Drugs and violence in the Hood: "Members of the Uniformed Gang Task Force approach a drug addict as they cruise the crack-shack infested neighbourhood known as the Hood.
The addict wants to talk to police. He wants to share information. But he is terrified. He asks Sgt. Mark Jordan to pretend to arrest him for his protection. Jordan, an Abbotsford police officer, slaps on the cuffs and puts the man in the back of a task force SUV. He is still worried.
'I don't want to be the next one f---ing shot man,' he said. 'It is a big war right now.'
He explains that the Game Tight Soldiers (GTS) run the shacks on two streets in the Hood -- and the Independent Soldiers (IS) run them on two other streets. Both gangs originated in Vancouver, but have shifted north. They are in conflict over buyers and territory in this poor, downtrodden neighbourhood of simple homes built under the Veterans Land Act."
The addict wants to talk to police. He wants to share information. But he is terrified. He asks Sgt. Mark Jordan to pretend to arrest him for his protection. Jordan, an Abbotsford police officer, slaps on the cuffs and puts the man in the back of a task force SUV. He is still worried.
'I don't want to be the next one f---ing shot man,' he said. 'It is a big war right now.'
He explains that the Game Tight Soldiers (GTS) run the shacks on two streets in the Hood -- and the Independent Soldiers (IS) run them on two other streets. Both gangs originated in Vancouver, but have shifted north. They are in conflict over buyers and territory in this poor, downtrodden neighbourhood of simple homes built under the Veterans Land Act."
