As sinister as you think the L.A. Sheriff's Department is, they somehow manage to keep out-eviling themselves.

This new article counts 17+ gangs currently operating in the LASD, using lethal violence and violating civil rights for fun. #AdiosVillanueva https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-30/sheriff-clique-compton-station-executioners
The 3000 Boys, the Vikings, The Banditos, the Spartans, Regulators, Grim Reapers. All are known LASD gangs. The same department that classified and criminalized a rap group, The Stinc Team, for being a gang -- and slapped gang enhancements on them for holding guns in music videos
If you didn't know any better you'd wonder how this was happening in LA in 2020, but it's continuously gone on since 1920. Abolish the Sheriff's Department: the entire organization is racist, malignant & corrupt
Just your average police organization that operates the LA County jails like the Hanoi Hilton and harasses its citizenry with unlawful arrests and fatal assaults for their own sociopathic amusement. The LASD isn't a few bad apples, it's a terrorist organization.
What's wild or perhaps wholly unsurprising is that this is one of 3 scandals THIS WEEK in L.A. law enforcement.

Here's a whistleblower exposing the "LAPD SWAT Mafia," where if you aren't in favor of state-sanctioned murder, you suffer the repercussions https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-29/lapd-swat-unit-controlled-by-swat-mafia-that-encourages-deadly-shootings-sergeant-lawsuit-alleges
Even if you don't believe in defunding the police, there's no way to explain the toxic corruption, systemic abuses of power, and culture of duplicity in LA. It's beyond reform. This is like the cockroach analogy where if you see one, it means thousands more are behind the walls.
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