Is it time to bring back the infamous "Jump Out Boyz" ?
Some within CMPD think so.
"Who are the Jump Out Boys? The Jump Out Boys are a gang of deputies within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office. The clandestine brotherhood allegedly takes pride in aggressive policing, the shootings of mostly Latino and black gang members, loyalty to one another and street justice." LA Times
Back in the days of the West Side Crips and Bloods, the Hidden Valley Kings not to mention biker gangs like the Outlaw MC that plagued the West Boulevard and northeast of the city the Jump Out Boyz were legendary.
This élite gang interdiction unit ruled and nothing got in their way. The basic concept was fear via community policing. No Knock Warrants were just No Knock No Warrants.
Crime not only didn't pay it could be really painful and inconvenient. The Jump Out Boyz made being a criminal a risky profession even when the marked Five-O units were not around.
Going to jail was the least of the thugs concerns, in fact many would just turn themselves in and confess to their crimes rather than getting picked up by the Jump Out Boyz.
When Five-O rolled up and asked: "Can I trust you?" It was a sign things were going to get interesting. The Jump Out Boyz made Good Cop Bad Cop tag teams look like boy scouts.
When the Jump Out Boyz caught you they always made it clear - You were never being "arrested" you were "just going for a ride".
The handcuffs were "for your protection" but as a courtesy they'd cuff your hands in front. Now you would think having your hands out front would be a good thing. Once you were "Stuffed" into the rear on those old Crown Vic Ford's you'd realize that "watch you head" was not a concern but a statement of what to expect next.
Many a thug made the mistake of thinking they were building a rapport with the arresting officer, only to realize that the arresting officer wasn't the one holding your warrant or driving the Crown Vic.
Cuffed, Stuffed, Cramped and Slammed. They'd skip the seat belt and the ride was on.
They'd "Armor All" the hell out of that rear plastic bench seat, and in you'd go, before long you where heading out of town, slamming from side to side in the back of a police cruiser!
You had all you could do to keep from smacking your head against the glass time and time again. Just when you thought the abuse was over, the voice up front would say hold on and brake check and ghost car following too close. Then just as suddenly he'd punch the accelerator and the back of your head would smack the hard plastic seat All the while the voice from the front seat would ask "you're ok right?" The ride was often so brutal that they would stop at the ER before taking you to jail.
Then there was the rumored elevator ride to the 13th floor of the law enforcement center. "Take him up to the 13th Floor he'll talk." (There is no 13th floor only a roof).
Rumors made the gang members think twice about breaking the law.
One such unfounded rumor was that they all had matching tattoos and a cop creed seemingly promoting shootings, this of course violated the department's core values.
While there were never any indictments the department had concerns.
The Jump Out Boyz were big on theater.
While the use of an unmarked van was synonymous with the operation, they often used even less obvious vehicles to take down known gang members.
At one time a "Brown" UPS truck was put into service. Then a Charles Chips van. This made gang members suspicious and paranoid of every vehicle on the street.
Sometimes the operation was just a show of force. The idea was to have a half of dozen marked and unmarked units converge on a suspected drug house, swarm the area telling the startled occupants it was just a courtesy call. To make sure "everything was alright".
While this tactic had mixed results there were some comical moments like the time when a courtesy visit departed and was well down the block before they realized they left one team member standing on the porch by himself holding only a shotgun chatting it up with the drug dealers.
As Charlotte grew so did the gang related crimes. In the late 1970's the tide began to change and the great migration to the urban north shifted with a move back to the "New South" By the late 1990s the Hidden Valley Kings became a force within Charlotte's street crime.
When Joe Biden tells his story about "Corn Pop" and how Corn Pop was a bad dude, he may actually be talking about a Charlotte street thug named "Korn" who may have been one of the original Hidden Valley Kings. He would die by suicide, at least that's what the ME's report said.
The Hidden Valley Kings was an offshoot of the West Bouvard Kings, once they gained in size the Hidden Valley Kings home base shifted full time to the Hidden Valley Neighborhood located on the city's northeast side.
The Kings Break Eastland Mall's back.
