
For the competition, local media companies and other businesses buy tables for their employees to participate. Most of the funding for those internships comes through membership dues, but the association also raises funds through its annual Trivia Bowl. It also sponsors and manages a small number of internships for local newspapers, online news publications and radio stations. As a chapter, the association represents Asian and Pacific Islander reporters in the Los Angeles area. Since 2016, he's worked at what would become the Southern California News Group, first as a digital editor for SCNG's San Gabriel Valley newspapers, then as a crime, cops and courts reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News.He's affiliated with the Asian American Journalists Association, Los Angeles chapter, for which he was elected a board member in 2019. He attended journalism school at Boston University.

They are named after a street called Hoover Street, between Vermont Ave and Figueroa Ave. Josh Cain's interest in writing and reporting the news started as a kid growing up in Orange County, California. The Hoover Criminal Gangs (HCG) originated as an African-American street gang located on the West Side of South Los Angeles, California.
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Moore and other commanders have blamed conflicts between gang members with access to guns as one of the primary drivers of the violence. Many of 2020 homicides were shootings, with gang violence exploding in South L.A., LAPD officials have said.

Still, that number is well below the homicide counts in the early 1990s, when each year the figure was more than 1,000. In all, there were 349 homicides in 2020 – nearly 100 more than the year before and easily the worst figure in years. “We’ve seen this continuation of violence for the last six months.” “It’s the velocity of this violence, it’s a great concern to me,” Moore said. It’s such violence that made 2020 a particularly deadly one for L.A. and a 16-year-old killed in the west San Fernando Valley. 5, said 47 victims had been shot since Christmas – including a 15-year-old boy shot dead in East L.A. LAPD Chief Michel Moore, in a call with reporters on Tuesday, Jan. No one had any knowledge of that name,” Villanueva said.A violent year for Los Angeles continued into the holidays, with police responding to dozens of shootings across the city between Christmas and New Year’s Day. “It was never used on the department at all.

He said he did not know how many deputies were identified as having tattoos and said the name “Executioners” was coined by an attorney. In response to questions from The Times earlier this month, Villanueva said the Sheriff’s Department’s investigation into the Compton Executioners led to two terminations and 13 transfers out of the station.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva has downplayed the issue, saying problems associated with the groups are often the result of drunken deputies getting into fights and taking issue with those who refer to them as “deputy gangs.” Last month, Villanueva sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Board of Supervisors, demanding that they and others stop using the phrase.īut he has also taken credit for addressing the problem by instituting a policy that prohibits deputies from joining groups that promote behavior that violates the rights of others. “The Sheriff’s Department may not refuse to produce the records requested below by unilaterally declaring that no deputy sheriff is a member of a ‘law enforcement gang,’” Huntsman wrote, adding that the Banditos and Executioners may fall within the state’s definition of such a gang. In his letter, Huntsman requests that the Sheriff’s Department cooperate with his investigation into the groups by providing investigative files and other documents. Huntsman told The Times that about a third of the 41 deputies on his list admitted that they had tattoos or belonged to the groups the rest were identified by other sworn personnel in statements to sheriff’s investigators. California Sheriff’s deputy testifies he attended seven ‘inking parties’ linked to Compton groupĪ Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy associated with a gang-like group of deputies with matching tattoos testified that he has attended about seven “inking parties.”
