The Murderous Police Gangs of Los Angeles

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  • Los Angeles, America’s second largest city, has a horrible secret. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department - the fourth largest police department in the country - harbors dozens of criminal gangs within its ranks. These LASD gangs have been involved in assaults, the creation of false evidence, and even murder. Now, with the help of the brave journalist Cerise Castle, the story can be told. A Gravel Institute documentary.
    To raise money for more investigative reporting on gangs within the LASD, we're selling a shirt. You can buy it at googlelasdgangs.com - all proceeds go directly to Cerise Castle, who is working on the ground to expose the racist, thuggish gangs harbored within the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
    Google "LASD Gangs"! And go to LASDGangs.com to read Cerise Castle's reporting yourself.
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    0:00 Introduction
    0:19 The Police Gangs
    3:12 LASD Gang Primer
    5:31 The Murder of Paul Rea
    7:55 The Murder of Anthony Vargas
    11:07 Keeping Victims Quiet
    14:05 Google "LASD Gangs"
    17:45 Credits

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  • @TheGravelInstitute
    @TheGravelInstitute  Před 2 lety +3192

    Thank you for watching! We started the Institute to do this kind of work: covering topics no one else will dare to touch. Please send this video to friends and family and share as widely as you can!

    • @georgekostaras
      @georgekostaras Před 2 lety +66

      Keep spreading awareness

    • @n.mckenzie9982
      @n.mckenzie9982 Před 2 lety +19

      Also see Cop Watch on the Real News Network CZcams channel.

    • @Cyanidal187
      @Cyanidal187 Před 2 lety +46

      Stop propping up Democrat party politicians as if they are fighting for a solution.
      The Democrats have been largely responsible for the decades of violence and poverty that has kept these marginalized communities in L.A. trapped in a downward spiral.

    • @Bugneedfix
      @Bugneedfix Před 2 lety +23

      Is this the first Gravel short documentary? If so then I really am interested in more content like this.

    • @NextChapterRapper
      @NextChapterRapper Před 2 lety +29

      DOING IT. You guys are saints. Stay safe and stay strong. And tell me what I can do to make you skip on these ads. I understand you don’t have that HBO money, but lord knows you should. POWER!

  • @Strideo1
    @Strideo1 Před 2 lety +3453

    Police officers who break the blue wall of silence aren't rats, they're true heroes who show courage. Officers who hold the line of silence are cowards and dirty rats.

    • @cristig243
      @cristig243 Před 2 lety +30

      The line of silence is enforced by law too !

    • @lilSenDog
      @lilSenDog Před 2 lety +94

      Yea I seen a interview were cops say they respect ppl who don’t snitch , then I realized oh they just a gang like pac said lol

    • @FractalRaver
      @FractalRaver Před 2 lety +69

      Even the term “blue wall of silence” shows this is like a mafia. Omertà. Open secret.

    • @someguythatlookslikeme8306
      @someguythatlookslikeme8306 Před 2 lety +81

      damn right. I am 100% for the officer who has the courage to point out when they or especially their friends are in the wrong.

    • @hobo2ification
      @hobo2ification Před 2 lety +17

      indeed they are, people dont get the amount of balls you need to have to do that

  • @moonlightrobbery
    @moonlightrobbery Před 2 lety +2285

    Wayside Whiteys sounds like a parody gang, but here we fucking are.

    • @cadavison
      @cadavison Před 2 lety +144

      Most gang names sound like parody because they came up with those names as young adults. They basically are parody.

    • @dishonoredundead
      @dishonoredundead Před 2 lety +130

      Ridiculous to drive around in a car with the words "serve and protect" written on the side, when the only serving they do is of tickets and self serving, and the only protecting they do is of each other, from the law. But here we are. Surrounded by statues of cops helping little girls cross the street, as if they would ever dream of stepping out of their air conditioned car to do something other than extort and terrorize.

    • @direktive4
      @direktive4 Před 2 lety +38

      Life has become The Onion articles

    • @Mark-cc5bv
      @Mark-cc5bv Před 2 lety +7

      @@dishonoredundead cry about it

    • @dangerouslytalented
      @dangerouslytalented Před 2 lety +14

      If it was a Verhoeven film, his audience would have been seen as "a bit much, tone it down"

  • @TomRivieremusic
    @TomRivieremusic Před 11 měsíci +81

    Requesting the federal government to help get rid of their corruption problem is like asking the mob to help clean up an organized crime problem.

    • @Honeybee-cy9gc
      @Honeybee-cy9gc Před měsícem +1

      Lol

    • @holysoldier7485
      @holysoldier7485 Před měsícem

      The FG should do what?????
      The FG is ruled by a satanic principality and takes orders from
      from satan!!!!!!!!

  • @ElvenJustice
    @ElvenJustice Před měsícem +9

    Never complain about a law enforcement department to that same department, if the city offended you go to the county, if the county offended you, go to the state police, if it's the state police go to the feds. complaining to the same department that offended you is just asking for retaliation. OH and always Lawyer up 1st so you're not just out there alone against a thousand corrupt cops.

  • @erickamboomer
    @erickamboomer Před 2 lety +5164

    This journalist has serious guts for exposing this. Unfortunately she probably has multiple targets on her back. And to make it worse, those who want to do ill will have authority.

    • @ganonn
      @ganonn Před 2 lety +182

      Something something "she should have complied". Right?

    • @mikeh6700
      @mikeh6700 Před 2 lety +119

      @@jojo-de2lw Clearly they do, einstein

    • @jonahnesmith7004
      @jonahnesmith7004 Před 2 lety +102

      @@jojo-de2lw triggered lmao. You're so desperate for attention

    • @jonahnesmith7004
      @jonahnesmith7004 Před 2 lety +96

      @@jojo-de2lw you're proving my point about the triggered thing. Didn't take much to set you off. Y'all get so mad lol

    • @somethingoriginal72
      @somethingoriginal72 Před 2 lety +92

      @@jojo-de2lw 3 week old account, 16 replies to this channel and named jo jo.

  • @rickesteves4783
    @rickesteves4783 Před 2 lety +3840

    I've been in prison with some of these cops. This report left out the fact that these cops are into drug dealing, pimping, and extortion. They need to go RICO on them.

    • @revelationishereeverhart8864
      @revelationishereeverhart8864 Před 2 lety +226

      Yep, child and human trafficking!! I've seen the evidence myself from alot of people's personal stories "matching - who don't know each other." What are the odds?...that means it's true.

    • @revelationishereeverhart8864
      @revelationishereeverhart8864 Před 2 lety +46

      Oh yeah that's right, I saw something about the "Rico" thing...I will be doing some more research on that.

    • @bbbt8090
      @bbbt8090 Před 2 lety +141

      Yep, just cuz you have a badge doesnt mean your a good and honest person

    • @highdesertsukari
      @highdesertsukari Před 2 lety +88

      They definitely need to RICO them, and they're not the only department with gangs.

    • @611smazk-a-hoe7
      @611smazk-a-hoe7 Před 2 lety +27

      So u was in PC

  • @JoelGrant-ie4ly
    @JoelGrant-ie4ly Před měsícem +26

    I actually read about this in a 1977 issue of Penthouse magazine! I even asked a local police officer if he'd heard of such groups. He ignored me.

    • @brianbaird1503
      @brianbaird1503 Před 3 dny

      That tells you everything ..... he doesn't want to go on the record.

  • @Not_your_mom1986
    @Not_your_mom1986 Před rokem +170

    Things like this are not just in California, it's all over the US, it does not matter the size of the department either. Corruption is everywhere. I was adopted by a cop in a large department in the middle of the US. I saw a lot of things go on in the department that shouldn't, being a 15 yr old kid I was scared to say anything. I live in a small town that only had 4 full-time paid officers and a few reserve for the weekends. I had a relationship with the assistant police chief for 2 years. I could have taken the whole department and city leaders from the mayor to the clerks down with the things I seen and some things I had video and audio recording from drug abuse, racism, embezzlement and a child sexual predator.
    I'm a single Mom with 2 kids living over 100 miles from any family support. I felt our lives would be in danger if I outed everything and everyone. I don't have the money and resources to move so I still have a lot of the evidence with me. I did out the sexual predators and turned over everything I had for evidence but I was guaranteed to remain anonymous. Once I turned what I had over and it was known that the pervert was under investigation several others came forward. He was removed from his high ranking seat, charged and is in jail with no bail. Idk how long it will be before he goes to trial but I'm glad that with all the other evidence from others I don't have to be involved and I'm able to publicly remain out of it and the trial.
    I was a neglect kid thrown into the foster care system. I spent 15 years running from the authorities. I don't know nothing, I see nothing, I hear nothing, but seeing first hand how corrupt the department that was designed to protect us I still have almost zero confidence in the system. The only thing that I couldn't turn my back on was a child predator and molester being in a high ranking position that put all kids in danger.
    I'm able to move from this area financially now. I'll never look back and hope to God the move is to a less corrupt area.

    • @Not_your_mom1986
      @Not_your_mom1986 Před rokem +17

      The racist officer and high ranking city official are no longer in their position. The officer died and the city leader was told to step down or they will be outed as a racist and for embezzling.
      All of this was from 2016 to 2021

    • @fadzprezma
      @fadzprezma Před rokem +12

      Lady you are the true definition of the word "brave". May the good Lord forever keep you and yours safe and healthy. Blessings!

