Compton is a city located in the Gateway Cities region of southern Los Angeles County,California,United States,situated south of downtown Los Angeles. Compton is one of the oldest cities in the county,and on May 11,1888,was the eighth city in Los Angeles County to incorporate. As of the 2020 census,the city had a total population of 95,740. It is known as the "Hub City" due to its geographic centrality in Los Angeles County. Neighborhoods in Compton include Sunny Cove,Leland,downtown Compton,and Richland Farms.
Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles,California. It is located within the South Los Angeles region,bordering the cities of Lynwood,Huntington Park and South Gate to the east and southeast,respectively,and the unincorporated community of Willowbrook to the south.
The Los Angeles City Council is the lawmaking body of Los Angeles,California,United States. It has 15 members from 15 council districts that are spread throughout the city.
The Rampart scandal was a police corruption scandal which unfolded in Los Angeles,California,United States,during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The scandal concerned widespread criminal activity within the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division. More than 70 police officers were initially implicated in various forms of misconduct,including unprovoked shootings and beatings,planting of false evidence,stealing and dealing narcotics,bank robbery,perjury,and cover-ups thereof.
Paul K. Tanaka is an American former politician,former law-enforcement officer,and convicted felon who served with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He was convicted April 4,2016,in Federal Court of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice. Tanaka served as Undersheriff of Los Angeles County from 2011 to 2013. He was also mayor of the City of Gardena,California. His tenure has provoked controversy due to allegations of violence,corruption,and alleged membership in the Lynwood Vikings,a deputy gang,which was described as a "neo-Nazi,white supremacist gang" by a federal judge.
Lionel B. Cade was an American accountant who served as mayor of Compton,California,from 1977 until 1981.
Doris A. Davis is a former mayor of Compton,California,who earned a place in history as the first African-American woman mayor of a metropolitan city in the United States.
JoséLuis Huizar is a Mexican-American former politician and convicted felon who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 2005 to 2020.
Albert T. Robles is an American politician and former mayor,councilman,treasurer,and deputy city manager for the City of South Gate,California. In 2005 he was convicted of corruption and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
Curren De Mille Price Jr. is an American politician of the Democratic Party,currently serving as a Los Angeles city council member for District 9. Price was a California State Senator,representing the state's 26th Senate District which he won in the May 19,2009 special election to fill the seat vacated by Mark Ridley-Thomas. He previously served as a member of the California State Assembly,representing the state's 51st Assembly District. He was first elected to that position in 2006,and was re-elected in 2008. Price resigned as state senator on July 1,2013,to be sworn in as Los Angeles city councilman.
The Compton Police Department was the municipal law enforcement agency for the city of Compton,California until it was disbanded by the City Council in September 2000. The Compton City Council then contracted with the County of Los Angeles for law enforcement services provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Edward Vincent Jr. was elected to the California State Senate in November 2000,and represented the 25th Senatorial District until 2008,which included Compton,Gardena,Hawthorne,Inglewood,Lawndale,Lynwood,Los Angeles,Long Beach,San Pedro,and the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Vincent and his wife Marilyn lived in Inglewood from 1968. Together they had two daughters and three grandchildren. Vincent died on August 31,2012.
Omar Bradley is an American politician who served as mayor of Compton,California from 1993 until 2001.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD),officially the County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department,is a law enforcement agency serving Los Angeles County,California. LASD is the largest sheriff's department in the United States and the third largest local police agency in the United States,following the New York Police Department,and the Chicago Police Department. LASD has approximately 18,000 employees,9,915 sworn deputies and 9,244 unsworn members. It is sometimes confused with the unrelated Los Angeles Police Department which provides law enforcement service within the city of Los Angeles,which is the county seat of Los Angeles County.
Lynwood is a city in Los Angeles County,California,United States. At the 2020 census,the city had a total population of 67,265,down from 69,772 at the 2010 census. Lynwood is located near South Gate and Compton in the central portion of the Los Angeles Basin. Incorporated in 1921,Lynwood was named after the Lynwood Dairy and Creamery,from which the local station of the Pacific Electric Railway had been named.
The Bell scandal involved the misappropriation of public funds in Bell,California,United States,over a period of several years in the late 2000s. In July 2010,the Los Angeles Times published an investigative article on possible malfeasance in the neighboring city of Maywood,revealing that the city officials of Bell received salaries that were reported as the highest in the nation. Subsequent investigations found atypically high property tax rates,allegations of voter fraud in municipal elections and other irregularities which heightened the ensuing scandal. These and other reports led to widespread criticism and a demand for city officials to resign.
The history of African Americans in Los Angeles includes participation in the culture,education,and politics of the city of Los Angeles,California,United States.
Robert Henning is an American politician who served as the first African-American mayor of Lynwood,California.
Evelyn Wells is an American politician who served as the first woman mayor and second African-American mayor of Lynwood,California.
