LAPD Red Squad

LAPD captain Luke Lane with a board of "communistic literature" seized during Red Squad raids (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photograph, 1935, via Los Angeles Public Library photo archive)

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 limiting the activities of left-wing individuals and organizations in the city. Over the course of 50 years, LAPD "gathered some 2 million secret files...on all manner of legitimate dissenters."[1]

  1. ^ Bartosiewicz, Petra. "Beyond the Broken Window: How Washington sealed Puerto Rico's fate". Harper's Magazine. Vol. May 2015. ISSN 0017-789X. Retrieved 2024-05-20.