America 1982-Chapter 328 - 23: The Black Broadcasting Enthusiast Who Loves to Learn

The three brothers from the Jackson family, Bernard, Stanley, and Josh, along with several other members of the Compton executioners, stood before the big shot Martin, their faces filled with confusion.

Mr. Page, standing beside Martin, pinched a stack of certificates in his hand. He flipped through the certificates, calling the names on each one, and the person whose name was called stepped forward to receive the brand-new certificate from Page.

As the head of the Jackson family, Bernard was the last one to take a certificate bearing his own name from Mr. Page.

Bernard was a tall and burly black man with a thick beard on his lower jaw. His muscular, inverted-triangle-shaped body gave off an aggressive vibe that screamed, ’keep out’ to anyone who just stood there. In fact, that was exactly the case; now in Compton, no matter whether it was the lame gang or the Blood Gang, they all had to show respect to Bernard.

It wasn’t that he had an overwhelming fighting ability, though Bernard certainly was a good fighter, but that wasn’t the point. The point was that after he was discharged from the military, he had undergone corrections officer training and then became a jailer at the Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Police Department.

However, he was later dismissed and sentenced to three years in prison for taking the fall for his superior. After losing his job as a jailer, he returned to the streets of Compton.

Perhaps some are curious why a former jailer who had been to prison would be heeded by the Blood Gang and the lame gang. Of course, a jailer is not to be feared, but rather it’s the Los Angeles County Police Department, the institution where Bernard once worked, that’s intimidating.

In all of America, the Los Angeles County Police Department has the most numerous law enforcement personnel, boasting 9,700 employees who wear the badge.

At the same time, it is also the largest police department in America in terms of the area under its jurisdiction. It is responsible for a jurisdiction of 4,057 square miles. In addition to the areas governed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff, there are 42 small cities and residential populations in the California Los Angeles area that choose to entrust their public safety-related work to the Los Angeles County Police Department.

The most important point is that the Los Angeles County Police Department is responsible for operating, maintaining, and managing the entire prison system in the Los Angeles area, which is also the largest in the United States.

As many as forty or more cities and a dozen prisons, detention centers, or correctional institutions require direct management by the Los Angeles County Police Department. Therefore, despite having a workforce as high as nine thousand, they are still severely understaffed.

To ensure that the police department could operate smoothly, the Sheriff of the Los Angeles County Police Department, the Jew Sherman Block, came up with a genius idea. He decided to select trustworthy gangs willing to cooperate with the police in each jurisdiction and rely on their help to complete the tasks that the understaffed police could not handle.

This way, they wouldn’t have to pay extra labor costs and could ensure that people were available to do those menial jobs.

At that time, there were more than three hundred gangs active in the Los Angeles area. The police officers of the Los Angeles County Police Department carefully selected and assessed thirty of these gangs, ensuring that members of thirty gangs were active in various places throughout the jurisdiction, including the prisons.

The several dozen sheriffs, police chiefs, deputy chiefs, and wardens under the Los Angeles County Police Department were each responsible for liaising with and directing one gang to ensure there were enough hands to carry out the work.

In just a few years, this black-and-white collaboration model resulted in 17% of the police officers in the Los Angeles County Police Department having gang affiliations. That is, out of every hundred officers in the Los Angeles County Police Department, seventeen were members of a gang.

And the original thirty gangs, through continuous swallowing and expansion, had been reduced to the current eighteen. Though fewer in total, they became more elite.

(PS: To avoid readers thinking I am exaggerating, I will explain that this information is not fabricated by me. The Los Angeles County Police Department genuinely does have sheriffs who are gang leaders; such freedoms exist in America. Raylo is nothing in comparison, after all, he still has to flee, while the righteous police officer who reported the Sheriff of the Los Angeles County Police Department for gang affiliations was shot at by his former police colleagues, who drove a police car to his front door and shot at it to silence him, and the investigation came to nothing. The incident erupted again in 2012, but by then the sheriff who established this black-and-white collaboration system had died, and after an eight-year long investigation, the new sheriff who took over and had liaised with a certain gang was merely slapped with a charge of obstructing justice and sentenced to three years, getting released after two.)

Bernard Jackson, as a jailer, was one of the eighteen proxy gangs within the Los Angeles County Police Department, with core members focused on the senior members of the Compton executioners in the Men’s Central Jail.

No matter how boisterous the Blood Gang and the lame gang were in Compton, they had to show enough respect to the three Jackson brothers because if they decided to kill or become enemies with the Jackson brothers, the numerous incarcerated members of the Blood Gang or the lame gang would face doubled retaliation from Bernard’s former colleagues and gang brothers.

"A broadcasting license?" Bernard took the certificate handed to him by Martin, read the text on it, and then lifted his head in confusion to look at Martin, "What’s this for, Mr. Hart?"

After Page had finished distributing all the certificates in his hand, Martin finally turned to the puzzled crowd before him, "You all must be wondering why you’ve now become niggers with certificates. It’s simple, because in Los Angeles, there are a few TV stations that I personally like quite a bit. I want to partner with them and make money together but, sadly, they aren’t receptive. They just want me to f*ck their damn asses, but they lack the proper respect for me, a black man from Miami. I’m willing to f*ck someone’s damn ass, but I’d make them get tested first. They’re unhygienic, it’s a desecration to me."