By Alex Alonso
September 9, 2009
As a gang researcher the issue of illegal immigration comes up often when being interviewed or asked to opine on the subject of Los Angeles gangs. For some, illegal immigration is a major reason why street gangs exisit, but the reality is that most gang members, including Hispanics, are US [...]
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Alex Alonso for StreetGangs.com
August 7, 2009
oday the two journalist, Laura Ling and Euna Lee confirmed that they did cross into North Korea, as North Korean President, Kim Jong-Il stated. On March 21, 2009, the North Koreans stated that two Americans were detained while illegally intruding into the territory of the DPRK by crossing the [...]
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Alex Alonso for StreetGangs.com
July 29, 2009
Glenn Beck, revealed his true feelings about Barack Obama, by calling him a “racist” on the Fox and Friends morning show on July 28, 2009. Although President Obama was raised by white people, has hired white people to run his cabinet, and grew up with white people, Beck believes [...]
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Alex Alonso for StreetGangs.com
May 15, 2008
I wrote an article about the murder of Jamiel Shaw to emphasize that the conflict between the Bloods and 18th Street is the primary reason why the shooter targeted Jamiel and not race. The main point is that Pedro Espinoza, was not on 5th Avenue looking for a random [...]
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By Alex Alonso
May 15, 2008
or the last few years, Kevin James has been spewing his hyperbolic rhetoric on Los Angeles radio, while offering no intelligent dialogue on the issues that are most important to Angelenos. His views on street LA street gangs, Special Order 40, and the Mayor are almost always wrong, and he [...]
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By Alex Alonso for StreetGangs.com
July 11, 2007
A writer for the Whittier Daily News published an article on gangs that included my name and website in an appalling fashion. I found an excerpt of that article below:
…The LOTT (Living On The Top) gang is based in Los Angeles and East Los Angeles. It started in the [...]
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By Alex Alonso
April 7, 2007
On April 6, 2007, talk radio host, Larry Elder was talking about the argument that Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera had about an illegal alien drunk driver that killed two other persons in the commonwealth of Virginia during O’Reilly’s FOX cable show, The O’Reilly Factor. Elder stated that Rivera was [...]
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By Alex Alonso
April 6, 2007
Radio commentator Doug McIntyre of 790 KABC Radio hosts the morning show from 5am – 9am and does a great job, but I heard a comment from him that I have to address. On April 6, 2007 he stated that illegal aliens are “an enormous component of the gang bangin” problem [...]
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Alex Alonso
March 6, 2007
Los Angeles was given the title, gang capital of the US back in 1988 by Tom Brokaw on a gang documentary. I am not sure if another person preceded Mr. Brokaw with this title, but since then it as stuck, but is that title appropriate for Los Angeles?
Los Angeles, California represents [...]
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Alex Alonso for StreetGangs.com
February 8, 2007
On February 7, 2007, 790 KABC host Kevin James in Los Angeles said that there is an “extreme surge in gang violence because the mayor is involved.” Without offering any evidence, data, or expert view, Mr James makes this statement is completely untrue, and James has what I [...]
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