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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]
It is alleged that former county sheriff Alex Villanueva is or was a member of the gang, and he stated before a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting on March 12, 2019 that "we were all Cavemen." [4] After the development of gangs at the East Los Angeles Station, gangs began to form in other places such as the Peter J. Pitchess ...
A multi-year criminal investigation under former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva into the agency's inspector general — a probe that a legal advisor for the county called "not legally ...
The Sheriff’s Department pointed to the drawn-out process of bargaining with deputy unions as one of the hurdles, but after nearly a year, it seems the parties involved have come to an agreement.
The vast majority of the sheriff's department's nearly 10,000 deputies are not involved in the gangs and are at risk of being victimized by them. "They are a cancer.
The first deputy gang in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), the Little Devils, was founded at the East L.A. Station in 1971 and had an overwhelmingly white membership among deputies who patrolled African American and Latino communities. [3] The Lennox-based Grim Reapers and the Century Station-based Regulators are more recent ...
For decades, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been plagued by allegations of secretive deputy gangs operating within its ranks, running roughshod over certain stations and ...
There are at least 18 active deputy gangs within the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. [28] The 1992 Kolts Commission report said they were found "particularly at stations in areas heavily populated by minorities—the so-called 'ghetto stations'—and deputies at those stations recruit persons similar in attitude to themselves." [29]