518 - Gangs of Los Angeles feat. Cerise Castle (4/26/21)

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🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Grab your tickets to our live appearance at the FRQNCY1 streaming festival this June 5th here: https://frqncy.live/frqncy1 The first part of this show we have an interview with journalist Cerise Castle covering a fairly harrowing story she’s been reporting on the proliferation and criminal activities of white supremacist cop gangs in the LA County Sheriff’s department. Then we turn to the lighter side with some riffs on boats, ghosts, and Andrew Sullivan’s high-T journey. Follow Cerise: @cerisecastle Check out Cerise’s series on LA Sheriff’s gangs in the Knock LA: https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/ And, the article on Bill Gates and vaccines Felix mentions: https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines

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0:00.0	Esteemed Moves
0:30.0	Hello everybody, welcome to today's show.
0:36.4	It's me and Matt with you right now.
0:39.2	And today with our guest, we'll be discussing the city of Los Angeles and crime.
0:45.8	How a city has been plagued by a lawless culture of gang violence, intimidation and murder
0:51.9	for over 50 years.
0:54.2	The bloods, the crypts, drug cartels, no, the gangs we're talking about in today's show
0:59.5	are all comprised of members of the LA County Sheriff's Department.
1:03.8	So Riz Castle, welcome to the show.
1:06.6	So you were the author of a 15-part series that's currently on NOC LA, documenting basically
1:15.4	a 50-year history of violence as it pertains to a series of gangs that operate within
1:23.6	the LA County Sheriff's Department that are comprised of LA Sheriff's County deputies.
1:29.4	It's hard to draw the conclusion suggested by this investigative series is that the most
1:36.2	vicious and dangerous gangs in Los Angeles have badges and operate not just as a gang
1:42.0	and a metaphorical sense, but literally by California criminal code is a gang in every
1:47.4	sense of the word.
1:48.4	Yeah, 100%.
1:49.8	I mean, you say at the top, in your pieces, at the headline, you list the section of
1:56.7	the California penal code that pertains to how to determine whether an organization is
2:03.5	a criminal gang.
2:04.9	And according to the penal code, it has to have three or more people that one have a common
2:08.9	name or identifying sign or symbol has as one of its primary activities, the commission
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