Hidden Valley was at one time an all white middle class neighborhood of smartly cared for homes and Scott's "Weed and Feed" fertilizer yards. During the sixties and seventies the area prospered and grew with stores restaurants and green well manicured lawns.
Sugar Creek and Eastway Drive connected the area to Charlotte Country Club and Garinger High School. The school was built to replace the ageing Central High School and was designed in a open and contemporized style. The first graduating class was 100% white and reflected the demographics of the area at the time.
Central Avenue intersected with Eastway and ran out to the modern Eastland Mall. When Eastland Mall opened in 1975 and was at the time the largest indoor mall in the Carolinas. The center piece was a full sized skating rink. Located in the "basement" the entire ice rink was visible from both floors of the mall above that encircled the arena.
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The Lake Apartments on nearby Albemarle Road was were all the hip singles lived. Both Jay Thomas and Robert Murphy (Well known Radio DJ's of the time) had apartments in the complex. One of Arista Records producers lived in the complex so the swag and back stage passes to touring acts flowed non stop.
Then in the late 70's developers swarmed to WT Harris area and built thousands of apartment units. The re-zoning for over 100 parcels of land was made possible by Charlotte City Council with little discussion. But by the 1980's the area was overrun with empty apartments, declining rental rates and was fast becoming a low income housing mecca.
The 80's also brought crime to the Lake Apartments with murders and arson, white flight from similar neighborhoods like Hidden Valley was rapid and as the gangs moved in the violence was overwhelming . By 2000 these once pristine neighborhoods had become a waste land.
Strip-malls along Central, Eastway and Albemarle road started closing and Eastland held on as best it could. Restaurants, Charlie's, Steak and Ale, The Fog Cutter, White Horse, and so many others left over night as crime skyrocketed and property values sank.
Eastland Mall Shootout
Then on November 28, 2005, members of the Hidden Valley Kings ran into a rival drug dealer named "Juan Lawrence" who refused to pay "taxes" at Eastland Mall.
After a shootout in the mall's food court, which saw more than 100 rounds fired, the victim managed to escape. Later that night, the Kings lured Lawrence into a local motel on North Tryon Street as they attempted to ambush him. Once again, Lawrence managed to escape. The Kings chased him down Tryon street in a running gun battle as the passengers of the two vehicles exchanged fire. After colliding with a telephone pole, the victim ran into a nearby neighborhood. After a brief chase, the Kings eventually caught up to the victim and while cornered, killed him, shooting him point-blank with an AK-47
The brutal manner in which the murder occurred finally moved the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department to begin taking action against the gang.
CMPD Officers made several arrests of those suspected of the Eastland Mall shootout and Lawrence murder. But it would take four years, to get five of those involved in the shooting to pled guilty to a lesser charges. By then many of the suspects had already served enough time to get back out on the street.
Mecklenburg County District Attorney Peter Gilchrist told the media that it took a long time to move forward in this case because there were no witnesses. The DA's office in order to ensure guilty pleas for all five, had to work to get some of the accused to testify against some of the others.
While those charged in the murder of Juan Lawrence and their cases were grinding through the criminal justice system, CMPD moved against the rest of the Hidden Valley Kings Gang.
Over the next two years CMPD would put together a Special Operations Unit to take down the Hidden Valley Kings. FBI, ATF and NC SBI worked together and gathered details from informants and followed the Kings collecting information on how the gang operated.
On March 30, 2007, more than one hundred task force agents came down Jump Out Boyz style on the Kings. They arrested over 20 Hidden Valley King members, including the leaders, on multiple charges.
Many would be sentenced to federal prison terms longer than those involved in the Eastland Mall shootout. But the damage to Eastland Mall was fatal. Within five years after the murder of Juan Lawrence the Mall would be vacant and abandoned.
The nearby strip malls and chain restaurants that lined Albemarle Road where shuttered as well.
The once thriving area crushed by Charlotte City Council's relentless re-zoning in favor of multi-family affordable housing. The result was white flight from crime, plunging real-estate values and a permanent cultural shift to the area that has made Hickory Grove one of Charlotte's most prolific crime hot spots in 2020.
Redevelopment
As they say you can't fix stupid, but you sure can see it on full display in Charloot!
Her Honor Mayor Lyles at the helm of a Cat Excavator. "wheeeee I be workin a steam shovel".
