The Perfect Breeding Ground

A Tradition of Violence

True Crime

4.7 • 540 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Outside the eyes of the public, violence inside Los Angeles County jails at the hands of the 3000 and 2000 Boys deputy gangs went unchecked. But the efforts of incarcerated people eventually brought down the sheriff himself.

A Tradition of Violence is hosted and executive produced by Cerise Castle. She's an award winning journalist who wrote the first ever history of deputy gangs for Knock LA, available at lasdgangs.com

Music by Yelohill and Steelz.

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0:00.0	Warning, this podcast contains explicit language and details acts of violence.
0:05.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:07.6	Paul Tanaka, a tattooed member of the Vikings deputy gang, elevated to the role of undersheriff,
0:14.3	under Sheriff Lee Baca. Tanaka has denied affiliation with the Vikings' deputy gang,
0:20.6	although he is known to have the
0:22.8	gang's tattoo. As number two in the department, he oversaw operation of L.A. County's jails.
0:30.8	Tanaka installed many deputy gang members to high-ranking positions in exchange for money.
0:37.7	A thing about Tanaka during this time, by the way, from Celeste Freeman,
0:42.3	who we heard from earlier in the series.
0:45.1	She's a journalist and founder of Witness Alley.
0:48.3	She covers the sheriff's department.
0:50.4	She was also the mayor of Gardena, go figure.
0:53.0	And that it was either you're in the car with me, that was the expression, or you're out of the car, in which case, forget advancement.
1:02.4	But those that were loyal did see career advancement.
1:06.3	Like Charles McDaniel, a sergeant of men's central jail, he was tattooed with the skull associated
1:12.8	with the deputy gang, the regulators. Under Tanaka and McDaniel, men's central jail became the
1:20.0	birthplace of one of the biggest deputy gangs within LASD, the 3,000 boys.
1:27.9	This is a tradition of violence, a history of deputy gangs inside the LA County Sheriff's
1:33.9	Department.
1:38.9	The county's not safe.
1:43.9	The county's jails are an ideal breeding ground for gangs. Most deputies get sent to work the jail system straight out of the academy. There's been stories about excessive violence against people incarcerated in the L.A. County jail system since at least 1978, and they were the subject of a lawsuit.
2:04.1	A federal judge ruled that the jails would be monitored by the American Civil Liberties Union,
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