Gwinnett.talk

By Chuck

November 21, 2007 7:52 AM | Link to this

Oh, boy - Bannister to the rescue again. Now if we could just get our officials to communicate with their best resource, informed citizens, we’d be all set. Many years ago I sent gang tag photos to the local FBI office, for example, suggesting that they “help out” in Gwinnett. It was pretty clear that they were in violation of the RICO Act and that the county was doing little to nothing about it. Fifty some gangstas were indicted as a result of the sweep. A while back Chuck Bannister personally told me “thanks but no thanks” regarding help from citizens - do the math.

By Bruce Wilcox

November 21, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

Wow, so you’re saying Chuck because you sent gang tag photos to the local FBI office they rounded up fifty gangsters on what you believed would be violations of the RICO Act? BTW…when did this event take place? Was Bannister the only one in county government you told, not the Chief or the Sheriff?

We should elect you D.A., what do you say?

By HiYa

November 21, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

Chuck, if you think the FBI rode in here and saved the day, you are misinformed. The case went Federal, but was “built” on local (GCPD) charges. Do a FOIA request from the FBI and see for yourself.

By Bonedaddy

November 22, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

Would that be Chuck Norris?

By Chuck

November 22, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

Indeed - we really don’t need FOIA data, since we were “on site” from invitation to indictments, thanks. We even had to ask the genius precint commander to clear his lobby of the talkative agents - made it real easy for the AJC, anyway.

By Michael H. Smith

November 22, 2007 1:40 PM | Link to this

This GangNet is kind of interesting, though, as a “new tool” in the age of information technology it seems to be very slow moving across the country. For whatever reason, “appropriate thanks” are due to Chief Walters for pursuing and acquiring the software and this database system to use in combating these criminal organizations.

Perhaps, now, many of us who have known that these, gangs or street gangs, in Gwinnett County are indeed so much more than the innocence of adolescent mischief strongly purveyed among the native Spanish speaking, shall finally see their cover stripped away and shown to be the tentacles of organized crime that they are and not as DA Danny Porter once informed me to be: Just another form of a Rotary Club as seen in the eyes of the courts.

Law enforcement has a great deal of information compiled already, once the sharing of these information stores reaches maturity the evidence to make RICO charges stand up in the courts will take on surety.

Still think it is cool to be in a gang, or to emulate a gang member. Once that gang is linked to La Eme or to AB, the cold hard facts of racketeering charges might buy someone serious federal time in the penitentiary just for wearing the wrong tattoo or having made the mistake of painting some gang’s tag on a fence – even if you’re not a gang member, is it worth the risk to emulate one?

Thanks again, Chief Walters, for staying on top of things, while the wheels of justice move slowly; and may the eyes of the courts now be opened.

By Bruce Wilcox

November 23, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this

Keep that cape a flying Chuck.