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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 Vikings, formerly based at the now-defunct Lynwood station, are composed of sworn deputy sheriffs in the LASD. [2] Members of the Vikings have included Deputy LA Sheriff Paul Tanaka. Federal judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. described the Vikings as a "neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang" engaged in racially motivated hostility. [2]
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 ...
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.
A sheriff's deputy who was part of a task force focused on keeping Los Angeles County's jails free of drugs and gang activity was arrested last week and accused of smuggling drugs into a county ...
The Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) was a specialized gang intelligence unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) tasked with combating gang-related crime between 1979 and 2000. The unit was established in the South Central district of Los Angeles, California, United States, to combat rising gang violence during the ...
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 ...