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Yep, those brown people stick together. When are we going to outlaw them, anyways?
What makes you think all Hispanics are "brown"? Some are def white but are still vatos. The bad truth is MOST bangers in Anaheim ARE probably Mexican or at least Chicano. Nothing racist about it.
For more on the demographics of Anaheim here is a more detailed look from the OC Register, which has been on top of this story from the beginning. For those that only think of Disneyland and Anaheim as a safe fun place to be, take a look at the gang injunction areas in blue around Disneyland. The one on the west right next door includes several large apartment complexes off of Walnut St., and note the ones to the east close to Anaheim Stadium as well as DL. As mentioned in an earlier post, east of State College Blvd is the better part of town. Now, in spite of all this, the crime rate in Anaheim is not sky high, and it is a much safer city than say, next door Santa Ana, or LA County areas like East LA or Compton. www.ocregister.com/articles/police-367037-anaheim-city.html?graphics=1#graphics1
That is why when we lived there, we lived in Anaheim Hills, Yorba Linda, like living in another State all together, compared to the city of Anaheim.
Anaheim Hills, is very pretty, and Yorba Linda, is very nice with so many elite areas.
All of Anaheim is not a gang infested pit, but the areas that are, as you know also, are not safe at all. And your right, because the area, is definitely not taken care of, no pride their for their neighboorhood at all.
Did you know the central and western portions of Anaheim have different code enforcement rules than Anaheim Hills? True. Residents of those areas ask for help and are turned down by the city. What would never be allowed by code enforcement in Anaheim Hills is allowed in central Anaheim.
So. You ever venture west of West? Euclid? Brookhurst? Or did you stay in the "elite" part of Anaheim to reach your conclusions? Personally, I think they ought to chop off Anaheim at the hills and let the "elites" have their own town. They're not a part of Anaheim. They don't want to be called Anaheim. When you lived there, did your mailing address say Anaheim or Anaheim Hills? My guess is you had Anaheim Hills on your checks and you made the distinction to everyone you met so they wouldn't think you lived in regular ol' Anaheim.
p.s. You know why they don't separate Anaheim from Anaheim Hills? Because Anaheim Hills needs the tax money supplied by the people who live and work west of State College. I'd love to see the the Hills have to support themselves and let all that tax money stay in the flatlands so the lives of the people there can be improved. Anaheim also needs it's own representation on the City Council. As it is all of the members save one, who lives in the Colony District, live in Anaheim Hills. How they think they can govern and understand the people who live in an area like Lincoln and Brookhurst I do not know. (Anyone know where the Chief of Police lives? I'm guessing no where near Anna and LaPalma.)
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A lot of people in poorer neighborhoods do not like the gangs and want their neighborhoods cleaned up of them.
Just because people don't have a lot of money shouldn't mean they have to put up with drive-by shootings, drug deals going on outside their homes at all hours of the day and night, nor should their kids be assaulted just because they walked down the "wrong street".
I would bet you most of the people living there are very glad to see something being done about the criminals that are destroying their neighborhood.
That is why when we lived there, we lived in Anaheim Hills, Yorba Linda, like living in another State all together, compared to the city of Anaheim.
Anaheim Hills, is very pretty, and Yorba Linda, is very nice with so many elite areas..
We were neighbors..! I lived near the 91 and Weir Cyn for many years..........
A lot of people in poorer neighborhoods do not like the gangs and want their neighborhoods cleaned up of them.
Just because people don't have a lot of money shouldn't mean they have to put up with drive-by shootings, drug deals going on outside their homes at all hours of the day and night, nor should their kids be assaulted just because they walked down the "wrong street".
I would bet you most of the people living there are very glad to see something being done about the criminals that are destroying their neighborhood.
Very true.
One reason why Anaheim needs to change it's codes. The standards are lower for the areas infested with gangs. People ask to get the rental next door fixed up (rental probably owned by someone outside the area) and they're told it meets code. It wouldn't meet code in Anaheim Hills but it meets code for the flatlands. The flatlands do have many very active Neighborhood Watch groups. They know they have to police themselves - in more than one sense of the word.
One reason why Anaheim needs to change it's codes. The standards are lower for the areas infested with gangs. People ask to get the rental next door fixed up (rental probably owned by someone outside the area) and they're told it meets code. It wouldn't meet code in Anaheim Hills but it meets code for the flatlands. The flatlands do have many very active Neighborhood Watch groups. They know they have to police themselves - in more than one sense of the word.
Where I live has become one of the safest cities anywhere - but we had a serious gang problem not too many years ago. A woman I worked with was frightened for her mother and daughter because the house across the street was shot up -- her neighbor was shot in the face simply because he looked out the window at the wrong time and because his grandson was running with a gang.
Drive-by shootings were a daily occurrence at one point, there were a couple that took place in broad daylight at schools -- kids were afraid to even go to school. It got so bad, they would have announcements on television not to answer anything if asked "que barrio", but just to hurry out of that area, any wrong answer could get you assaulted if not killed.
Getting rid of the gang control over neighborhoods isn't always easy -- one of my sons would tell me how he and his friends would simply be walking down the street -- going from one friend's house to another or going to get something to eat or drink and a policeman would stop them and ask questions. Yet some of these friends would tell me how they were beat up simply for walking down some street controlled by some gang because it was assumed they were from another gang.
My other son's close friend's brother ended up killed by a gang thug -- he was left to bleed to death all alone in an empty lot - all for being in the wrong place. He was in a gang himself, but was invited and showed up to a party in a neighborhood another gang didn't think he belonged in. And yes I went to the funeral and I never saw so many police --- you had to walk by two sets of police (city and sheriff) lining the entrance and carefully scrutinizing everyone -- but the deceased's family didn't mind the police at all being there, they were angry at the whole gang situation that had their handsome 23 year old son/brother/nephew laying in that casket.
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