Sir,
I am Sgt. Steven Baker of the Danville C.C.. I am currently involved in the fight to be allowed to carry off duty. I have contacted several other states departments andall that I had contacted state that they give their Officers the right to carry; that is even Privitized Prisons.

I have been in contact with a Capt. from California go to CCPOA; this will tell you how they got their right. I have been brought in on the carpet by an A/W and basicly told to leave this issue alone. The A/W and above are the only ones that are given the right to carry off duty; they don't trust anyone below an A/W!

I am asking that our union get involved and that all officers e-mail their Rep's and Senators: Also the govenor and the Director. My fight is after 21 years in the Department, crime has changed but the Department hasn't. How are we expected to take our family members out and keep them safe? We basicly live 5 days a week with these gang bangers. They know us but we have not the slightess idea who they are.

Also please have your members do searches on the web about MS-13. I know alot more then most Intel people. The Feds are deporting them as quicly as posiable. Recently they have changed their tatics and are allowing
whites to enter so that they can set up inside the prison systems and out. Before you must be latino or puerto-rican to get in. A couple months ago while Houston Police Department was stakeing out a G.D Drug house four, members of MS-13 swept through the house like a tatical team would. These are guys that have been trained in guerrial warfare while they were haveing their civil war
in South America. they are equipt with AK-47's and even hand grenades. They have pleged to kill all Law enforcement officers that they can.

They are not people or folk: Their colors are mainly white and blue and they are known to wear other gangs colors when the go do a "job". At Danville, I have noticed that during feeds Latino's, wether people or folk hang together when we feed.I don't know if this observation is the same at other institutions. After I had watched this for a while and then reported it, I was told "they been have been doing that for years". To me, I think the people and folk are going away. I think it is starting to be Black's vs Whites and Latino's. I urge all Correctional
Brothers and Sister's to contact who I have mentioned above. I have a good following at Danville. If we get big numbers maybe our legislator's will back us if they want to stay in office. My e-mail is sgtbake@yahoo.com if anyone wants to contact me and pass this on to other officers from other institutions that don't have web pages. It is in our Administrative Directive. Lets push to make them use it!

After work one night a car of four individuals came around our vehicle and made us stop. The driver pulled
out a 9mm and chambered a round. Thank God they took off or we all would have been dead.