LAPD Gangster Squad

The Gangster Squad, later known as the Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID), was a special unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) formed in 1946 to keep the East Coast Mafia and organized crime elements out of Los Angeles, California.

Initially organized as an eight-man intelligence detail, it became popularly known as the Gangster Squad.

It was given the tasks of fighting organized crime and spying on corrupt cops.

Jack O'Mara later told the Los Angeles Times in 2008: "We did a lot of things that we'd get indicted for today".

[2] In 1949, interim LAPD Chief William Worton increased the team's size and renamed it the Intelligence Division.