East Los Angeles Sheriff’s Station — Station Identified With Banditos
Los Angeles County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to force the Sheriff’s Department to identify and publicly name every deputy gang operating within its ranks, giving the agency 120 days to produce a list that includes groups still under investigation. The motion also directs inspectors to search sheriff’s stations, county jails and patrol vehicles for unofficial logos, badges or other insignia tied to these cliques.
The 5-0 vote, reported by the Los Angeles Times, caps years of pressure on the department to account for cliques that have operated inside its stations for decades. The motion requires the Sheriff’s Department to work with county counsel, the Office of Inspector General and the Independent Citizens Advisory Commission on what officials describe as a wide-ranging probe, and it calls for the agency to disclose names, symbols, identifying icons — including tattoos — and the status of any ongoing investigations. The list will name the gangs themselves, not individual members, according to the motion…