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Post by Strelnikov » Sat May 21, 2022 5:08 am

Los Angeles has had it's own Sheriff's Department since the mid 1800s, and the 18 gangs inside it have been a growing thing since the late 1960s. The journalist collective Knock LA did an entire series on these criminal organizations in 2021: https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-viole ... g-history/

They also gave us a "LASD Gangs Database": https://lasdgangs.knock-la.com/
For example Paul Tanaka, now serving 15 years for what he did inside the LA jails as a LASD officer, is listed like this:

Paul Tanaka

His gang associations:

Vikings, tattooed
Regulators, associate
3000 Boys, associate
2000 Boys, associate

All of the legal cases he was involved with being a gang member:

Darren Thomas, et al. v. County of Los Angeles, et al. Law Enforcement, CV 90-05217
Alexandro Villanueva v. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, BC342416
Angel Jaimes v County of Los Angeles, BC331903
Kenneth Rivera IV v. County of Los Angeles, CV 13-3806
William Tillman v. Leroy Baca, BC471749
Jason Snyder v. Paul Tanaka, CV 13-02546
Alex Rosas v. Leroy Baca, CV 12-00428
Al-Quan Jackson v. Leroy Baca, CV 12-10393
Ronald Brock v. LA County, BC572875


And don't forget he was on the Gardena city council and then elected mayor of that city in the early 2000s!
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Post by ericbarbour » Tue May 24, 2022 9:19 pm

That's LA for you: too big to "govern" or "police". And with a solid basis of corruption dating back to the Spanish mission era.
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California. ---Saul Bellow

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Post by Strelnikov » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:38 pm

ericbarbour wrote:
Tue May 24, 2022 9:19 pm
That's LA for you: too big to "govern" or "police". And with a solid basis of corruption dating back to the Spanish mission era.
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California. ---Saul Bellow
It's not the size (Beijing, China is 13 times as large as LA and you don't hear about police gangs there, when we know all about Chinese organized crime), it's the general cowboy mentality of the LA Sheriffs. In the recent Roe v. Wade being vaporized protests over the last two days we have seen how the regular LA police act, and they've been goons all the way down.


https://mapfight.xyz/compare/beijing-vs-los.angeles/ <-- where I got the city size difference.
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Post by Strelnikov » Mon Jul 11, 2022 2:01 am

https://knock-la.com/sheriff-villanueva ... upporters/ It turns out that LASD Sheriff has friends on the far-Right, people like Sean Feuct (anti-gay activist), Sarah Stephens (fringe Christian nationalist candidate and violent person), and Dennis Prager (AM radio blowhard, head of the fake university "PragerU" YouTube channel) and yet Villanueva is allegedly a Democrat. If you live in LA, not voting for him in the November election might start the implosion of the gang system within the Sheriff's department.

https://knock-la.com/banditos-lasd-gang ... arassment/ Part of the Knock LA series on LASD deputy gangs, this article is on the Los Banditos.
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Post by ericbarbour » Mon Jul 11, 2022 8:21 pm

"Interesting" how many red links and bad writing this article has--plus, no way it's a "complete" list of all the LASD scandals mentioned in the local media since the 1960s, when people finally started to get fed up with the abuse. LA law enforcement is practically a scandal factory. And shows NO sign of slowing down despite endless bad publicity.

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Post by ericbarbour » Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:36 pm

It also barely mentions the 1970 Chicano Moratorium protest. LA deputies and LAPD officers literally went around murdering their critics in cold blood. There's a WP article with not much detail. A LOT of ugly and bloody things happened during that protest. LA's history sucks in ways even its residents don't realize.

https://laist.com/news/controversial-ea ... go-returns
Another logo that was retired was at the sheriff's gun range, where the cartoon figure Yosemite Sam with his two guns blazing adorned various walls.

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Post by Strelnikov » Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:37 am

ericbarbour wrote:
Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:36 pm
It also barely mentions the 1970 Chicano Moratorium protest. LA deputies and LAPD officers literally went around murdering their critics in cold blood. There's a WP article with not much detail. A LOT of ugly and bloody things happened during that protest. LA's history sucks in ways even its residents don't realize.

