{"id":5650,"date":"2009-02-23T12:38:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5650"},"modified":"2009-02-23T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:38:30","slug":"gangbangers-moving-in-on-park-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5650","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gangbangers&#8221; Moving In On Park City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look like the pristine, white, mountain town of Park City in Utah&#8217;s Summit County in general is noticing an increase in crime thanks to an invasion of gang members, according to as story titled: <strong><em>Gangbangers Aren&#8217;t Boy Scouts<\/em><\/strong>, on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/industryreport.mountainnews.com\/2009\/02\/gangbangers_arent_boy_scouts_r.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Mountainnews.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite Park City&#8217;s playground image, it may be time to start locking doors and windows. . . An investigative report in the Salt Lake Tribune claims there are now 120 documented gang members from 20 gangs, with ties to Summit County. Another 60 people have been tagged as &#8220;persons of interest.&#8221; That&#8217;s up nine fold from a year ago. Further, 75 percent are predominately Latino, with many coming from California. &#8220;Their families move here for employment,&#8221; says Burton. . . &#8220;Fifty percent of Park City&#8217;s gang members live in Salt Lake City and have jobs in Park City or Summit County,&#8221; said Burton. &#8220;They take construction jobs or resort jobs or have friends up here.&#8221; Burton says some gang members work in the tourism industry as hotel shuttle drivers to make drug sales easier.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, racism is still alive and well in Utah. At least they&#8217;re not blaming this on snowboarding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/industryreport.mountainnews.com\/2009\/02\/gangbangers_arent_boy_scouts_r.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look like the pristine, white, mountain town of Park City in Utah&#8217;s Summit County in general is noticing an increase in crime thanks to an invasion of gang members, according to as story titled: Gangbangers Aren&#8217;t Boy Scouts, on Mountainnews.com. Despite Park City&#8217;s playground image, it may be time to start locking doors and windows. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions\/5651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}