“L.A. is ground zero of all things gang. The street gangs themselves. Gang injunctions. Punitive gang enforcement. And law-enforcement gangs,” Sean Kennedy, a former public defender who teaches at LMU Loyola Law School and chairs the Civilian Oversight Commission, a county watchdog organization, told me. According to a report that Kennedy and his students published last year, roughly one deputy in six is in a gang.
Source: The New Yorker
The L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy-Gang Crisis