DEPUTIES BOUND FOR A.V. 16 MORE OFFICERS TO FIGHT GANG VIOLENCE.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - More than $344,000 has been approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
The Antelope Valley . The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. Gang Enforcement Team in Lancaster will get 16 additional new deputies, officials said. ``Although gang crime is down, the incidents of gang membership is still high,'' said Jean Huston, justice deputy for Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San . ``This money is provided in an effort to deter gang activity in any way we can.'' The board voted unanimously this week to approve spending $688,500 for 32 deputies, to be split evenly between the Antelope and San Gabriel valleys The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. . Instead of being assigned to the Palmdale or Lancaster station's gang units, the team will join the Gang Enforcement Unit stationed in Lancaster but will report to the department's Safe Streets Bureau in Rancho Dominguez. The need for the additional units was discovered after the Sheriff's Department conducted an internal survey into station areas with the highest gang populations and lowest ratio of deputies to handle that population. The survey looked at the number of gang members, not the amount of gang crime, officials noted. Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. submitted a proposal to the board to allocate funding for San Gabriel San Gabriel (săn gā`brēəl), city (1990 pop. 37,120), Los Angeles co., SW Calif.; inc. 1913. Fabric, furniture, paper products, tools, and aircraft parts are manufactured. and Antelope valleys after finding that both these locations fit the criteria needed to fund an additional unit, officials said. Officials speculate that the Antelope Valley gang population is growing along with its overall population growth. In many cases, people move to the Antelope Valley to get their children away from gang activity, but the children forge new gang ties here. Local deputies said the number of Antelope Valley gang members is ``in the thousands.'' ``Proactive steps need to be taken to stop the increase in gang activity and prevent our youth from turning to gangs,'' Antonovich said. ``This program will add 32 deputies to the sheriff's department gang unit.'' |
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