There has been problems before in the LAPD with inner groups forming amongst the officers, something that they kinda frown on in the police, though I would guess it is a natural enough thing to have happen. But this isn’t just a bunch of guys heading out for donuts. These guys are from a special group of officers trained to work amongst the city’s gangs, identifying them and making efforts to take the guns out of the gang’s control.

The tattoo is supposed to be a way to identify this group that celebrates shootings and promotes an aggressive policing style that the LAPD has been in trouble for before. The skull on the tattoo has a bandana wrapped around it with the letters OSS that stand for “Operation Safe Streets”, which is the name of the anti-gang operation that aims to remove guns from the streets. The most shocking part is that not only do the members all have this tattoo, but if an officer is involved in a shooting, smoke is added to the barrel of the gun to celebrate the shooting.

I have seen skull tattoos on all kinds of folks and for all kinds of reasons, but this idea of using a skull tattoo to celebrate a police officer gunning down a civilian is enough to give me the shivers. I am wondering if any of you have heard of this and how true this is. I tend to believe the LA Times, but it just sounds so fantastical it is hard to believe.

As the man himself says: What do Jesse Jackson Jr., soccer legend David Beckham and conservative godfather Barry Goldwater have in common? All these men have, on more than one occasion, subjected themselves to the exquisite pain of an artist putting ink to skin.

That is quite a visual picture, but you won’t see it here. It seems that even though plenty of congressional members were willing to tell Stanton that they did indeed have tattoos, that don’t mean they were willing to be photographed with them. The folks back home may not be too happy about that one.

I knew that Jesse Jackson Jr. has several tattoos, he has never been shy about it. In fact, that is him in the picture above this post. Of course, Beckham has so many now I can’t distinguish one from the other in a photo op. The one I was surprised to hear about was Goldwater, although the explanation that he had a Native American tribal tattoo done on his hand sorta makes sense.

It turns out that Stanton may know a thing or two about body art since he has a few tattoos of his own. He is not your typical reporter and it seems that had worked as a bouncer at some of the local clubs in DC before the gig with Roll Call. But the article did very little to name names outside of a few that sounded like they were not too happy to be “outed” so to speak.

So – does your congressional rep have one?

You know, the British newspaper The Mirror did point out something I must have missed. I know that celebrity tattoos are often outrageous but is that gun not pointing towards his, well, private parts, as they say? Well, I am sure since he is posing in character that he had that one painted on since I think the Church of Scientology kinda frowns on this sort of thing.

Word is out that he is spending some serious time getting his vocal chords up to the job, so it will be interesting to see just how good he is when the film is out. But in the meantime, he gets to show off his tats which are an interesting view for those of us here at tattoo-central. Of course, being celebrity tattoos, anything can be added in by computer these days, including both the tats and the six-pack he is showing off. You never can tell with these movie-types.

But heck – not bad for a boy who loves to jump on the couch and believes in aliens!

There are some pics making the rounds right now of her sporting her some pretty ugly pink sweats and some Oh My Gosh tattoos. Well, she tweeted the shots and they are from her latest role, that of Nicki in The Bling Ring. For those who have the memory, this film is about that group of kids that got caught last year making the rounds of celebrity homes. They were into crashing and grabbing some bling to support their need for fun and fancy cool stuff. I remember it vaguely as something that made me think, “well that is gonna end up a movie for sure” and I wish I weren’t always right about some stuff.

As Emma says in her tweet, “Nicki likes Lip Gloss, Purses, Yoga, Pole Dancing, Uggs, Louboutins, Juice Cleanses, iced coffee and Tattoos.” Well, just the thought of our sweet little Hermione doing a pole dance with tattoos glowing is enough to make me check it out! And in the meantime, I made sure to point out the tats on the girl (the blue arrows are mine, they were not on the pic she tweeted).

I have my doubts the tattoos are real, since she has them for the show. But they could be. Is this the secret life of Emma Watson we never knew? Pole dances and secret tattoos?

This kid that goes by the handle EmCee got this awesome looking foot tattoo that you really have to see to believe. That is it, to the left of this post and I tried to capture it as big as I could because this is a really amazing piece of art.

If you have ever had a tattoo on any part of you that is bony, you know that it is much more painful than a place like a bicep or leg. That is because the nerves on any part of the body where the bone is near the skin have to be up near the top of the skin so you really feel them there. There are plenty of parts of the body that qualify for this, but the hand and foot, along with the elbow and ankle are up on the top of that list. Well, the foot has to be just about the most painful place to get a tattoo, and this guy had the whole top of his foot done, and in great detail.

That is why I am not only awarding it the most gory tattoo award (though there have been some close seconds I have posted here) but it is also one of the best tattoos I have seen in a long while. It is truly a work of art. Now, the guy says it didn’t hurt as much as her thought it would, but who am I to say? I would have thought that a tattoo on this particular part of the body would hurt more than usual, but then I don’t have one there.

So I gotta ask – who out there has a tattoo on their foot? If you did, can you share? And did it hurt?

But- I saw this celebrity tattoo type pic of soccer-star Beckham and had to share it-

But then I figured I needed to give equal time to some hot bods for the guys so –

Don’t know if she really counts as a celebrity tattoo but I have a feeling no one is complaining!