Posted on 04/16/2005 11:04:23 AM PDT by Glenn
Sheriff's office asks FBI for help with gangs
By Daniel Farrow, danfarrow@daltoncitizen.com, Saturday, April 16, 2005 Saturday, April 16, 2005 1:38 PM EDT
Gang activity in Whitfield County, including violence and drug trafficking, is growing, and Sheriff Scott Chitwood is asking the FBI and other agencies for help.
"The criminal activity of these gangs is now beginning to escalate into more serious activity such as gang-against-gang violence, which is not always being reported to law enforcement," Chitwood wrote in a letter to the FBI office in Rossville.
"We are, however, aware of gang activity involving the distribution of illegal firearms, drive-by shootings and the discharge of weapons at public venues," he wrote.
Chitwood asks the FBI to help form a local-federal task force to combat gang activity.
Chitwood said Friday the request was not made in response to any specific incidents.
"We've just seen an increase in the population and our community has changed and we feel like this is a step in the right direction to keep, hopefully, control over what could potentially escalate," he said.
Chitwood noted in the letter that gangs have sprung up during the last 10 years as Dalton and Whitfield County have seen their Hispanic populations surge dramatically. He wrote that sheriff's office deputies and investigators have identified more than 10 "street gangs" in Dalton-Whitfield County.
"During the last decade, we have been closely monitoring this vast population increase in the community and the activity of the immigrants relocating in the area," Chitwood wrote. "We have observed the attempted organization and the actual organization of several 'street gangs' -- most of which involve Hispanic nationals."
Agent John Parrish with the FBI said Friday the agency currently has gang-focused task forces in Gainesville, which has also seen a large influx of Hispanic immigrants, and in the Atlanta area.
Those task forces target gangs, but "also enable federal resources to come to bear on any violent criminal activity that is occurring," Parrish said.
If approved, the Whitfield County task force would be operated the same way, he said.
The Whitfield County Sheriff's Office, Dalton Police Department and Calhoun Police Department would collaborate, Parrish said.
"We would get input from all these agencies, come together and do an analysis of the crime problem," he said. "We would identify violent groups and move forward from there."
Dalton Police Chief James Chadwick did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
Chitwood said it is too early to discuss what kind of manpower or funding his office or other agencies would commit to the task force.
"We'll have to see if anything's approved," he said. "It's all in the very early stages."
Although the letter refers to the county's surge in the number of Hispanic residents, Chitwood said any task force would try to quell all gangs.
"The criminal activity of these 'street gangs' initially began with graffiti being spray-painted on private property in areas the gangs wanted to claim as their 'turf,'" he wrote. "We then began to see a gradual increase in the number of gang members and the criminal activity they were involved in.
"In addition to violent crimes, the 'Georgia Drug Threat Assessment' from the U.S. Department of Justice indicates Hispanic criminal groups are the principal transporters of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana in Georgia," Chitwood wrote.
"I have met and discussed gang activity with different law enforcement officials from our jurisdiction on several occasions -- as well as met with law enforcement officials from other areas having similar activity with street gangs. Based on the intelligence gained from those meetings and the fact that many of these gang members are illegal immigrants, I feel a joint federal/local 'task force' approach is the best way to combat the illegal activities of these street gangs."
Chitwood said it will likely be weeks or months before he hears back from the FBI.
Gangs are organized crime. Soon they will be armies, if we don't stomp them hard and fast!
Maybe they can keep a lid on it for awhile, but eventually people will organize to take their communities back, once they realize govt. won't. I don't think many communities will accept this crap as 'the new normal'. Things will get awfully uncomfortable for these invaders and those who harbor them, I think.
"We have observed the attempted organization and the actual organization of several 'street gangs' -- most of which involve Hispanic nationals."
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"Good Morning George, how are you? Yes, it's Eagle again. Well, we have a little problem in Georgia with illegal Mexican gangs again...(click)...hello, hello, George are you still there, George???"
It goes on and on and on. We may have to nuke Mexico before Iran or N. Korea.
Here are your friends
Ping!
Good move by the Sherrif. It is going to take all of the LEA´s working together to put a halt to this, they will have to kill some of the punks before it is over unfortuneatly a few of the good guys will die too.
You notice how they rounded up 10,000 bad guys in one day across the nation. Why couldn´t thaey rounded them up sooner?
For research and future use, please view the data from Schooltree.org. It is interesting to see the ethnic data for Dalton High School.
http://georgia.schooltree.org/public/Dalton-High-022111.html
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to:
Enrollment Statistics for Dalton High School
"We have a little problem in Georgia with illegal Mexican gangs again"
Sorry to say, once there here they aren't going away. In Gwinnet county, people are getting ready to flee this mess because the government won't do a thing to stop it.
then we need to demand they do it.
people are getting ready to flee this mess because the government won't do a thing to stop it...
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Well that is exactly the core of the problem -- the Mexicans are just taking advantage of the fact that our government is not working for the people any more --- they apparently do not care or have any interest in stopping the destruction of our country.
Nobody knows, and Presidente Arbusto doesn't care.
Dirt cheap illegal alien labor is more important to him than our safety or national security.
They are afraid to do anything.
As far as I'm concerned, that constitutes good news. Leave them alone and maybe they'll kill each other off.
Black gangs are on the decline. These people are just doing the jobs Americans no longer want to do.
Let them kill each other, who cares? As long as they don't bother American citizens - bye bye.
Gangs are what we have been putting up with for well over 20 years in Los Angeles. The City Council envoked Special Order #40 which prohibits local police from working with INS, or any other federal agency to enforce immigration laws of criminal illegal aliens.
LOL, they are criminals by entering this country illegally.
yup,...the ACLU/bolsheviks are feeding and protecting these vicious puppies ,...do strays wander off when you feed them?? The illegalsmess is already WAY out of control , I fear it will be W's Waterloo [by the time he starts giving attn]
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