    • @TeezyT_Sunrise
      @TeezyT_Sunrise Před 9 měsíci +1

      CZcams Teezy T Phoenix. No different

    • @mostaphaba3151
      @mostaphaba3151 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Vous avez tout mon soutien

    • @lamontjohnson-xx1qe
      @lamontjohnson-xx1qe Před 4 měsíci +1

      Yes you are right but not on this level

  • @dynamicworlds1
    @dynamicworlds1 Před 2 lety +3060

    Notice how the responce to cops who were convicted of crimes was to transfer them out of public sight instead of taking the obvious stance of "obviously they're not qualified to be _law enforcement_ officers"?

    • @MajorHickE
      @MajorHickE Před 2 lety +257

      Same thing the Catholic Church does with its pedophiles

    • @SuperShadow
      @SuperShadow Před 2 lety +38

      @@MajorHickE true. Like in Spotlight (2015)

    • @jacksonrelaxin3425
      @jacksonrelaxin3425 Před 2 lety +5

      Hispanics tend to protect their own.

    • @whysocurious7366
      @whysocurious7366 Před 2 lety +86

      @@jacksonrelaxin3425 no they don’t, half of them voted for trump

    • @whysocurious7366
      @whysocurious7366 Před 2 lety +15

      @@jacksonrelaxin3425 50/50 is a total lack of tendency lol

  • @silentbob7959
    @silentbob7959 Před 2 lety +840

    The fact that the phrase "phantom gun" exists is telling all by itself.

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Před 2 lety +58

      The term I heard is "Throw down gun," or "Throw down weapon." Some cops carry a gun or other weapon that can't be traced back to them, in case they kill someone by mistake.

    • @jimmygrant424
      @jimmygrant424 Před 2 lety +24

      @@grmpEqweer exactly, I used to know an ex-deputy who called it a throw down

    • @turo_no_bull
      @turo_no_bull Před 2 lety +10

      I know phantom guns as guns you build yourself from parts sourced online.

    • @someguythatlookslikeme8306
      @someguythatlookslikeme8306 Před 2 lety +2

      also known as the ever popular "throw away", usually with a bag of "angel dust" found with it.

    • @justindunlap1235
      @justindunlap1235 Před 2 lety +2

      The tradition of carrying an alibi by hose back to before World war one, I doubt it will change anytime soon.

  • @Blankoid82
    @Blankoid82 Před 11 měsíci +14

    Remember LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner? His manifesto is available on CZcams.

    • @brianbaird1503
      @brianbaird1503 Před 3 dny

      that guy was pure evil ..... and it came out.

    • @Blankoid82
      @Blankoid82 Před 3 dny +1

      @@brianbaird1503 he was LAPD he was a veteran. He was one of them.
      Police don't care about you they only serve the corrupt politicians handing them their paychecks.

  • @user-gx2yy1df6f
    @user-gx2yy1df6f Před měsícem +12

    What's the most rare substance on earth? a diamond? nope, a good cop !

    • @glenw-xm5zf
      @glenw-xm5zf Před měsícem

      The media is manipulating public opinion. This includes your own. Seek Wisdom

    • @user-gx2yy1df6f
      @user-gx2yy1df6f Před měsícem

      @@glenw-xm5zfProverbs 1:7 not that you"ll read it !

    • @glenw-xm5zf
      @glenw-xm5zf Před měsícem

      @@user-gx2yy1df6f “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” I have read it and the rest of God's word more than once.
      cheers

    • @Eli-phunt
      @Eli-phunt Před 25 dny

      Rare, How could a good cop exist? Every single cop, even the so called "good cops" have stood by and watched while other cops do their evil deeds. This = no good cops.

  • @hernandomartinromero8602
    @hernandomartinromero8602 Před 2 lety +2320

    My cousin used to be an Officer for the LAPD and was fired for reporting unnecessary excessive force. There actual cops that do the right thing unfortunately these departments sweep it under the rug and get rid of those that speak out and stand up for the community they took an oath to serve and protect. This young lady is brave , respect to her!

    • @jamesearlcash1758
      @jamesearlcash1758 Před 2 lety +13

      Unfortunately the system is set up to produce the circumstances for crime to fester
      because the whole westernized world is rigged.

    • @mhairsto24
      @mhairsto24 Před 2 lety +15

      @@jamesearlcash1758
      Time to change things!

    • @curtissimmons2287
      @curtissimmons2287 Před 2 lety +12

      But I thought police were suspose to help us

    • @moqif2060
      @moqif2060 Před 2 lety +23

      @@curtissimmons2287 Police exist to enforce the law, not to protect you. In fact, they aren't even legally obligated to protect you, a federal court ruled. The chief functions of the police are social control, and protection of profit. It has historically been the case that police have been used to crush movements challenging the status quo, and that still is the case today. Whether it be workers on strike in 1921 or people of color protesting against racism in 2021, police have always been the oppressors. If you want a good book to read on the history of police, and alternatives to policing, I recommend Alex Vitale's The End of Policing.

    • @joshsmote6488
      @joshsmote6488 Před 2 lety +37

      They tried the same shit on Christopher dorner and it didn’t work out to well for them 😂 , that man was a hero.

  • @casualskeleman6377
    @casualskeleman6377 Před 2 lety +3586

    It’s fascinating to see so many people react negatively to the concept of accountability and regulation within a government body.

    • @rynegreen7902
      @rynegreen7902 Před 2 lety +226

      Because they been brainwashed to never question authority like law enforcement, the polices are always right and always have a reason for what they did to these people. Even with George Floyd, they said he wasn’t an angel and was supposedly on drugs at the time of his death. A cop could shoot a man in the head and they would say the drugs killed him at that exact moment

    • @brianfergel2229
      @brianfergel2229 Před 2 lety +35

      It's the abuse of that power. There's your lack of accountability & regulation. What else would spawn from this televised criminality & black or white treatment of the branded "bad guy"?
      Don't try to reason with anyone, but instead quietly judge that person & be afraid! THAT is what the system has become, has been making us become, rather --- an irrational group of individuals who fear one another just as much as the government.
      And that's why Trump is now president; to halt that evil bullshit.
      Judgments without a clear understanding makes people look stupid.

    • @chucknoris7648
      @chucknoris7648 Před 2 lety +38

      @@rynegreen7902 George Floyd was on fentanyl and crystal meth when he died it was in his system. Fentanyl affects your respiratory system. Crystal meth affects blood vessels restricting them causing the lungs and heart to work harder. George Floyd also had Covid in his system that also affects the respiratory system lastly he had a heart condition that was going to kill him within six months. He died from a overdose on camera was it hard to watch yes was the cop being racist? Maybe maybe not if you watch the call George was put in the back of the cruiser without being roughed up and he started screaming I can’t breathe I want to lay on the ground so they let him lay on the ground. What bothers me is two offers involved were Hispanic one was Asian but it turned into a racial issue that caused a chain of events that destroyed literally thousands of businesses they estimate 30+ people were killed during the violent protests because a career criminal who held a gun to a pregnant woman during one of his robberies died on camera off a overdose. As for this video absolutely call out cops who are killing people but also focus on the big number of Hispanic cops who are literally on the cartel payroll killing people. She solely focused on white supremacy gangs fanning the all ready high racial tension. Meanwhile gang members are killing people nightly. The LAPD is having a massive number of cops leaving the force and no one is joining causing staffing shortages. This leads to more violence on the streets.

    • @bigmanbarry2299
      @bigmanbarry2299 Před 2 lety +280

      @@chucknoris7648 George died because a man knelt on his neck and another man knelt on his back, lungs and neck compressed breathing wasn’t doable.
      It is as simple as that. Nobody wants to hear your justification

    • @ibelieveingaming3562
      @ibelieveingaming3562 Před 2 lety +18

      @@bigmanbarry2299 I think the meth and fentanyl speaks to the content of his character. The character of being an asshole and a criminal.

  • @ignacior.8895
    @ignacior.8895 Před rokem +8

    1982 in Hollywood you'd see their graffiti in the alleys and streets. They'd just spray paint the walls and cross out other gangs and leave the letters 'LAPD'

  • @cfwintner1
    @cfwintner1 Před rokem +7

    Music way too loud. I was a school psychologist in the LA County between 2005 - 2011. Gangs are in the probation department as well. These activities are encouraged throughout our government to condition citizens to want a dictatorship.

  • @steveng6704
    @steveng6704 Před 2 lety +347

    Art Gonzalez isn't a rat, he's a hero.

    • @willmolina7395
      @willmolina7395 Před 2 lety +8

      Facts

    • @chris-dd6uq
      @chris-dd6uq Před 2 lety +11

      It's funny how cops act when they think someone is exposing them. I know someone who was a cop and had to deal with a situation like that.

    • @jb573
      @jb573 Před 2 lety +6

      Sadly Art Gonzalez with never have another job in law enforcement. The rat label will fallow him while brutality charges disappear on other so called officers

    • @gregoryduke2278
      @gregoryduke2278 Před 2 lety +5

      The sewer dwellers are rats, Gonzalez chose to rise above... those who stay a piece of gutter filth, they are sewer rats...

