That's where Tony's campaign financing comes from. The people who put this monster in office are the same people who thought that a Tom Bradley would keep peace in the "ghetto," while they continued to run the town.
Armed gangs require pro-active, paramilitary policing, exactly as they do in Baghdad and Basra. You're not going to get it. Instant deportation of armed gang members who are illegals (HA!) is also mandatory. You're not going to get it. Besides, with a porous border and no control over ID, it wouldn't work. Look at Chata. Arrested 14 times, deported several times, and still selling dope and her kids shooting at the cops.
We also need to immediately stop the granting of citizenship to to the children of people here illegally. We are the only country left in the industrialized world that permits this.