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The Growing Threat of Deputy Gangs Within Law Enforcement

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0:00 thank you [Music] okay so for this one um people wanted us to talk about this and there's a lot to read about it but there's all honestly not a whole lot of um of really big things to say about it because the report about this is not entirely released but you might have things that you know about this Oh Me Oh Yeah oh there's a special Council that was tasked with investigating the LAPD like they made a separate Department to look into this one Internal Affairs yeah and what their tasked to look over is they need to uncover the growing threat of Deputy gangs in the police department you ever heard about that I know there's Deputy gay it's been around forever in the sheriff's department and the sheriff's department for sure LAPD I don't know but I'm I'm sure it's probably is this in um LAPD L.A County

0:52 Sheriff L.A County yeah L.A County Sheriff's Department for sure and confirmed yeah I think it was um there was this huge scandal in the 90s before that there was one with the Norwalk Sheriff Department I believe or or one of those right and uh the Neo-Nazi Yang infiltrated the police force whoa and they were they were basically caught um just they were my their model was to catch as many black guys as possible and frame them and put them to jail all this stuff great evidence it was like a crazy conspiracy not a conspiracy but like a real uh Scandal that went down like they were planting drugs they were doing and then damn and also like they had like swastika tattoos and they're just like gang members and then from the

1:43 leadership all the way down like they were recruiting and all this stuff and I'm like dude that was that was a pretty wild thing in the 90s but yeah when gangs infiltrate the law enforcement that s███'s crazy some of their um their Deputy gang names are like there's the Banditos executioners Regulators Spartans Reapers Wayside whities and the 3 000 boys they're all uh they're all from different Deputy stations like Orange County so Banditos is the east L.A one yeah uh the Spartans I forgot where they're from but yeah they're they're all each station has their own game I'm surprised it took this long to break out this news are they all neo-nazis no no maybe the whities the Banditos are mainly yeah the

2:35 banditas are mainly Hispanics it's weak in the 20s when they made it what about the Mr 3000s who are they like what why what Bernie Mac in them home run derby what what is the what is like a deputy gang culture like uh in general so from the little that I've heard is uh the first requirement there's three rules you have to do one you have to have to smoke someone on duty the second one you had to have uh cheated on your wife but you have to have another member witness it witness it um and the third one is another made member nominates you well because a lot of it is kind of like Training Day where it is career driven so you have to be nominated by someone else that was already made and then

3:25 everybody's got to have like kind of like some dirt on everybody yeah and then it's um wow yeah but it's it's like literally like a mafia almost and they make they make money by um stealing from gangs so like they'll do a drug bust they'll do a gang bus and then they'll just like the market yeah basically it's like the shield it's like that Rampart ████ yeah they were doing all that but most of it is I mean they're still like cops right so they're like the goal is to stay on the books and progress in a career so most of it is trying to be more legit within the confines of the law yeah so like like I rather instead of taking half a million from this drug bust that if I got in trouble I'm gone and my kids are all ████ you get me that new detective position that pays an extra 100 Grand a year for the next 20

4:16 years I'd rather have that so it's it's like a career it's career driven yeah the rewards are in the promotions yeah I don't know I'm just talking about rumors too that I hear but I mean it's not entirely unfounded I mean there's like there was one long article that was detailing The Experience from like a female person in the department Sheriff Department yeah in in her account it's pretty rough too it's like there she was saying that like they'll pressure like other women in the department to sleep with them and if you don't then they just screw your career over collectively ████ just stuff like that too yeah yeah because they're also connected it's not as like even though that sounds like a normal regular thing maybe that's oh you don't excuse me all right yo make sure you never work again but it's like for real for real it's like pressure from a game it's like instant like as she said as soon as she denied them then like the

5:07 entire department ignored her and like she was just she just had the worst time the thing is too with her she probably got close enough for they had that influence too yeah because our buddy who's uh in the sheriff like I'd ask him like did he anyone ever pose any like whatever to you or like you know because it's a lot of these things kind of like with their boy what's his name again the guy's been in jail oh herc yeah her yeah you know he's like people play Mind Games right so it's on both sides so it's like you did his favorite for me I just favorite for you you start betting the rules and then they're like okay then you're kind of like under my influence yeah our buddy is so ████ squeaky clean he's so clean he's Kryptonite to all these guys don't ask them I'm like how come you never did anyone ever because I know they just everyone knows then I'll just straight around on people right so he was like so he had but I know other Sheriff Department people our our buddy is like

5:58 he's so proud of his identity of being a cop who gave him a jaywalking ticket yeah he would give us tickets he's part of the G-Shock virgin group virgin but he is the top in his Department like he crushes it every single time like he's the kind of guy that's like where's all the shootings and actions that's where I'm going and then he'll be the top dog arresting everybody because he's like you're wrong you're wrong you're wrong he's always like going and getting promotions now he's a detective now he's doing this now he's doing that but it's like he's so to the books that he won't even use company ████ for like personal he wouldn't even write off like things incorrect he wouldn't bring a pen home dude yeah he's like that he'll give himself a ticket but also with the gangs there's good and

