Gangs Are Over (If You Want It)

City Attorney Dennis Herrera took a break from harassing that nice Ed Jew today, introducing a lawsuit against three gangs. Our knowledge of streetgang etiquette is pretty much zero, but we can't imagine the "Knock Out Posse" will be giving him the courtesy of an RSVP. At any rate, the plan is to use an injunction to impose stiffer penalties for gang activity in certain areas. In the past, this technique worked against the Oakdale Mob, Dennis' office says, so hopefully it'll work again now. Now all's we need is some spiffy police work to back the injunction up.

We've assembled a handy-dandy map of the gang zones, as well as the locations of recent gang-connected incidents. We can't help noticing that the two recent shootings in the Western addition fall outside of Dennis' gang areas -- but, and make of this what you will -- the boundaries do appear to cover some of the public housing in the neighborhood.