{"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":"

MayorSam reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Tony Rafael’s<\/a> debut book, The Mexican Mafia<\/a>, went on sale last Wednesday. Many Mayor Sam readers already know Rafael as Wally Fay<\/span>, editor of In The Hat<\/a>, a popular, long-running expert narrative on Los Angeles gangs, crime, cops, and politics.<\/p>\n

Described as the first book ever published on the subject, The Mexican Mafia<\/span> documents the inner workings of the largely mysterious prison gang that controls a “40,000-strong street army” responsible for 100 homicides each year in Los Angeles alone.<\/p>\n

In a radio appearance Saturday<\/a>, Rafael described how La Eme<\/span><\/a> is now expanding its system of “protection” levying beyond street corner drug dealers. Suffices to say, you’ll never see the weathered face of the lady selling churros<\/span> at the corner of Beverly and Vermont the same again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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