The LAPD Metro Division's work emphasizes guns and gangs and its officers felt pressure to produce statistics in a results-driven department, a source says.
To combat a surge in violent crime, the Los Angeles Police Department doubled the size of its elite Metropolitan Division in 2015, creating special units to swarm crime hot spots.
as gang members with the use of field interviews in which officers ask those they pull over whether they have a gang affiliation. A top LAPD leader said those officers involved might try to explain away their misconduct, but any excuse is unacceptable.
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