Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Gang Tattoos
Jump Out Boys – Operated out of Gang Enforcement Team (GET). Tattoo depicts a red-eyed skull wearing a bandana with the letters “O.S.S.” (Operation Safe Streets Bureau) and holding a revolver next to an ace of spades and an 8 of spades, the so-called “dead man’s hand” in poker. In 2012, LASD management obtained a pamphlet that states a “black book” containing all member information and dates of shootings be kept “off site.”
Banditos – East L.A. Station. Tattoo depicts a skeleton with a bushy mustache wearing a sombrero and bandolier, and holding a pistol. According to the report: “They regularly use gang slang, such as referring to longtime members as ‘OGs’ and passing on information that they ‘heard on the yard.’ Banditos leaders refer to themselves as ‘shot callers,’ a term borrowed from the leaders of prison gangs.”
Executioners – Compton Station. Tattoo depicts a skull wearing a Nazi helmet with “CPT” on front and rifle encircled by flames that is sequentially numbered. Deputy Austreberto Gonzalez, who has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the department, said in a recent deposition that the Executioners are a “violent gang” that dominates the station and that has assaulted other deputies.
Vikings – Lynwood Station (now closed). Tattoo depicted a Viking head, sometimes with the number “998,” which is the radio code for “officer-involved shooting.” In 1990, U.S. District Judge Terry Hatter characterized the Vikings as “a neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang” that operated under leaders who “tacitly authorize deputies’ unconstitutional behavior.”
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