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Which of the following statements ARE TRUE about the War on Gangs launched in 1988. Select one or more: O a. The War on Gangs

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Which of the following statements ARE TRUE about the War on Gangs launched in 1988. Select one or more: O a. The War on Gangs was deemed a massive failure. In the year following Toshima's death, there were 25,000 arrests, mainly of youths that appeared to fit LAPD's gang profile. 1,500 youths could be swept up into jail in a day; 90 percent of them might be released without charge, after their information was entered into the gang database, now teeming with the names of thousands of innocents. Meanwhile, hardcore bangers often tipped each other off in advance of the sweeps and escaped the LAPD dragnet. b. None of the statements about the 1988 War on Gangs ARE TRUE. O c. On August 1 1988, in what was supposed to be a crowning moment for Daryl Gate's War on Gangs. That evening, 88 LAPD officers, supported by thundering helicopters overhead, trained their firepower on two apartment buildings at the corner of 39th Street and Dalton Avenue in South Central Los Angeles. Cops stormed through the two buildings, taking axes to furniture and walls, overturning washing machines and stoves, smashing mirrors, toilets and stereos, rounding up residents and beating dozens of them. They spray-painted LAPD RULES and ROLLIN 30S DIE on apartment walls. One resident was forced wet and naked out of the shower and forced to watch her two toddlers taken away while cops destroyed her apartment with sledgehammers. It was later discovered that the gang members and drug dealers the cops were looking for didn't live in the buildings they destroyed. Od. The math from the War on Gangs did not add up. By 1992, the city was paying out $11 million annually in brutality settlements while allocating less than $2 million to gang intervention programs, and almost half of all young Black males living in South Central were in the gang database. O e. On January 30, 1988, Karen Toshima and her boyfriend, Eddie Poon was caught in the middle of a shootout between two rival gang members in the affluent community of Westwood near UCLA. Karen Toshima was shot in the head and later died. Her death set off widespread outrage which led to the LA City Council green-lighting LAPD's Darryl Gates to launch a far-reaching police operation called Operation Hammer. The sentiment was LA's gang violence was no longer contained and was 'hitting close to home

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