Some California police are biased. A report says they have no clear plans to fix that

[RealityNow]

Some California police are biased. A report says they have no clear plans to fix that​

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A scathing new report by California's Auditor of five large police departments across the state found evidence of officer bias against women, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ people, as well as woefully inadequate department policies and procedures to stop discrimination or investigate incidents once they come to light.

The report also says none of the departments have developed or implemented a clear plan to address bias and discrimination among their officers. "Without a comprehensive approach to guard against the presence and effects of bias," the report says, "the departments will be less able to identity, mitigate, and address bias."

State auditors looked at both on-duty interactions with the public and publicly available social media posts of hundreds of officers. Auditors conceded their report is a snapshot and not intended "to catalogue every instance of biased conduct or statements by officers at these departments. Our work encompassed only a limited number of internal investigations and the publicly shared views of a selection of officers," auditors wrote.

To critics, it will be seen as yet more evidence of systemic racism in American law enforcement and the need for wider structural changes in the screening, hiring, training, supervision, and oversight of police.
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Stop Hiring People because they fit some historical image profile!

Require Minimum 2 yrs of Sociology and Psychology Studies and Training, and during that 2 yr they must complete xxx hours of Public Service at Non Profit Organizations.
Potential Recruit can be selected and given Grant support for the Schooling and Training, and they commit themselves to xxx hours of service at a Non Profit as part of their Programming before they are admitted to the Police Academy to become Police Officers.

• That Public Service work must be spread across Community Areas that deal with broad range of Demographic Locations within the City that provide Non Profit Public Service.

Then we will have people who "Are Educated and Trained Professions, and we won't have non professional people policing areas where they don't understand the culture of the communities.

 

[venice_ca]

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is mentioned, and we’ve been seeing the problems reported in the hometown paper for years.

We already have one past sheriff, Lee Baca, and his right-hand man, Paul Tanaka, serving prison terms, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the current sheriff, Alex Villanueva, were to face a similar fate.

Regarding racism in the Sheriff’s Department, Villanueva recently agreed to talk to Gustavo Arellano, columnist for the LA Times, critic of the sheriff, and frequent target for criticism from Villanueva. During the talk, Villanueva volunteered his opinions, unsolicited, on two of our local communities — Latinos = good, Blacks = sketchy.

Essential California: Gustavo talks with Sheriff Villanueva; desmadre happens

An interview between columnist Gustavo Arellano and L.A. County's sheriff turns … interesting

www.latimes.com

 

[TheParser]

As a resident of Los Angeles since the 1940s, I am aware of the Los Angeles Police Department's notorious past.

We once had a (in)famous police chief in the 1950s and 1960s who was a law unto himself. At that time, the city charter gave the elected officials little power over the police. It was a reaction by "reformers" to the corruption of the department in earlier decades.

Racism? Well, that chief could publicly say (regarding a certain ethnicity) something like "We didn't ask them to come here."

Gays? The LAPD in the 1960s bragged about how many gay men their vice officers entrapped. In fact, they even bagged an assistant to the mayor. That assistant went to a porn theater (this was before the Internet). He supposedly touched a man who was sitting next to him. Of course, that man turned out to be a vice cop just waiting to be propositioned.

Today the majority of the force are Hispanic.

As are many other local law enforcement agencies, such as the Sheriff's Department, which operates outside the city limits of Los Angeles.

There are three kinds of people who want to become a cop. There are the sadists who enjoy humiliating people verbally or physically. Then there are those who feel that it's relatively easy to get such a job, which here in California has a great pension. And then there are some idealistic people who want to help their fellow citizens.

As they deal day in and day out with some really defiant and violent people, some of those cops become very cynical.

I once read that the Dem politicians are very careful to curb their criticism of the cops. In return, the cops promise to avoid labelling the Dems as "soft on crime."