The sound of gunfire and sirens drew about a dozen people out of their homes on San Bernardino’s west side one recent Wednesday night.
A beat-up Honda sat in the street — a small cross dangling from the rearview mirror, two bullet holes in the door. Rescue workers pulled Alejandro Herrera, 28, from the driver’s seat and wheeled him into an ambulance.
“The other day, they killed someone down the street,” said a middle-aged woman, leaning against a fence next to her husband. All around this part of the city, she said, there are candlelight memorials to victims of violence.
“Before, we would hear about killings every once in a while. Now, there are so many,” she said, asking that her name not be published for fear of becoming a victim herself.
A few days later, in a neighborhood less than two miles away, investigators pulled the body of Jose De La Torre, 24, from the trunk of a Nissan.
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It’s not just Southern California. I left Central California for good back in April and gang violence was one of the reasons. Notice I said gang violence, not gun violence. I’m not buying into the leftist crap that guns are the problem – it’s gangs and the influx of the illegals and the cartels that came with it.
Using citydata.com as a reference, in 2014 (the last year data was published) Modesto had a population of 209,000 people with 36% being hispanic. When I left, it was more than 50% from some accounts I had checked.
Using citydata.com stats, the crime index in 2014 was 469.2 with the national average being 287.5. For comparison, New York City’s was 241.3 – yup, Modesto’s crime stats was far beyond the cesspool New York City’s.
The difference? The influx of illegals and the gang culture they brought with them.
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