Massive police raid targets brutal l.a. gang

Massive police raid targets brutal L.A. gang
1. How many gang members did the police arrested?
Answer: they arrested 400
2. Why were the gang members arrested?
Answer: For crimes that they had committed for example murdering, dealing, etc.
Los Angeles cop Juan Aguilar has been battling the Avenues hoodlums long enough to have seen the gang at its most vicious. During his five years workingan anti-gang detail on streets the Avenues claim as their own in the city's northeastern reaches, gang members are accused of gunning down a man in broad daylight as he held his 2-year-old granddaughter's hand, opening fire on LAPD officers with an assault rifle and killing a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy.

 How can gang members just do that come on…an innocent little girl was involved.Even as crime has dropped throughout the city, Aguilar says he still braces for the worst when it comes to the Avenues. "When I read the crime reports from the weekend that land on my desk and there hasn't been a gang shooting, I'll say to myself, 'We've had a good weekend.' " On Tuesday, Aguilar was one of roughly 1,200 police officers and federal agents involved in a massive crackdown on theAvenues -- one of the most entrenched and violent gangs in a city full of them."I've been looking forward to this day for a while," the soft-spoken 35-year-old said as dawn broke over the operation's large command post in Elysian Park.

 Damn so many cops. This had to be a big ass rumble or something…That’s a lot of cops.
His words summed up a common sentiment expressed by the officers -- bothtop brass and rank-and-file -- involved in the full-scale assault. It was a cop's cautious optimism that maybe, for the first time, police had gained the upper hand, mixed with the harsh reality that there is plenty more fighting to come. By day's end, 78 alleged Avenues members or associates were in custody on federal charges related to the gang's extensive drug dealing, previously unsolvedmurders and other crimes. Five other people were arrested on state charges and 10 people wanted by federal authorities remained at large and were being sought. It was the largest gang sweep in the city in recent years, officials said, and affected a large portion of the gang, which claims about 400 members.

 Well no duh no one is going to stop gangs from fighting it not possible…I think that gangmembers love to fight.

 Seriously the gang members are stupid for getting caught they should know what they are doing.
As handcuffed suspects were hauled back to the command post, Aguilar nodded in recognition at many of them. Louie Mora, the alleged gun-toting drug dealer who Aguilar said had tried to go straight, but slipped back into the gang life, walked by. And there was LeonardoErentreich, the kid they called Fatal, whom Aguilar had watched grow from more innocent days as a tagger into a full-fledged gangbanger accused of armed robbery and drug dealing. Some of them he had at one time tried to help, telling them quietly that the only way to leave the gang is to leave the city. Others had long ago slipped beyond help, he said.

 I have an uncle that he was like this but nowhe’s in a wheel chair…people don’t realize what life is giving them. They have to see it the hard way.
The sweep unfolded in the early morning darkness of Glassell Park and surrounding neighborhoods -- an area that has been the center of Avenues territory since the gang first surfaced in the 1950s. Months of logistical planning by a specialized unit of LAPD gang detectives and a Drug EnforcementAdministration task force paid off, and there were no major hiccups. The day's only significant use of force was the shooting of two aggressive dogs by San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies.
 Wow since the 1950s… Sick ass generations… OGs everywhere.
Most suspects went quietly, including Norberto Salazar. An LAPD SWAT team quietly surrounded Salazar's home on Estara Avenue. Using a...