangerous)

[LynnHarris1]

There was a time when Tarsheen Peters was once married to the streets.

For decades, the Gwinnett County resident considered himself a Crips boss from California – and back in the day, Peters even flaunted his gang-banger and pimp status on National TV.

"I am the boss! I am the boss of 15-hundred Crips! You understand me," Peters once bragged. "I'm deep in the gang. I'm deep. I'm deep. I'm married to the streets, I'm married to the dope, I'm married to the prostitutes. I'm married to the gangers."

Special Agent James B. Hurley with the Atlanta FBI office said the city has witnessed a high growth of gang activity in the past five years, becoming a magnet for national gang members.

"We've seen gangs come in from the west coast, the east coast, Chicago," Hurley listed.
Why Atlanta? Hurley said it was basically a power vacuum – ripe for new gangs..."


FULL STORY/SOURCE: https://www.11alive.com/article/news...t/85-598135779

[ATLTJL]

Pfffttt.....

Whatever.

When I was growing up in Birmingham, there was media hype that the Disciples gang had moved in and was taking over the city. Before that, it was Satanists.

There always has to be a boogeyman.

[chiatldal]

Terrible as this isn't remotely new, this didn't start 5 years but a least since the 80's, A lot of major gangs that started in LA, Chicago, Detroit, New York and etc in the 70's. not only spread national cities decades ago, but internationally seriously there Crips in Alaska and Australia. Also the article is miss leading it present that gangs are "now" targeting children for recruitment as if this isn't something they have always done.

I'm not saying people shouldn't be alarmed I'm saying this old news and Atlanta isn't unique to this these gangs been in every major US city and many international cities for decades. They largely control the Drugs trade and other illegal black market stuff. If your alarm you should been alarm decades ago, if you wasn't thinking about this yesterday nothing has change since yesterday. I'm not saying people should be use to crime either but rather it's as common as crime already, and it's something you should already knew.

I bring this up because I can already imagine posters using this to exaggerate that Atlanta is special or create hysteria like there a new high infestation of gangs. So if posters are going talk about preventing gangs and safety is should be a national issue and not something specific to Atlanta. because this isn't a new Atlanta issue but rather an old national issue.

And to me the highlight was that guy turning his life around, a lot more of that is needed. Rather then trying to exaggerate something old as new which is hugely misleading, I don't know if they did that for the headline oe what? but it's would been more productive to skip that and just talk about gang prevention.

[arjay57]

One thing we don't need in the ATL is more gang influence. There's no way that will help us with Amazon.

[citidata18]

What big city doesn't have gang problems?

[brownhornet]

Originally Posted by ATLTJL

Pfffttt.....

Whatever.

When I was growing up in Birmingham, there was media hype that the Disciples gang had moved in and was taking over the city. Before that, it was Satanists.

There always has to be a boogeyman.

Well I can tell you for sure it's definitely becoming a major deal in LaGrange. No clue how, but a bunch of Gangster disciples from Chicago showed up there and have been causing problems for the past year or so. Used to be one, maybe two murders a year and they would almost always be something domestic related. Not anymore. Also Birmingham DOES have a gang problem lol. I lived there for 2 years and West End, Fairfield, Ensley and Bessemer were infested with gangs. It wasn't one of the most dangerous cities in the US all those years for nothing.

[Atlwarrior]

The only solutions is for Fathers to return home. I think everyone knows that it’s no mystery that most gang members are looking for affirmation.

[Otakumaster]

Originally Posted by Atlwarrior

The only solutions is to end the war on drugs.

Fixed.

[SEAandATL]

Hopefully Kemp will build a wall around Georgia to keep the gangs from coming in. It's not just those from south of the American border. We don't need a physical wall, but set up border check points at the state line and passport control at the HJIA Airport. Anyone with a criminal background gets denied entry into the great state of Georgia.

[jero23]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

Well I can tell you for sure it's definitely becoming a major deal in LaGrange. No clue how, but a bunch of Gangster disciples from Chicago showed up there and have been causing problems for the past year or so. Used to be one, maybe two murders a year and they would almost always be something domestic related. Not anymore. Also Birmingham DOES have a gang problem lol. I lived there for 2 years and West End, Fairfield, Ensley and Bessemer were infested with gangs. It wasn't one of the most dangerous cities in the US all those years for nothing.

No, Birmingham doesn't. I grew up there myself. There hasn't been a widespread gang problem there since the late 1990s. Its "most dangerous cities" title comes from the number of crimes per capita from the fact that the city population is relatively small compared to most other Southern cities anchoring similar sized metro with similar crime problems. If it was a metro government like other peer cities like Nashville, Louisville, Jacksonville, etc, it wouldn't even be in the top 20 for dangerous cities. NOLA is the only Southern city on that list that truly just dangerous regardless of its size.