Frankly if they insist on affordable housing the only way to keep Eastland Yards from becoming Baltimore's Camden Yards is to bring back the Jump Out Boyz!
As for the killers of Juan Lawrence stay tuned not much has changed.
30 comments:
In the summer we used to call it Shake and Bake. Perp goes in the unit beat the dickens out them on the way to uptown and stop in the parking lot, windows up car shut down and it wouldn't take long to have a really cooperative prisoner.
I would think about signing up if they still had a squad like this. Instead, nowadays, JJ is out front in an incorrect vest passing out civil rights lawyer business cards to the thugs before you can even cuff em.
It ain't ever going back. And Eastland has about as much chance at a successful redevelopment as a pig does in flying. Save the money, tear down the fence, let nature take over.
Wasn't Victoria Station over there? I'm sure a Darryl's too. Great times in old Charlotte. Many birthdays in Farrells Eastland.
Once you give a mouse a cookie……
Society is crumbling. You can’t give an inch. If the woke crowd gets offended tell them to
Go F themselves. You see where a coach is now out of a job for reading the forbidden N word off a players iPad?
Not even using the word, just repeating it now gets you fired. So what’s the remedy? Tell thin skinned people who are looking for an offense just to get something for nothing…. Don’t apologize and tell them to screw off
We need VCAT to bring it back to CMPD. No mo hoeing around this place.
Victoria Station at Sharon Amity and Albemarle Road just sad what happened. Now its all Black Mexicans and Asians. All the Mexicans are on Central and the Central Americans are on South Boulevard.
Dude this is boring. I miss the days when we got on here and talked about pledge funds, Stukey, Cecil,
Mazz, airport officers and JJ wearing vests backwards in his sneakers. Can we get back to those good ol days?
Loved living at The Lakes. Met my second wife at Dixie Electric Company- Sugar Creek was playing.
Ended up meeting my third wife at the Palomino. Had to move to Harrisburg after that side turned. Next stop is Mt Pleasant I guess.
Bring back Silent Nights and make it year round ! Truly the good old days. Policing at its best 💥💥💥
Those who don’t know it Central had some great apartments so did Eastway but like Eastland once the gang bangers took over it was sudden death the decline was rapid. I don’t care what they build at Eastland it ain’t coming back. There’s no return from Ghetto.
Anyone remember Rodney telling the news media Charlotte didn't have a gang problem while the Feds where arresting gang members by the dozens.
Back in the day it wasn't all about fear. There was respect. If you were acting up and we rolled up a man even a man of color would come clean. We let far more walk than we cuffed. This earned respect but you could see the change coming. John Burnette and Andy Nobles put us on notice that crack and weapons was a bad mix. The homicides there were more and the shootings almost nightly. But it was limited to just a handful of places. Now it is everywhere. Retired now 10 years. Yep we did leave that guy behind true story. Swear to Jesus. Still funny after all these years.
Rolling the blues and blasting inner circle. Best days of my life. No regrets.
Man those were the days...if you weren't down in the hole, then you just wouldn't know!
Absolutely unbelievable that the FBI would conduct a search warrant on a former President’s home. I’d be ashamed to work for such a politically motivated agency. Truly disgusting and every agent that took part in that search warrant should be ashamed of themselves.
FBI needs to be completely scrapped and reinvented. It is a political organism, the Stassi. Name one major event in the last 25 years that the FBI did not either have pre-knowledge of the actual event or the perps?
Child sex traffic is all over the place, major drug rings are infiltrated in big city machines, DA's are bought by foreign money and they are out there still trying to cover up for the Russia hoax failure. How many CIs are out here today either planting ideas to create wealth and reduced sentences for themselves, or conspiring to entrap unsuspecting citizens.
And just think, 80,000 more IRS agents are coming on board to crawl up all of our arses with a fine tooth comb. None of whom can tell you what is and is not allowed.
Anything short of completely tearing the FBI down is a shame.
I think all government agencies are political arms like the nazi. Democrats are business and they force their services on you.
Once the DOJ and FBI started locking up January 6th participants it was all over for the FBI.
