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The Gangster Squad in 1948. The Gangster Squad, later known as the Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID), was a special unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) formed in 1946 to keep the East Coast Mafia and organized crime elements out of Los Angeles, California.
Pages in category "Los Angeles Police Department units" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... LAPD Gangster Squad; LAPD Mental Evaluation ...
In the early 1950s, a four-man squad of LAPD detectives, frustrated with the rules and weaknesses of the legal system stopping them from more aggressively battling crime, commit an extrajudicial execution when they toss Jack Flynn, a powerful gangster from Chicago, off a cliff on Mulholland Drive, nicknamed "Mulholland Falls" for all the criminals they have thrown to their deaths.
The Protective League, which represents the LAPD's rank and file, also sued Moore, who after the photos' publication said he was unaware of the release, and later issued an apology.
It is not the first nude-photo scandal at the LAPD. The department confirmed that an internal affairs investigation has been launched into the allegations that the photos of an employee have been ...
The LAPD's data-driven culture has created "perverse incentives" resulting in past scandals, such as the one that broke out in 2020 when officers from the vaunted Metropolitan Division falsely ...
The 1990 novel and 1997 film L.A. Confidential, along with the 2013 film Gangster Squad, provide fictional depictions of the LAPD under Parker during these years. Under Parker, the LAPD faced accusations of police brutality and racism towards the city's African American and Latino residents.
An LAPD spokesperson confirmed that the department has launched an internal affairs investigation involving Mission Division Gang Enforcement Detail officers, and said the probe involved executing ...