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Our Golden State is habitat to the first identified home grown Muslim terror network in America. The prison system is the Mecca of these Islamo-fascists. The largest criminal justice agency in the state continues to do nothing to stop them.
It has been almost two years since police investigating a string of robberies in Southern California uncovered an Islamic terror cell that was planning a series of attacks, timed to take place on the fourth anniversary of 9/11, against military recruiting stations, National Guard facilities, the Israeli consulate in L.A., El-Al airline at LAX, and Jewish synagogues.
The parolee-terrorists belonged to the JIS (Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh, Arabic for "Assembly of Authentic Islam"), a prison based murder network founded by CDCR inmate Kevin James. According to an LAPD counter-terror chief interviewed for this Frontline account, the JIS was "below the radar screen when it comes to prison intelligence."
What that means is the CDCR didn't officially recognize the JIS' existence and took no action to identify, monitor,validate, isolate members (contrary to what CDCR sources told Frontline) or notify law enforcement agencies when they paroled. Prison officers and other staff received no training on how to do any of the above as they would have been had the CDCR taken the administrative measures required to classify the JIS as a prison gang.
Its not that those running the department weren't warned well before local police stumbled upon the Southern California terror plot. We have learned alert line staff and at least one manager at Tehachapi first identified the JIS as a threat in 2002 and reported this to Sacramento. The response from Central Office was no response and the JIS members were sent to other prisons where they continued to recruit, grow and plan wholesale slaughter.
Members of the counter-terrorism task force who investigated the mass murder scheme told OSAPian the JIS was aided by Muslim prison chaplains and community volunteers serving the terrorists as either co-conspirators or useful idiots.
Nearly two years ago OSAPian asked and answered questions demonstrating just how unprepared CDCR was when it came to combating the JIS, the first home grown Islamic terror organization identified in America --- a network that had been allowed to flourish "under the radar screen" of the largest criminal justice agency in California.
Prison gang intelligence starts with the correctional officers who police the cell blocks, dorms, yards and inmate work areas. It continues with counselors and other staff in direct contact with prisoners. No matter how well trained gang investigators are, they can't investigate anything if no policies are in place, line staff don't know what to look for and how to pass information up the chain of command. Of course, this is not possible unless the prison service has adopted polices to deal with a threat AND trains staff on how to identify that threat.
If the largest criminal justice agency in California has no policies in place to control the JIS, if prison staff aren't trained on how to identify them, if the governor and legislature don't care, if the press doesn't ask the right questions and then inform the public, "under the radar" members of a secret prison gang who have sworn to kill all infidels and wage war against America get released to unsuspecting communities under the supervision of parole agents who have no idea they are dealing with committed terrorists.
And that's exactly what is happening. If CDCR has adopted any polices about the JIS, they haven't been communicated to line prison staff or the parole agents who supervise released felons. In preparing this rant OSAPian contacted dozens of CDCR prison and parole officers who are active at the PacoVilla.com bulletin boards. Not one of the officers and supervisors at 20 state prisons [or agents from all 4 parole regions] who responded have received any training on the JIS.
Counter-terror operations, if they are to be successful, must be proactive. You can't be proactive without good information about who belongs to terrorist groups like the JIS and who is assisting them. When the base of operations for terrorists is a prison system, that information can't be gathered unless correctional officers and other staff in direct contact with inmates and parolees are well trained on the subject.
California's public has been very poorly served by the politicians with remarkably short memories who have agreed to reform the correctional service for the second time in less than four years.
A lethargic news media, incapable of any investigative reporting that does not neatly conform with the action lines of inmates-as-victims, brutal officers and the corrupt, but all powerful, prison guards' union, continues to ignore the most important public safety issue affecting corrections in the Golden State and CDCR's abject failure to deal with that threat.
Don Perata and Fabian Nunez wrote this letter to Schwarzenegger a couple of days ago on the subject of the latest prison reform deal. The missive outlined many concerns the two most powerful men in the legislature have with the correctional service. The JIS and fighting terrorism wasn't one if them. To be fair, Republican assembly leader Mike Villines had nothing to say on the subject either.
The three men probably don't understand (assuming they've given the matter any thought) the first reform of CDCR left an agency that could not or would not respond to a real threat to public safety by a terrorist group dedicated to the mass murder of Americans. The first reform left an agency that doesn't view protecting the public from the JIS and, probably, other functioning prison hate groups we don't even know exist yet, as important as say ... opening another drug treatment furlough facility or expanding the inmate mothers and infants program.
