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    The Gangster Squad, later known as the Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID), was a special unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) formed...
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  • and Sean Penn. Set in 1949, a group of real-life LAPD officers and detectives called the Gangster Squad are assigned to bring down crime kingpin Mickey...
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  • Gangster Squad can refer to: Gangster Squad (LAPD), Los Angeles Police Department unit formed to combat organized crime Gangster Squad (film), a 2013 film...
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    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...
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    (2012), Gangster Squad (2013), Let's Be Cops (2014), Bright (2017), Crown Vic (2019), and Ambulance (2022). Television series featuring the LAPD include...
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    with the 2013 film Gangster Squad, provide fictional depictions of the LAPD under Parker during these years. Under Parker, the LAPD faced accusations of...
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    actor Josh Pence in the 2013 film Gangster Squad. In the film, Gates is in his younger years, still a chauffeur for LAPD Police Chief Bill Parker (played...
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  • joined the LAPD and rose to the rank of Detective III, a position which entails both investigative and supervisory duties. While in the LAPD, Bosch worked...
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    Williams, and his friend, Con Keller, were both members of the LAPD's Gangster Squad investigating the case. Williams' father believed that Dillon was...
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    2011. Fleischer directed Gangster Squad, a 2013 action thriller film, based on the special tactical group created by the LAPD to combat the Los Angeles...
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  • Frank Darabont for TNT. It is based on real-life accounts of the L.A.P.D. and gangsters in 1940s Los Angeles as chronicled in John Buntin's book L.A. Noir:...
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    about the LAPD titled Dragnet in the same year, with Jack Webb starring in the program, and the 1946 founding of the LAPD's secret "Gangster Squad" aimed...
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  • Paul (LAPD, Alonzo's squad) Nick Chinlund as Tim (LAPD, Alonzo's squad) Jaime P. Gomez as Mark (LAPD, Alonzo's squad) Peter Greene as Jeff (LAPD, Alonzo's...
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  • approval of the police chief (Bruce Dern). In the early 1950s, a four-man squad of LAPD detectives, frustrated with the rules and weaknesses of the legal system...
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  • serving with the LAPD Hollywood Division's Vice Squad. He is portrayed by David Lim. In "Rocket Fuel", it is revealed that he joined the LAPD because of his...
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  • Shootout at Lokhandwala (category Indian gangster films)
    Encounter Squad. Khan explains that he hand-picked 27 of Mumbai police's best-enlisted men and officers. He borrowed the concept from the LAPD SWAT team...
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  • Johnny Stompanato (category American gangsters of Italian descent)
    April 4, 1958) was a United States Marine and gangster who became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen. In the mid-1950s, he began an abusive...
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    Jack Dragna (category American gangsters of Italian descent)
    Avengers portrayed by Reed De Rouen. Dragna appears in the 2013 film Gangster Squad, where he is played by actor Jon Polito. In the 1991 film Bugsy, the...
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    Mickey Cohen (category Gangsters from Los Angeles)
    Harris "Mickey" Cohen (September 4, 1914 – July 29, 1976) was an American gangster based in Los Angeles and boss of the Cohen crime family during the mid-20th...
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  • alternate present in which humans and mythical creatures co-exist and details an LAPD police officer (portrayed by Will Smith) and his orc partner (Joel Edgerton)...
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    author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller...
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  • Nick Licata (mobster) (category American gangsters of Italian descent)
    (illustrated ed.). Skyhorse Publishing Inc. 2009. p. 34. ISBN 9781602396685. "The Gangster Squad sets a trap for Mickey Cohen". Los Angeles Times. October 28, 2008....
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    million worldwide. In 2013's crime thriller Gangster Squad, Gosling portrayed Sgt. Jerry Wooters, a 1940s LAPD officer who attempts to outsmart mob boss...
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  • Shemar Moore as LAPD SWAT Sergeant II Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson Jr. Stephanie Sigman as LAPD SWAT Captain Jessica Cortez Alex Russell as LAPD SWAT Officer...
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    in the TNT drama Dark Blue, playing a veteran cop who heads a squad of undercover LAPD officers. The show ran for two seasons, each consisting of ten...
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    the first half of the century, the L.A.P.D. formed a special task force to deal with the problem: "The Gangster Squad". This group of men harassed Dragna's...
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    Anthony Brancato (category Murdered American gangsters of Italian descent)
    Trombino 1951". www.pulpinternational.com. Retrieved 2020-12-05. "The Gangster Squad sets a trap for Mickey Cohen". Los Angeles Times. 2008-10-28. Retrieved...
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  • groped the girl. The girl happens to be Rita Crowe, the daughter of an LAPD vice-squad detective, Lt. Crowe, an officer with a strong sense of justice who...
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    Carcharias Corporation. The 2013 film Gangster Squad features the Los Angeles City Hall, with the members of the Gangster Squad stood in the foreground of the...
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  • Capone. Later episodes showed Ness and his squad, after Capone, going after just about every big name gangster of the era, and when the writers ran out...
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