    • @mariogodinez4930
      @mariogodinez4930 Před 2 lety

      Support bandidos for a better community

  • @Taintlessdisc
    @Taintlessdisc Před 2 lety +2128

    A cop saving the life of a child is a cop doing his job. A cop willing to stop corruption within his own department is a hero.

    • @freddysanchez8397
      @freddysanchez8397 Před 2 lety +16

      Amen

    • @checkinncmugget9251
      @checkinncmugget9251 Před 2 lety +77

      Until a bootlicker comes along and says "Nyeh, mind your own business! They're mostly good, so we can overlook it!" Then their father gets drugs planted on him, and the bootlicker still chants "back da blu!". Bootlickers are a different breed.

    • @keithtreco8851
      @keithtreco8851 Před 2 lety +13

      It is actually
      Not a police officers job to protect life it’s literally been ruled on in federal court

    • @JokaKarni
      @JokaKarni Před 2 lety

      ALL COPS ARE MURDERERS. because the mob gave to some charity's, does that make them INNOCENT? does it make them ANY BETTER AS HUMANS?!?! NO. STFU. cops are ALLLLLLL BAD. #ACAB. copaganda dont fly here.

    • @Acidburn3141
      @Acidburn3141 Před 2 lety

      You mean a *gang member who’s apart of the most violent and most deadly gang in america* anyone who supports these corrupt tyrant gang members is just a nazi just like them!!!

  • @pandorin2348
    @pandorin2348 Před rokem +3

    This isnt just a problem in LA. Its a nation wide thing. Same thing is happening in humbolt county. They rob people of their money and weed.

  • @abigailbp9294
    @abigailbp9294 Před měsícem +2

    Two years later and I'm sorry to say nothing has changed.
    America has a policing problem and a justice system problem that has gotten too big to for anyone to solve.
    Only a complete deconstruction of the system and a rebuilding from the ground up will suffice. The problem is too big and it will only get worse from here.
    It's been known for half a century and only gotten worse.

  • @charleswolfe6849
    @charleswolfe6849 Před 2 lety +371

    They should make a gang called "A Few Bad Apples"

    • @priyapepsi
      @priyapepsi Před 2 lety +33

      The Bad Apples

    • @hemidas
      @hemidas Před 2 lety +26

      It only takes few bad apples to spoil the bunch.

    • @tristanhmusic
      @tristanhmusic Před 2 lety +15

      "You are not an apple. You are the entire orchard."

    • @garysquarepants898
      @garysquarepants898 Před 2 lety

      That's a stylish one, i bet what you want it exists already

    • @thelightningwave
      @thelightningwave Před 2 lety +6

      How about all the gangs should be abolished and none of them should exist.

  • @MrEazyE357
    @MrEazyE357 Před 2 lety +358

    "The Jump Out Boys" is what we used to call the undercover cops that would ride around in vans and jump out on people on the corners.

    • @motorbandit7
      @motorbandit7 Před 2 lety +18

      Guess they had to deal with human debris! It takes hard men to deal with human debris,and keep the city safe for women,children and the elderly." It takes hard men to do violence to those who would do harm to you and yours"
      George Orwell.

    • @shepdog1274
      @shepdog1274 Před 2 lety +63

      @@motorbandit7 human debris? Like kids who aren’t doing anything illegal? You’re a piece of work, dude.

    • @christophermclaughlin8917
      @christophermclaughlin8917 Před 2 lety +1

      NYPD
      Should ReInstate
      Stop n Frisk.
      The Violent THUGGZ
      Need Not be Coddled, Excused,
      And Emboldened.
      THEY are the One's
      Who
      KILL PPL OF COLOUR.
      GET IT?
      GOT IT!
      GOOD.

    • @yourtrappedinmygenjutsu
      @yourtrappedinmygenjutsu Před 2 lety +32

      @@christophermclaughlin8917 no when i was young i was stopped and frisked 8 times and im Hispanic and to this day haven't done a crime

    • @christophermclaughlin8917
      @christophermclaughlin8917 Před 2 lety +4

      @Mike Geronimo
      'Race ' Soldiers?
      I used to be 'Encouraged' to
      Leave Calabasas CA. As Well
      As Topanga Canyon
      Back in the Early 90s By
      Military - Garbed Cops
      Over half were 6 ft.+ Linebacker
      Built
      Hispanics.
      It's not always about
      'Race'
      Mr. Trotskyist.

  • @brooklynornelas626
    @brooklynornelas626 Před 8 měsíci +3

    3000 Boys was some Evil ass mfkas

  • @MichaelCuevas-bg2bt
    @MichaelCuevas-bg2bt Před 11 měsíci +29

    Protect this journalist at all cost.

    • @billybob9258
      @billybob9258 Před 10 měsíci

      I’m sure you don’t want the police to protect her, right? Cause they the real thugs apparently.

  • @MYG
    @MYG Před 2 lety +292

    if 15 cops were in a gang then that'd be a disgusting failure, when the majority of the force is divided into 15 violent gangs... I can't even think of words to describe it.

    • @comradeviper4054
      @comradeviper4054 Před 2 lety +21

      I think the term you're looking for is "business as usual"

    • @MrJack1992
      @MrJack1992 Před 2 lety +11

      @Silungisele Mthimkhu the same reasons bloods and crips still beef, the same reason mob families exist the same reason there are rival cartels. Sometimes it's better and more efficient and better off if every group has their turf.

    • @MrJack1992
      @MrJack1992 Před 2 lety +1

      This is LA county when you used to have one or two groups that used to control the city things were bad but you could also easily blame someone.
      This is what you get as a result of the drug wars. Gangs are in it for the money crooked police are in it for the money. It's not to hard to see where it goes. As for street gangs alot of them have big families. If your brother is a five points blood but your a cop do you really want to arrest your brother? More then likely gangs and police work hand in hand. KKK, MS-13, Aryan brotherhood, Mexican Mafia, 18th street, Bloods, crips, latin kings, Jewish syndicate, the commission, the outfit, all these groups work together to some degree hell if you're hearing about the locals being corrupted ten to 1 the Fed's already have gangs within their organization.

    • @MrJack1992
      @MrJack1992 Před 2 lety +3

      @Silungisele Mthimkhu realistically speaking the streets work like this. If you make yourself an easy mark you will be taken advantage of and made a rube. Most of our institutions in drug money have been corrupted to one extent or the other. Weather it's cartels, the prison industrial complex, or simple drug money to be made of seizures. The drug war has destroyed all the nations involved in it. Mexico is now the world's most violent country that isn't in a civil war. Columbia probably will collapse as a nation, Venezuela is already bought by foreign countries and drug money, Cubas elite class gets rich off shoring cartel drug money. The corruption brought on by the war on drugs has rotted almost all of the american continent.

    • @praticle
      @praticle Před 2 lety +4

      @Silungisele Mthimkhu They are gang bangers, not samurai. They don't give a shit about what's "fair".

  • @TRXSHxSNIPER
    @TRXSHxSNIPER Před 2 lety +152

    The FBI was investigating not to long ago why LA police officers had Mexican gang cartel tattoos.

    • @ericconchaflores5982
      @ericconchaflores5982 Před 2 lety +11

      Wtf is a Mexican gang cartel

    • @johnbishop4426
      @johnbishop4426 Před 2 lety +8

      Wtf is a Mexican cartel tattoo a fucking myan calender??🤣🤣🤣

    • @mealycobra9851
      @mealycobra9851 Před 2 lety +29

      Common knowledge a lot of police officers in Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas are paid off by cartels. It's just only the dumb ones get caught but most arent so you don't hear about it often. It's not like they're as corrupted as the police in Mexico, where police shoot at other police to protect cartel members. But in the US they definitely drive behind certain semi trucks with drug loads so the semis don't get pulled over in that officers county.

    • @revelationishereeverhart8864
      @revelationishereeverhart8864 Před 2 lety +4

      @@ericconchaflores5982 uh...their mostly hispanic and tattoos of skeletons with guns and sombreros??? Could that be why?

    • @revelationishereeverhart8864
      @revelationishereeverhart8864 Před 2 lety

      Can you share that link?

  • @whythough6619
    @whythough6619 Před rokem +5

    The fact that this video is using a woman who thinks that being able to leave a traffic stop is within a persons rights as a source is clear that while this video does have some facts that are correct this video also makes several faulty claims so don’t just use this as a source for all your information instead dig deeper into the info to sort out what is false from what isn’t.

    • @__Aiden__
      @__Aiden__ Před měsícem

      Really how do you know that she thinks that

    • @whythough6619
      @whythough6619 Před měsícem

      @@__Aiden__ because one of them legit says as much

    • @__Aiden__
      @__Aiden__ Před měsícem +1

      @@whythough6619 wow that’s crazy lol. I didn’t watch the whole thing I can’t be bothered

    • @ryannance9673
      @ryannance9673 Před měsícem +1

      Agreed

  • @kaouther333
    @kaouther333 Před 2 lety +640

    I love what the gravel institute is doing. Educating the public on important matters for free and showing recourses. Keep up the good work and thank you.

