and you know i monitor all the the tweets for venice beach and normally i just do it because we have so many tourists and people you know take a picture and send a picture and i started just seeing this massive reach tweeting of this message and it was it was really strange and then i started seeing the gang language so you know in l.a. that's a pretty sensitive subject for us so. i learned the police i let them know that you know there was a call out. hundreds of tweets being retreated to me to the basketball court so the next day around five o'clock in that there was a lot of gang language being used and sure enough there were hundreds and hundreds of kids here not the normal tourists that you see walking around and about an hour later somebody was shot so you know. is that it was only case that's happened there is that the worst case you know that's the worst case and then the most recent time. they've used the same technology. as in most places you need a permit to film and certainly and now and certainly in a place which is crowded with pedestrian traffic like venice beach

and certainly in their place it's it's crowded with pedestrian traffic right venice beach but you know people try and and renegade the situation will bring us a small film crew down here to try and film without a permit so what a couple of rap groups have done in town is send out tweets saying hey we're going to film a video then a speech or we're going to theme a film a video downtown here's a location meet us there you know so they get this they summon this huge crowd for free for their video and they don't need a permit really don't need to pay any extras or anything so we've had a few instances where unfortunately the film crew gets caught they get told but there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of kids here all dressed to the nines waiting to be extras in some rap video then they find out it's not going to happen if they get really angry and you know fights of broader program there's a lot of mayhem from that and then they all gather at the bus stops. to try and filter back home all it wants so that creates problems safety issues on the bus and things like that so. it's a gr

last month los angeles police beefed up patrols of venice beach after hundreds of people on twitter wrote they'd be meeting there the next day. alexandria thompson who monitors the social networking site for her crime blog first noticed the activity. >> it was massive. it was constant. there were hundreds of these tweets going out. it was just really unusual. >> reporter: hundreds did show up and one person was critically shot before the area could be cleared. back in chicago, police are cracking down. 33 people, mostly minors, have been arrested in connection with those attacks. >> the fact is we have a plan. we are arresting people. and we're going to make this trend stop. >> reporter: chicago's new mayor says he wants all the offenders brought to justice. >> it's part of our reputation but it's also part of our public safety. the number one goal is deal with the youths who committed the crimes over the weekend and apprehend them. we're on our way to doing that. >> reporter: police have added 150 officers to city neighborhoods and undercover officers are patrolling downtown. all in the

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i have been to venice beach not far from santa monica. they thought he would be found there.s been there 16 years and under the nose of the fbi. >> listen, tell me about what kind of guy this was. i have seen every episode of "the sopranos" and we have all seen "the godfather." we have a romantic notion of this. >> there is no tony soprano in this guy except for the bad part. this is a psychopath. unlike mafia dons he liked eto kill. liked to be involveded. he strangled women, blew people's brains out, garroted people. it's stunning the cruelty of the guy. he was insane at what he did. he liked to look out at boston from south boston and say, i own this town. in many ways, he did. people were terrified of him. he got his way. law enforcement protected him. he was a killer on the loose. >> i could talk to you all night, david. we're almost out of time. with all the intricate relations he had with the fbi he was on the run for 16 years. do you think he had help? >> this is the big question when they bring him back. in court he was smiling, joking with reporters. that tells me o

when you're roughing it in a luxury town house in downtown manhattan or toiling near the sunny beaches of venicearty with jewelry. okay. an ankle bracelet monitor and live streaming video. all right. so it's round-the-clock surveillance and stewart guards, par for the course. everybody who is anybody gets it. from actress lindsay lohan to roman polanski. to bernard madoff. to michael vic and most recently dominique strauss kahn. former managing director of the international monetary fund charged with attempted rape after allegedly assaulting a maid at a high-end manhattan hotel. we can only speculate what jail house arrangements will be made for the egyptian banker charged in his own hot mess with a different maid at another manhattan hotel. gentlemen, stop your engines. please. in the meantime, what about this? just to level the judicial playing field, why not make house arrest not so cozy? why should a wealthy powerful person miss out on the sights, sounds and smells of a real home? the aroma as you sift through litter, the constant dribbling of a toilet tank 24/7. the familiar cracks in the p

and if there's oil on the beach in venice, tourists still come to new orleans. >> are you confident thatdministration and environmental protection agency that the agencies that we rely upon to determine the safety in many instances of especially the things that we consume that they are equipped, really give us information that we need to know to feel comfortable and secure? >> i have no reason not to be, congressman. and so i am. it is -- it's a team of state and federal, but, yes, sir. >> let me ask you, other than perhaps the lifting of any moratorium, what else can the federal government do that might assist with the economy? we know that the economy, obviously, was hurt badly. we know what the economy was even before the spill. what can the federal government do to add further assistance? >> the federal government is able to collect enormous fines under the clean water act. now, the federal government could assess those fines and through whatever process, either by agreement or by litigation say bp is going to pay x billions. the federal government could take that and just put it in

and if there's oil on the beach in venice, tourists still come to new orleans. >> are you confident that our food and drug administration and environmental protection agency that the agencies that we rely upon to determine the safety in many instances of especially the things that we consume that they are equipped, really give us information that we need to know to feel comfortable and secure? >> i have no reason not to be, e us the information that we need to know to feel comfortable and secure. >> i have no reason not to be, congressman, and so i am. it is -- it's a team. by state and federal. yes, sir. >> let me ask you, other than perhaps the lifting of any moratorium, what else can the federal government do that might assist with the economy? we know that the economy, obviously, was hurt badly. we know what the economy was even before the spiel. what can the federal government do to add further -- >> the federal government is -- is able to collect enormous fines under the clean water act. now, the federal government could assess those fines and through whatever process, either by ag

and if there's oil on the beach in venice, tourists still come to new orleans. >> are you confident that our food and drug administration and environmental protection agency that the agencies that we rely upon to determine the safety in many instances of especially the things that we consume that they are equipped, really give us information that we need to know to feel comfortable and secure? >> i have no reason not to be, congressman. and so i am. it is -- it's a team of state and federal, but, yes, sir. >> let me ask you, other than perhaps the lifting of any moratorium, what else can the federal government do that might assist with the economy? we know that the economy, obviously, was hurt badly. we know what the economy was even before the spill. what can the federal government do to add further assistance? >> the federal government is able to collect enormous fines under the clean water act. now, the federal government could assess those fines and through whatever process, either by agreement or by litigation say bp is going to pay x billions. the federal government could take that