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It s a new morality." said Chuck Clement, a county deputy probation officer. Raised on violence, poverty and hopelessness, gang members are committing more and more shoot ings and other crimes, the Contra Costa Times reported. "They are like a snake," Jim Hernandez., a gang mediator at Richmond High School, said of gang members. "After a point, a snake will attack any thing that moves." The county, which spends about $11 million a year to supervise juveniles in jail, estimates that a quarter of them are gang members. Before 1990. four to eight young people were slain in the county each year. But this year, the county is on pace for 25 such deaths, according to Jack Waddell, senior deputy district attorney Between 1988 and 1992, the number of juveniles arrested for investigation of murder doubled from seven to 14. And during the past seven years, the Mount Diablo school district reported a fivefold jump in suspension of firearms and other weapons — from 42 in 1986-87 to 206 in 1992-9.1. "Putting three bullets into someone's head and looking at his brains hanging out doesn't faze them," Hernandez said “There's so much rage and anger in them, and society is starting to feel it." The Contra Costa Times spent six months of reporting for the special section on the problem. ' Bleeding Colors," People interviewed included gang members, who described the daily violence and despair of their lives. "There's a little war zone in the United States. ” said Kao Kouei "Choco" Saechao. a 17-year-old who grew up in North Richmond, listening to gun shots from the streets nearly every night. He wears a baseball cap in the blue color of the Sons of Death, an Asian gang out of Richmond and San Pablo. "Man, this thing will never end.” he said. "There ain't no way it can end. One way or another it will just keep going on. It's just revenge after revenge. It’s kind of stupid. That's reality." Other youths belong to such gangs ns the 13s. also known as Surenos. and their rivals, 14s. also known as Nortenos. Both are two large, statewide Hispan ic gangs with many local subgroups. Other, local gangs include Brown Pride Locos, a mix of 13s and 14s; Project Trojans, a black group; Supreme White Power, a gang based in the Cali fornia Youth Authority, and Richtown Locas. girls associated with west county 13s. Much of the gang violence occurs in the west county, where gangs tend to divide along city lines. San Pablo Police Chief Douglas Krathwohl estimates there are up to 4,000 gang members in the west county. “What’s taking place here is a real cultural rev olution." he said. “We don’t have enough police officers and probation officers to deal with them. It’s a shame on the whole community for letting it happen this way," he said. 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He was originally charged with felony corpse abuse. The charge was brought last summer after a local photo processer gave police a roll of film with pictures showing a hand on the teen-ager's body interspersed with vacation snapshots of Simas. Simas maintained that he had left his camera on his desk and anyone could have taken the pictures while the body was being held pending an autopsy. Deputy District Attorney John Bondurant said the hand shown in the pictures was out of focus and couldn't conclusively be identified as Simas’. Jackson County District Judge Ross Davis fined Simas $295. Simas is already serving four years in federal prison for a Cal ifornia drug conviction. The case prompted both the Conger Morris Funeral Home and law enforcement authori ties to enact new security pre cautions.