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51-544: SMASH is a school in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District . They use a constructivist approach to learning that provides opportunities for students to "take ownership of their education". SMASH does not grade students on their performance and instead provides feedback through narrative report cards and parent-teacher conferences. The school divides classes into "cores" of mixed age grouping which allow for mentoring and

102-713: A Los Angeles Times analysis found that in 44,000 bike stops for drugs and weapons (since 2017) that 85% were searched without reason and that the overwhelming majority of stops were non-white individuals. There are allegedly at least 18 active deputy gangs within the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. The 1992 Kolts Commission report said they were found "particularly at stations in areas heavily populated by minorities—the so-called 'ghetto stations'—and deputies at those stations recruit persons similar in attitude to themselves." Former Sheriff Alex Villanueva , who according to Los Angeles County Court documents,

153-513: A federal court of interfering with a federal grand jury investigation of the county jail. In 2011, the officers obstructed an FBI undercover operation which was using an inmate informant to report on brutality and misconduct by jail deputies. Overall, a total of 21 LASD officers were convicted or pleaded guilty to federal civil rights violations, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice, falsifying reports, bribery, and firearm violations. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

204-861: A polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) cleanup of Malibu High School overseen by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control . During a 2011 construction project on the Malibu Middle and High Schools and Juan Cabrillo Elementary School, contractors discovered soils were contaminated with PCBs and organochlorine pesticides like chlordane and DDT and presented “an unacceptable health risk”. In October 2013, 20 teachers jointly complained about health problems, including thyroid cancer. A senior United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employee recommended that teachers consult Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) for help. In February 2014, PEER attorneys asked

255-551: A May 2008 traffic stop. Fitzpatrick has a long history of similar complaints against him during his career with the LASD. The department agreed to pay the woman $ 245,000. In January, 2012 Jazmyne Ha Eng was shot and killed by Deputy Brian Vance outside a mental-health center in Rosemead , where she was a patient . Vance said Eng charged him and the other three deputies on the scene with a hammer , making them fear for their lives. Eng

306-409: A federal jury awarded $ 200,000 to a 69-year-old man who had his rib broken by two sheriff's deputies attempting to arrest him in 2009. The jury also ordered Deputy Mark Collins to pay punitive damages of $ 1,000. In October 2013, Deputy Mark Eric Hibner, was convicted by a jury of two counts of domestic violence and three counts of making threats. In December 2013, Deputy Michael Anthony Grundynt

357-586: A fourth, beating him severely. Montebello Police arrived on the scene and broke up the fight; however, no arrests were made. The '3,000 Boys' is a name referring to a gang of L.A. County Sheriff's Deputies and Jailers who have been involved in the beatings and organized fights of inmates in the 3,000 block of the Men's Central Jail in Downtown Los Angeles . In May 2011, six deputies were suspended without pay (pending termination and criminal prosecution) for

408-466: A handgun and falsely imprisoning her. In July 2011, the department agreed to pay a half million dollars to the family of 16-year-old Avery Cody Jr. Cody was shot by Deputy Sergio Reyes in 2009. Reyes made several statements under oath that were disproven by video of the incident. The department then agreed to settle, but admitted no guilt. In October 2011, Deputy Mark Fitzpatrick was convicted of an on-duty sexual assault and false imprisonment during

459-474: A history of racial profiling, police brutality , police corruption , and other misconduct. From the 1970s to today, numerous gangs have been known to operate within the LASD. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which was founded in 1850, was the first professional police force in the Los Angeles area. The all-volunteer, Los Angeles-specific Los Angeles Rangers were formed in 1853 to assist

510-435: A mechanism to reach out to inner city community health issues as well as provide a new area for research in the effectiveness in vaccinations and screenings. The Los Angeles County Jail system incarcerates a large number of minority inmates. Victor Rios argues that a new era of mass incarceration has resulted in the development of a youth control complex. This complex resulted from a network of racialized criminalization, and

561-593: A member of the Cavemen. Former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka , who also served as the mayor of Gardena, California , is identified as a member of the Lynwood Vikings , and was convicted of federal obstruction charges in 2014. In July 2021, U.S. Representative Maxine Waters called for a United States Department of Justice investigation into allegations that a violent deputy gang known as the Executioners

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612-640: A prisoner in 2006. The three men were sentenced to various periods of parole and resigned from the department. In December 2010, members of a widely known gang-like group of L.A. County Sheriff's Deputies known as 'The 3,000 Boys' were involved in a violent fight in the parking lot of the Quiet Cannon Restaurant in Montebello . An anonymous call made to the Montebello police department reported three Sheriff's Deputies were holding down

