“I Got a Monster”- A scary start [MOVIE REVIEW]
The “Los Angeles Times” has chronicled the subversive presence of deputy gangs within the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. A problem for many years, the last sheriff vowed to rid the department of them and instead embraced them like an unpopular kid being welcomed into a clique. He was defeated by Robert Luna who, also, campaigned on a platform of ridding the county of these illegal and terrifying groups, deputies who run roughshod over the civil liberties of the citizens they are supposed to protect and serve and who terrorize deputies who don’t share their “views,” making life in a station all the more difficult. “I Got a Monster,” a terrifyingly true and expertly filmed story of corruption in the Baltimore Police Department, was a collaboration between filmmaker Kevin Abrams and writers Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg who were in the process of writing the non-fiction thriller called I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad. The book told the story of the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) that shielded a group of out of control, violent and larcenous police officers who arrested primarily marginal people within their district, often on trumped up…
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