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No peace in Watts
Former Times reporter Michael Krikorian goes deep in today's LA Weekly with two pieces on the bloody breakdown of a gang peace treaty in Watts:
"President Bush keeps saying America is safer now that Saddam Hussein is out of power. Prez hasn’t been to Watts lately. The much heralded, often copied and never equaled Watts housing-project gang peace treaty of 1992 has officially imploded, leaving bodies, grieving families and shell casings scattered over the most infamous black neighborhood west of the South Side of Chicago."
Also, Christine Pelisek writes on a Latino gang in Highland Park that is targeting African-Americans for death.
And: Erin Aubry Kaplan doesn't buy that Rep. Maxine Waters is uninvolved in a controversial but politically connected South L.A. development of dubious merit that employs her husband.
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