Police gangs are criminal gangs. The very nature of the report is that these people are committing crimes and getting away with it via their position as police officers.

It's corruption of the worst kind.

That's the thing, they actually have less oversight. Criminal civilian gangs are harassed by police. The police have almost unlimited power, who provides oversight? If police leadership is involved, not them. On top of that police have qualified immunity. So they kill someone, and throw a gun on them. Everyone in the police department knows and is in on it. They investigate themselves and find no wrong doing. If a criminal beats you to death, the police investigate. Who investigates when the police do it and the entire department is corrupt?

> I'd prefer police gangs be empowered rather than criminal gangs. They at least have to conform to some oversight.

aren't they the same group of people?

I think that I am personally much less likely to run afoul of a police gang than a criminal gang.

That's a practical, but not an ethical, reason for me to prefer police gangs over criminal gangs.

Do they? What oversight exactly?

They can get away with literal murder thanks to qualified immunity.

How about neither?