663-490: A shooting, glorifying the incident. It drew comparisons to the problematic Rampart Division of the LAPD in the 1990s, who had the same tattoo. In June 2012, Deputy Rafael Zelaya was sentenced to six months in jail for stealing drugs from someone while on duty. In July 2013 Eugene Mallory was fatally shot in his house while the police alleged that he ran a meth lab , no such drugs were found in his house. In July 2013,

714-433: A strongly interconnected curriculum and community. Core 1 consists of kindergartners, first and second graders. Core 2 consists of third and fourth graders. Core 3 consists of fifth and sixth graders, and Core 4 of seventh and eighth graders. In 2016, SMASH was placed on a list of 1,000 low-performing California schools as a result of its 2013 standardized testing scores. This Los Angeles County school–related article

765-508: Is Los Angeles County Jail's K6G unit, which is intended to be a separate unit for gay-identified men and transgender women . Although it has been shown that this unit is successful through its lower rates of sexual violence , the creation and systematics of this unit have sparked controversy. In order to be admitted into the K6G unit, inmates must prove that they are gay . However, those who identify inmates as homosexual individuals eligible for

816-538: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) is a school district located in Santa Monica, California . The district serves the cities of Santa Monica and Malibu , as well as a portion of Westlake Village , the Pepperdine University census-designated place , and a portion of

867-494: Is sometimes confused with the similarly-named but separate Los Angeles Police Department which provides law enforcement services within the city of Los Angeles, which is the county seat of Los Angeles County, although both departments have their headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. The department's three main responsibilities are to provide municipal police services within Los Angeles County, courthouse security for

918-587: The COVID-19 pandemic , the LASD refused to enforce mask mandates. LASD Sheriff Alex Villanueva also refused to enforce a vaccine requirement for LASD staff, stating that large parts of the LASD would refuse to comply with it and he would "lose 5, 10% of [the LASD] workforce overnight on a vaccine mandate." In November 2021, Villanueva said only 42% of LASD staff were vaccinated against COVID-19. The Los Angeles County Jail provides short-term incarceration services for

969-695: The County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department , is a law enforcement agency serving Los Angeles County, California . LASD is the largest sheriff's department in the United States and the third largest local police agency in the United States, following the New York Police Department , and the Chicago Police Department . LASD has approximately 18,000 employees, 9,915 sworn deputies and 9,244 unsworn members. It

1020-656: The Men's Central Jail and the Twin Towers Correctional Facility (taken together) ranked as one of the ten worst jails in the United States, based on reporting in Mother Jones magazine. One of the issues the jails faced was with visitation, exemplified by an event in the Men's Central Jail. Twenty-three-year-old male Gabriel Carillo was severely beaten and pepper sprayed by a deputy in Men's Central Jail on Saturday, February 26, 2012. Carillo

1071-587: The Superior Court of Los Angeles County , and housing and transportation services of inmates within the county jail system. The LASD provides municipal police services to the unincorporated communities and 42 of the 88 cities within Los Angeles County. In addition to its primary responsibilities, LASD contracts with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Metrolink . The LASD has

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1122-580: The Topanga census-designated place. It has ten elementary schools, two middle schools , three high schools , an adult high school , and an alternative school . Until the 1980s, students from Malibu were required to bus a long distance into Santa Monica for grades 10–12, but the former junior high school there has since become Malibu High School . . In 2009 and 2010, the Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District did

1173-686: The federal court to take over the Lynwood Station, home of a deputy gang known as the Lynwood Vikings . A federal judge described the Lynwood Vikings as a neo-Nazi and white supremacist gang. Los Angeles blog outlet Knock LA has published a database of hundreds of LASD employees found in court documents to be associated with deputy gang activity, including names of officers, gang affiliation, case number, deputy/badge/serial number, and department title. The database includes Undersheriff Timothy Murakami, identified in court documents as

1224-753: The Century Regional Detention Facility or the Lynwood Jail, is located in Lynwood, California . The Los Angeles County Jail incarcerates about 200,000 individuals each year, and with such large numbers, the jail has faced numerous problems with its facilities. In 1988, a scandal erupted after a Los Angeles jailhouse informant demonstrated that he was able to engineer false confessions to murder from inmates he had never met before. In California, jailhouse informants have most frequently been used in murder cases. In May 2013,

1275-792: The District, "at thousands of times the levels previously released to the public". In March 2015, parents and teachers filed a lawsuit to have all contaminated caulk removed. PEER estimated that "probably 80 rooms in the district have contaminated caulk, beyond what was first tested". The district asked the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to press charges against a parent who took samples from Malibu High to be tested for contamination. Elementary schools Middle schools High Schools K–8 schools Los Angeles County Sheriff%27s Department The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department ( LASD ), officially