  • @ramifrix5142
    @ramifrix5142 Před 2 lety +125

    This reporter has brass balls like no-one else. I'd have been long gone, I'll readily admit.

    • @NorroTaku
      @NorroTaku Před 2 lety +13

      surely those are balls made of real American steel!
      she is a fucking trooper

    • @yungcris5211
      @yungcris5211 Před 2 lety +2

      Go at em. They don’t deserve this power. Let they forget why the second amendment is in place

    • @bebop4048
      @bebop4048 Před 2 lety +1

      Please

    • @bebop4048
      @bebop4048 Před 2 lety +1

      Hoping for what

  • @hrodriguez112
    @hrodriguez112 Před 29 dny

    I grew up in Paramount in the 80s. When I was 12 years old, I would work summers at the Paramount Swapmeet from 6:00AM-6:00PM for $15 buck for the day so I can buy my school clothes, GT Performer and Tony Hawk Powell Peralta Skateboards. I would also buy the $2 dollar chinese shoes, ninja stars, butterfly knives, Rambo knife, Aquanet, Bugle Boy pants, and Swatch watches. Now I'm a millionaire.

  • @neonbunnies9596
    @neonbunnies9596 Před 2 lety +118

    Fun Fact: The *Prime Minister of Australia* himself spoke out after an Australian news team was assaulted at a George Floyd protest.

    • @basedlibertarianz910
      @basedlibertarianz910 Před 2 lety +5

      As authoritarian as Australia is with covid, they are red pilled sometimes on a few issues.

    • @Valyssi
      @Valyssi Před 2 lety +14

      Quite ironic since he's best buddies with Rupert Murdoch from the "the police can never do anything wrong"-news networks

    • @Valyssi
      @Valyssi Před 2 lety +35

      @@basedlibertarianz910 Red pilled? You're aware OPs referring to the instance where the 7NEWS crew (who was reporting on the protests and identified themselves as press to the police) got maced and beaten up by the police for no reason, right? So much for freedom of the press in the US

    • @ColemN
      @ColemN Před 2 lety

      @@Valyssi "The land of the free"

    • @dangerouslytalented
      @dangerouslytalented Před 2 lety +3

      When idiot Scott Morrison is on the right side of something, you know things are fucked up. He's botched the pandemic, the economy, bushfires, the environment, the vaccines, he's faceplanted every hurdle.

  • @mikek3974
    @mikek3974 Před 2 lety +70

    Inner-city LA citizens: Can we have some basic services?
    LA: Best we can do is enforce a line between your neighborhoods and those of the rich

    • @someguythatlookslikeme8306
      @someguythatlookslikeme8306 Před 2 lety +2

      this is the best comment here but its not addressed. This is sad and true. All the cops do is push the bad against their own people, protect those with money(it is fair here. once you got money you get treated better) but if you live in the REST of the city its rough. You gotta worry about the gangs, but if you in trouble with one be careful calling the cops. They might kill you instead.

  • @OzFrog48Z
    @OzFrog48Z Před měsícem +1

    And they don't call me Dim no more. It's officer call me. (Clockwork Orange). Dim and Georgy join the police.

  • @digdugbingo
    @digdugbingo Před měsícem +1

    This isn't the first time I've heard of these inner department cliques. New York P.D. has had a similar problem. Drug dealing, weapons dealing, blackmail, evidence planting, are all par for the course for these thugs. And think about this, the police are qualified to legally own machine guns!

  • @eliasyanes9406
    @eliasyanes9406 Před 2 lety +1242

    When you have to buy body armor and hire a bodyguard to protect yourself from the people who are supposed to protect you and the community, just damn.

    • @mattbanks3517
      @mattbanks3517 Před 2 lety +50

      You think the police are there to protect you? They are there to abuse you, steal your money and you car, land and guns.

    • @meh5443
      @meh5443 Před 2 lety +16

      @@mattbanks3517 thats the reason why there so many gangs in the streets shooting police

    • @stanlee1857
      @stanlee1857 Před 2 lety +5

      You idiots shouldn't be acting stupid in the streets and yiu won't have any problems! These guys are thumping the heads of people that deserve it.

    • @hawksrock3024
      @hawksrock3024 Před 2 lety +2

      @@stanlee1857 Amen

    • @hawksrock3024
      @hawksrock3024 Před 2 lety +1

      @@mattbanks3517 Huh?

  • @nancybeltran8601
    @nancybeltran8601 Před 2 lety +268

    Living in LA, you can feel the fear. Even if people don't openly talk about it, the distrust is apparent and this needs more coverage. Thank you so much for making this video and I hope it gets the exposure it deserves.

    • @pennyforyourthots
      @pennyforyourthots Před 2 lety +3

      @@lekkerblankastudio if the past history of cops being filmed is anything to go by, that's just how you get beaten up or arrested yourself.

    • @matttheamerican3766
      @matttheamerican3766 Před 2 lety

      @@pennyforyourthots coward mindset

    • @spazzinvader9083
      @spazzinvader9083 Před 2 lety

      @@matttheamerican3766 why dont you try it, lmfao

  • @guyparris2622
    @guyparris2622 Před 11 měsíci +2

    I’m so glad that they are starting to cover this and let people now how corrupt the Los Angeles police department is !

  • @tinanewell7870
    @tinanewell7870 Před 8 měsíci +2

    That is so wrong. I had no idea that this is going on. Why is this allowed? So scary.

  • @prepperjonpnw6482
    @prepperjonpnw6482 Před 2 lety +2052

    This is why I left law enforcement back at the end of the 1980’s early 90’s. I couldn’t tell the good guys from the bad guys anymore. Having a badge didn’t automatically make a person a good guy. I encountered a lot of officers that were worse than the people we were arresting. When I was pressured to either join in or look the other way was when I quit. I changed careers and became an electrician instead plus I moved to another state. I couldn’t stay in LA because I wasn’t safe. As soon as I quit I was a target. This has been going on for decades.

    • @angelmunoz4152
      @angelmunoz4152 Před 2 lety +111

      Hope your safe where ever you are bud.

    • @damianoabbina9967
      @damianoabbina9967 Před 2 lety +89

      You're a real one, may you live your best life

    • @Limosethe
      @Limosethe Před 2 lety +6

      They been gang stalking you?

    • @Lynviking
      @Lynviking Před 2 lety +1

      Have a napkin, you still have some BS on your lips.

    • @Limosethe
      @Limosethe Před 2 lety +38

      @@Lynviking Self reflection

  • @isprobablyjobhunting
    @isprobablyjobhunting Před 2 lety +420

    Straight up comic book levels of evil.

    • @hemidas
      @hemidas Před 2 lety +18

      @@robertwinslade3104 Unlike these guys, Judge Dredd actually gives a damn about law and justice (and has zero tolerance for corrupt judges).

    • @DavidLLambertmobile
      @DavidLLambertmobile Před 2 lety +1

      Sheriff Lee Baca and the under sheriff were both convicted of fraud, misconduct. Baca did time in a federal BoP center.

    • @vassily-labroslabrakos2263
      @vassily-labroslabrakos2263 Před 2 lety +1

      @@robertwinslade3104 I was thinking more of Gotham.

    • @thespiritualsamurai2818
      @thespiritualsamurai2818 Před 2 lety +2

      I’m from LA, it’s literally Hell on Earth. “Demons” run Los Angeles.

    • @themagnificent9296
      @themagnificent9296 Před 2 lety

      @@thespiritualsamurai2818 City Of Angels they said!!

  • @JPVillalobos27
    @JPVillalobos27 Před 10 měsíci +1

    During the 80’s those deputies in the LA County jail were extremely violent. I saw one of them crack open this black Cuban guy’s skull because he was talking in line. I think he died. He didn’t understood the command to be quiet because he didn’t speak English. That was only one incident.

  • @johnfoster5955
    @johnfoster5955 Před měsícem +1

    The big city San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento always had games and a police department. We have them here in Georgia. Remember Georgia just arrested 150 officers a last month

  • @gweegoop7781
    @gweegoop7781 Před 2 lety +112

    LA actually managed to elect a progressive District Attorney last year. George Gascon reduced cash bail, ended the death penalty in LA, and stood up to organized crime within law enforcement. Now there's a far-right recall campaign led by Alex Villanueva and Trump donors. Support George and keep him in office!

    • @jacksonrelaxin3425
      @jacksonrelaxin3425 Před 2 lety +9

      Yup, and now shoplifting, murder, physical and sexual assaults, and other crime is all on the rise again! Hoooray did progress!
      Maybe you should go live in LA before typing written testimonials praising your own egotistical delusions.

    • @Marcus-ou4vy
      @Marcus-ou4vy Před 2 lety +52

      Jackson Bullocks crime rises when poverty increases. The pandemic has exacerbated poverty. Increasing penalties for crimes does nothing to address the root cause of crime and has little if any effect on deterring crime.

    • @FAYMprod
      @FAYMprod Před 2 lety +47

      @@jacksonrelaxin3425 I live in LA. I watched front row as LAPD and LASD instigated and escalated riots to stop peaceful protestors from entering wealthy neighborhoods in Beverly Hills. Fairfax Ave is the line and the police and sheriffs are stormtroopers who are tasked with protecting property over people's lives.

