In this episode, we work to understand Los Angeles’ police gangs as a former LA undersheriff admits he had a deputy gang tattoo. After two years of fighting a subpoena issued by the Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission, former undersheriff Timothy Murakami has testified that he received the tattoo of the Cavemen deputy gang while he was a deputy at the East LA station in the 1980s.

We are joined by Cerise Castle, a Los Angeles-based journalist and equity reporter for Capitol and Main. She wrote the first history of deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in 2021, and has covered the aftermath of the revelations closely.

Read her latest coverage here: https://lapublicpress.org/2024/03/former-la-undersheriff-admits-he-had-a-deputy-gang-tattoo/

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