Editorial: L.A. County leaders have repeatedly flubbed crucial investigations into renegade sheriff's deputy gangs. They'd better get it right this time — but there are troubling signs that they won't, the editorial board writes. (via latimesopinion)
So much for the quaint notion that violent deputy cliques no longer exist.
Oh, but they’re just expressing inter-generational rivalries between training officers and trainees, Villanueva told the oversight commission last week, and with his strong leadership everything will be set right. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has a long history of violent gang-like deputy groups beginning in the 1970s.“You can save yourself a lot of money on your studies,” Villanueva told the commission, “because that is going to be the conclusion of the whole thing. This is hazing run amok.”, a commissioner said. No, you don’t know what the community thinks because you have not done a statistically valid survey, the sheriff said.
beginning in the 1970s, and the problem isn’t just hazing of fellow employees that gets out of hand. This is also about deputies brutalizing members of the public. A federal judge in 1991 branded a Lynwood station group called the Vikings a
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