Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) has requested that the federal Department of Justice investigate the presence of gangs among the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
This call seems to be an effect of the tremendous work that Cerise Castle has done in documenting the distresing extent of gangs within the Sheriff’s Department. Waters’ inquiry focuses specifically on a gang called the Executioners that is said to dominate the Sheriff’s station in Compton, but Castle has documented gangs permeating virtually the entire department.
Sheriff Villanueva in May acknowledged that “There’s cliques everywhere. Every single police station, I guarantee you,” while simultaneously asserting that this was nothing to worry about.