What follows in not union bashing. The responsibility for this disgrace is owned by Schwarzenegger and the legislature. Rod Hickman, Jeanne Woodford and Jim Tilton are just willing accomplices.
But if CCPOA wants to stop being looked at like a typical trade union and instead take the lead on the most important public safety crisis facing the CDCR, the department's pathetic response to terrorists in the prison system is the issue.
It is obvious no one else will ...
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Cross posted with minor editions at the Patriotic Rants blog.
Note: post edited on 1 May.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Latest prison reform does nothing to stop JIS terrorists
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11 comments:
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Great post OSAPian.
So, according to your logic, DORC should be focusing on public safety instead of, say, busing kids to visit mommy in prison? Interesting concept. Maybe they will do a pilot program or something....
Very interesting, but also very scary. Maybe our E.C. should consider this subject for one of the training classes offered during Convention.
Great post -
brief correction
JIS was discovered at Tehachapi in 2002, not 1997
Anonymous 11:04 AM, please send me an email at OSAPian@aol.com. I'll make a correction to the original post if I can verify you are legit.
OSAPian:
Without getting into a lot of the details in this open forum, both the CDC and subsequently the CDCR did do quite a bit of work on this group, at the request of a major Federal law enforcement “office”. Additionally, that organization provided the parameters on what that work would be and who was to do it.
Anonymous 12:34 PM, I do understand your point and I know more about this issue than I have posted. I have also have assisted couter-terror agents.
However, the point you missed is the CDCR has a responsiblilty to protect the public and staff by identifying JIS members and that can't be done if line officers and case carrying parole agents aren't trained on how to do it. A basic first step, one not taken by CDCR yet, is to formally advise line staff the organization exists, treat it like a prison gang, issue clear policy directives and to provide training to staff.
That can't be done without proactive leadership from the top.
CDCR's assistance to the FBI was after the fact. If local police had not stubbled upon the plot while investigatoing the robberies, hundreds, if not thousands, of Californians would have been murdered on 9/11/2005. That doesn't negate the excellent work of the task force, its just a fact.
Counter-terror operations, if they are successful, must be proactive. You can't be proactive without good information about who belongs to terrorists groups and who is assisting them. That information can't be gathered unless line officers and other staff in direct contact with inmates and parolees are trained.
The FBI doesn't mandate how CDCR administration deals with the threat internally and they accept CDCR's excuses for why there is little good prison intelligence developed on the JIS.
I'm not taking away from what I am sure is hard work done by a few CDCR special agents, correctional police, or whatever the old LEIU is being called these days but the work is mostly meaningless if those in direct contact with inmates and parolees aren't involved. And they aren't.
With respect, stop thinking like an ass covering bureaucrat and start thinkng like a sworn law enforcement officer of a nation at war who took an oath to serve and protect the public.
Too bad they didn't include anything about JIS in the Homeland Security Cheat Sheets.
Like any other gang member it is very easy. Identify at least the 3 correlating factors and boom you have another identified active gang member now placed in the SHU unit. ISU and gang staff in the prison can now be all over these people. Now when the puke gets out, the parole agent, the local law enforcement and any other necessary parties all do their thing to make sure the punk hurts no one.
In order to do this, our administration would have to pull themselves away from the Kumbaya rehabilitation or "Bus a Kid to Prison Program" meetings for a few days, do the proper documentation to identify JIS as an active prison gang and that is not a priority.
Then after that we could all be properly trained in JIS.
But look at the bright side. In a few short weeks I will be taking the sexual harassment class and a bevy of other annual classes for about the 25th time in my career. Like I didn't get it the first time. This my friends is a waste of money and their priority.
Osapian, like always ... great post and it is good to see at least one person has a clue.
To be fair, at the Bay we did get some training on JIS right after the street cops made their busts and discovered what CDC had grown.
But nothing since then.
PC'trol
Anon. 6:13 is correct. It is an easy thing to idedentify prison gang members and segregate them when policies are in place to do that. It would be harder with J.I.S. because they hide behind the Muslim Chaplains and use them as front men but it wouldn't be impossible. It's an open secret the Mexican Mafia uses the Christian group Victory Outreach for parolees to take care of business on the street so its not new.
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