6:49 bad we're like the good part why they even form that just like how every game it's like even Asian Games right it's like oh we got a status for the neighborhood for them it's because on so many uh police departments are so locked down by politics they feel like they can't do policing they know they obviously know this guy's ████ bad in this neighborhood supplies drugs to all the kids runs prostitute rings but because of politics whatever Catch and Release we can't get rid of him whatever I see they're they're like well we're gonna have to do things our way got it and then what is something we can lock them up so a lot of these things also happen in that way so because of that um a lot of people in the police department they almost feel it as if it's a necessary evil because they can actually clean up the neighborhood it just so happens that they're also benefiting too they're not

7:39 blocked by bureaucracy yeah just like hot nothing is pure black and white it's like once you feel the power yeah then they become that too but there is like good to it so we also need to like to have a D.A who wants to to do something about this kind of ████ too or they can just go like hey we'll take this guy out and somehow there's we smoke them we have I don't know what happened he fired at me you know and then just like literally in Training Day we're like oh we'll put the gun in his hand oh ████ Mr C who was playing in the neighborhood that we could never put away never get a search warrant for it shot at us so we kill or we kill them right right it's like now we got now we got the guy yeah and it's just like very good cooperation between all the members yeah right yeah yeah they're but they're trying to I guess like there's a 70 page report that's out that's um telling kind of

8:31 probably has a lot of names in the receipts everybody but yeah that's the Ellie County Sheriff I'm surprised this stuff doesn't happen more often huh outside of just like the show oh I bet there's a lot yeah right I'm sure even fire has these types of ████ too yeah probably fire department probably got some clicks that are dangerous they're probably just hanging out the firehouse we're turning the fires on ████ the um this is like any organization that like the Catholic church right like every couple years we hear more ████ and like oh no we're cleaning it up now and then a couple years go by and the cancer grows again and like oh no we're doing something about it don't worry that's exactly what they're calling it is a Cancer and I guess like timing wise it sort of makes sense because it's such a growing disdain for like police and

9:22 Authority from uh you know citizens is there any institution that has power that is without corruption absolutely do at least chopping off the head of the snake so they don't stay in power too long so like it's it's almost like it's inevitable right like things like this will happen if it's not out in the open or like they can't effectively do their job then they're gonna have to be illegal um so if there's like There's issues in the system for uh them being able to carry out their job or like let's say they don't get paid enough because like in other countries cops are super way more corrupt because they don't make enough and they're easily corrupted by drug lords that will

10:12 pay them way more or whatever right so then once those systems are fixed then we can guarantee more of a uh I guess like you could trust the people of authority I don't know but then when yeah when is there enough of a checks and balance where things like this don't happen but I almost feel like it will happen anytime there's unchecked power well it's hard to it's also hard to say because like Bart said like some of the corruption is happening for what they believe is a greater good so I mean great things have happened due to corruption that we have benefited from the biggest um the biggest reason why they want to get rid of Villanueva uh which is the past sheriff is they ask them like what do you think of all these gangs in the sheriff's department and he's like just straight up like bookcase

11:02 oh okay Jesus he's like that guy being asked about the coffee shop all cops that I know all Sheriff's Department people this is the obvious answer nah man nothing nothing they love him because he's been the one that's been battling RDA the most and he's the one I think he's saying which games because he knows these guys are actually putting bad guys away versus now the new guy it seems like everyone thinks he's a ████ because he's the guy that goes yup we sure do have games and then he's also yeah everyone I don't know too many people that like the new one uh Luna or something because he's a nerd yeah he's a nerd he's outing his own people yeah but then at the same time he is getting rid of the games though so it's like I don't even know dude What's the right answer um yeah that's kind of like when you said that they're like kind of putting away people that you know because they know

11:52 that they'll just get held up by red tape yeah that's a little playing evidence on them [Laughter] but Luna is one of the people that is like working very hard to fix this yeah that's why ████ hate his ass he's a hall monitor I feel like every group a secret organization they feel like they're necessary and they have to do it for their own good because everyone has their own idea of what's right right so but even our square ass friend ████ hates Luna wow because even he sees like I do these gangs I would never touch them but they're they do do some good sometimes yikes to hear that damn that's a pretty

12:43 powerful opinion he sent me a video he so he uh last year two years ago got promoted to detective so he's like he's the one that's putting cases together sending it to judges NBA's and stuff he sent me a video of his fax machine coming in and all these cases just getting declined like 13 of them in a day he's like this one clear I had like literally like fingerprints on the gun type ████ the clown the client the client he's like I don't even know what the ████ I'm doing dude dude imagine doing all that work just for to get there I wonder what's happening with the Wayside whities it's all political agenda yeah right so at the top why are they doing that it that's why I want to know like it's like before they were catching people now it's just like nah but why so who are they catching then dude can I be in the Wayside whities

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