In the run-up to her election, Mayor Karen Bass said she her vision for accountability and transparency starts with the police chief.
Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said Monday that, if appointed for a second term as the city’s top cop, he would serve for two or three years before turning the department over to a new chief ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games.
Moore’s potential reappointment has come under scrutiny in the days after Los Angeles Police Commission President William Briggs II said the board would vote on Moore’s request at its meeting Tuesday — prompting a public backlash that the process was rushed. “Instead of them getting into a room with a [Commissioner] Steve Soboroff and a Commissioner Briggs and Michel Moore, she should really engage with people in the community and ask them what they want,” Abdullah said, referring to Bass. She added that for real change, the city needs a chief “who is invested in real public safety beyond policing and understands that that means spending money in other areas.
“During that period of time, rather than pulling back and going into some isolation, we continued doing our reforms,” he said.In the new year, LAPD officers shot and killed two people within two days. In a third case, Keenan Anderson died Tuesday after officers used a Taser on him while trying to arrest him in Venice. Anderson’s family has called for the release of body-camera video of the encounter and plans to conduct an independent autopsy.
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