Here's a 50-page summary from Loyola Law School: https://lmu.app.box.com/s/uci2ir4mkpudtvvfp7z8iu4kv1gre1dj
You can see that Rolling Stone skews left and is lower than the peak of reliability.
I dont understand how you can claim media bias is at the core of this story.
> Define "neutral" and I can find one
I think I misunderstood their comment to say "I don't understand why you are claiming Rolling Stone is not neutral". Sorry.
That said, I find it rather odd the absolute highest quality news achievable is...ABC15 in Arizona. Kinda feel they should leave local stations off altogether.
The wikipedia article on this cites several reputable looking sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs
This list isn't exhaustive but many of these are civilian gangs, so it's probably a case of both.
There are of course corrupt members of law enforcement who collaborate with organized crime for various nefarious purposes, but the in-department gangs are a distinct issue.
It specifically mentions armed services, police, and firefighters are not civilians.
Civilian in law enforcement jargon means a non-sworn position: https://www.discoverpolicing.org/explore-the-field/civilian-...
To make this more interesting, Posse Comitatus employs the language to signal "non-Federal forces" eg: National Guard activated by a state to operate domestically are referred to as "civilian law enforcement".
In any of the above cases, calling LEOs civilians would be incorrect and would eschew them of many of their responsibilities.
It very much is gangs infiltrating LAPD and SO.
On top of that, they also have their own cliques or gangs that form within.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs
I haven’t seen any reports in Bay Area papers but it’s been reported on in LA. It’s been local news. Similarly Californian don’t hear about >90% of the scandals in Chicago.
The corruption in southland policing departments is absolutely nothing new. Rampart comes easily to mind here, but the list is unfortunately a long one and wikipedia has many documented examples.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal
Rampart, for instance, was such a large media issue that they even made a movie about it. Not a small one either: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640548/
EDIT: Dorner should also ring a lot of bells too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_a...
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrel...
How about that outstanding episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources_Against_St...
Well documented and was the base for "GTA San Andreas" and "Training Day". And even though it has been 20 years now, the problem seems far from solved.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Riders-Come-Out-a...
Well, I’m sure not only in America-a lot of developing countries I wouldn’t be surprised if such things existed too-but not the countries the US would want to be compared to
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I can certainly speak to that effect as a Canadian aware of at least one similar 'police gang'
What’s it called? Where is it?
Would note that this isn’t infiltration by street gangs as much as deputies forming gangs.
> state and county level, people just kind of ignore it
I am from the Bay Area. This is the first I’m hearing about it. I do wish we had a more neutral source than the Rolling Stone.