    • @Anactualfungus
      @Anactualfungus Před 2 lety +41

      @@jacksonrelaxin3425 have you tried not living in fear? Just because you don't trust your neighbors doesn't give you the right to install tyrannical police to assault everyone until youre no longer afraid to go outside

    • @jacksonrelaxin3425
      @jacksonrelaxin3425 Před 2 lety +3

      @@FAYMprod maybe you should stop destroying innocent people’s property and they won’t have to do that. I mean there were a few innocent people who died at the hands of “peaceful protestors” but I don’t hear you talking about that now huh?

  • @lunaumbra5179
    @lunaumbra5179 Před 2 lety +725

    Cop apologists always seem to never look deep into the horrors of what they do.

    • @borkingborker5567
      @borkingborker5567 Před 2 lety +154

      Because they are literal fascists. They support an authoritarian-style police state with impunity to extrajudicially execute poor people.

    • @genieglasslamp5028
      @genieglasslamp5028 Před 2 lety +73

      @@borkingborker5567
      Especially if those people look a certain way.

    • @lunaumbra5179
      @lunaumbra5179 Před 2 lety +49

      @@borkingborker5567 sure some are. I think most are more likely too afraid to see the truth because of how much it will hurt. Fear controls, is why people want to deny the pandemic. For your average white person who grew up trusting police it would/could be life shattering to see the truth

    • @StrawHalo
      @StrawHalo Před 2 lety

      Like Dave paulides missing 411

    • @mrtekbunny
      @mrtekbunny Před 2 lety +68

      @Justin Bradburn Lmao, well at least you tried. 😂 Better luck next time champ.

  • @stevenbaer5999
    @stevenbaer5999 Před 11 měsíci +32

    I used to live in Los Angeles CA area almost my entire life. I lived in Hacienda heights in the City of Industry. I can actually tell you something about the LAPD officers and also the City of Industry sheriff police department. They actually make false accusations, slander, intimidating, framing, threatening, and also false arrest on innocent people who are actually scared for life. There's actually a library book on LAPD officers who are actually using torture, harassment, and excessive force. I was actually stoped by the City of Industry sheriff police officers at 80 times, I actually counted all of them actually. They actually put some pressure on me then they actually tried to put more pressure on me. I don't know how to drive a car and this guy who almost ran over me saying that I would steal cars and I would sell them actually around the world. I always tell them that I need his name and badge number, they always leave in his car. I knew this neighbor guy who joined the CHP in Los Angeles CA but he left the force permanently for what they do to innocent people. He was actually on the force for a year before he left the force. I was actually told by military veterans that the police department should actually have respect for veterans but yet the police doesn't care. Even if you actually have $5 dollars on you to go to church or going to McDonald's, they actually think that you're going to buy drugs. If you actually have some money there's actually nothing wrong with that but to an officer they actually think something evil. To the LAPD officers and also the sheriff police department if you are actually not an officer then you are actually a criminal. People who are actually living in southern California area are more terrified than the dangerous criminals. At first people used to look up to the police department as the good guys not anymore they're actually worse than any criminals. What do they actually have on the side of the car, To Serve And To Protect? Who do they actually serve and protect in general? How many people actually driving around in their own car and then they actually got pulled over by the police? Then they may get fired for being racist and also corrupted when they actually found out the person is actually a police chief or maybe a judge. When I was actually living in City of Industry I seen police officers throwing up some gang signs, a picture. A white officer who arrested and pushed a black man who is actually an officer to the dark tinted window and shattered the glass with his head. The truth is that the white officer who was actually video tapped trying to make accuses after he saw the video. Everyone makes mistakes but yet is it making mistakes for wearing a certain uniform and getting away with it.

    • @Joey44951
      @Joey44951 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Tldr?

    • @MK-ym9ne
      @MK-ym9ne Před 11 měsíci +10

      Actually....

    • @diligar
      @diligar Před 11 měsíci +6

      TLDR: I lived in LA, they suck.
      Longer TLDR: I used to live in Hacienda Heights in the City of Industry, LA. The sheriff department officers make false accusations, slander, intimidate, frame, threaten, harass, use excessive force, and make false arrests. I read in a book they’ve used torture. I’ve been in 80 traffic stops. If you have 5 dollars on you, they assume you’re buying drugs. To them, if you’re not a cop, you’re a criminal.

    • @rabaldar9269
      @rabaldar9269 Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@diligar Thanks for taking the time to shorten this story I appreciate it

    • @pajac6809
      @pajac6809 Před 9 měsíci +3

      You have too many actuallies

  • @piehnoharmony
    @piehnoharmony Před měsícem +1

    This is scary if it's real. It can happen to you, your family, your friends, and your community.

  • @brotensmyrski1726
    @brotensmyrski1726 Před 2 lety +348

    Officer Art is what a cop should be. He served our country, he serves our community, he serves to protect others. I hope he stays safe.

    • @ryanheston7149
      @ryanheston7149 Před 2 lety +10

      It’s really sad that he probably has a bounty on his head at the moment

    • @havefuntazarasu5367
      @havefuntazarasu5367 Před rokem +6

      @@ryanheston7149 thats why we need 2nd amendment and militia

    • @erickdraws9563
      @erickdraws9563 Před rokem

      @@havefuntazarasu5367 i see you fancy dictators over criminal democrat republican mixture we live in

    • @AdamOwenBrowning
      @AdamOwenBrowning Před rokem +13

      @@havefuntazarasu5367 Local responsible militias who reasonably kept the peace within the community would be nice. But you guys are riddled with too much idiocy, tribalism, and baseless hatred. It'd end in lynching, race-based "street justice" with no accountability.
      Your people aren't civil, sensible and peaceful enough to govern your safety, it's why you aren't - the police "do it for you". If you want your 2A and militias, encourage the people around you to be responsible enough to be trusted to be in that militia. but u wont

    • @jonathanallard2128
      @jonathanallard2128 Před rokem

      Adam Meme dropping the truth bomb.
      One thing he didn't touch but another good point against that stupid "armed militia to defend against the govt" is that it's still ludicrously impossible.
      The govt will CRUSH YOU in an armed battle. Your AR15 won't do sgit against their armoured vehicles, flashbangs, grenades, breexh charges, their own High grade rifles, superior numbers, helicopters, IR trackers and scanners, etc.
      Keep dreaming.

  • @thethatthisguy1110
    @thethatthisguy1110 Před 2 lety +76

    My dad always told me about these gangs. So many people thought I was just talking about conspiracy theories.

    • @mainely8007
      @mainely8007 Před 2 lety +16

      My dad warned me as a child back in the 60s, he told me to never make eye contact with police or look in their direction as it would provoke them to attack.

    • @analyticalhabitrails9857
      @analyticalhabitrails9857 Před 2 lety +3

      And rest assure your dad and those before us, their work to wake us up have not gone in vain!!!! We already heard word over hear in the south LONG AGO. It's about time people wake up!!

  • @_Why_123
    @_Why_123 Před 27 dny +1

    😲 I'm from London, England, but live in a EU country, so a lot of young people ask me where they should visit on vacation... I always point them away from several cities, including London! ... Anyone asking about a vacation in the USA, I will certainly give them a link to this site! 😱

  • @jbxlit
    @jbxlit Před rokem +1

    I FOUND THE PAGE BEFORE THIS VID.
    IM GLAD TO SEE THIS HAPPENING. GROWING UP IN CALI I REALISE REAL FAST AFTER MY FIRST 5.0 INTERACTION THAT THE GANGS NEXT DOOR ARE NOT THE ONE I SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT BUT THE ONES WITH BADGE. SOME TIME AFTER AROUND 13 YRS OF AGE A COP SNAPS MY WRIST FOR BEING IN A FIGHT I DIDNT START. BUT DID FINISH ON SCHOOL CAMPUS WHILE IN HAND CUFFS OVER HIS EGO BEING HURT, HE ASKED ME. ' DO I LOOK STUPID TO YOU' I REPLY WITH A SIMPLE 'HEY SIR HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURE SELF IS YOURE OWN DECISON'. HE PICKED ME UP WHILE IN CUFFS. PUSHES ME THEN TRIPS ME. AND FALLS WITH ME FROM BEHIND AND PUSHED UNTIL MY WRIST SNAPPED WHILE IN AN OFFICE IN SCHOOL CAMPAS AFTER A FIGHT. I WAS BEING RESPECTFUL. HE KNEW HE FUCKED UP CUZ HE TRIED TAKING ME INTO JUVi AND WHILE HE TRIED TYPING UP TO GET ME INTO THE SYSTEM WHILE IM CUFFED BEHIND A COP CAR YELLING FROM THE PAIN IN MY WRIST. A NURSE CAME TO ATTEND TO ME WHILE IN CUFFS AND GAVE ME AN ICE PACK AND I TOLD HER THANKS BUT IM SURE THIS GUY JUST SNAPED IT AND IM SUE HIS AXX FOR EVERYTHING HE GOTS!. TIME PASSES. WE NOW IN THE BOOKING AREA OF JUVi. IDK WHAT IT WAS BUT IT WAS PACKED WE WERE WAITING FOR A WHILE AND ALL I KNOW IS THAT THIS FOO SMELLT IT COMING. SO HE PICKS ME UP OFF THE CURB THROWS ME BACK INTO THE CAR AND TELLS ME 'TODAY IS YOURE LUCKY DAY" AND IF YOU ASK ME I KNOW IT WAS 'HIS LUCKY DAY'. HE TAKE ME HOME AND DROPS ME OFF ON THE CORNER LIKE A AINT SHIT WITH A BROKEN RIST. THEY GOT WHATS COMING TO THEM.

