Two of L.A. City Council’s new members push for sweeping reform of the city’s all-civilian police disciplinary boards.
Two of the newest members of the Los Angeles City Council – a progressive who campaigned on defunding the police and a more moderate councilmember who once worked for the union representing L.A. police officers – have tag-teamed to push for sweeping reforms to increase police accountability.
Currently, officers accused of misconduct go before a Board of Rights, a three-person panel that reviews evidence, determines whether the officer is guilty and recommends whether to approve, reduce or increase the level of punishment as suggested by Moore. The chief can then take action as long as the punishment doesn’t exceed the board’s recommendation.
“We need to take the lessons learned and implement process improvements,” McOsker said in a statement. “The system and staffing currently in place for those charged with misconduct do not promote accountability, but often impede it. We need a menu of options to pave the way in how we comprehensively fix a broken system.”
Sponsors of the motion cite a review by the Office of the Inspector General, which noted that between June 23, 2019, and Dec. 31, 2021, the police chief recommended the removal of 55 officers. Of those 55 officers, 37 elected to go before an all-civilian board, and in more than two-thirds of those cases, the board determined that the officer was not guilty or recommended a lesser punishment than the police chief recommended.
On Friday, Soto-Martínez and McOsker proposed granting the police chief authority to immediately fire officers in extreme cases. “We are disappointed that the makers of the motion have such little confidence in civilians playing an integral role in our discipline process when the entire LAPD is overseen by an all civilian Board of Police Commissioners,” the board said in a statement. “Police Chiefs have corruptly tipped the scales of justice with our Board of Rights system by injecting favoritism, settling scores and wrongly targeting officers for discipline.
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