How long can the gangs hold out?

[Police Moderator]

How long can the gangs hold out?
Questions linger after Chattanooga gang leaders agree to cease-fire
by Beth Burger

No blood had been shed Monday night, hours after gang leaders in Chattanooga agreed to a delicate cease-fire.

It's unclear how long the truce will last among the city's gang members.

"It's hard to say because we don't know how many folks -- how many shot callers -- were present. If it was everybody, it really is a wait and see," said Boyd Patterson, the city's gang task force coordinator.

Patterson did not attend the meeting Sunday of city gang leaders who agreed to the truce.

This month, at least 16 people have been shot and three have been killed. Many of the shootings have been gang related, according to police. Chattanooga has more than 40 documented criminal street gangs, however, only about five gangs are considered violent.

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I haven't read the fine print, or the appendixes to the cease fire treaty, but I was just curious if it also includes a cease fire on the rest of us?

[Police Moderator]

I haven't read the fine print, or the appendixes to the cease fire treaty, but I was just curious if it also includes a cease fire on the rest of us?

Evidently not.....

Police Say Teen Arrested For Burglary Threatens Juvenile Co-Defendants
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Police said after two teens admitted breaking into a house and said Billy Joe Taylor was with them, Taylor said there "would be some homicides in Brainerd."

Asked at the jail who would be killed, he said his co-defendants would be killed.

The three were arrested after kicking their way on Sunday into a residence on Ricky Drive in Brainerd.

Drake Boyd said he heard someone kick in his door and, when he went to investigate, he found three black males inside his home. They fled on foot.

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Witness Recants Earlier Statement Implicating Sister in Stabbing Murder
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Derrecka Witcher on Tuesday recanted statements made to police earlier implicating her older sister, Temekia Deshon Reed, in a stabbing murder at College Hill Courts on the Westside.

Ms. Witcher, though pressed by prosecutor Cameron Williams, said she could not recall seeing her sister toss aside a pair of purple-handled scissors.

She also could not confirm that Ms. Reed told her that she had "seen a chest and gone for it."

Ms. Witcher said, "I know in my heart she didn't say that."

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Gang Member Arrested After Forces His Way Into House
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Police said a known gang member who was armed with a handgun forced his way into a residence while trying to elude officers.

Robert Marshall "B-Bop" Allen, 19, of 3204 E. 44th St., was charged with resisting stop and frisk, aggravated burglary, criminal trespass and unlawful possession of a firearm.

Police said an officer on routine patrol in a known drug area observed several known gang members at 1101 Sheridan Ave. As police exited their vehicle, Allen ran from police into an occupied residence.

Police said Allen forced his way into the residence. The female resident quickly exited and said she did not know the intruder.

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Or could it be that arresting our way out of the problem may be working.......

Police Make 36 Arrests, Including 5 Gang Members, During Crime Suppression Effort
Monday, March 25, 2013

The Chattanooga Police Department’s Crime Suppression Unit made 36 arrests over the weekend, including five gang members, police said.

The unit "focused on high crime areas in the city with a mission to locate and arrest people committing crimes and to seize illegal guns and drugs," officials said.

The officers also assisted patrol districts with any Priority One calls for service.

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So what came first? The touchy-feely, high profile Gang Thug Summit or did pressure from LE force the thugs into the touchy-feely, high profile Gang Thug Summit?

Did the Gang Thugs come together to agree to unite to fight LE (And the rest of us) instead of fighting themselves?

Isn't this how the Mafia's Commission came into being in Chicago in 1931?

I guess they don't call us Little Chicago, for nothing.....

Curious minds want to know......

[JC]

The gangs are gonna stop killing each other.
The bleeding hearts are now happy and the gangs' efficiency just doubled. Great. Everyone happy?

[JC]

" but I was just curious if it also includes a cease fire on the rest of us?"

You didn't read the fine print, did ya?

[Fredo]

I say we establish a Chattanooga thunderdome. Who cares if these nitwits kill each other so long as we can control the collateral damage.

[Police Moderator]

Who cares if these nitwits kill each other so long as we can control the collateral damage.

Good idea, on the face of it.

The problem is that they don't limit their violence to each other. Stray bullets kill and wound. These thugs father children, or already have children who, like all of us, want to be just like Daddy and the children usually end up to be just that. These thugs sling dope, rob, rape and steal outside of their societal unit.

Just because cancer cells likely kill other cancer cells (As they kill healthy cells) doesn't mean we ignore them and hope the evil just goes away.

Task forces, focus groups, Town Hall Meetings and other entities of WORDS have been proven to be nothing more than a band-aid in a fight against a cancer.

If one is diagnosed with a cancer (Task forces, focus groups, Town Hall Meetings have already made that pretty obvious diagnosis), one does not talk about it, if one wants to live. One takes drastic, invasive, aggressive and drastic measures to kill the cancer.

The cure is to completely remove the cancer from the body. Or, we can just offer pithy comments, like Fredo, and hope it goes away.

[LimitedRecourse]

It's over now, apparently.

www.chattanoogan.com/2013/4/2/247927/Desmond-McClure-Was-Man-Shot-Multiple.aspx

[Police Moderator]

Rumors abound in Main Street death that Chattanooga police say was not random
by Tyler Jett

..... While Chattanooga police reported that they didn't see any gang-related evidence Tuesday, the department has not ruled it out. Since the cease fire last week, some residents say, life has not been any more peaceful.

Theresa Ivey, who is secretary both for the Ridgedale Association and for Ball at Tower Construction, said she reported noises that sounded like shootings twice last weekend. However, Ivey also noted she might have just heard fireworks. She doesn't know, but her neck hairs have stood up several times since community leaders reported a gang truce.

"There is a cease-fire?" she asked, facetiously. "What's that?"

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