  • @Somniumancer
    @Somniumancer Před 2 lety +172

    World-class reporting by Cerise Castle, I pray you remain safe the rest of your days.
    Thank you, Gravel Institute, for promoting her work.

    • @jhonshephard921
      @jhonshephard921 Před 2 lety +3

      I would prefer it if mainstream media also airs the same documentary, Gravel doesn't have enough reach to make this actually useful unless some producer at ABC, CBS, CNN or MSNBC is watching this.

  • @o0Avalon0o
    @o0Avalon0o Před 2 lety +68

    I hope Art is okay. He was already a hero before he outed these goons & he understands that those with power over life & freedom need to be held to our highest standard of integrity.

  • @ronnie61b59
    @ronnie61b59 Před 7 měsíci +4

    So go be a police officer ,these parents always say my kid is a angel lol

  • @postholedigger8726
    @postholedigger8726 Před 10 měsíci +28

    This courageous journalist deserves a PULITZER PRIZE for her work.

    • @kdub10009
      @kdub10009 Před měsícem +1

      100%

    • @jonrover6400
      @jonrover6400 Před měsícem +1

      U obviously don't understand what Pulitzer are 4

    • @postholedigger8726
      @postholedigger8726 Před měsícem

      @@jonrover6400 Your grammer and sentence structure speaks for itself.

    • @eq1373
      @eq1373 Před měsícem

      "Journalist" 🙄

    • @user-mg6bw8zq1e
      @user-mg6bw8zq1e Před měsícem

      She's got them beautiful eyes tho!😊

  • @defensivekobra3873
    @defensivekobra3873 Před 2 lety +276

    I thought this was gonna be the Gravel Institute being hyperbolic but jesus christ no it's not

    • @toppersundquist
      @toppersundquist Před 2 lety +13

      Why would you think that?

    • @puckerings
      @puckerings Před 2 lety +44

      @@toppersundquist Because people have been conditioned to think of LEOs as the good guys, with just a few bad apples.

    • @defensivekobra3873
      @defensivekobra3873 Před 2 lety +17

      @@toppersundquist well for instance, wage theft is not *litteral* theft (even if it illustrates why capitalisim bad) and conservatives have never in the past "canceled" something (censored something for being offensive sure, calling it canceling no). So i assumed that here what they meant by "police gangs" was "the group mentality and acts of violence comitted by police are *reminicent* of a criminal gang", not "american police officers make litteral gangs that kill people and have group signs"

    • @coldsnap999
      @coldsnap999 Před 2 lety +21

      @@defensivekobra3873 you're naive and misinformed

    • @Dadh4t
      @Dadh4t Před 2 lety +31

      @@coldsnap999 that's a bit rude and unnecessary. I can understand why he might assume the title was hyperbolic. Police have often been described as Institutionally Funded Gangs by critics of American law enforcement due to their reckless use of force, as well as to highlight the hypocrisy of their use of Gang Violence as an excuse to patrol low income areas more strictly.

  • @FishOn1xx
    @FishOn1xx Před měsícem +2

    The EAST LA SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT...
    Needs a Timothy VcVeigh visit.

  • @tayzonday
    @tayzonday Před 2 lety +1587

    The way Los Angeles County is policed is also codependent with its prosperity. Property taxes fund the Los Angeles County Sheriff.
    Property values are bolstered by racist municipal incorporation - e.g. how Los Angeles partly incorporated the Port of Los Angeles to confiscate tax wealth from geographically closer residents in Inglewood, Compton and Long Beach. Property values are also bolstered by efforts to address the need of economically divested areas with an administrative class of public employees - including police - who may work in areas of need but disproportionately spend their salaries in the more prosperous zip codes they commute from. This serves as another mechanism to extract wealth and perpetuate divestment.
    I suspect that the law-enforcement subjects of this documentary disproportionately lived in places like Simi Valley, Santa Clarita, Burbank and more prosperous zip codes - far from the job sites where corruption occurred. (Side note: This easily dovetails with the question of why these places are more politically conservative).
    We need to re-imagine public services, including law enforcement, as components of representative government whose public investment remains in the zip codes being served.

    • @TheGravelInstitute
      @TheGravelInstitute  Před 2 lety +265

      Brilliant comment Mr. Zonday! Absolutely correct.

    • @Captain23rdGaming
      @Captain23rdGaming Před 2 lety +79

      Honestly I wasn't expecting to see you here Tay but so far alot of what were seeing and hearing is all proven to be true. Its like my mother once said whatever happens in the dark shall eventually be brought too the light

    • @michaellacy3699
      @michaellacy3699 Před 2 lety +68

      I believe the nationwide percentage is 85% of cops live outside the areas they police

    • @fuzzybuzzy3159
      @fuzzybuzzy3159 Před 2 lety +90

      @@Captain23rdGaming He's been always political, ever listened to Chocolate Rain? That's what this is about--all of it.

    • @Noitalevier
      @Noitalevier Před 2 lety +37

      @@fuzzybuzzy3159 Whaaaaat? Are you saying it's NOT just a funny meme song? /s

  • @donniesteen4982
    @donniesteen4982 Před rokem +7

    Using being “afraid” of police because of…
    Whatever BS reason..
    Funny, I DON’T break the law and I would never argue or run so I’ve NEVER had a problem or been afraid of Police…
    Strange how that works….huh?

    • @ErinIsReal
      @ErinIsReal Před měsícem

      Wait until you have something they want; (like a 6 million dollar home they helped steal from me), or know some dirt, boot licker!

  • @typicaljaydjs7021
    @typicaljaydjs7021 Před rokem +2

    Most cops aren’t corrupt but we need better systems to catch this corruption.

  • @abqmalenurse
    @abqmalenurse Před 2 lety +182

    Imagine that this is only one department. Every city, every county in the US has gangs. They may vary in ferocity but they are absolutely present.

    • @GregLemons
      @GregLemons Před 2 lety +2

      Uhh

    • @handfulofjohnson
      @handfulofjohnson Před 2 lety +11

      The "Thin Blue Line" might as well be a gang sign.

    • @pierregibson6699
      @pierregibson6699 Před 2 lety +17

      The entire police department in my neighborhood Chicago in the 90’s was taken down by the FBI for shaking down and killing an undercover federal agent who they didn’t believe was an agent….the gang in my neighborhood didn’t even know the guy was a fed until the Feds showed up at 6am raiding entire police stations all over the city….the police were the MAIN gun sellers, hitmen for the Mafia And different gangs…the best organized criminals that FBI task force had seen… it was all over the news in the mid 90’s

    • @cv4809
      @cv4809 Před 2 lety +3

      Nah, Los Angelos is an exception because it's such a shity place

    • @TheLtNest
      @TheLtNest Před 2 lety +13

      @Jhon Doe LMAO the dude cites how virtually an ENTIRE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT was running an organized, corrupt criminal enterprise and you go with the "few bad apples" argument. So fucking delusional.

  • @stevenmccart5455
    @stevenmccart5455 Před 2 lety +1172

    What really annoys me besides the corruption in law enforcement is the amount of denial by the public.

    • @nineten9011
      @nineten9011 Před 2 lety

      A lot of it is subtle racism that still persists to this day
      Coupled with non stop propaganda that carpet bombs the airwaves constantly.

    • @tjg801
      @tjg801 Před 2 lety +27

      The people interviewed probably know people in gangs or have refused to speak out against them the same way they do here. They only seem to care about the crimes of other people, not the ones in their own neighborhoods.

    • @toontrooper4103
      @toontrooper4103 Před 2 lety

      @@tjg801 the police are the criminals in their neighborhood. The video literally said how the LAPD was connected to various gangs. There is no reason to respect or want police if they're the same as the other criminals.

    • @grady7420
      @grady7420 Před 2 lety

      @TJ G That's a super racist assumption you made with no evidence. You just assumed that because the people interviewed are POC they have gang connections.

    • @grady7420
      @grady7420 Před 2 lety

      And your statement erases the fact that these 'crimes' are often faked (like in the video with the possession of firearms) or are for things that are made illegal to specifically target non-White people (like drug possession).

  • @sageandlavender542
    @sageandlavender542 Před 11 měsíci +2

    This the kind of shit st.Dorner was talking about in his manifesto

  • @glennvage
    @glennvage Před 11 měsíci +1

    you will never control people within that job.our only hope is finding better ways to choose who is given the job

  • @pulido6974
    @pulido6974 Před měsícem +1

    Wow, this is scary. They are supposed to protect and Serve.

  • @keavenmurphy1565
    @keavenmurphy1565 Před 2 lety +133

    The minorities of LA have been saying this for decades! Glad someone finally took a stand and spoke up!

    • @locochang6533
      @locochang6533 Před 2 lety +8

      Im a minority of LA. I support the cops. They take out the gangbanger trash that terrorizes my neighborhood.

