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Others are more cautious. "If the gangs are maintaining the truce because, as some say, they want to be a part of the rebuilding of South Central L.A., that's a good sign," says Sergeant Wes McBride, a member of Operation Safe Streets (oss), the gang unit of the L.A. County sheriff's department. "But if it's so they don't have to cover their backs as much and can become major dealers of narcotics, that's something else...
...gang members simply by the way they dress and where they live. The police deny that they indiscriminately enter names in the data bases and insist that the numbers are an accurate reflection of the severity of the problem. "We don't have to create gang members," says McBride. "People are becoming too hung up on exact numbers. Even if the number drops by 10,000, we still have a serious problem...
...former anthropology major at University of Massachusetts, McBride likens garbage picking to conducting an excavation or being an explorer...
Having seen people of all economic levels sifting through trash piles with her, McBride says that more and more people seem to be taking advantage of the resource potential of the garbage...
...have the money and it doesn't bother you, then go for it," McBride says...