Pulled into Hemet at 3AM after a 10hr drive
from NorCal. Got a room and was up and on my way
to pick up a kid to take back to a NorCal group
home by 9:30AM. This was a couple of summers
ago.
What I can’t understand is within the vast
area of what the SoCalers refer to as the
Inland Empire with countless communities
and millions of people why would anybody
be interested in wiping out a gang task
force in a podunk town like Hemet? What
about Riverside, San Bernardino, Redlands?
If Hemet is ground zero I hope I don’t
ever have to go back.........
We have a big case going on out here. A 17 yo gang member shot, chopped up and burned in a pit in his backyard, another 17 yo. He is on the run with his girlfriend, whose dad happens to be a Mongrol. Her parents were recently arrested on weapons charges. It’s a real crazy case.
Then a couple of weeks ago, one of our officers got shot at(pierced his driver’s side door) by a gang memeber and they did a big gang sweep that day. I listened to the whole incident on my scanner.
My thoughts exactly. I grew up near there and my first thought was “Hemet has a gang task force?!”.
Hemet is still a fairly small community, some farms, little town, it is not what I would call a “barrio”.