  • @theleftnetwork
    @theleftnetwork Před 2 lety +2593

    Way to go y’all, this is such an important issue most people don’t know anything about. Keep up the amazing work ❤️

    • @RazorSkinned86
      @RazorSkinned86 Před 2 lety +29

      Look up the manifesto of Christopher Dorner, an LA county deputy, and the background of why he went to literal war against the other members of this department.

    • @stanhry
      @stanhry Před 2 lety +15

      Why was this not national news with all BLM protests last year? Wtf

    • @bobthomas6846
      @bobthomas6846 Před 2 lety +1

      The 2nd ammendment is way outdated

    • @anarchismwithsovietcharact3472
      @anarchismwithsovietcharact3472 Před 2 lety +9

      Reagan's best accomplishment was dying! lol🤣🤣🤣

    • @StrawHalo
      @StrawHalo Před 2 lety +13

      Most people know about white supremacists in police. They just chose not to talk about it. Whites hate to believe they have privilege. Because it makes them feel bad. But truth is these gangs been around for a very long time. And target blacks

  • @mkultra2877
    @mkultra2877 Před měsícem +1

    Law enforcement who use their power for bad intentions should have double the fines....just like "speeding in a construction zone"

  • @uncertaintytoworldpeace3650
    @uncertaintytoworldpeace3650 Před měsícem +1

    I don’t think anyone is surprised to hear this probably more so that they hadn’t heard of it earlier…

  • @spyral00
    @spyral00 Před 2 lety +160

    I had no idea this existed at all and it's absolutely terrifying.

    • @God7OD
      @God7OD Před 2 lety +5

      Are you blind

    • @masondickerson9466
      @masondickerson9466 Před 2 lety +34

      @@God7OD If the dude is taking the time to learn about this stuff, then props to him. Don't insult people just looking to expand their understanding of the world.

    • @StrawHalo
      @StrawHalo Před 2 lety +4

      He is not blin just white. Blacks people been known about this

    • @spyral00
      @spyral00 Před 2 lety +20

      ​@@StrawHalo well I am not a US citizen, not born in LA, just been living here for a while. Most of what I knew about the US came from books and movies. The fact is nobody talks about this in the media. Isn't the whole point of this video to raise awareness about this kind of corruption, and for people like me to learn about it?

    • @oezibanana8664
      @oezibanana8664 Před 2 lety +10

      @@spyral00 You're doing exactly what we all should. Thank you.

  • @jayglenn837
    @jayglenn837 Před 2 lety +378

    This is utterly insane. It sounds like something out of a bad dystopian novel. But it's real. And if it's real in LA, how many other cities might have gangs also?

  • @lamontjohnson-xx1qe
    @lamontjohnson-xx1qe Před 4 měsíci +1

    Growing up in los Angeles in the 1980's the Firestone sheriff's use to plant guns on me and my friends or drop us in rival gangs neighborhoods

    • @joeking433
      @joeking433 Před měsícem

      Don't be a gang banger and you won't have any problems.

  • @lordfarquad444
    @lordfarquad444 Před rokem +2

    Christopher Doner tried telling us this.

  • @hwill12345
    @hwill12345 Před 2 lety +62

    Insane, despicable, incomprehensible evil.

    • @BlueScreenCorp
      @BlueScreenCorp Před 2 lety +2

      Its insane that this type of organization is possible at all in any place in the world, let alone the US. These are deadly gangs with Union protection...

    • @mainely8007
      @mainely8007 Před 2 lety +3

      Arrogance - they are untouchable and know it. They are drunk on power and why the FBI/DOJ are not even looking into this is beyond me.

  • @elisianez1291
    @elisianez1291 Před 2 lety +412

    "Injustice somewhere is injustice everywhere"
    Martin Luther King

  • @LarsLarsen77
    @LarsLarsen77 Před rokem +10

    I know there are gangs in the LASD, but this is hysterical nonsense. Every single one of these people pointed a gun at cops. I don't care what they were "known to carry" or not.

  • @davidbanik3488
    @davidbanik3488 Před měsícem +1

    Cerise should invest in lvl 4 ceramic plates. The bullet *resistant* vest she has might not be suitable for some of the firepower these police officers have. I hope she's doing ok and still doing her work.

  • @frankvictorrood
    @frankvictorrood Před 2 lety +47

    These are the most powerful yet the most cowardly gangs in the US.

    • @frankvictorrood
      @frankvictorrood Před 2 lety +2

      @@williampierce4513 Almost all on the ground construction jobs are more dangerous bitch. The same is for garbage collectors, farmers and truck drivers. However, while I am sure cops tend to die less from their job compared to the above mentioned, they can not beat cops in innocents they kill during their job. I bet being a gang member not directly legitimized, instituted and integrated into the state and federal level would cause your death to be severely more likely than cops, so yeah, American cops are cowards.

    • @GhostieShifty
      @GhostieShifty Před 2 lety +2

      @@williampierce4513 Their job is to protect citizens but these officers don’t do that while also hiding behind the law and lying but you know it’s not their fault they became what they’re supposed to fight against

    • @adoggdog3988
      @adoggdog3988 Před 2 lety +1

      @@williampierce4513 oh yes but let's not leave out our brown border buddies like sur13 & ms13 🥸

    • @Mae_Dastardly
      @Mae_Dastardly Před 2 lety

      @@williampierce4513 Yeah they're so brave. And that's why whenever there's a mass shooting they just wait outside for the shooter to get bored and off themself

    • @adoggdog3988
      @adoggdog3988 Před 2 lety

      @@williampierce4513 I meant quit pointing fingers at crips & bloods as if they're the only gangs that commit crimes in USA.

  • @paradoxicalpotato8927
    @paradoxicalpotato8927 Před 2 lety +191

    PragerU: 5-minute video with boring script.
    Gravel Institute: Haha full documentry go brrrrrrr..!

    • @jacksonrelaxin3425
      @jacksonrelaxin3425 Před 2 lety +1

      You’re proud of your platforms inability to summarize information in a clear, coherent manner. I guess that’s why leftist memes are always giant walls of text with poorly worded paragraphs Lmao

    • @colossusqw3632
      @colossusqw3632 Před 2 lety +49

      @@jacksonrelaxin3425 They are proud of the fact that instead of 2 milliseconds of maliciously oversimplified arguments they actually presented evidence and data to show a clear picture of a decisively complex issue.

    • @davidefinzi8145
      @davidefinzi8145 Před 2 lety +33

      @@jacksonrelaxin3425 there are informations that you simply can't summarize in 5 minutes. 18 minutes is still very little time to expose such a complex problem

    • @jacksonrelaxin3425
      @jacksonrelaxin3425 Před 2 lety +1

      @@davidefinzi8145 yes you can, if you’re good at it. This channel simply isn’t, and the information is quite mundane, repetitive, and boring. This is also misleading too, this journalist was told multiple times to gtfo of the area but she refused, yet then when they take action to disperse the crowds that’s when the whining starts. Waaaaaaaah

    • @jacksonrelaxin3425
      @jacksonrelaxin3425 Před 2 lety +1

      @@colossusqw3632 like I said, senseless, poorly written walls of text is all you have. Go learn how to write properly.

  • @tinanewell7870
    @tinanewell7870 Před 8 měsíci +1

    I have a couple of friends in and out of jail all the time or prison They have told me stories where they have been seriously assaulted. Pepper sprayed then thrown in cell.

  • @vladimir0700
    @vladimir0700 Před měsícem

    “Less lethal” is still lethal and will usually result in at least severe injuries

  • @TasTheWatcher
    @TasTheWatcher Před 2 lety +148

    *The right:* _We should be tough on gang crime_
    *Everyone else:* _Including when cops do it?_
    *The right:* _nO tHaT'S cOmMuNiSM_

    • @efdeecue
      @efdeecue Před 2 lety +27

      @@lekkerblankastudio There's more conservatives in Cali than like 5 red states combined. Thanks to the electoral college, they might as well not get a vote though.

    • @ANTSEMUT1
      @ANTSEMUT1 Před 2 lety +3

      @@lekkerblankastudio lol.

    • @Rejoice.
      @Rejoice. Před 2 lety +2

      @@lekkerblankastudio you ever heard of a little place called Phoenix Arizona? I got like 500 in my pocket rn and I can go get whatever kinda gun that'll buy, right fucking now.
      I swear you are the biggest lobotomite I've seen all day.

    • @joeramirez6126
      @joeramirez6126 Před 2 lety +4

      Left and right are both wings from the same bird of prey. Until we all realize that, we will continue to be divided and blind to the true enemy, the government.

    • @x099534
      @x099534 Před 2 lety +5

      @@lekkerblankastudio There is no left wing in LA or California. The democrats are not left of anything except Nazis, my friend. Every political party with even a modicum of power in this country is center right.

  • @pizzamelia3210
    @pizzamelia3210 Před 2 lety +69

    This kind of stuff is happening all over the US. This is super high profile, thank you for covering it! This'll be a good start!

