Techno Gangs

I remember Lyndon Johnson going on TV in the mid 60s and telling people that the KKK was finished. He said if you are in it, get out. Its a very vivid memory. I remember thinking that this was a good move.

I think someone of similar prominence needs to come on TV and start clamping down on the gangs. If you are in it, get out.

Gangs around here use myspace, and I can't help but wonder why people with an ability to navigate this technology would use that modicum of intelligence to deliberately cause violence. Big socio-cultural issue here and in case you're not following, its not improving.

The Daily News: Gangs in New York talk Twitter: Use tweets to trash-talk rivals, plan fights

A boy shot in the leg weeks earlier on Lenox Ave. may have been targeted because of a battle the Original Young Gangsters crew started on Twitter.

"I knoe bitches from oyg that would dead mob yah s--t in harlem," one girl wrote in a series of tweets aimed at drawing out a rival for a fight.

Investigators are monitoring the traffic in hopes of sweeping up gangbangers before the bloodshed - and searching Twitter after attacks for clues.

"It is another tool ... just like old phone records," a police source said. "We can go through them [messages] to track these guys."