What If the U.S. Army Declared War on All Gangs

🔔 El Salvador's Major Crime Reduction! 🔔
🇸🇻 In January 2024, El Salvador reported a 70% drop in its national murder rate thanks to a strict crackdown on gangs led by President Nayib Bukele. From 2,000 murders in 2019 to just 154 in 2023, Bukele's approach has transformed the nation. Is this a model for the US? Dive into our deep analysis! 📉

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[SteveChun-bf]

Call it authoritarian / Machiavellian, but what choice was there? The gangs were running the show. People were fleeing a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world at one point. Now El Salvador is one of the safer countries in Latin America. Kudos to Bukele. He didnt back down again murderous thugs. People now see a brighter future in El Salvador. Bukele is great leader. When countries are safe from crime, the economy will improve, the brain drain will stop. El Salvador will be a safer place to visit.

[LuisUrielAvalos]

1M gang members ? That’s like a whole army from major countries. How many people would’ve been saved from these monsters?

[QuantumShock]

Punishing crime means crime goes down

More news at 11

[cageybee]

what worked in el salvador only worked because the problem was SO BAD that people were willing to give up some rights to allow the government to go on a crackdown. the situation in the US is nowhere near the point where people would tolerate this.

[markmatsushima]

There's an interesting episode from the mid 80s in Tacoma, WA. A U.S. Army Ranger unknowingly moved off base and into a house in the middle of gang territory. He was a good neighbor, helping others, making numerous reports to the police about open drug dealing at a nearby intersection, then setting up a surveillance camera in plain view. His house was repeatedly vandalized, and one day neighborhood intelligence informed him the gang intended to shot up his house and destroy the camera. He invited his Ranger buddies over for a BYOF (bring your ownfirearms) BBQ. The gang promised battle was anything but. It was sbort, the Rangers sustained no serious casualties, but based on the number of blood trails and the gang members filtering into hospitals with unexplained gunshot wounds in the days following, the gang learned a very hard and costly lesson. The "Battle of Tacoma" was deemed by police, prosecutors, and the US Army as a case of self defense. The neighborhood is and has remained a very safe place.

[r.a.dalton]

I am a 69 year old retired U.S. Army Master Sergeant (E8/1972-1993) and a former defense contractor (2005-2010). I was involved with the declaration of California martial law and Los Angeles riots in 1992. Let’s be clear here. Involving the military in civilian policing means curtailing freedoms civilians are used to, often to a major extent. The military in general is trained to kill people, not arrest them, and our force capabilities are many, many times more than those of civilian police. To this day I remember when I got the martial law order at my Brigade HQ during the riots. When the order was read everyone on the senior staff went quiet as we all understood what that meant and its possible repercussions. Under martial law all normal freedoms are suspended, and we can use whatever method and level of force we feel is appropriate, under command imposed rules of engagement, to restore order. During the riots our forces had to shoot a few people who were stupid enough to try to take on our patrols. Our guys are very good shots and well disciplined, so no one was killed, although one person was turned from a rooster into a hen with one shot. There is a very good reason for the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. This law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both democracy and personal liberty. In third world countries where the military has become involved with policing there have been things like death squads, disappearances and often a transition in the end to dictatorship. Is that what you really want to see here?

[whatdoyouwantfromme]

Nayib Bukele is a great leader with integrity and a truly hero to El Salvador 🙏👍 God bless him

[dillonlee]

I could care less about the bloods and the crips. It’s the cartels that need that

[Fluffy_production]

A gurilla war with the single greatest armed nation on the planet. What could go wrong?

[TheWatz]

You left out that each state has their own standing national guard that can be activated by the governor if they really wanted to get things done.

[mimirovinj]

Problem with El Salvador's approach is that you need it constantly. As soon as those laws disappear there will be caos

[The_Coalitionist]

Imagine being in a gang for 2 years making friends that support you just to see em get turned to mince meat and ground beef by a fucking A10 30mm round and AGM 150s 💀 ☠️

[ladwarcoffee]

The main problem is that after being jailed within 6 months 95% would be back on the streets again like nothing happened. Just a revolving door of sentences.

[matthewwebster]

It worked in el Salvador and that's awesome but it's not something that works everywhere

[JarodFarrant]

Nayib Bukele is a hero of humanity ❤ 🇸🇻

[juanalvarez]

If only the U.S army didn’t have affiliation to street gangs. Some soldiers have direct ties and relatives in gangs.

[epicmickey]

Should build a large penal colony in the middle of Death Valley or the Alaskan wilderness and house all our criminals there.

[salvymemeguy]

Bukele's a Chad of Latinoamerica
Saludos💖🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻

[MilitaryPlayer]

Their problem isn’t ours, we have no reason to intervene when we got a state of our own to deal with

Unfortunately, Government can’t always be this way since nothing has ever changed in LA it seems… but I’ve never been there so I don’t know

[freddiemercury]

Learn from Singapore, in the 1970s Singapore has one of the highest crime rate in the world, today we are among the safest.

Going hard is important but what's more important is education, standard of living and employment, if people have jobs amd could live comfortably they are unlikely to want to rock the boat by resorting to crime.