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Los Angeles Notes

Ninety-two languages spoken in Los Angeles County testify to the areas population diversity. It's a monument to social control. Meanwhile, the city of Los Angeles claims its glory as the second largest Mexican city on the earth and ranks with Korean, Iranian, Armenian, and Ethiopian metropolises. By 2004, Los Angeles grew to the second largest urban population in the United States, according to the 2000 Census. Metropolitan Los Angeles would create the fourth largest state in the United States if given the opportunity.

War and peace along with economic growth brought our hugh and diverse population to this sunny land. California's government made a wise decision long ago. Our state government chose education as a major resource to tap. As a consequence many state universities were financed by the state. Then counties throughout California built their own community colleges with state help. As a rich educational land, California produced master in the arts and sciences. Few states, few countries could boast anything close to California's rich educational resources; even today under the cloud of deepening and looming economic collapse, the state continues using its educational resources. Sadly, the end of a lost era in California's education system appears on the horizon.

Los Angeles' police department and Sheriff's department patrol with a resolve to protect the weak from the strong, the victims from the potential killers. There's much more to their work. They protect property. Often enough, they intervene in family disturbances, a recurring event more often in some neighborhoods than others. These interventions place law enforcement officers at greater risk than just about any other part of their work. Police officers die more frequently at family disturbances than elsewhere. It's a risky job trying to keep the peace among family members. They do these things when half-awake much of the time. They work terrible hours and work all days of the week on a rotating basis. Not many people attribute this reality to law enforcement officers' behavior. Plus there's the public's abuse of law enforcement officers. Many people will claim that the Los Angeles law enforcement officers abuse their power. Perhaps so in too many cases, but we need to keep a balanced picture of what's going on in the multi-cultural, gun ridden county.

Homicide and Child Behavior

Family dynamics lead to homicide far too often in Los Angeles. Alcohol and drugs play a big part in this problem. Also, there's jealousy. My homicide cleanup in Los Angeles tell me that alcohol and drugs were present before most of my blood cleanup work. There's evidence that children may have witnessed their mother's murder. They witness a horrific event. Then the rest of their lives they live with this traumatic image present. Some people wonder why our Los Angeles students have such a tough time learning. Some of it arises in their homes. It's not always a family homicide that distracts them. Simple spousal abuse on a regular basis will do. I've taught on campuses plagued with physical abuse, students abusing one another. It's as if they know no other way to relate. Pounding, slapping, kicking one another goes on throughout their breaks and lunch.

I suppose there's some mating activity involved in some of it. Perhaps displaying a love-hate behavior. It's a mystery. It goes on year after year in inner-city schools, especially among African American kids. A significant number of the Mexican kids simply kill one another. Sometimes, they do not even have an imagine grievance. They kill to join a gang. Does this indicate a collapse in social control, ethics? There's not much to stop what's going on with Los Angeles killings. Mexican girls become pregnant at an early age. They have no skills to mention, and they have fewer child rearing skills. As a result they raise young boys and girls angry at the world.

These children have little if any coaching, little if any success in their lives. Before long there's a mystique surrounding the gang culture. It goes on for generations. It seems hard to believe, but some gangs in Los Angeles go back over four generations.

Los Angeles Mass Murder

Mass murder occures throughout most of the world. Automatic and semi-automatic weapons make this possible by one individual in one place at one time. In Africa and South and Central American machetes have done the deed. Mass murder comes as a "justified" fulfillment of a long standing grievance. I've written a bit about a recent mass murder in the Philippines. Ironically, the killers were Muslim clans clashing over the sale of a car.

Apparently, a clan leader and politician bought a car and never made payment. They have "clashed sporadically," reports say. I suggest that the car issue created a trigger for the warring clans to kill one another. I will bet hard money that their theological ideologies have a difference. I will bet that these people are fundamentalist.

Feuds among Muslim families, "rido," occur over other objects, including land and business influence. I'd say that there's a religious manipulation going on..

Violent feuds between families over land, political power and business influence have long existed across the Philippines.

This is a particular problem in the south, where Muslim families engage in extended feuds of retribution in a phenomenon known as "rido".

A study by the US-based Asia Foundation found that "rido" feuds in the south claimed more than 5,500 lives between 1930 and 2005.

"In the worst recent case of such violence, leaders of a Muslim clan that dominated politics in one southern province. Allegedly, they massacred 57 people in 2009 to stop a rival's effort to run against their family in local elections."

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