1326-525: The K6G unit rely on stereotypes constructed by society about gay men. This procedure prevents homosexual men who are not open about their sexuality, particularly those of color, from coming out as gay for fear of abuse if they do so. Serious health concerns have begun to arise with the issue of mass incarceration in the Los Angeles County Jails. Several organizations and scholars have analyzed random samples of prisoners with illnesses and

1377-656: The LASD was the "Little Devils" in an internal memo in 1973, although they are believed to have been involved in the death of Los Angeles Times reporter and law enforcement critic Ruben Salazar during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War on August 29, 1970. They operated out of the East Los Angeles station and sported tattooed caricatures of a small, red devil on their left calves. They were known at

1428-741: The LASD. They were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group. Neither force was deemed efficient and Los Angeles became known for its violence, gambling and "vice". On December 15, 2009, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 4–1 to merge the Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety into the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The merger took place on June 30, 2010. During

1479-415: The beating of Evans Tutt, an inmate who had been filing complaints about living conditions within the jail. In January 2011, Deputy Patricia Margaret Bojorquez was sentenced to a year in custody for making a false police report against her husband and recklessly firing a gun in her home. In April 2011, Deputy Sean Paul Delacerda was convicted of breaking into a woman's home kidnapping, assaulting her with

1530-516: The break room. Carillo got into a verbal altercation with officers and claimed he was then assaulted by them. Following the controversy, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca announced that the Men's Central Jail could be closed. Construction of a new jail has been proposed to replace the Men's Central Jail. Another challenge that the Los Angeles County Jail faces is violence within the jail community. Related to this issue

1581-612: The department collapsed due to "the intimidation tactics of the LASD". A summary of the allegations claimed that captains in the department were ordered to collect $ 10,000 from each towing contractor doing business with the department. The payments were used as contributions to political causes favored by the sheriff. In December 2009, the L.A. Times reported that L.A. County Auditor-Controller Wendy L. Watanabe's office found 348 deputies worked more than 900 hours of overtime between March 2007 and February 2008. This would equal an extra six months of full-time work. The audit found that over

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1632-711: The entire county, including Los Angeles , Glendale , Burbank , and Long Beach , all of which have their own police departments. The Men's Central Jail (MCJ) and Twin Towers Correctional Facility (TTCF) are located in a dense cluster next the rail yard northeast of Union Station . The North County Correctional Facility (NCCF) is the largest of the four jail facilities located at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, California . The Los Angeles County Women's Jail, known as

1683-529: The family home of GLOW professional wrestler Emily Dole , also known professionally as Mt. Fiji, in Cerritos, California during a bridal shower for Dole's sister, Melinda. Much like the Rodney King incident two years later, the event was videotaped by a neighbor, Doug Botts, showing the sheriffs beating the family. Despite her imposing physique, Dole remained in a passive stance with her arms folded in

1734-462: The healthcare that they receive while incarcerated. The American Public Health Association claims that some of these prisoners suffer from a variety of other disorders. They also state that more than 30% of their sample group had a severe mental disorder or a substance use disorder . The detainees that were diagnosed with severe mental disorders or substance use were often in jail because they had committed nonviolent crimes. An issue that arises with

1785-488: The incarceration of individuals with mental disorders is that they must be tested for competency before they can be put on trial, which can leave inmates in jail for longer than necessary. Richard Lamb and Robert W. Grant conducted a similar study of 101 women that are imprisoned in the Los Angeles County Jail system. In this study, they concluded that 70% of them had traumatizing experiences of physical violence , 40% of these women were involved in prostitution , and 84% of

1836-590: The large proportion of prisoners with significant mental illness, few of these Los Angeles County Jail inmates receive adequate mental health treatment. However, mental illnesses have been and are currently being studied in the Los Angeles County Jail. For instance, several researchers studied Bipolar I disorder and found that a way to decrease the number of inmates with the disorder is by having them participate in longer psychiatric hospital stays. One solution to this issue could be opt-out screening and vaccinations for STIs and other infectious diseases, which has

1887-450: The last five years, the department had exceeded its overtime budget by an average of 104 percent for each year. In September 2009, Mitrice Richardson was observed in a Malibu , California restaurant experiencing an apparent mental health crisis. She made statements regarding being from Mars and avenging the death of Michael Jackson , and was unable to pay her restaurant bill. Out of concern for her mental health, restaurant staff called

1938-460: The middle of the street, where the video showed her being beaten to the ground with police batons and flashlights . All 34 members of the party, all Samoan, were beaten and arrested. The Samoan-American community was angered, contending the incident was racist in nature. The family sued the Sheriff's Department and won a $ 23 million settlement. In 2006, an investigation into corruption at

