Los Angeles, CA. - Is the ultimate gang solution near? In a FREE thirteen minute FULL DISCLOSURE NETWORK® video news blog Steve Ipsen, President of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys and Jerry Thompson, retired Sheriffs Deputy say yes and they describe the process. The courts could require juvenile offenders to wear GPS tracking devices thus deterring adult gang members from recruiting them into unlawful and violent activities, according to Ipsen, the result would be "divide and conquer the gangs". The FDN video news blog is moderated Emmy Award winning host Leslie Dutton and available FREE, 24/7, on demand and provided as a public service.
The biggest break ever in the war against gangs is ready to be employed. So says 20 year veteran prosecutor Steve Ipsen, all that is needed is for law enforcement and judicial officials is to endorse the use of new technology available for a GPS tacking system and a few modifications to the California Penal Code. Retired Sheriffs Deputy Thompson confirms the technology is here and already being deployed for similar uses.
Among the novel uses for the device in fighting gang crimes and a proposal on how to pay for it:
- Change Penal Code: Adult gang members found using juveniles would be guilty of a felony
- Send juveniles gang members to a 2 week boot camp to learn about "Three Strikes Law"
- Send juveniles to 1 week boot camp to learn how GPS tracking systems sounds alarm to monitors when curfews are violated, they skip school, fail to show up for work assignments or even wander into rival gang territory
- The cost of the GPS devices and monitoring service could be paid by taxing released criminals and parolees $50 per year for Drivers Licenses
- Parolees could be monitored as well, so if suspected of a particular crime their location could be verified and they could be arrested or removed from suspicion
Following the video viewers are asked to vote on the following survey questions:
- Should the state be authorized to place tracking devices on known gang juveniles?
- Should the parole system use tracking technology?
- Do you fear technology could threaten civil rights?
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Marlon Magana Winnetka, CA
Posted: 03:34 pm [PST] on March 17 2008
It is a privelege,not a right, to be on parole or probation. If they wouldn't want to adhere to the tracking guidelines, they shouldn't request parole or probation. Church is the only reasonable place gangsters would run into eachother. But then again, if they went to church more often, they wouldn't want to be gangsters.
Phillip Lambro Los Angeles
Posted: 02:06 pm [PST] on March 01 2008
I have spoken with a few gang members in confidence and they have told me that their parents had too many children and with multiple jobs were rarely home so that the only family for them were the gangs. The solution is mandatory birth control; or we will have to have tracking devices by the millions. No one seems, for fear of antiquated religious precepts and reprisals to recognize that overpopulations breeds more gangs and gang violence.
Mark Cripe Los Angeles
Posted: 12:28 am [PST] on October 08 2007
The cost of this idea would be far greater than revenue gained by the current proposal. The criminal minded person will simply take the risk of driving without a drivers license (a misdemeanor) rather than fund a tracking system that creates risk of felony arrests. How much does it cost to track one person? What is that cost times 56,000? Who will enforce tracking violations, when we can’t even stop crime with the staffing levels we have now? If this comes to fruition we will be a short hope to “chipping” humans much like dogs are chipped today. Is that really the direction we want to go in?
This idea of making “who” one associates with a "track-able offense" is going to be a big civil rights issue. Imagine someday your church organization is identified as anti-social and you have to be tracked because you are affiliated with the organization. As of the last time I checked, affiliation with anti social people is not a criminal offense. Yes, juvenile delinquency is something we need to address, but we must tread carefully.
NOLA CALIFORNIA
Posted: 10:06 am [PST] on October 03 2007
Our Area, Antelope Valley, is becoming almost as bad ad LA and Compton,thanks to Sec. 8 FHA.THIS
N2EEDS TO BE ENDED NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wE NEED A MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL INTERESTED IN MORE THAN FINANCIAL INTEREST OF 'good ole boys"
Ken Haynie
Posted: 08:46 am [PST] on October 03 2007
Boy, what a GREAT idea! Let's run with it!
Tommy Carter LASD Palmdale
Posted: 06:52 pm [PST] on October 02 2007
Society continues to breed more idiots and savages...we need to get a control on this and prevent our "innocents" from being attacked and harmed by these future savages!
JOE Los Angeles
Posted: 09:24 pm [PST] on August 05 2007
Those are some Interesting ideas. Working with the juveniles is in the right direction, but as I have previously stated that law enforcement is dealing with products of the community. Gang Officers-LAP, LASD, Probation & Parole have their hands tied. THE ACLU and DOJ is ALL OVER Probation and Sheriffs departments jails, juvenile halls and camps. And to be honest some of that is well deserved and changes are necessary-but the ACLU & DOJ have Sheriffs and P.O.'s in institutions on egg shells and pressuring supervisors to severely discipline Officers for any reason. Recruitment and turnover for these departments in ridiculous. If the public was to see the stats on turnover and reason for it, it would astonish the public. The dedicated officers that are left have to deal with supervisors trying to promote...or barely hang on to their job, are after the line officers who are providing a great public service. To be quite honest when juvenile/adult justice is being discussed, I fail to understand why the CYA is rarely talked about and the fact that some of the most violent and ruthless juveniles are sentenced to. But I guess thats a whole another issue...state and county issues...but with decrease number of beds in the state they have already been coming back into the county systems and back into our community.
Joe, FTP
JT Calif
Posted: 12:28 pm [PST] on May 13 2007
Spoken like a real ex-con Michael!
Michael Las Vegas, Nevada
Posted: 07:15 pm [PST] on April 23 2007
Once again we have this Ipsen spewing forth garbage. People like Ipsen would like to see a world where everyone is monitored in one way or another. Taxing paroles who have nothing but $200 gate money to their name and tax them for a drivers license is ludicrous.
David Whittemore Thousand Oaks, CA
Posted: 03:18 am [PST] on April 23 2007
Thank you for your wonderful coverage.