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I wrote this book because I am a perpetual optimist.

"In 2021 Castle published a fifteen-part story
on the history of organized deputy gangs, documenting the legacy of
groups such as the “Lynwood Vikings,” “Regulators,” and “Compton
Executioners” who have been terrorizing, punishing, and killing people
within jail and throughout Los Angeles County since before the end
of legal racial segregation."

"Through the leadership of commissioner Sean Kennedy, the COC
helped advance the county’s first investigation into sheriff deputy gangs
inside the ranks of LASD, building on the work of local investigative
journalist Cerise Castle. "

Cullors’s work “STAINDED: An Intimate Portrayal of State Violence” was inspired by her brother’s violent encounter with LASD & showed lie in the distinction between police brutality inside and outside of carceral spaces... DPN became anchor organization for Coalition to End Sheriff Violence—a local movement that fought & won civilian oversight of LASD. efforts resulted in the creation of LA's 1st COC in January 2016