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On April 9 one of my wife's best friends was shot to death by total strangers while driving on highway 280 here in San Francisco.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/11/MN8E103CLC.DTL&hw=luis+solari&sn=001&sc=1000

This apparently the price to pay for cutting off another driver during the rush hour. In the car with him were his young children. Totally fucking crazy.

Two days later, a former associate of mine was killed. We'll call him Fred.

He was talking to another associate of mine when a car struck his car and took off. Fred gave chase and when he caught up to the other driver he was shot to death by him.



Both of these deaths are like any other deaths, tragic. I only met my wife's friend once and he seemed like a nice guy.

My associate is a true case of what goes around comes around. If you've ever seen the movie "Menace to society" or watched "the Wire" on HBO, you've seen a character (Cain in Menace, Omar in the wire) very much like Mr.Bishop.

In 1988 he first showed up in my neighborhood. He had relatives in the neighborhood so he began to hang out. From the very beginning he made sure he was known, with violence being his favorite tool. They gave him the name "Little Fred". His behavior became more and more extreme and his nickname changed to "Fred Kruger". He took over a neighbor's apartment and made slaves out of the neighbor and his wife who also had an infant daughter. He would make the guy stand outside selling crack for 24 hours straight sometimes but usually at least 20 hours a day would be the shift. When the guy would fall asleep too long Kruger would beat him with boards. Eventually the guy and his family had to "escape" and leave their apartment to get out from the virtual slavery that was being imposed on him and his family.
In the summer of the next year Fred pretty much a real menace to society. His violent acts were becoming more frequent and numerous. As he made his living doing felonies he enjoyed more access to guns. He was someone that, friend or foe, you had to keep and eye on at all times.
In August of 1989 he decided to just shoot a man to death for no other reason that the man was White.
Every night like clockwork the victim and his friend who was Black would pull up and park at the projects. The Black guy would go in and buy crack while the White guy would wait in the car. There was nothing different on the night the White guy got killed other than Fred felt like killing him. Throughout the evening Fred pointed his pistol at people in the neighborhood. Just about all of them he knew, many of them friends. You could never tell if he was going to assault you or not.
When I heard about his death I wasn't shocked at all. I know maybe one other person who is more likely to have an untimely death by firearm.

When Fred died he was employed by the San Francisco Water Department. A multi-felon and killer working for the city and county. Wow. If you are involved in an argument with your mate and raise your voice here in San Francisco you will be arrested more than likely convicted of misdemeandor domestic violence and banned from consideration for a city job of any kind for life. This thanks to the phony-ass piece of shit DA here, Kamala Harris who is nothing more than someone temporarily "watching" over the city until she gets a chance to run for something higher up, like maybe mayor or assemblywoman.
We have the strictist domestic violence law in the entire country but our drug laws are so weak the dope dealers in the rest of the Bay Area actually commute here to sell dope.
Just a few years ago when a known gang member sent an SFPD to meet his lord via AK47 she didn't even think to seek the death penalty.
And in recent years during the Harris watch the San Francisco homocide numbers have been comparable to the legendary killing fields of Oakland. Ironically the bulk of the homicides in the last few years have been within a mile of City Hall. Good job. And she had virtually no challenger in the last election. I guess making money is all that matters in the new San Francisco.