The LAPD Central Vice Squad

LAPD vice squad Rome the city serving as ultimate enforcer and collector of organized vice operations. Businesses were pre pressured for 5,000 down payments and 500 a month in protection money. Gangsters like Bugsy seagull moved to LA from east coast cities to profit from booming vice business. Joe Shaw would sell answers to civil service examination to become a cop and then to get a promotion You had to pay $500. The average monthly salary of a cop was $200,000.