Originally published at: Former LA Sheriff says sheriff gangs are simply "subgroups"
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I believe that this is the former sheriff someone here in the comments recently described as “very good”.
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All Cops Are Subgroups, eh?
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Oh there are a lot of cop subgroups
Assholes
Bastards
Small Man Syndrome Overcompensators
Pricks
Occasionally one that does a good thing
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I think they are called probationers or rookies.
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“Tattoos from a subgroup are a point in time of a given place.”
Sounds like a saying a number of defense attorneys are going to quote in plenty of court cases.
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As they carry a gun and badge when ”off duty’", their conduct off duty matters. Having enough interest in racism or “unofficial” (extralegal) policing to get that identity etched in their skin is a literal sign they should never have been a cop in the first place. (And none of this would be ok if they left their gun and badge in their desk when they went home at night.)
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And we should listen to this jerk because…???
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Don’t most of them try to be doms?
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I think that requires a degree of self discipline.
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I was going to say it sounds like something chatgpt would secrete.
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Oh, I don’t know there, Villaneuva: as soon as there’s a “subgroup” (of teachers or librarians or some such) that sponsors GSA clubs or books that feature parents of the same gender it seems pretty usual for cops to do their best to help stamp it out.
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Yep.
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“Tattoos from a subgroup are a point in time of a given place.”
I’m sorry, but what does that even mean?
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These “subgroups” really seem to fit the definition of a criminal street gang under California Penal Code section 186.22(f):
As used in this chapter, “criminal street gang” means an ongoing, organized association or group of three or more persons, whether formal or informal, having as one of its primary activities the commission of one or more of the criminal acts enumerated in subdivision (e), having a common name or common identifying sign or symbol, and whose members collectively engage in, or have engaged in, a pattern of criminal gang activity.
I’m sure many of the deputies involved in these “subgroups” have testified as expert witnesses in criminal trials and have testified that common tattoos are an indicia of gang existence and membership.
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“… a gang is them what does gang things” 
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Villanueva is a hard guy to defend, but in his defense, the stuff about firing people for having certain tattoos was a court decision, not a sheriff or county decision:
The LASD can try to put the blame on the courts, but “hard to defend” is putting it mildly when it comes to this guy. From the article:
Before he was ousted from office last year, then-Sheriff Alex Villanueva repeatedly denied the existence of such groups and blocked the inspector general’s investigative efforts.
At least the court acknowledged that the gangs existed. Villanueva still won’t.
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