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In the mid-1980s these crack and PCP drug wars exploded into unprecedented violence and open gang wars on the streets of Los Angeles and Compton. The evolution of fortified crack houses with iron sally port entrances and video surveillance and the appearance of gang members wearing body armor who engaged in firefights using military-style weapons and multiple shooters, forced the police to play catch-up tactically. And the cost in human lives was staggering.
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A class of cadets arrive at the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's academy, which is known as "Black Monday." On the first day, recruits arrive in street clothes for a boot-camp-style initiation. Instructors prepare them for the abuse they'll face on the streets.
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More officers may choose to leave their vests in their lockers on hot days or just choose not to buy them.
Read More →White supremacist Billy Joe Johnson is heading to his new Death Row home for killing a fellow gang member who gave a television interview about PEN1, a Southern California gang affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood, the Orange County Register reports.
Read More →Armed with warrants, Las Vegas Metro Police searched a Hells Angels clubhouse and five residences associated with the motorcycle gang, following a confrontation between rival biker gangs at a wedding chapel, the Las Vegas Sun reports.
Read More →El Salvadoran leaders of the MS-13 gang allegedly put out a contract on the federal agent responsible for a crackdown on its New York factions, the Daily News has learned.
Read More →A decorated sergeant and one of 12 Burbank (Calif.) police officers named in an FBI probe into possible civil rights violations shot and killed himself on a street corner, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Vetrovec and I were at the south window in hyper-vigilance mode, when one of the Geraghty homeboys pulled down the plywood covering the living room door, and the three Geraghty homeboys stepped inside.
Read More →California Border Patrol agents have apprehended 20 illegal aliens, including an MS-13 gang member, about 40 miles north of the U.S./Mexico border, Examiner.com reports.
Read More →Miguel Angel Magallon, 26, has been convicted of murder in the 2004 death of L.A. County police Capt. Michael Sparkes, who was shot nine times during an attempted robbery, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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