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Inside the Los Angeles Gang Injunction Strategy
Beginning in 1987, the LAPD pioneered a controversial legal tool: the gang injunction. This episode examines how prosecutors weaponized civil court proceedings to criminalize association and restrict movement in specific neighborhoods, creating a parallel legal system that bypassed traditional criminal procedure protections. We reconstruct actual cases where individuals were arrested for merely standing near known gang members, and analyze the constitutional arguments prosecutors made to justify these practices. The hosts explore how gang injunctions became a template adopted by cities…
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