When you have 1/2 population loyal to Trump and the other 1/2 who hate him well that's one thing but those crazy liberals would be wise to take notice if the FBI can target conservatives for what was basically a big nothing - well that same overreach can come after liberals.
Like DOJ going after Breanna Taylor cops or the George Floyd guys or even the Amand Avery case. In all these cases the actions of the cops or citizens was wrong but in all these cases there was no intent or premeditation yet thugs are never given these sort of life sentences for what are often deliberate executions.
Racist Cops FUCK CMPD!
Pride band went straight in the garbage at the gas pump. No sodom and Gomorrah band for me.
Props to all the LGBTQRST+- whatever CMPD officers and civilian employees we support you! But until we have a hetro-sexual month keep your sexual orientation in your pants in your bedroom and out of your shift. THANK YOU!
We dem boys
4:32 are you serious. Everyone of those motherfuckers on Jan 6th should be locked away … for life. Nothing like taking a shit on the constitution.
@2116 dem BJOB’s?
Correction: WT Harris didn't exist in the 70's, it came into being in the late 80's. Before the connector from Albemarle road, past Sharon Amity's end, and out to Grier road was Delta Road, so named because there was an airport that ran parallel to the road where Delta Airline did repairs on puddle jumpers and stored obsolete aircraft. It wasn't called WT Harris until the extension to the UNCC area was complete, which took years as the city fought with the railroads on whether the road would go over or under the railroad at Old Concord rd. I know, because the 4 lanes that were complete for over 3 years were the hot spot for drag racing in the late 80's, mostly set up in the parking lot of the Drug Emporium that was next to the Lake Apts.
Jan6 was a perfect example of FBI instigation. If that defines your level of expectation for the highest criminal justice dept, you are perfect in CMPD. Don't be shocked when the shoe turns, and someone is creeping in all your closets, devices, and communications because what you think is against those in power.
I could care less about Trump. He's an egotistical blowhard, except he did point out that our Govt has gotten way, way, way too big for its britches. The powers that be can control any R or any D (see how they passed the Inflation Reduction Act for an example...money talks).
All of us in middle world are collateral damage. As Joe makes big bucks from his son pimping his 40 years in power to whoever, wherever, we are going to pay. Think those IRS agents aren't coming for you? Wait until the 1099 gig job gang starts getting audited en masse. They don't have teams of tax lawyers and money to write bills. Those are folks trying to scrape up some dough to pay their car payment, nowhere near billionaires.
Your kids? They are the target. They are taught your genes don't determine your sex. That no choice is incorrect, and that if you cannot do arithmetic or read, it's someone else's fault. But go on cheering for the FBI being turned into the Stassi right in front of our eyes. You'll be OK, because your side money will be managed by Vicki Foster soon enough. No way you'll get audited. It's a shame that you don't recognize you are a pawn here, but you are.
Ghoul your memory like mine is both a blessing and a burden. I think Cedar was trying to give a general fix on the area. But you are right even today if you look hard enough you can find Delta last I looked they seem to be cleaning up the area slowly. Same with Wilgrove Airport to the east. Still its a crime cesspool.
7:57 …. You are delusional. It’s good these comments are anonymous because you are a sad excuse for a human being.
1215 Bro 0757 is doing you a favor you should listen because 0757 is spot on.
Well 2:15, what did 7:57 say that was wrong?
1415: I had several friends who were FBI agents. After 9/11, their mission changed. One went from hunting down child porn- as in he had been in more or less every hotel room in his district to try to match up distinct features on a wall from some awful images- to having to immediately respond to every single incoming terrorism report. He spent his days talking to old men burning leaves in the country because some Karen saw smoke and thought it was an anthrax attack.
Another went from being a plane accident reconstruction expert, to talking to every flight school in America. As if the bad guys were going to use that plan twice. One went from being an expert on embezzlement, to spending the rest of his career hunting terror money overseas. Overseas is CIA stuff. Domestic LE should be FBI. They all retired happily, ASAP at 50.
Hopefully you make it there too. Just get your news and knowledge from somewhere other than mainstream media. And realize that when the FBI had the Proud Boys leader on their payroll, then maybe Jan6 wasn't as spontaneous as you think.
Anyone want to tell him about Ray Epps?
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