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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]
By the late 1980's, another deputy gang called the "Cavemen" had formed within the East Los Angeles sheriff's station. 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]
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. [5] The Lennox-based Grim Reapers and the Century Station-based Regulators are more recent ...
A California appeals court said Wednesday that the county watchdog cannot force Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies to reveal suspected deputy gang tattoos or to answer questions about the ...
Retired Los Angeles County Sheriff's Det. Mark Lillienfeld testifies during a Civilian Oversight Commission special hearing on deputy gangs at Loyola Law School Advocacy Center Courtroom on Oct. 11.
L.A. Sheriff's Department announces policy it says will ban deputy gangs, hate groups ... the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department unveiled a much-awaited anti-gang policy Wednesday to comply ...
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]
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva testifies under oath about deputy gangs in front of the county's Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission.