{"id":603,"date":"2007-08-01T16:22:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2007-12-08T16:07:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:55:34","slug":"the-mexican-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"The Mexican Mafia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mayorsam.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/on-shelf.html\">MayorSam reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyrafael.com\/\">Tony Rafael&rsquo;s<\/a> debut book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mexican-Mafia-Tony-Rafael\/dp\/1594031959\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-3135015-3115942?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1175011695&amp;sr=8-1\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Mexican Mafia<\/a>, went on sale last Wednesday.   Many Mayor Sam readers already know Rafael as <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wally Fay<\/span>, editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/inthehat.blogspot.com\/\">In The Hat<\/a>, a popular, long-running expert narrative on Los Angeles gangs, crime, cops, and politics.<\/p>\n<p>Described as the first book ever published on the subject, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Mexican Mafia<\/span> documents the inner workings of the largely mysterious prison gang that controls a &ldquo;40,000-strong street army&rdquo; responsible for 100 homicides each year in Los Angeles alone.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/a1135.g.akamai.net\/f\/1135\/18227\/1h\/cchannel.download.akamai.com\/18227\/podcast\/LOSANGELES-CA\/KFI-AM\/AG072907.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&amp;MARKET=LOSANGELES-CA&amp;NG_FORMAT=talk&amp;SITE_ID=616&amp;STATION_ID=KFI-AM&amp;PCAST_AUTHOR=KFI_AM_640&amp;PCAST_CAT=Arts_and_Entertainment&amp;PCAST_TITLE=SUNDAY\">radio appearance Saturday<\/a>, Rafael described how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Eme\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">La Eme<\/span><\/a> is now expanding its system of &ldquo;protection&rdquo; levying beyond street corner drug dealers. Suffices to say, you&rsquo;ll never see the weathered face of the lady selling <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">churros<\/span> at the corner of Beverly and Vermont the same again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MayorSam reports: Tony Rafael&rsquo;s debut book, The Mexican Mafia, went on sale last Wednesday. Many Mayor Sam readers already know Rafael as Wally Fay, editor of In The Hat, a popular, long-running expert narrative on Los Angeles gangs, crime, cops, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=603\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,16,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-book-reviews","category-los-angeles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}