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The Gangster Squad in 1948. The Gangster Squad, later known as the Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID), was a special unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) formed in 1946 to keep the East Coast Mafia and organized crime elements out of Los Angeles, California.
Gangster Squad is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Will Beall, based on a non-fiction book by Paul Lieberman. The film stars Josh Brolin , Ryan Gosling , Nick Nolte , Emma Stone , Anthony Mackie , Giovanni Ribisi , Robert Patrick , Michael Peña and Sean Penn .
Gangster Squad can refer to: Gangster Squad (LAPD) , Los Angeles Police Department unit formed to combat organized crime Gangster Squad (film) , a 2013 film based on the LAPD unit of the same name
The LAPD Red Squad is the common name for a division of the municipal Los Angeles Police Department, in California, United States, that was focused on limiting the activities of left-wing individuals and organizations in the city. Over the course of 50 years, LAPD "gathered some 2 million secret files...on all manner of legitimate dissenters."
In the early 1950s, a four-man squad of LAPD detectives, frustrated with the rules and weaknesses of the legal system stopping them from more aggressively battling crime, commit an extrajudicial execution when they toss Jack Flynn, a powerful gangster from Chicago, off a cliff on Mulholland Drive, nicknamed "Mulholland Falls" for all the criminals they have thrown to their deaths.
Pages in category "Los Angeles Police Department units" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... LAPD Gangster Squad; LAPD Mental Evaluation ...
The 1990 novel and 1997 film L.A. Confidential, along with the 2013 film Gangster Squad, provide fictional depictions of the LAPD under Parker during these years. Under Parker, the LAPD faced accusations of police brutality and racism towards the city's African American and Latino residents.
Metropolitan Division, commonly referred to as Metro Division or just Metro, is an elite division of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) under its Special Operations Group. Metropolitan Division is responsible for managing the LAPD's specialized crime suppression, K-9, mounted, and SWAT units, named "platoons".