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Cerise Castle on the Dystopian Reality of Policing in LA County

Cerise Castle on the Dystopian Reality of Policing in LA County

"Deputy Gangs" run amok in La La Land

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Joseph L. Flatley
Nov 21, 2021
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A 1999 story in the Los Angeles Times refers to them as “deputy clubs,” fraternal orders in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department with names like Regulators and Compton Executioners. A commission appointed seven years earlier to investigate the Sheriff’s Department’s racist policing practices said that these clubs are found “particularly at statio…

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