"Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which has faced criticism for handing out official-looking credentials to civilians with no law enforcement duties, is recalling an estimated 200 badges the department gave to local politicians, according to documents and interviews.
SHERIFF LEE BACA's decision to recall the badges comes two weeks after the FBI arrested three city officials in Cudahy on bribery charges. In support of the charges, the U.S. attorney's office released a photo of a smiling young woman in a Cudahy nightclub, brandishing two handguns and wearing a councilman's badge on her chest."
"The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department recalled official-looking identification cards but continued giving badges to council members and city managers in cities that contracted for the department's police services.
At first glance, the badges closely resemble those deputies wear, with the same six-pointed star design. Instead of identifying the person as a "deputy sheriff," the badges read "City Official Los Angeles County."
Whitmore said the badges were given to city officials for use during emergencies so they could pass through sheriff's command posts. He estimated that about 200 badges will be recalled from about 40 cities."
sheriff baca was incharge before this Jim McDonnell in the article (the one whose name was misspelled ) from the thread this thread was birthed from.
Baca got in trouble for concealing evidence from the fbi (covering the existence of an fbi informant in his prison) and a suit from ACLU for prisoner abuse- excessive beatings and also rape under the neglectful watch of Baca:
Wikipedia :"On February 10, 2016, Baca pled guilty to a single count of lying during a federal investigation into civil rights violations at the county jail.[1] The investigation into brutality and corruption by sheriff's deputies already resulted in convictions and guilty pleas by a number of lower-ranking officers, including a retired sheriff's captain.[1] Baca pled guilty to "lying twice about his involvement in hiding a jail inmate from FBI investigators" and to knowing that his subordinates had threatened an FBI special agent investigating Baca's department. Shortly after Lee Baca plead guilty to obstruction of justice, the Attorney General decided to re-open and investigate another inmate abuse case involving Mitrice Richardson, a young African American woman who was released in middle of the night without any means of returning home safely, who was found months later deceased not far from Malibu Sheriff station .[15] On April 6, 2016, his former Undersheriff, Paul Tanaka was convicted on conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges by a federal jury related to the same prison abuses."
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"Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which has faced criticism for handing out official-looking credentials to civilians with no law enforcement duties, is recalling an estimated 200 badges the department gave to local politicians, according to documents and interviews.
SHERIFF LEE BACA's decision to recall the badges comes two weeks after the FBI arrested three city officials in Cudahy on bribery charges. In support of the charges, the U.S. attorney's office released a photo of a smiling young woman in a Cudahy nightclub, brandishing two handguns and wearing a councilman's badge on her chest."
"The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department recalled official-looking identification cards but continued giving badges to council members and city managers in cities that contracted for the department's police services.
At first glance, the badges closely resemble those deputies wear, with the same six-pointed star design. Instead of identifying the person as a "deputy sheriff," the badges read "City Official Los Angeles County."
Whitmore said the badges were given to city officials for use during emergencies so they could pass through sheriff's command posts. He estimated that about 200 badges will be recalled from about 40 cities."
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/10/local/la-me-sheriff-badges-20120711
sheriff baca was incharge before this Jim McDonnell in the article (the one whose name was misspelled ) from the thread this thread was birthed from. Baca got in trouble for concealing evidence from the fbi (covering the existence of an fbi informant in his prison) and a suit from ACLU for prisoner abuse- excessive beatings and also rape under the neglectful watch of Baca:
Wikipedia :"On February 10, 2016, Baca pled guilty to a single count of lying during a federal investigation into civil rights violations at the county jail.[1] The investigation into brutality and corruption by sheriff's deputies already resulted in convictions and guilty pleas by a number of lower-ranking officers, including a retired sheriff's captain.[1] Baca pled guilty to "lying twice about his involvement in hiding a jail inmate from FBI investigators" and to knowing that his subordinates had threatened an FBI special agent investigating Baca's department. Shortly after Lee Baca plead guilty to obstruction of justice, the Attorney General decided to re-open and investigate another inmate abuse case involving Mitrice Richardson, a young African American woman who was released in middle of the night without any means of returning home safely, who was found months later deceased not far from Malibu Sheriff station .[15] On April 6, 2016, his former Undersheriff, Paul Tanaka was convicted on conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges by a federal jury related to the same prison abuses."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Baca
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/ACLU-Lawsuit-Sheriff-Lee-Baca-Inmate-Abuse-Brutality--137624143.html