What is the gang sign for LAPD?
(latimes.com) They call themselves the Regulators. They wear tattoos of a skull-faced man holding a shotgun, fire screaming from its barrels. They refuse to testify against their buddies. They’ve been accused of extorting and intimidating those outside their ranks. No, they’re not members of a street gang. They’re Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies at the Century station in Lynwood. And their “club” is part of a culture that’s dogged the nation’s largest sheriff’s department for years. A decade after the county paid $9 million to resolve a series of brutality lawsuits involving a different group of Lynwood deputies known as the Vikings, the Regulators are the focus of litigation alleging racism in the department and involving accusations that a group of deputies is behaving like a gang. This time the lawsuit was filed by a deputy, Angel Jaimes, a Regulators member who alleges that black administrators in the department unfairly stalled his career by referring to him and other Latino
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- Q: In this country, we assume suspects to be innocent until proven guilty. Won the LAPD be violating gang members rights by simply determining their immigration status for turnover to the ICE if they haven been charged with a crime?
- If the LAPD turned illegal alien gang members over to the ICE, wouldn this create a panic in the Latino community?
- What strategies are the LAPD and Sheriffs Department using to reduce gang violence?
