Brickbat: The First Rule of Fight Club

The Los Angeles County Probation Department has placed 12 officers on administrative leave pending an investigation of violence at the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall. Video taken in December 2023 showed officers standing around watching, and perhaps encouraging, fights among the youth housed at the facility. "We will not tolerate misconduct like that depicted in the video, nor will we tolerate a lack of urgent response, if and when these incidents happen," said Probation Chief Guillermo Viera Rosa in a statement.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

If the accusation wasn't against law enforcement I would be wary that the "gladiatorial fight club" description was sensational. By providing this outlet these kids might have saved some wives, girlfriends and dogs some end-of-the-day slappings around though.

[mad.casual]

Sure Fist, "Gladiatorial Fight Club among cops and gender-indeterminate members of Juvenile Hall broken up. Wives, girlfriends, and dogs hardest hit." Whatever. 🙂

[Longtobefree]

"We will not tolerate misconduct like that depicted in the video, nor will we tolerate a lack of urgent response, if and when these incidents happen"

Minor correction:

"We will not tolerate misconduct like that depicted in the video, nor will we tolerate a lack of urgent response, because we might get caught."

[SRG2]

Reminds me of the exchange in Sladek's "Muller Fokker Effect": paraphrasing, , the sergeant saying, "I don't want to see any photos of cops beating up innocent civilians, got that?" and the response is, "right, no photos".

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Interesting stock photo. I wonder what the actual demographic makeup of the facility is

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

~50 Mexican, 45% black, and 5% all others

[Medulla Oblongata]

On July 27, 2023, there were 342 youth detained at Probation’s two juvenile halls.
For purposes of this report, we removed the youth housed at the Secure Youth Treatment Facility (SYTF) at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall from the dataset, focusing our assessment on the 280 youth awaiting adjudication or placement who are housed at Los Padrinos, who we refer to as the “juvenile hall population.”
Key Findings:

African American and Latino youth are overrepresented, making up 94% of the juvenile hall population. Latino youth account for 57% of the incarcerated population; Black youth comprise 37%.
South Los Angeles, Southeast Los Angeles County and the Antelope Valley are the top three communities where incarcerated youth lived prior to incarceration.

55% of the youth are age seventeen or older.

https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/POC24-0033.pdf

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Can't tell if that kid is a shark or a jet.

[AT]

He's a jet.

No way that's AOC's kid.

[Cloudbuster]

Once upon a time, boxing gyms were viewed as a way to keep young men from idleness and hanging out on the streets. They could start a boxing program and still have their fights.