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Post by tcrashfx on Apr 4, 2007 6:44:40 GMT -5
Local gangs defy stereotypes, form for economic, social reasons
by Angela Tant
April 04, 2007 I didn’t know very much about local gangs when I went to Harriet Tubman Homes one Friday afternoon. But I did use my limited knowledge when dressing for work that morning. I wasn’t certain whose territory I was about to wander into, but I made sure not to wear red or blue. I knew Crips wore blue, and Bloods wore red. Yellow was my color of choice. My tour guide was Curtis Greene, a private investigator who was one of the first members of the now-disbanded Chattanooga Police Department’s Gang Task Force that was founded in the late 1990s. His job on the task force was to assemble information on gangs, find out who belonged to them, and develop a database of gang members.
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Post by tcrashfx on Apr 4, 2007 6:48:22 GMT -5
Care to comment, mongrel?
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Copperhead
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Post by Copperhead on Apr 4, 2007 10:17:55 GMT -5
I read the article & had similar thoughts.
Interesting how things are hashed out here & then something similar magically appears in the press, eh?
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Post by Kordax on Apr 4, 2007 10:23:41 GMT -5
Interesting how things are hashed out here & then something similar magically appears in the press, eh?
Given the timidity of our local paper of record, local forums like this one should be ahead of the print news more often than not .....
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Post by tcrashfx on Apr 4, 2007 22:03:00 GMT -5
Hell, Kordax we are ahead of the radio and TV news media too! Even the forwarding thinking ones.
Read the Police Blotter at night and then listen to the WGOW news the next AM. You probably read it here first.
They are either looking to us as a source or we both have the same nose for news.
I gotta nose and it ain't built for news!
Simple mathematics.
We are pathetic, by the way.
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Post by gringarose on Apr 5, 2007 16:59:53 GMT -5
Quote: A black man and a white woman going into Harriet Tubman Homes may make officers suspicious of our intentions, Greene said. They may think we are interested in buying drugs. Why would a black man with a white woman stand out in Harriet Tubman when there are white women living in Harriet Tubman? Some who date black men. Old boy Green trying to impress his little impressionable ride along and talk up on some nook nook? ;D And that pic of mom and child using gang signs along with the rest look so staged and fake
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