California finally arrests dozens after Goshen massacre
Zachary Faria
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Focusing law enforcement resources on career criminals and gang members keeps people safe. Believe it or not, the most recent example of this comes from California.
After the Goshen massacre, in which six people were killed execution-style (including a 6-month-old baby), police arrested two suspects. Both were known members of the Norteno gang, and officers believed that the shooting was the result of a conflict with the rival Surenos.
SIX PEOPLE, INCLUDING BABY, SHOT AND KILLED IN CALIFORNIA HOME
The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office then launched a four-day operation called Operation Nightmare, arresting 26 people in connection with illegal drug and gun operations. After searching 97 homes, officers recovered guns, ammunition, methamphetamine, and cocaine. Officers discovered that the gang was manufacturing and selling untraceable guns to other gang members. Meanwhile, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation also searched the cells of 23 known gang members.
“This is about drugs, drug money, illegal drug running, and illegal firearms infiltrating the entire Central Valley,” Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said. “We are able to identify future locations in different counties in California.”
It isn’t quite the grand display of El Salvador breaking in its brand-new prison facility with 2,000 MS-13 inmates, but it’s a start. Central California is undoubtedly going to be safer with a few dozen gang members (and their illegal firearms) off the street. Law enforcement did not need to pass new laws to make this happen. They simply used time, resources, and common sense to go after known and suspected gang members and enforce existing laws.
Typically, this kind of effort is not even necessary to keep people safe. Take the example of the shooters in Sacramento, California, who were responsible for the deaths of six people and injuries to 12. That shooting was a gang shooting, the escalation of a conflict between members of the Garden Blocc Crips and the rival Bloods gang. The men were known gang members with criminal histories, and yet they were given light sentences or early releases in California and Arizona.
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These are not the only examples. Left-wing district attorneys have made it their mission not to keep criminals behind bars, no matter their violent history or gang affiliation. California itself reduced sentencing enhancements for gang affiliations, trying to tie the hands of district attorneys who actually want to keep gang members behind bars.
It should not be controversial to believe that what the Tulare County Sherriff’s Office did in Central California should be the norm, and yet it is to Democratic politicians and the “criminal justice reform” activists they obey. Getting gang members and career criminals off the street and keeping them behind bars makes people safer. That is all that matters.