So far, he really hasn’t taken many steps to do that, but he has at least reopened the doors to the LASD’s Inspector General, who is now ordering deputies to answer questions about their gang involvement.
Luna claims he wants to rid the department of its gang problem.
Robert Luna, the former chief of the Long Beach Police Department took Villanueva’s place. He pitched himself as a reformer to get elected and then spent his years in office intimidating critics, threatening lawsuits, and otherwise refusing to acknowledge the fact deputies were forming cliques and using this strength-in-numbers solidarity to both inflict violence on citizens and intimidate supervisors who might have wished to discipline them.Īnother self-proclaimed reformer was elected last year to the office of sheriff. The latest sheriff to pretend this problem simply didn’t exist was Alex Villanueva. It’s been a matter of flat-out denial from sheriffs that deputies are forming gangs seemingly solely for the purpose of abusing rights of Los Angeles County residents. It’s not simply a matter of taking a hands-off approach to discipline. And for just as many years, sheriff after elected sheriff have refused to address this problem. For years, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has had a gang problem.
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