1989-519: The new hires had lied on their applications. Fifteen of the new deputies cheated on the department's polygraph test. About 200 of the new deputies and guards had been disqualified by other law enforcement agencies for misconduct or having failed qualification tests. The department launched an investigation of how the media found out about the flawed hiring process. In September 2010, three deputies (Humberto Magallanes, Kenny Ramirez and Lee Simoes) pleaded no contest to charges related to their beating of

2040-404: The potential to improve health conditions in jail and in surrounding communities. This can be accomplished by providing health care that many inmates, especially impoverished blacks and Latinos, would not receive otherwise. In addition, the implementation of this action would decrease the spreading of diseases from the jail to home communities. Using opt-out screenings and vaccinations can be used as

2091-424: The punishment arrived from institutions of authority that patrolled and incapacitated Black and Latino youth. Rios concludes that it is not policing but the harsh policing of inner cities that marks young people from their early years, effectively stigmatizing them through negative credentials before they have an opportunity to acquire the more positive forms demanded for participation in mainstream society. In 2021,

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2142-492: The school district to assess the Malibu High School campus. In July 2014, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrote that Malibu High school had never been a military site, despite published reports and interviews with long-time residents present during those years that Malibu did serve as a World War II military training center. The school district hired an environmental firm named Environ, whose initial clean up plan

2193-521: The sheriffs, who arrested her. She was subsequently released by sheriffs at 12:38am, with no means to access her car, phone, money or any means of caring for herself. Her naked skeletal remains were discovered approximately eleven months after her disappearance. The county settled with the family for $ 900,000. According to the Los Angeles Times , in 2010, the department hired almost 300 new officers. The department later discovered about 100 of

2244-499: The time to have at least 47 members. The "Wayside Whities" operated out of the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center throughout the 1980s, their alleged mission being to "bring to heel" any incarcerated black men, especially those who fought with white prisoners. Following years of police violence in the city of Lynwood , over two dozen civil rights attorneys compiled claims and filed a class action lawsuit in 1990, in which they asked

2295-486: The women with children were incapable of taking care of them. In addition, there were more mentally ill men in jail than there were women. In a study of male inmates, there appeared to have been issues of the " criminalization " of those whom were mentally ill. An issue that resides in these studies is that there is uncertainty when trying to determine if these prisoners receive any beneficial treatment. In response to this issue, Dr. Terry Kupers mentions that when considering

2346-548: Was 40 years old, weighed 93 pounds and stood five feet one inches tall. An internal investigation ruled the killing justifiable, but in February 2014, the county agreed to pay $ 1.8 million to settle the matter. In May 2012, part of the Gang Enforcement Team was accused of being a clique called "Jump Out Boys" after a pamphlet was discovered indicating that members would receive a tattoo after being involved in

2397-657: Was a member of the "Banditos" deputy gang himself, has announced a "zero tolerance" policy to curb what he refers to as "deputy cliques." Villanueva has never acknowledged membership in the Banditos deputy gang, but has admitted to being a member of the "Cavemen" while stationed in East Los Angeles . A 2020 county inspector general report concluded that the Banditos gang at the East LASD station were "gang-like and [that] their influence has resulted in favoritism, sexism, racism and violence." The first deputy gang acknowledged by

2448-494: Was criticized for allowing elevated PCB levels to remain inside classrooms for 15 years or more, for not testing caulk in all rooms built prior to 1979 and for air quality monitoring of only one year. In April 2014, the EPA rejected the clean up plan. In July 2014, Environ released a second PCB clean up plan. Two weeks later PEER published PCB test results of June 2014 caulking and dirt samples from school rooms, not previously tested by

2499-743: Was running the Compton station of the LASD. In October 1969, LASD deputies bungled a drug raid in Whittier along with officers from the California State Bureau of Narcotics and one officer from nearby Vernon . The team went to the wrong address . In the confusion, the Vernon officer, Detective Sergeant Frank Sweeny, fired his rifle. The bullet went through the floor of the apartment and killed Heyden Dyer who lived downstairs. On February 11, 1989, deputy sheriffs in riot gear invaded

2550-481: Was sentenced to three years probation for a fleeing the scene of an accident in 2011. He had been driving while drunk. In March 2014, Deputy Jose Rigoberto Sanchez pleaded no contest to one count each of rape under color of authority and soliciting a bribe. He was sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison. His rapes happened in 2010 while he was on duty. In July 2014, six correctional officers (two deputies, two sergeants and two lieutenants) were convicted by

2601-493: Was there with his girlfriend, Grace Torres, to visit his younger brother. Both Torres and Carillo illegally brought their cell phones into the jail and were caught in possession of the phones. Torres hid her cell phone in her boot and snuck it into the visitor's lobby despite signs prohibiting doing so, while Carillo claimed he forgot to remove his cell phone from his pocket. The deputies confiscated both phones shortly after, handcuffed Carillo, and took both Carillo and Torres into

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