The L.A. County Sheriff's Department suffers from a myriad of problems, from deputy gangs to scandalous jails. Here's how newly elected Sheriff Robert Luna plans to solve them.
The move by the civilian commission overseeing the Sheriff’s Department represents a major step in efforts to scrutinize the groups.
“They may want to come in and say, ‘You know what, we’ve got to do things our way.’ Then if that’s the way it is, then I tell people, ‘What do you need? What records do you need? What do I need to show you?’ But then that has to be documented and communicated to the public.” I returned to the idea that some critics inside and outside the department see Luna’s touchy-feely talk as soft and not what L.A. County’s Sheriff’s Department needs to reform.“For anybody who doubts my inner strength to take on the tough issues I have in my career,” he said, “I mean, I worked SWAT. I worked gangs. I worked narcotics. I used to do undercover stuff with the FBI, buying and selling kilos of coke.
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