You can deny it. He has been arresting thousands of people with zero evidence they are involved in gangs. Police have quotas on how many “gang members” they have to arrest to make him look good so they arrest random people to fulfill the quotas.

He’s a fascist and the fact he gets so much support because he’s “arresting the criminals” with so little pushback is scary

Here’s a story on it by a really great journalist https://youtu.be/jQcTYgOuEzA