Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department operatives operate in secret, ‘just like the Mafia,’ watchdog says

Following a new policy banning gangs within the LA County Sheriff’s Department, the county’s top law enforcement watchdog, Inspector General Max Huntsman, has spoken out about why he has a problem with the new policy. He said these so-called deputy gangs have long operated under a “code of silence — just like the Mafia.” The new LASD policy comes more than two years after California state law began banning such organized crime groups from law enforcement.