GANGS, LA CITY COUNCIL POLITICS & ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Los Angeles, CA The Full Disclosure Network® presents a seven minute preview video featuring Part 4 and 5 from an on going series on Gangs and how local government deals with the growing threat of violence in the their community.

This Part 4 and 5 of the series features:

• KEVIN JAMES, Former U.S. Prosecutor. Radio Talk Show Host Week Nights 9-11 p.m. KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles
• DARYL GATES, Former Los Angeles Police Chief
• JACK WEISS, Los Angeles City Councilman
• REV. JEFF CARR, L.A. Deputy Mayor and Gang Czar

Here are some the points covered in the six segments of the series:

• L A City Council Public Safety Committee held a hearing to consider a resolution to reform LAPD Police “Special Order 40” because due to concerns it was protecting illegal alien gang members.
• Councilmember Jack Weiss is accused of bias due to the long delay to hold a hearing and the inequity in allotting time to citizens speaking.
• Protesters intimidate the Councilmember Ed Reyes who was expected to support the motion of Councilmember Zine
• Hearing is dubbed a “charade” when the council committee fails to take a vote.
• Fearful of retaliation by gang supporters, two days after the hearing, Council passes resolution praising the gang supporters who testified at the hearing.

The Full Disclosure Network® Gang series continues with the next episodes number 6 and 7 will feature former LAPD Chief who explains the history and intent of enacting SPECIAL ORDER 40 regarding police policy on illegal immigrants. The full programs appear on 40 cable channels and are available on DVD from http://www.fulldisclosure.net/

$24 Million L A Gang Program to Bring Redemption?

Los Angeles, CA The Full Disclosure Network® is releasing the first three parts of an on-going Cable TV Series exposé on the failures and successes of gang prevention programs across the nation starting with the City of Los Angeles. Full Disclosure host Leslie Dutton interviews major players in previous L.A. Gang Wars and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's new "Gang Czar", L.A. Deputy Mayor Rev. Jeff Carr, who is implementing the Mayor's new gang strategy, a $24 million Program called "The Gang Reduction and Youth Development Program".


Featured in this 10 minute preview are the following experts:

• L.A. Deputy Mayor and "Gang Czar", Rev. Jeff Carr, who is planning to augment the current gang suppression effort by law enforcement with Mayor Villaraigosa's two prong strategy, prevention and intervention using "gang members can be redeemed."



• * Sgt. Richard Valdemar, a 32-year veteran of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and an International Gang specialist, who predicts that "the use of gang members to intervene during gang violence will not work."



• * David R. Hernandez, a long time Los Angeles civic activist, who says, "The City is either ignoring or concealing the all out race war between local gangs."

WHAT STRATEGY WORKS AND DOES'NT
This preview contains video clips from the first of three parts in the new series. Viewers will learn what strategy works and what doesn't when dealing with vicious gang members who commit heinous crimes. You can watch the first three installments of this series on your local cable television by checking our channel listing on the website. Or you can purchase a three-set DVD from Full Disclosure.

L A Mayor's Gang Money Controlled By Anonymous Committee: Watch Video Here (11 min)

Los Angeles, CA. According to a December 23, 2008 report written by Daniel Heimpel, Investigative Journalist in the L A Weekly publication L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa’s new gang prevention and intervention program is going to protect the identity of fifty individuals who will be deciding which non-profit gang organizations will get generous city grants for prevention and intervention activities, only in the high violence areas of the City.

WATCH VIDEO HERE
The Full Disclosure Network® presents an eleven minute exclusive video news blog revealing how approximately $24 million taxpayer dollars will be doled out to groups that have both gang members and former gang members on their staffs. The area targeted is the high violence areas of the city, according to the City's new Gang Czar. When told that the committee selecting the gang organizations to receive grants was going to remain anonymous Heimpel described the plan as "fishy".

Appearing in the video:

• Rev. Jeff Carr, Gang Czar and Los Angeles Deputy Mayor


• Daniel Heimpel, L A Weekly Investigative Journalist


• Leslie Dutton, Host, Full Disclosure Network

REPORTER DEPICTS THE INTERVIEW
In the video Heimpel describes his interview with Rev. Jeff Carr and his response to the questions raised about the unusual procedures being used the Mayors office to select the grant recipients, which any effort toward providing transparency.

REDEEMED GANG MEMBERS
Rev. Carr describes the Mayor’s gang program and the prevention and intervention strategies and reassures Full Disclosure that the young adults working in the program would include persons who have been incarcerated but who have been redeemed.