Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

https://open.spotify.com/show/2jp3drHcyofNXbEvuMbtbU

https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history...

Here is the Los Angeles benevolent association https://larfpa.org/benevolent-association/

Donations to these organizations are not usually tax deductible. Giving them a relatively small amount of money, say $10,000 per year, goes a very long way to making you friendly with them and the chief of police / sheriff / etc.

These organizations are basically slush funds. The money is used to throw parties at best, or enrich retired and connected police at worst. The state police have one as well, and they are supra-entities across the state. Donating to these organizations is one way Jeffrey Epstein was able to avoid prison for the sexual assault charges in Palm Beach.

If you are a wealthy person that likes to party, do hard drugs, or throw your own events, I highly recommend engendering yourselves with the local and state police via money donations. It goes a long way to solving problems.

My father (RIP) was a musician who played at many police events in the city I grew up. Police are people, and generally average intelligence people. They are no better or worse than other people, except they have the benefit of being above the law in all cases except those that rise to the level of a public relations disaster. My father was an alcoholic who should have had multiple DUIs, but always got out of it thanks to his local connections, among other legal issues he should have had. He was not a good person.

I am not posting this as an advocacy good or bad, I am posting this as advice for the reality we live

> the Banditos "controls the East Los Angeles station like inmates running a prison yard."

The name says it all.

Also I believe it was Abbie Hoffman (famous 1960s peace activist) who famously is quoted as saying, "let he who fights dragons be careful not to become a dragon himself, and if he shall stare into the abyss, so too may he become an abyss" - so that basically means if you fight criminals all day even with the best of intentions, the wear & tear of it over time might eventually turn you into a criminal too

To ensure we contain the inevitable fallout evoked by abuses in these communities it, from time to time, becomes necessary for the larger society to "bring the hammer" so to speak when it comes to fixing these law enforcement agencies. Unfortunate, because it brings down some officers who could have been potentially good along with the problem officers who were naturally bad from the outset.

The job will attract these natural born bad actors. There's little we can do to change that fact. We can only control how aggressively we fight against them. So articles outlining the existence of police officers who are criminals should be expected. Their existence is a simple fact. How we should judge a society is by how aggressively we prosecute the police who are criminals. Some places do little, some places do lots. And sometimes the larger society has to step in and tell the idiot local leaders to step aside or get taken down with their officers. But my sense is that on balance, we're trying a lot harder than we were 20 years ago. And 20 years from now we will be more aggressive about rooting out corruption in law enforcement than we are today.

Still, yeah, lotta work.

Guess nobody thought of that over the last half century

“America truly is a frightening country”

—Colonel Gurlukoivch

> [the officer] bristled at the idea of calling the groups “deputy gangs” ... state penal code uses the term “gangs” to describe rogue law enforcement groups. Repeatedly, Murakami insisted that the tattoos symbolize hard work and “station pride” and that there was “no nefarious connotation” to having deputy subgroups operate inside the department.

Obviously law enforcement isn't perfect, but we should show both sides of the issue, and this wikipedia article is selecting only one side from already-biased articles.

The result is to dilute the term "gang." We have actual gangs to deal with, like MS13, which literally worships satan and seeks out and kills babies when "the beast" demands it. E.g. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/ms-13-gang-members-accused-...

That's a far cry from sherrifs with tattoos.