"I wrote the history of LASD gangs. Then the sheriff’s department started surveilling me."

Two days later, crime analyst Kimberly Dunn of the Records and Identification Bureau emailed a team of crime analysts working within the Sheriff’s Information Bureau with instructions to “keep an eye” on me.

“Freelance journalist Cerise Castle is currently working on a series of articles that started being released yesterday. The project is called “A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department,” she wrote. “Just something to keep an eye on – to monitor what else she posts as part of this project, and for potential doxing purposes, as well.”