HOW GOVERNMENT EVOLVES

Fascinating LA Times article on the arrest of a Mexican Mefia chief. His strategy? Quit the driveby shootings and impose taxation on drug dealers within your territory:

Authorities believe Ojeda, who could face life in prison, controlled the drug trade of Latino street gangs in Orange County by using violence and coercion to keep them in line, while forcing them to pay the Mexican Mafia a percentage of their profits. Through Santa Ana city jailers, Ojeda declined a Times request for an interview.

Sidenote: I still think several cities should be "kicked out" of Orange County. Santa Ana is one of them. house review