"Crews" of hardened felon career criminal ex-cons are commonplace. These are the exact types of criminals that require having a gang unit, street crimes unit, organized crime unit, or whatever you want to call it. The unit that goes after the worst of the worst and knows their names and habits. LMPD is too big of a city with too much serious crime to keep up this masquerade as the small low-crime city that it was once upon a time.