Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm'm scared the podcast i'm your host madeline and i'm your co-host kenna okay kenna today i wanted to ask

have you googled l-a-s Um, ooh, I think I have.

I think I just know about it from around the, um, the, the, the internets.

Yeah, I've been seeing it all over Twitter, right?

Everyone's like, Google L-S-E gangs.

And then like also around L-A where we live, people will spray painted on things.

And at first I was like, yeah, I don't need to Google that because I figured I knew that the sheriff's

department, which is LASD, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, I figured I knew that the sheriff's

department and the police departments like all over the U.S. were run by like motley

crews of horrible people. So I was like, yeah, I get it. Yeah, right, they're gangs for sure.

However, eventually curiosity got the best of me and I did in fact end up Googling LASD gangs.

And what I found is that it was even worse than what I had assumed.

Oh, why am I not surprised?

Yeah.

And a lot more specific than I had assumed.

Oh.

Yeah.

I thought maybe it was just referring to like a general criminal-like elements within law enforcement.

I didn't realize that there were, like,

literal gangs operating in there,

like with their own names and tattoos and hand signals.

I think I knew something about that, but I get what you're saying,

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