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Growing white supremacist gang threatens police
POSTED: 0216 GMT (1016 HKT), March 4, 2007
Story Highlights� White-supremacy gang Public Enemy No.1 growing has police "hit list"
� Public Enemy forged an alliance with the Aryan Brotherhood
� Gang involved in identity theft, aided by girlfriends with legitimate jobs
� Gang members could be using credit information to find and harm police officers
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BUENA PARK, California (AP) -- The white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 began two decades ago as a group of teenage punk-rock fans from upper-middle class bedroom communities in Southern California.

Now, the violent gang that deals in drugs, guns and identity theft is gaining clout across the West after forging an alliance with the notorious Aryan Brotherhood, authorities say.

Police say the gang has compiled a "hit list" targeting five officers and a gang prosecutor -- a sign of just how brazen Public Enemy has become.

"They make police officers very, very nervous," said Cpl. Nate Booth, a gang detective with the Buena Park Police Department in Orange County.

Law enforcement officials trace the gang's rise to shifts in the power structure inside prisons.

The crackdown hurt the gang's ability to interact with the Aryan Brotherhood, which turned to Public Enemy, authorities say. The alliance was cemented in 2005 when Donald Reed "Popeye" Mazza, an alleged leader of Public Enemy, was inducted into the Aryan Brotherhood.


http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/03/04/white.supremacist.gang.ap/index.html

[Sounds like the old Irish and Italian gangs. ]

[jinju]

I said it before. When it comes to dealing with these sorts of gangs, shoot to kill first, arrest later.

[mindmetoo]

So Christian terrorists.

[TheUrbanMyth]