    • @withrowchelsinormanfzwicke4615
      @withrowchelsinormanfzwicke4615 Před 2 lety

      This happens everywhere

    • @egmjag
      @egmjag Před 2 lety

      You hit the nail on the head! A every inconvenient truth. Cartels control Mexico, even their president grovels before them. Our decrepit idiot White House resident does too. The CCP is heavily involved with the cartels, especially when it comes to human trafficking and the fentanyl drug trade. The cartels are making inroads here in the U.S.

  • @turtletruth
    @turtletruth Před 11 měsíci +1

    Police seem to be independently operated and controlled by whims and opinions of themselves, supervisors, judges, townships, cities, counties, and states! (Police are not educated lawyers and many of them are without high school diplomas!)
    The job of a deputy or policeman attracts abusive sociopaths, psychopaths, perverts, and narcissists like drugs are to an addict more than any legal profession!
    Police must pay financial damage from their own pockets for unlawful acts against innocent taxpayers or the policing problem can only exacerbate further hate and demise dishonoring the (For Profit) profession!
    QUALIFIED IMMUNITY: "Must be ABOLISHED " ...!

  • @user-sf5dt9mo5f
    @user-sf5dt9mo5f Před měsícem +1

    Criminals killing people, holding a badge.

  • @kb2x172
    @kb2x172 Před 2 lety +368

    Thank you for showing the world what we've known in L.A. for generations. Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!

    • @josephohara2457
      @josephohara2457 Před 2 lety +3

      I never head of this before

    • @Three2Three323
      @Three2Three323 Před 2 lety +12

      @@josephohara2457 only if you live in the ghetto sides of LA you'd know

    • @kb2x172
      @kb2x172 Před 2 lety +4

      @@josephohara2457 Yes, this is literally happening now and has been a thing. They have also been known to shoot,beat up, false charge, and or plant drugs on people as their ignition of joining whatever sub set of gang they belong to.

    • @noahjuanjuneau9598
      @noahjuanjuneau9598 Před 2 lety +5

      Grew up in LA… This has been known for years I think, in some parts of ‘the Basin’ anyway. The only time I’ve witnessed a person beaten unconscious with a stick… it was a cop holding that stick. Ya gotta walk a fine line between the two sides - the knuckleheads on one side or the Gang in Blue on the other. Be careful out there!

    • @allenliu8820
      @allenliu8820 Před 2 lety

      so basically you went into this video to talk with a wall gotcha

  • @Boss-lu5wk
    @Boss-lu5wk Před 2 lety +186

    Man I hope Cerise Castle gets some peace - I can't imagine how scary it must be to have so many people out to get you and yours :(

    • @akaviral5476
      @akaviral5476 Před 2 lety +6

      Not only that, but people who are in power in such a deep way

    • @CaughtSlackin_
      @CaughtSlackin_ Před rokem

      no ones out to get anyone but criminals if they out to get her then shes got a record lmfao

  • @Kim-mz8co
    @Kim-mz8co Před rokem +8

    Excellent report. Courageous young woman. Thank you for all you are doing.

  • @Moneymover23
    @Moneymover23 Před měsícem

    U doin too much wit the bullet proof vest but i respect it 😂

  • @relariistheparadox221
    @relariistheparadox221 Před 2 lety +100

    Holy hell. LA resident, had no idea about this. Sharing everywhere.

    • @ajaxjs
      @ajaxjs Před 2 lety +3

      Most of it is lies, half truth and agitprop, ripped from 20-30+ years ago. Don't be so gullible.

    • @cyberspacesupersoldier
      @cyberspacesupersoldier Před 2 lety +14

      @@ajaxjs You are wrong, bootlicker.

    • @chino_sosa365
      @chino_sosa365 Před 2 lety +11

      You new here to LA ? Or you don’t stay in South LA or the east side lol. This been known for the longest man, since my dad was here 80s-90s. It’s just finally getting spotlight. And officials and people in the board of LA county are barely doing investigations on the sherif department. But for the longest everyone knows not to trust LA Sheriffs, most corrupt and dirtiest cops. At least LAPD got a heavier leash and watched more then sheriffs.

    • @theredbaron5117
      @theredbaron5117 Před 2 lety +2

      The most likely reason you've never heard of this, even though you're an LA resident is because she had to go back as far as 1980 to drag up stories about some of these 'cop gangs'... thats FORTY YEARS AGO ffs lmao. I'm sure most LA residents and americans in general will agree that they're more scared of BLM, Bloods and Crips and MS13 than they are of FORTY YEAR OLD stories of cop gangs

    • @cyberspacesupersoldier
      @cyberspacesupersoldier Před 2 lety +15

      @@theredbaron5117 Black Lives Matter is not a gang, it's a movement. Gangs like the Bloods and the Crips exist largely due to racial/ethnic poverty, inequality, inequity, injustice, gentrification, etc., which is usually so bad that it forces these people to turn to crimes (not always necessarily or inherently violent or immoral) in order to survive and thrive. It has been proven time and time again that heavy illegalization, criminalization, tough-on-crime laws, highly-militarized law enforcement, mass-incarceration, plus prisons with abhorrent/atrocious living and working conditions and treatment, combined with a lack of political, social, societal, and economical safety, security, supports, and protections, makes all of these problems much worse, not better in the slightest, or at the very least, does absolutely nothing at all to help whatsoever, if anything.

  • @baokhong6036
    @baokhong6036 Před 2 lety +136

    As a father of an 8 yr old girl, I would die a thousand deaths to know that she was going to have the noble integrity and will of Cerisa. What an example of a good human being

    • @hishamseddiqee9528
      @hishamseddiqee9528 Před 2 lety +2

      Lee said “I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender to Grant, ironically, before he did surrender to him.

    • @matttheamerican3766
      @matttheamerican3766 Před 2 lety

      We have to start teaching girls to be strong physically too. To carry weapons and to use them against monsters like these if attacked.

    • @FloresRain
      @FloresRain Před 2 lety +1

      This woman aswell as the active Mexican female journalist whos against the cartels are Sheerah goddesses with massive bravery.

  • @Dave-gc7sq
    @Dave-gc7sq Před 11 měsíci

    thanks for the investigation!

  • @cpt21310
    @cpt21310 Před 10 měsíci +1

    2009 i was torture and beetin to death some how i was broght back to life and was forced on camera to say that i didnt want to talk to every question they ask! This was the 3000 floor in mcj they broke my ribs my lung collapse. Anyway i was sent to prison on a battery on a peace officer! I was there for only a parol violation ended up with a new charge! Wish i could still do something about that.

  • @jhoffman3236
    @jhoffman3236 Před 2 lety +83

    Cerise Castle is a true hero. Amazing stuff. Takes a lot to shock me when it comes to cops, but this did it. Thanks, Gravel institute. You and Russell Brand are possibly the wisest voices I have seen on CZcams.

  • @ClydeC
    @ClydeC Před 2 lety +205

    As long as qualified immunity is on the board.. Nothing will ever happen

    • @comicz_the_7god
      @comicz_the_7god Před 2 lety +10

      The judges let them get away with as well bro

    • @cuttingedge91
      @cuttingedge91 Před 2 lety +6

      Qualified immunity only protects the cops from being sued "Not Being Charged For A Crime". The DA "District Aterneys" are the ones who refuse to charge them.

    • @mary9983
      @mary9983 Před 2 lety +4

      @@cuttingedge91 ok, but being able to sue then having a garnishment placed on their house/car/assets sure would be a clear message.

    • @revelationishereeverhart8864
      @revelationishereeverhart8864 Před 2 lety

      @@mary9983 yeah remember OJ Simpson had to be taken to Civil Court when Criminal Court failed... right? At least it was something to fall back on...

    • @revelationishereeverhart8864
      @revelationishereeverhart8864 Před 2 lety +1

      @@cuttingedge91 I just saw something about that on youtube, in Colorado.

  • @resentfusion5634
    @resentfusion5634 Před rokem

    Thanks for the video

  • @markfox8947
    @markfox8947 Před 2 lety +34

    Exactly why are gangs tolerated in any department? Immediate termination when identified

    • @John.Not-Jack.Daniels
      @John.Not-Jack.Daniels Před 2 lety +14

      @@lekkerblankastudio Nancy isn't progressive, and I've never even heard of a progressive cop. Try learning what words mean before using them, authoritarian.

    • @John.Not-Jack.Daniels
      @John.Not-Jack.Daniels Před 2 lety +5

      @@lekkerblankastudio What makes you think progressives don't support the 2nd amendment, chucklehead?

    • @John.Not-Jack.Daniels
      @John.Not-Jack.Daniels Před 2 lety +5

      @@lekkerblankastudio Nancy is neoliberal establishment. She is one of the worst enemies progressives have.

  • @hungarianhillbilly4144
    @hungarianhillbilly4144 Před 2 lety +41

    It is cowardice to hide behind the authority of the state to perpetrate your crimes.

    • @oliveraparicio8464
      @oliveraparicio8464 Před 2 lety

      Its the degenerate culture, wealth disparity, and lefties politics of Los Angeles County that created this mess. We have to get to the root to get a clear understanding of the situation.

  • @thespot5722
    @thespot5722 Před rokem +1

    I would not be surprised if the LAPD set up the whole Nipsey situation

  • @robertnicholls9917
    @robertnicholls9917 Před 11 měsíci

    Thank you guys at Gravel Institute.