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This is a list of gangs whose members are associated with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) (typically deputies). Press reports indicate the LASD has had a problem with gangs since at least the 1970s which has expanded to at least 18 gangs. [1] The department has used the term "cliques" when discussing these groups. [2]
The first known deputy gang to exist in the public eye was that of the "Little Devils" in 1970, based out of the East Los Angeles sheriff's station. Deputies of that gang were responsible for violence against protesters during the National Chicano Moratorium March on August 29, 1970. Three years later, a list of 47 deputies with the red devil ...
The Compton Executioners is a deputy gang within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD). [1] [2] In July 2021, U.S. Congressional Representative Maxine Waters called for a Department of Justice inquiry into the existence of the gang. [3] Members of the ‘Executioners’ are deputies operating out of the Compton station of the LASD. [4]
One of the central questions raised by the FBI's announced investigation of an LAPD gang unit is whether department officials could or should have known about the alleged misconduct sooner.
After The Times reported in August 2023 that LAPD internal affairs investigators had taken the rare step of searching the lockers of numerous Mission gang unit officers, Moore announced that the ...
Federal and L.A. County law enforcement raid 30 homes linked to South L.A. gang Florencia 13 in the shooting death of LAPD Officer Fernando Arroyos in 2022.
The unit operates using non-sworn pilots, employed by the city of Lakewood, partnered with a sworn deputy sheriff from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Lakewood station. The unit currently operates three Schweizer 300C helicopters, based at Long Beach airport and flies about 1,800 hours per year. Today, the Sky Knight program is ...
The LAPD has launched an internal investigation into Mission Division gang officers over unspecified allegations, taking the unusual step of searching their lockers.