"Since February, combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have been advising Salinas police on counterinsurgency strategy, bringing lessons from the battlefield to the meanest streets in an American city.... It’s a little laboratory"
Oh, you are an EXPERIMENT for the GLOBAL TYRANTS, America!
YOU WERE WARNED that this "war" would be TURNED INWARD, America!!!
WHY didn't you LISTEN?
"US city turns to military strategy for help in stopping gang warfare; Salinas officials stage a ‘surge’ as violence soars" by Karl Vick, Washington Post | November 22, 2009
SALINAS, Calif. - Since February, combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have been advising Salinas police on counterinsurgency strategy, bringing lessons from the battlefield to the meanest streets in an American city.
“This is our surge,’’ said Mayor Dennis Donohue, who solicited the assistance from the elite Naval Postgraduate School, 20 miles and a world away in Monterey....
“It’s a little laboratory,’’ said Hy Rothstein, a retired Army colonel and career officer in Special Forces who heads the team of 15 faculty members and students, mostly naval officers taking time between deployments to pick up a master’s degree....
Goodbye, America.
I didn't know tyranny was a major now.
Rothstein, a veteran of counterinsurgency efforts in Colombia and Central America, notes the “significant overlap with how you deal with insurgencies and how you deal with cities that are under siege from gangs.’’ Going after insurgents, he said, involves “trying to capture the allegiance and control of the population. Gang members are trying to do the same.’’
To help, the advisers brought to Salinas the powerful computer software commanders used in Iraq. US forces there started out nearly as blind as Salinas police consider themselves in facing a population where, by the mayor’s count, 10 to 15 percent of families include a gang member....
Their effort in Salinas counts as extracurricular and is voluntary, given the constitutional bar on the military operating within US borders....
Yeah, we will just GET AROUND that CONSTITUTION, no problem!!!!
The reality turns out to be less dramatic: The thrust of the plan relies on winning the trust of people.
Then they have ALREADY LOST!!!!
In Salinas, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, the uniformed forces patrolling “are still viewed as an occupying force,’’ said Police Chief Louis Fetherolf.
And WHAT DOES THAT SAY about AmeriKa, huh?
Gangs and police compete in the aftermath of gang shootings. Witnesses in a position to see everything share nothing with police. Their silence is so absolute that after a killing in August, a department spokesman told the local paper that police were “absolutely begging’’ for witnesses....
Major James M. Few, a veteran of three Iraq tours, said he sensed in the grievances of poor Latinos some of the air of disenfranchisement that Sunnis felt toward the Iraq government dominated by Shi’ites.
Pfffft! Then we are ALL SUNNIS!!!!!!
And WE KNOW WHO this government is dominated by!
The gang problem dates back decades in Salinas, headquarters of the northern California network known as La Familia or Nortenos. The gang operates more coherently in Salinas than its rival, the Mexican Mafia, Sergeant Mark Lazzarini said.
Yeah, but the WARS showed us how to deal with it!!
Maybe all the GOVERNMENT DRUG-RUNNING isn't helping, huh?
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