New: for decades, violent "deputy gangs" inside the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department have wreaked havoc with beatings and shootings that have cost LA County upwards of $55 million in legal settlements. 1/13
nymag.com/intelligencer/… But a deputy gang called The Executioners at the LASD's Compton Station may be the most violent. For nearly 20 years attorney John Sweeney has litigated cases involving violence committed by Compton deputies, eventually cracking The Executioners code. 2/13 nymag.com/intelligencer/…

After George Floyd's murder, the AP instructed reporters to "avoid the vague 'officer-involved' for shootings and other cases involving police." But an analysis by @notrivia finds that usage of the phrase declined post Floyd but crept back up in 2021. 1/7
huffpost.com/entry/police-v… The analysis examined nearly 140,000 articles from 2000-'21 for "officer involved" usage+found that some of the most persistent usage came when scrutiny of media coverage of police violence was at its highest, such as the '14 killing of Mike Brown. 2/7 huffpost.com/entry/police-v…

Since 1989, 25 men convicted of murder in Baltimore have been exonerated; official misconduct was present in 22 cases. Detectives from David Simon's Homicide—including Oscar “The Bunk” Requer—worked on at least 6 of those cases. by @larabazelon 1/5
nymag.com/intelligencer/… Requer was the basis for The Wire's "Bunk Moreland." In 1986, Requer was one of several Baltimore detectives who coerced a 12 year old into wrongly implicating Gary Washington in a murder he didn't commit. Washington spent 3 decades in prison. 2/5 nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Nearly 30 years before the Capitol Insurrection, Giuliani led a riot of 10,000 furious, drunk NYPD officers outside New York City Hall. Their target? The city's first Black Mayor, David Dinkins. It's a story that's never been fully told—until now. 1/ nymag.com/intelligencer/… On Sept 16, 1992, 1000s of cops gathered outside City Hall to protest a new CCRB proposal. But they were also celebrating an officer cleared of killing a bodega clerk+and carried signs bearing racist, cartoon images of Dinkins. Several signs called him a “washroom attendant.” 2/

A powerful broadside against Bill Bratton and why he's not a credible source when reporting on the criminal legal system: he sees LA's homelessness crisis as an “example of city & state failures to address quality of life & broken windows” (it's not); 1/ theappeal.org/media-frame-st… Bratton went on Morning Joe to talk about "the disintegration of family, the disintegration of values” in the Black community—not police accountability—in the wake of protests against the police killings of Eric Garner and Mike Brown. 2/2 theappeal.org/media-frame-st…