Earlier this month, I sent a letter to the Department of Justice renewing my request that it conduct a full investigation into violent contingents of deputies within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) following serious allegations of misconduct and race-based policing.
The LASD has a decades-long history of sworn deputies establishing unauthorized, exclusive, and secretive gangs within the Department. For nearly fifty years, the violent, lawless conduct of deputies affiliated with these gangs has led to investigations, lawsuits, and hundreds of millions of dollars in litigation costs and settlements against Los Angeles County.
As I previously requested, the Department of Justice must conduct a full-scale, public investigation to ensure that the largest sheriff’s department in the country operates in manner that upholds and respects federal civil rights laws.
Read my letter here.
