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This week's #CryptoCrime Report includes #courtcase involving #LosAngeles Sheriff Deputies used by so-called 24 yr old "#Godfather" as "personal enforcers" to extract untraceable #cyber coin funds from laptops of losers .

A 46 yr old veteran #LASD officer was paid $100,000 per month to secure actual #SearchWarrants and hire 'off-duty' cop thugs that provided the ostensible "security services" used to bully, threaten and intimidate victims.

justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/crypt

LA Times: ‘Our own little Y2K’: L.A. County Sheriff’s computer dispatch system crashes on New Year’s Eve

"A few hours before the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve, the computer dispatch system for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department crashed, rendering all patrol car computers nearly useless and forcing deputies to handle all calls by radio, according to officials and sources in the department."

latimes.com/california/story/2

Los Angeles Times · L.A. County sheriff's dispatch system still down after New Year's Eve crashBy Keri Blakinger

#LASD #ACAB #FTP

"Although some deputies in the past have described their ink as merely a "station tattoo" and not the sign of membership in an exclusionary, violent subgroup, Kennedy's memo dismissed that possibility. It noted that the skull design cannot be fairly characterized as a station logo' as its imagery holds little in common with the Norwalk station logo.

'This certainly would not be the first LASD deputy subgroup that has associated under a symbol with neo-Nazi or white supremacist connotations,' Kennedy wrote. 'The logo of a skull with blood-red eye sockets and lightning bolts does not inspire confidence that the subgroup values deescalation and constitutional policing.'

For half a century, the department has been plagued by allegations about tattooed groups of deputies who run roughshod over certain sheriff's stations and promote a culture of violence. The rogue groups are commonly known by names such as the Executioners, the Banditos, the Regulators and the Little Devils, and their members typically have matching, sequentially numbered tattoos featuring lurid imagery."

union-bulletin.com/news/nation

Crypto mogul known as ‘The Godfather’ used L.A. deputies for extortion, feds allege

Adam Iza, who ran a cryptocurrency trading platform known as Zort, allegedly paid several L.A. County sheriff’s deputies — sometimes tens of thousands of dollars — to perform unlawful searches and arrests as part of an extortion scheme, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed this week.

#LosAngeles #LASD #LosAngelesCountySheriff #ACAB

archive.ph/BnZko

LA Metro will vote tomorrow on creating their own police force rather than contracting with LAPD and LASD as they currently do and here's the LA Times editorializing in favor of this absolutely gross plan. This editorial is chock full of lies about safety, declining ridership, etc. Obviously this plan is about harassing the homeless, the poor, and other vulnerable populations, because that's what the cops do now. These people have never ridden a damn bus.

"While there are legitimate concerns about the cost and logistics of building a police department from scratch, including Metro’s ability to staff up at a time when agencies are struggling to hire officers, contracting for law enforcement service is not working well. It’s time to try a different approach. Metro is facing a doom spiral if it cannot make the system safer and increase ridership. An in-house police force is not a panacea for all the system’s ills, but rather one piece of a broader safety strategy that ensures riders feel comfortable and well served on L.A. public transit."

#LosAngeles #LAMetro #LAPD #LASD #PublicTransportation #PoliceAbolition #ACAB

latimes.com/opinion/story/2024

Los Angeles Times · Editorial: Why Metro needs its own police forceBy The Times Editorial Board

'A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy who died in South Los Angeles in April succumbed to the “effects of methamphetamine,” according to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner.'

#LosAngeles #LASD #SouthLosAngeles #ACAB

ktla.com/news/local-news/south

KTLA · South Los Angeles deputy was killed by meth, coroner findsBy Cameron Kiszla

Six years ago, a plumber found the decomposing body of Raymundo Rivera inside a pillar at a Winco supermarket in Lancaster. At the time, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials said the 35-year-old appeared to have fled during a traffic stop and may have “gotten inside there and gotten down to try and hide from the deputies and then couldn’t get out.”

But according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in L.A. Superior Court, former Deputy Aaron Tanner later boasted that he and other deputies had chased Rivera — and that they knew he’d fallen into the pillar. Instead of trying to save him, the suit says, “the deputies left him there to die, and made false reports that they lost track of the suspect in the pursuit.”

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In addition to raising a litany of other claims about Tanner — including an on-duty incident in which he allegedly cut off a dead horse’s leg — the suit also describes repeated misconduct involving other members of the [LASD gang called the] Rattlesnakes.

#LASD #Lancaster #LosAngeles #ACAB #GoogleLASDGangs

latimes.com/california/story/2

Los Angeles Times · Lawsuit alleges deputy gang 'shot-caller' boasted about gruesome death of fleeing suspectBy Keri Blakinger

L.A. County legal spending skyrocketed to $1 billion last year, as Sheriff’s Department settlements balloon

latimes.com/california/story/2

“Again, L.A. County taxpayers are having to foot the bill for the sheriff on law enforcement negligence,”
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#BadBoysClub
#LASD
#MaybeHigherBetterPeople to do the hiring.

Los Angeles Times · L.A. County paid out nearly $1 billion last year in claimsBy Rebecca Ellis