https://laist.com/news/controversial-ea ... go-returns
Another logo that was retired was at the sheriff's gun range, where the cartoon figure Yosemite Sam with his two guns blazing adorned various walls.
That has been done deliberately to not scare off the real estate buyers. They probably don't mention any of the old oil extractor pump sites within the city, some of whom they were hiding as fake houses in the 1930s. As for the police, nobody talks about how many LAPD street cops are ex-San Diego, ex-Riverside officers who went north for the money. As for LASD, it's all in the open, with the "Fort Apache - East Los Angeles - Low Profile" logo in the window of that station with the Spanish slogan "always a kick in the pants." Last Sheriff took it down in 2016, Alex Villanueva put it right back up in 2018; he had worked at that station, met his wife there. All of that stuff on the logo is a reference to the Chicano Moratorium in 1970s, including the cartoon helmet and boot with the "2" on it. Los Angeles can never hide from its past, just like the state's ugly history with the Natives, Mexican Americans, Blacks, and Asians should not be buried....but as I said before, they are terrified of losing buyers so they ignore history. No house sold in Spring Valley mentions the Spanish-run rancho in the area that existed in the early 1800s; the place was a hellish work camp, part of a chain of such places across Spanish-run California. Like with the Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá, it crumbled to dust long before it was part of America. That Mission in Mission Valley is as real as the castle at Disneyland, a projection of an imagined reality.
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Post by ericbarbour » Mon Jul 18, 2022 8:35 am

Strelnikov wrote:
Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:37 am
They probably don't mention any of the old oil extractor pump sites within the city, some of whom they were hiding as fake houses in the 1930s.
Many of them still exist today--and are still pumping oil today, albeit not at the rate of the 1930s.
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/hidden-oil-wells/

As for the police, nobody talks about how many LAPD street cops are ex-San Diego, ex-Riverside officers who went north for the money.
Quite a few of them didn't go "for the money". They were fired for cause by their departments. PDs in the southwest often have these "secret informal gentlemen's agreements" that a cop who is terminated can just go to a department in an adjoining county or state and be hired on the spot. They learned these tricks from big cities back east, Chicago PD and NYPD have been "exchanging" their problem officers for more than a hundred years.

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Post by Strelnikov » Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:45 am

Quite a few of them didn't go "for the money". They were fired for cause by their departments. PDs in the southwest often have these "secret informal gentlemen's agreements" that a cop who is terminated can just go to a department in an adjoining county or state and be hired on the spot. They learned these tricks from big cities back east, Chicago PD and NYPD have been "exchanging" their problem officers for more than a hundred years.
The Chicago PD and NYPD are like police armies, thousands of uniformed officers and hundreds of plainclothed detectives, administration, and "specialists" like the people on the NYPD "Red Squad" (it was called the "Bureau of Special Services" or BOSS* in 1972) which was probably re-geared to hunt the mostly-fictional Islamic terrorist threat after 2001, unless a new department was formed from scratch. So the idea of them exchanging their sociopath beat cops does not surprise me. I would also not be surprised if the real psychos from San Diego and Riverside county were not quitting their cop jobs to join LASD just to get involved with the gangs by word of mouth or reading the Knock LA pieces. Policing needs to change.


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* Small minds think alike: BOSS was the acronym of the Apartheid-era South African secret police, the Bureau of State Security.

There's a great documentary about the NYPD BOSS called Red Squad (1972) where a bunch of filmmakers track these guys down at protests and other events and ask them questions on camera. Trick is, you can't see it for free online: https://search.alexanderstreet.com/prev ... %7C2034742 Which is insane, because most of the cops they interview are probably dead (all in their '50s, look like heavy smokers) and the film is only 42 minutes long and in monochrome.
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Post by ericbarbour » Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:18 am

Strelnikov wrote:
Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:45 am
The Chicago PD and NYPD are like police armies
Extremely incompetent armies. Can't even maintain some vague semblance of "order" on the streets. Plus, they have a tendency to "make things fall off the backs of trucks" and other Mob-like activities.
There's a great documentary about the NYPD BOSS called Red Squad (1972) where a bunch of filmmakers track these guys down at protests and other events and ask them questions on camera. Trick is, you can't see it for free online: https://search.alexanderstreet.com/prev ... %7C2034742 Which is insane, because most of the cops they interview are probably dead (all in their '50s, look like heavy smokers) and the film is only 42 minutes long and in monochrome.
Hah. I'm amazed you could find it anywhere online. Red Squad is a truly obscure documentary, and I'm sure the NYPD would like to keep it that way.

Richard Brooks wrote about it in the New Yorker in 2020, partly because he worked for their distribution company. None of this has really changed since 1972. Big-city police and the FBI are still doing the same dirty tricks and harassing their critics in the same manner. No doubt the rise of smartphones and malware has made their "job" easier.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-f ... -years-ago

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