"For the first time in the history of our department, when you go through a process for captain and above, you are asked about tattoos," LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said, referring to tattoos that county investigators have linked to violent deputy gangs in the...
Byline: MARY MARAGHY People join gangs because they desire a family, or they are being ...Maraghy, Mary
The LA County Sheriff’s Department has prowled the streets of the Southland since the mid-1800s. The Department’s owninternal historypaints the period as one “so chaotic that lawlessness was the rule, rather than the exception.” While the department lacked a training facility or even unifo...
El Chapo, “shoe bomber” Richard Reid and the Boston Marathon bomber will live the rest of their days in the “Alcatraz of the Rockies” Gangs Midlands Gang Task Force: Battling evolving threats in central South Carolina Led by the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, this multi-agency unit...
3. whose members have engaged in a "pattern of criminal gang activity" … either alone or together. Sheriff's gangs fit the description. Despite requests, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department did not provide comment to Knock LA for the series. ...
Lou Vince doesn't have the decades of experience other sheriff'scandidates bring, but the...Himes, Thomas
JIM SKEEN\\ Staff Writer
Furst, Randy
Grow, Doug
A civilian watchdog group is launching a "full-scale" investigation into allegations of a subculture of deputy gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department that critics contend abuse their authority and have wielded an enormous amount of infl